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Charles Brush: America’s Wind Power Pioneer–a Podcast
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Henry Sanderson’s first podcast of An Electric Revolution is on Charles Brush: America’s Wind Power Pioneer. In 1888, a tall ... Read more
Guardian: ‘I’m selling the Nazi mobile’: Tesla owners offload cars after Musk’s fascist-style salutes
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In Europe, Tesla has taken an even more severe hit. In January, sales fell by 12% in Britain, 38% in Norway and 63% in France, according to the New York Times. Sales in Germany fell by 59% that month, coinciding with Musk’s outspoken support for the far-right alternative party AfD and with scolding Germans for focusing too much on “past guilt” for the Holocaust.
The Mechanicsville Monster: How NOT to handle wind turbine end of life
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It’s past time for the wind industry to send Godzilla back to the depth of the oceans for a long sleep. That can only occur if industry sets new standards for itself.
No more poorly maintained turbines. No more abandoned wind sites. And if a site must come down, funds and a plan must be in place to clean it up. Properly.
Sayonara, Godzilla!
Breathe easy: Household electrification as a public health intervention to improve outdoor air quality
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The study finds that electrifying the nation’s homes would notably improve outdoor air quality, leading to 3,400 fewer premature deaths, 1,300 fewer hospital admissions and ER visits, 220,000 fewer asthma attacks, and 670,000 fewer days of reduced activity or missed work for Americans each year.
While electrification is often discussed as a key strategy in addressing the climate crisis and lowering energy bills, this new research helps establish electrification as a public health intervention with wide-reaching potential.
Gas vs. Electric Car Fires in 2025 (Shocking Stats)
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Hybrid vehicles actually come in number one with the most fires per 100K sales. Gas vehicles are second, and electric vehicles place third, with only 25 fires per 100K electric vehicle sales.
Five Hydrogen Myths – Busted
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Hydrogen produced from renewable electricity is a breakthrough climate solution. It can be produced to emit nothing but oxygen, and when used it doesn’t produce carbon dioxide, making it an attractive alternative to the polluting fossil fuels in use today. But like any new technology, myths about its function and applications abound. Here we tackle some of the biggest myths and misconceptions around hydrogen, adapted from our extensive “Reality Check” series.
Climate scientists: concept of net zero is a dangerous trap
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The time has come to voice our fears and be honest with wider society. Current net zero policies will not keep warming to within 1.5°C because they were never intended to. They were and still are driven by a need to protect business as usual, not the climate. If we want to keep people safe then large and sustained cuts to carbon emissions need to happen now. That is the very simple acid test that must be applied to all climate policies. The time for wishful thinking is over.
How California’s Rooftop Solar Customers Benefit Other Ratepayers Financially to the Tune of $2.3 Billion
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The California Public Utilities Commission’s (CPUC) Public Advocates Office (PAO) issued in August 2024 an analysis that purported to show current rooftop solar customers are causing a “cost shift” onto non-solar customers amounting to $8.5 billion in 2024. Unfortunately, this rather simplistic analysis started from an incorrect base and left out significant contributions, many of which are unique to rooftop solar, made to the utilities’ systems and benefitting all ratepayers. After incorporating this more accurate accounting of benefits, the data (presented in the chart above) shows that rooftop solar customers will in fact save other ratepayers approximately $2.3 billion in 2024.
New study shows how CA rooftop solar consumers save all ratepayers $2.3 billion
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The utilities’ “cost shift” claim is promoted by a small group of seemingly independent utility allies in coordination with the major investor-owned utilities. These include organizations who should know better, but for one reason or another have chosen to align with the utilities: the Haas School of Business at Berkeley, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), and The Utility Reform Network (TURN)
But these groups simply repeat the fraudulent accounting methods used by the Public Advocates Office and other utility-captured groups, in many cases referring to each other in a circular pattern.
Man dies after being crushed by turbine blade at Australia’s biggest wind project
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A worker has died after being crushed by a turbine blade at Australia’s biggest wind project, the Golden Plains wind farm in Victoria, with emergency services called to the site at Rokewood just after 8am on Monday.
Police confirmed the man was working at the wind farm on Bells Road when he was crushed beneath a “fan blade” shortly after 8am. First responders attempted to revive the man, but he was declared dead at the scene.
