The sheer STUPIDITY of "SOLAR cars" | MGUY Australia (video)
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| 2/25/2026 | MG Australia
When we teach "decolonisation" rather than basic physics, this is what we get: ridiculous ideas that should have been consigned to the dustbin of history at birth. The
Net Zero Mind Virus is indeed very crippling...
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Sunspot launches 27 solar flares in 24 hours, including strongest outburst in years
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Live Science ^
| 02/02/2026 | Brandon Specktor
A monster sunspot is taking aim at Earth after firing off dozens of powerful flares Sunday and Monday (Feb. 1-2) — including the most intense solar eruption in years. Elevated
geomagnetic activity — possibly resulting in vibrant northern lights at lower latitudes than usual — is possible Thursday (Feb. 5), according to an alert from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC). However, it's still too soon to know for certain. The sunspot, called region 4366, appeared suddenly several days ago and has rapidly grown to roughly half the size of the infamous Carrington Event sunspot,...
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A Near-Carrington Level Solar Storm Just Hit Earth 💥 Breaking Space Weather News
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Stefan Burns via YouTube ^
| January 19, 2026 | Stefan Burns
A solar storm has just impacted Earth that's been one of the strongest in the last 20 years, with an immediate G4 geomagnetic storm starting whilst a S4 radiation was already blasting the Earth with high-energy solar particles. With
bulk solar wind velocity greater than 1000 km/s and magnetic field values currently creater than 60 nT, this is a near-Carrington level impact and certainly a historic solar storm. Geophysicist Stefan Burns forecasting this possibility more than a year in advance based on the latest space science and more, and now he reports for you LIVE on the current historic space...
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Astronomy Picture of the Day - A Solar Eruption from SDO
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NASA ^
| 13 Jan, 2026 | Video Credit: NASA, SDO, AIA, Helioviewer; Processing & Text: Ogetay Kayali (MTU)
Explanation: What just leapt from the Sun? A towering structure of solar plasma suddenly rose from the Sun's surface and unfurled into space -- a structure so large that many Earths would easily fit within it-- marking the onset of a dramatic Coronal Mass Ejection (CME). The event was captured in striking
detail in late 2024 by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), whose continuous monitoring improves space weather forecasts and helps humanity better understand how solar activity affects satellites, GPS, radio communications, and power grids on Earth. The featured video blends three extreme-ultraviolet views from SDO’s Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA),...
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Today's IQ Test: Which Is Cheaper To Produce Electricity, Wind/Solar Or Fossil Fuels?
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Manhattan Contrarian ^
| 13 Dec, 2025 | Francis Menton
I have been writing here for about a decade that wind and solar would inevitably prove to be far more expensive for producing useful electricity than other methods like fossil fuels, nuclear, or hydro. The
reasons are not difficult to understand. Wind and solar, due to intermittency, are not capable of powering a full-time electrical grid on their own. To make the grid capable of fulfilling customer demand 24/7/365, wind and solar require large amounts of additional capital infrastructure — dispatchable back-up generation, energy storage, additional transmission capacity, and more. If wind and solar prove insufficient to eliminate dispatchable back-up...
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ELON JUST CALLED MEMPHIS ENVIRONMENTALISTS' BLUFF WITH 550 ACRES OF SOLAR
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X ^
| 11/27/2025 | Mario Nawfal
ELON JUST CALLED MEMPHIS ENVIRONMENTALISTS' BLUFF WITH 550 ACRES OF SOLAR xAI announced 88 acres of solar panels around the Colossus supercomputer in Memphis. Environmental groups have been screaming about grid load and gas generators for months. Now
they're getting 550 acres of renewable energy. Environmental activists claimed xAI would "strain the grid" and "rely on fossil fuels." Elon's response? Deploy more solar capacity than most cities see in a decade. The local state rep who complained loudest said xAI "does not care about the people who live here." Those people are about to have the most advanced solar infrastructure...
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Elon Musk: Everything is solar power. The rest is noise.
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X ^
| 10/31/2025 | Elon Musk
Elon Musk: Everything is solar power. The
rest is noise. “The sun is about 99.8% of the mass of the solar system. Jupiter's about 0.1% and everything else is in the remaining 0.1%, and we are much less than 0.1%. So, if you burnt all of the mass of the solar system, then the total energy produced by the sun would still round up to 100%. If you just burnt Earth, the whole planet, and burnt Jupiter, which is very big and quite challenging to burn, turn Jupiter into a thermonuclear reactor, the sun is 99.8% of the mass of...
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Watch Out For Aurorae Tonight – The Strongest Solar Flare Of 2025 So Far Just Erupted From The Sun...The show may even be visible in California.
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IFL Science ^
| November 12, 2025 | Benjamin Taub
The Sun has just fired off its most powerful solar flare of 2025, causing radio blackouts across half the globe. As
the barrage of charged particles makes its way toward Earth, the aurorae borealis – or Northern Lights – could become visible at unusually low latitudes tonight. Solar flares are bursts of electromagnetic radiation that arise from tangles in the Sun’s magnetic field, and travel through space at the speed of light. The strongest of these are categorized as X-flares, three of which have now been recorded in the past few days. The first two were detected on November 9...
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What do a £52M ROAD in GUYANA, RUSTING SOLAR PANELS in ZIMBABWE and CONDOMS in THE CONGO have in common?
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telegraph.co.uk ^
| 31 October 2025 3:09pm GMT | Hayley Dixon
You’re paying for them, in the name of climate aid. A
£52m road through the Amazon jungle is being built using British aid that is intended to help the climate, The Telegraph can reveal. The road in Guyana goes nowhere other than a tiny village and has long been criticised by environmentalists, though it is celebrated by the oil industry. It is just one among hundreds of schemes funded by taxpayers through the International Climate Finance initiative (ICF). Few will have heard of the ICF outside Westminster circles. It is the result of the Government’s determination to push a green...
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Discovery of Meteorite From Lost Protoplanet Upends Timeline of the Solar System's Formation
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The Debrief ^
| July 9, 2025 | Tim McMillan
A meteorite discovered in Northwest Africa... Scientists say this ancient rock -- formed more than 4.56 billion years ago -- proves that planet-building processes in the outer reaches of the solar system began just as quickly as they did closer to the Sun.In a study published in Communications Earth & Environment, researchers
analyzed a rare meteorite known as Northwest Africa (NWA) 12264, revealing that the body it originated from -- a fully formed protoplanet beyond Jupiter -- was already active during the very dawn of the Solar System.The findings challenge the prevailing assumption that outer Solar System planets formed more...
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A Cautionary Solar Tale: Billions Wasted Thanks to a Rush to Market
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RealClear Energy ^
| October 29, 2025 | Gary Abernathy
Back in the late 1970s there was a popular wine commercial with the film director Orson Welles reminding us that “some things can’t be rushed,” and concluding with what became a famous catchphrase: “We will sell no wine before its time.” One
of the biggest yet least discussed problems with the race to establish the solar industry before the subsidies run out is that the product has arguably been rushed to market before it is perfected. The construction is getting ahead of the expertise – meaning that billions of dollars could be invested in solar devices that are soon to...
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A shadow looms over Nevada’s solar boom — and the whole country
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The Washington Post ^
| October 14, 2025 at 1:39 p.m. EDT | Editorial Board
The cancellation of a massive solar project is a sad commentary on America’s energy development.Anyone who has visited Nevada knows the Silver State has an abundance of another natural resource: sunlight. Naturally,
lawmakers there have been determined to make the most of it. The desert state generates about a third of its electricity from solar panels, the highest in the country on a per capita basis. Since 2019, leaders from both parties have supported plans to draw more than half its energy from renewable sources, especially solar. Increasingly, however, those lofty ambitions seem unlikely to succeed for the same reasons...
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BONNER COHEN: Taxpayer-Backed Solar Facility In Mojave Desert Will Shut Down Next Year
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Daily Caller ^
| October 09, 2025 | Bonner Cohen
The sun will soon be setting on the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility in California’s Mojave Desert. Boosted by $1.6 billion in taxpayer-backed loans in 2011, the gargantuan project was hailed by President Obama’s first energy secretary, Ernest Moniz, as “an example of how America is becoming a world leader in solar energy.”
Instead, it has become yet another example of central planners squandering taxpayer money on an ill-conceived green-energy boondoggle. Covering five square miles of the sun-drenched Mojave Desert, 65 miles southwest of Las Vegas, Ivanpah features three 459-foot towers and 173,500 computer-controlled mirrors known as heliostats. “The mirrors reflect...
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Trump administration quietly canceled the nation’s largest solar project
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CNN Lite ^
| October 14, 2025 | Ella Nilsen, CNN
The Trump administration’s cancellation of the largest solar project in the United States has sparked confusion and concern among Republicans and Democrats alike. Known
as the Esmerelda 7, the collection of seven solar projects in rural Nevada was set to generate up to 6.2 gigawatts of energy when complete, enough to power 2 million homes. That’s an eye-popping amount of power to add to an electrical grid that desperately needs more of it, due to the insatiable demand from AI-related data centers and increasing residential needs. Under former President Joe Biden, the federal government was moving the sprawling project through...
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Woman, 76, killed by solar panel that blew off Brooklyn roof during NYC nor’easter
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NY Post ^
| 10/13/25 | Joe Marino, Amanda Woods and Alex Oliveira
An elderly New Yorker was tragically killed when Monday’s nor’easter blew a solar panel from a roof and sent it careening into the streets below. A
forceful wind gust ripped the massive solar panel – more than 7-by-3 feet across — from an outdoor parking lot structure on Ocean Parkway near Brighton Beach Avenue, according to the NYPD and the city’s Department of Buildings. The panel was swept up by the wind and flew about 20 feet, then struck 76-year-old Lyudmila Braun, cops and buildings officials said.
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Derry Township OKs solar farm permit over objections by neighbors
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TribLive ^
| 10/7/25 | Jeff Himler
The Derry Township Supervisors on Tuesday approved a permit for a proposed solar farm along Newhouse Road after hearing objections to the project from several neighboring residents. The
supervisors indicated they aren’t any more pleased about the proposed 27-acre solar array than residents are. But they said they are issuing the permit because the plan for installing 11,000 solar panels meets the requirements of a related township ordinance. “I’m like you,” Supervisor Don Kepple told solar farm opponents attending the township meeting. “I wouldn’t want this in my backyard. How can you say ‘no’ when everything is done right down...
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Taxpayer-Backed Solar Facility In Mojave Desert Will Shut Down Next Year
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Daily Caller ^
| 10/9/25 | Bonner Cohen
The sun will soon be setting on the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility in California’s Mojave Desert. Boosted by $1.6 billion in taxpayer-backed loans in 2011, the gargantuan project was hailed by President Obama’s first energy secretary, Ernest Moniz, as “an example of how America is becoming a world leader in solar energy.”
Instead, it has become yet another example of central planners squandering taxpayer money on an ill-conceived green-energy boondoggle. Covering five square miles of the sun-drenched Mojave Desert, 65 miles southwest of Las Vegas, Ivanpah features three 459-foot towers and 173,500 computer-controlled mirrors known as heliostats. “The mirrors reflect...
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BREAKING: China’s Space Solar Power Station—An Orbital Feat, Fueled by Silver SavvyChina’s audacious orbital energy station showcases….
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Silver Academy ^
| 6 Oct 25 | Silver Academy
China’s audacious orbital energy station showcases high-tech ambition—powered by sun and silver—positioning the nation as a leader in the next era of global energy innovation. China
isn’t just aiming for the stars—it’s building them. The country’s bold leap into the future comes in the form of a one-kilometer-wide solar power station, launched into geostationary orbit 36,000 kilometers above the Earth. This is not some sci-fi proposal, but an ambitious, state-led drive epitomizing China’s technological swagger and strategic focus. Daylight Never Stops: Power From the Void Picture a solar array so massive and advanced, it basks in the sun’s full intensity...
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Over $2 Billion California Solar Plant Built To Last, Now Closing Over Inefficiency
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Daily Caller ^
| September 24, 2025 | Hailey Gomez
The partially taxpayer-funded Ivanpah Solar Power Facility in California’s Mojave Desert is set to shut down in 2026 due to inefficiency in generating solar energy, according to the New York Post. The $2.2 billion plant, which features three 459-foot towers, was greenlit in 2010 and completed in 2014. According
to the New York Post the closure stems from the site being “outpaced by solar photovoltaic technology” and proving both inefficient and costly. The shutter of the site comes more than a decade ahead of its original 2039 end date, according to the Associated Press. Speculation about Ivanpah’s early closure began...
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California’s Failed $2.2B Ivanpah Solar Power Facility is Shutting Down
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California Globe ^
| September 24, 2025 | By Katy Grimes
California has taken nuclear power plants offline while increasing mandates for wind and solar, resulting in statewide power shortages and power outages. Nuclear
power is clean and reliable; wind and solar power, while “clean,” are unreliable, significantly more expensive, and emit the dreaded greenhouse gases (but don’t tell anyone that part). There have been power outages since the 2006 California Global Warming Solutions Act, AB 32, was passed by the Legislature and signed into law. The California Public Utilities Commission has rejected previous attempts, but following the deadly 2018 fires, allowed power shutoffs under the guise of protecting public safety....
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