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  • Renewables’ growing price advantage over fossil fuels paves way for industry dominance

    12/14/2023 1:00:13 PM PST · by ProtectOurFreedom · 86 replies
    The Hill ^ | December 10, 2023 | Saul Elbe
    Renewables are reaching the point where they are outcompeting fossil fuels on price — setting the stage for their predicted dominance of the energy sector by midcentury. When it comes to the surging demand for new electric generation, wind and solar prices are now the cheapest options almost everywhere, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). Building new wind and solar projects is also cheaper than running existing coal plants, according to a report from Energy Innovation, a nonpartisan climate policy think tank. The fall in price has led to a global rush to install new wind and solar —...
  • Man accused of attacking Pelosi's husband reportedly brought two inflatable, multicolor unicorn costumes With him

    11/10/2023 6:50:34 AM PST · by janetjanet998 · 108 replies
    NEW - Man accused of attacking Pelosi's husband reportedly brought sledgehammer, zip ties, gloves, duct tape, cash, a Canadian passport, a Canadian birth certificate, men’s clothes, a video game console, and two inflatable, multicolor unicorn costumes - media reports
  • Analysis-Slow-selling EVs are the auto industry's new headache

    07/11/2023 2:57:37 PM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 26 replies
    Reuters via MSN ^ | July 11, 2023 | By Joseph White and Ben Klayman
    DETROIT (Reuters) -The U.S. electric vehicle market is growing, but not fast enough during the latest quarter to prevent unsold EVs from stacking up at some automakers' dealerships or to allow Tesla to avoid new price cuts, according to analysts and industry data. Rising inventories and price-cutting could represent only a short-term pause in EV market growth. But they could be signals that boosting U.S. EV sales above the current 7% market share level will be more costly and difficult than expected, even with federal and state subsidies.
  • California's plan to power EVs has one glaring shortcoming

    01/31/2023 8:01:18 PM PST · by CFW · 59 replies
    HotAir.com ^ | 1/30/23 | Jazz Shaw
    You may have already heard about California Governor Gavin Newsom’s announcement last year that his state will ban the sale of gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035. Restrictions on how many non-electric vehicles can be sold will begin in just three years. This is making all of the climate alarmists very happy, of course, but there is a significantly large fly in the ointment of this plan. In order to charge up roughly 12.5 million EVs on a daily basis, the state will need to have a lot of electricity available on the power grid. But nobody seems to have run through...
  • The Greens' Cloud Cuckoo Land

    10/21/2022 6:21:12 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 6 replies
    The Pipeline.org ^ | 19 Oct, 2022 | Peter Smith
    And so into their fantasy world they go. Demolishing reliable coal-power stations and subsidizing intermittent sources of power. Bad enough that Western governments have swallowed the line that climate Armageddon is on the horizon. Worse, much worse, is what they’re doing about it. They seem unable to distinguish between dreams and reality. Two recent developments in Australia add to the overwhelming evidence that Western governments are living their deluisions. Of course, there are many more than two such developments. I’ve just picked two of them at random. The first concerns the Liddell coal power station in the Hunter region in...
  • WA, West Coast leaders renew pledge to fight climate change

    10/07/2022 6:51:42 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 41 replies
    The Seattle Times ^ | October 7, 2022 | By Nicholas Turner, Seattle Times climate reporter
    Gov. Jay Inslee joined other Pacific Coast leaders in San Francisco on Thursday to collectively reaffirm their commitment to the fight against climate change. The West Coast, they said, with its progressive policies and abundance of hydropower, is positioned to spearhead the country’s first zero-carbon economy through the popularization of electric vehicles and the implementation of forthcoming carbon markets. “The Pacific Coast leads on virtually everything in social and economic development, and we are yet again leading the world and the nation when it comes to the development of a clean energy economy,” Inslee said on Thursday. He was joined...
  • No recession ahead: Evercore ISI predicts S&P 500 will jump 22% from current levels

    05/25/2022 3:47:05 AM PDT · by EBH · 47 replies
    Fast Money ^ | 5/24/22 | Stephanie Landsman
    While retail investors head for the exits as stock prices sharply fluctuate, Evercore ISI’s Julian Emanuel wants to put money to work. He calls the market environment very ugly, but he believes the economy will avert a recession — particularly due to healthy credit markets and continued gains. “The path to higher [stock] prices really is a function of being able to discount the macro news and focus on the fact that you’re still going to have mid-to-high, single-digit earnings growth,” the firm’s senior managing director told CNBC’s “Fast Money” on Tuesday. His S&P 500 year-end target is 4,800, which...
  • ‘Just transition’ bill for oil industry workers exposes labor rift

    02/20/2022 6:57:19 AM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 19 replies
    The Orange County Register (CA) ^ | February 20, 2022 | By JESSE BEDAYN
    A leading environmental lawmaker from Torrance has proposed a bill that would create a state fund to support and retrain thousands of oil industry workers as California tries to phase out fossil fuel production. The idea of guiding California’s 112,000 oil industry workers out of their current field and into other careers is often referred to as “just transition,” and is considered by policy researchers a necessary step to counter job losses as the state strives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But even with a Democratic supermajority in the state Legislature, such a proposal faces an uphill battle because it’s...
  • US, Europe plan for any cutoff of Russian natural gas

    01/29/2022 11:46:57 AM PST · by RomanSoldier19 · 20 replies
    ap via abcnews ^ | January 26, 2022 | ELLEN KNICKMEYER, AAMER MADHANI and MATTHEW DALY
    Biden administration officials say U.S. and European officials are coordinating with natural gas suppliers around the globe to cushion the impact if Russia were to cut off energy supplies over the Ukraine conflict WASHINGTON -- U.S. and European officials are coordinating with natural gas suppliers around the globe to cushion the impact if Russia were to cut off energy supplies in the conflict over Ukraine, Biden administration officials say. The U.S. and European allies have promised punishing economic and political sanctions if Russia moves its military into Ukraine, but worry about repercussions for Europeans from any such sanctions, including Russia...
  • The Triumphant March Toward 100% "Renewable" Electricity: Germany and California

    07/29/2021 4:49:19 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 39 replies
    Manhattan Contrarian ^ | 28 Jul, 2021 | Francis Menton
    As a state or a country, if you want to have any status in the ranks of the climate virtuous, the key metric is your commitment to get most or all of your energy from “renewables” (mainly wind and solar) by the earliest possible date. Everybody is doing it, and you are nobody if you don’t get in on the bidding. Just a couple of weeks ago (July 14), according to Reuters, the European Commission entered a bid of 40% of final energy consumption from “renewables” by 2030. Back here in the US, the most recent bid from the Biden...
  • Physicists Propose New Idea for “Human-Safe” Wormholes

    03/09/2021 8:20:28 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 20 replies
    Two separate groups of researchers have suggested new theories as to how to make wormholes safe enough to be traversable by humans. Both papers were published today in the journal Physical Review Letters. If wormholes were to exist, any conventional matter would end up jamming the connection up as something travels from one side to the other. That’s why some theorists suggest using exotic matter to keep the wormhole open. But we may not even need exotic matter, as Jose Blázquez-Salcedo from the Complutense University of Madrid and his colleagues suggest. In their framework, matter is made up of fermions,...
  • Schiff: If Trump Isn’t Removed He ‘Could Offer Alaska to the Russians in Exchange for Support in the Next Election’

    02/03/2020 4:49:38 PM PST · by dontreadthis · 170 replies
    grabien.com ^ | 2/3/20
    SCHIFF: "But this has become the President's defense. And yet, this defense proved indefensible. If abuse of power is not impeachable, even though it is clear the Founders considered it the highest of all high crimes and misdemeanors, but if it were not impeachable, then a whole range of utterly unacceptable conduct and the president would now be beyond reach. Trump could offer Alaska to the Russians in exchange for support in the next election or decide to move to Mar-a-Lago permanently and let Jared Kushner run the country, delegating to him the decision whether to go to war. Because...
  • Hamilton girl battling stage 4 brain cancer surprised with 'real unicorn in real life'

    01/23/2020 7:36:33 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 16 replies
    WLWT ^ | Jan 20, 2020 | Jatara McGee
    A Butler County girl currently fighting cancer received the surprise of her life courtesy of the Butler County Sheriff's Office. Naomi Short, 8, was surprised this weekend when she got to meet and ride a unicorn. The animal, named Anna Marie, is part of the Sheriff's Office's mounted patrol. "I'm obsessed with unicorns," she said. "I've always wanted to meet a real unicorn in real life. It was so pretty and magical." Short was diagnosed with stage 4 pineoblastoma, a rare brain cancer, in October. The sweet but sassy third-grader just completed radiation and starts chemotherapy Friday at Children's Hospital....
  • It’ll Work This Time (Socialism)

    02/09/2019 8:06:09 PM PST · by MtnClimber · 33 replies
    American Greatness ^ | 8 Feb, 2019 | Christopher Gage
    A favorite Saturday activity of mine involves chatting with a merry band of socialists who clot on a main street near me. Dreadlocked, dreary, and decked in alarming red, they implore every passersby somehow to stop U.S. “imperialism” in Venezuela. From outside Starbucks a mere 4,738 miles away. Most of us drenched in false consciousness prefer shuffling around, buying things we don’t need, and documenting our largely pointless existence via Instagram. The apparent injustice roiling in South America doesn’t resonate..... Because the Venezuela of reality is now inconvenient. That’s why you won’t hear Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) talk much about...
  • Giant Siberian Rhinoceros Lived alongside Early Modern Humans

    11/29/2018 10:37:04 AM PST · by ETL · 11 replies
    Sci-News.com ^ | Nov 28, 2018 | News Staff / Source
    For a long time it was believed that a giant rhinoceros called Elasmotherium sibericum went extinct around 200,000 years ago — well before the Quaternary megafaunal extinction event, which saw the end of the woolly mammoth, Irish elk and saber-toothed cat. Now improved dating of fossils suggests that the species survived in Eastern Europe and Central Asia until at least 39,000 years ago, overlapping in time with the existence of early modern humans. Today there are just five surviving rhinoceros species, although in the past there have been as many as 250 species at different times.Weighing up to 3.5 tons, Elasmotherium...
  • 'Siberian unicorn' walked Earth with humans

    11/27/2018 1:15:48 PM PST · by Red Badger · 41 replies
    BBC ^ | 11/27/2018 | By Helen Briggs
    A giant rhino that may have been the origin of the unicorn myth survived until at least 39,000 years ago - much longer than previously thought. Known as the Siberian unicorn, the animal had a long horn on its nose, and roamed the grasslands of Eurasia. New evidence shows the hefty beast may have eventually died out because it was such a picky eater. Scientists say knowing more about the animal's extinction could help save the remaining rhinos on the planet. Rhinos are in particular danger of extinction because they are very picky about their habitat, said Prof Adrian Lister...
  • I’m An Immigrant, Minority Woman Going Republican Over Democrats’ Treatment Of Kavanaugh

    10/06/2018 4:24:36 PM PDT · by Twotone · 41 replies
    The Federalist ^ | October 5, 2018 | Adele Scalia
    I have become a unicorn. My metamorphosis didn’t require a magic spell or potion, or even a trip to a well-reviewed plastic surgeon to add a horn to my head. All it took was Democrats’ treatment of Brett Kavanaugh over the last few weeks to turn me into that elusive creature: a minority, immigrant woman who supports Republicans. I moved to the United States from Trinidad and Tobago eight years ago when I married my husband, Christopher, former U.S. Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia’s eighth (and, in my opinion, most lovable) child. Some people might read that and think, “Well,...
  • ...Forget the House. It’s the battle for the Senate that could provide the most drama...

    09/09/2018 3:41:24 PM PDT · by SMGFan · 50 replies
    MSN/ Washington Post ^ | September 8, 2018
    For months now, the focus of Campaign 2018, rightly, has been on control of the House. All the metrics continue to point to a midterm election in which Democrats could seize control of that chamber. But for sheer drama and unpredictability, the contest for control of the Senate could be the place to look. The House is no slam-dunk for the Democrats, but most Republicans following the campaigns are genuinely worried and probably right to be that way. The overall environment is difficult for the GOP because of President Trump and because of the location of the competitive races; suburban...
  • Lucky Charms reveals new unicorn marshmallow

    02/19/2018 9:03:05 AM PST · by re_tail20 · 36 replies
    abc 7 ^ | February 19, 2018 | abc 7
    Move aside hourglass, there's a new marshmallow in town. Lucky Charms has unveiled its first new marshmallow in 10 years - the magical unicorn! Earlier this month, General Mills announced it was retiring the hourglass marshmallow. Lucky Charms then asked social media users to vote on which marshmallow they would like to see next - by answering with an emoji... And, sure enough, the newest marshmallow is also an emoji - the unicorn.
  • Maryland green energy projects encounter headwinds from worried neighbors

    12/20/2017 12:48:53 PM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 5 replies
    The Baltimore Sun ^ | December 20, 2017 | by Scott Dance
    David Friend began scouting the former strip coal mine here 16 years ago, with visions that it could one day produce a different sort of energy. The developer persuaded landowners along the blustery ridge in Western Maryland to bless his plans for more than two dozen wind turbines that would tower more than 40 stories high. But after a years-long battle with Allegany County officials and concerned neighbors — a saga that has passed through the local zoning board and state Public Service Commission, and reached Maryland’s highest court — the clear-cut hilltops remain bare. The modern windmills that are...