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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 12h

As long as they're electric, or eBikes even, the most efficient form of transport (though limited in range). All of these are electric vehicles that can be powered by solar and replace gas cars, trucks, etc. that are also burning ethanol.

1,000+ MPGe eBike to Profit

We're in the midst of a quiet transportation revolution right now.

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Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 13h

Wow, not the best bf in the world, but at least he finally turned around.

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Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 13h

Wait so there was a second person in the truck he was going to drive to their death?!?

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Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 14h

Yes, I remember touring Virginia Tech's experimental switchgrass fields decades ago. Seemed promising at the time but it's gone just about nowhere. On the other hand olar and EVs have massively improved both in performance and price since then. It was an idea that didn't pan out.

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Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 14h

It could be fully counting the ethanol corn as livestock feed because that's what they do with the stuff leftover after making alcohol. That's actually a common pro-ethanol argument, that it helps feed cattle. This of course ignores the environmental impact of cattle, particularly corn fed cattle.

Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 16h

We grow far more than enough food for our people, and even for others overseas (with a ton left to burn in our cars). The issue is not the amount we grow, it's how it gets used after it's grown. "Luckily" Republicans destroyed USAID and other programs that helped distribute our crops to save lives.

The full lethal impact of massive cuts to international food aid

The sudden withdrawal of almost half of global funding for nutrition suddenly will have dire consequences for decades.

www.nature.com

Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 16h

Great image comparing land use of biofuels vs solar.

Søren Have @sorenhave.dk · 16h

Hard agree.

@transportenvironment.org made this nice illustration (for EU): te-cdn.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/files/202303...

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Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 16h

Not sure where that number comes from, care to link?

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Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 16h

Basically only 1 company in Brazil makes cellulosic ethanol. Their total production (~50M liters) is a rounding error when divided by total ethanol production worldwide (>100B liters). There's some potential, but really it's been leapfrogged by solar/wind powered EVs and renewable natural gas.

Whatever happened to cellulosic ethanol?

Technological immaturity, falling oil prices, overoptimistic investors, and regulatory uncertainty are blamed for the failure of a promising biofuel technology

pubs.aip.org

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Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 17h

~40% of the ENTIRE corn crop of the US is used to make ethanol. This gets blended with gasoline to power well under 10% of our vehicle miles. If we converted 100% of our vehicles to EVs installing solar on a small fraction of the land this corn is grown on would power them all.

US domestic corn use graph from 1980 to 2020. The orange bar representing "Alcohol for fuel use" (aka ethanol) starts growing in early 2000s, explodes before 2010 and stays huge through the graphs 2022 end. This explains most of the increased corn production in the US.

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Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 17h

Exactly. We could reduce US corn emissions by 40% by switching to EVs that don't need ethanol. Heck we could power them all with solar installed on a fraction of that land and find some other better use for the rest of it. This should be added as a 5th practice, probably the most impactful one.

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Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 19h

It me, except my rant is about how amazing eBikes, heat pumps, and solar panels are.

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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 1d

“Putting your political opponents in jail because they are your opponents—not because of what they did—is the heart of tyranny. It is an obviously impeachable offense,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the indictment of NY AG Tish James on Trump-ordered charges.

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Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 1d

I Think You Should Leave Tim Robinson GIF

ALT: I Think You Should Leave Tim Robinson GIF

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Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 2d

Seems like the beef is with your claim that Schumer should face criminal charges for saying that the biggest problem with the budget is the removal of healthcare subsidies. I agree that it isn't, but I'd save the criminal charges for those committing the actual crimes.

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Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 2d

Republicans have pretended to be the party of fiscal responsibility for decades. Time and time again the results show that isn't true. Their failed policies both cost America more and have us earn less. They benefit a tiny sliver of wealthy people at the expense of America as a whole.

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 2d

Elon Musk said he was going to cut spending by $2 trillion dollars, but instead spending is higher this year than we thought it would be before Trump took office. Truly incredible stuff.

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 2d

CBO fy2025 projections for deficit/spending/etc are out

Some issues make simple comparisons apples-to-oranges, so I'll do apples-to-apples & explain in the thread

Relative to pre-Trump projections:
-Primary deficits ⬆️ $34 bn
-program spending ⬆️ $97 bn
-revenues ⬆️ $63 bn
www.cbo.gov/publication/...

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Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 2d

Yes. Also, while I've done this and love having kids I accept that many people wouldn't. I'm a little leery of essentially paying them to get over their reservations about having kids because they might well turn out to be terrible parents. It's definitely something to be done with care, if at all.

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Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 2d

I buy my tires at the dealership so they rotate them for free. Free annual inspections too. That's why I didn't mind paying ~$100 for an air filter change. I know I could have done it cheaper myself, but it's literally the only paid maintenance I've done on my Bolt in 5+ years outside of tires.

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Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 2d

A Congress that honored their oath to defend the Constitution would impeach based on this.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 3d

I think their light weight and packability makes them great for things like bike packing, hiking, maybe even sailing, though many boats can mount hard silicon PV too. I'm sure there are other applications too, cause those buying it surely know that alternatives exist.

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Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 3d

Seems like a really odd effort to support. Thin film solar has real applications and First Solar provides a lot of jobs. I guess in the end China's reaction to Trump's trade war may kill them, but I don't see why we need to add legislation as well.

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Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 3d

This is really just an example of a bad headline on a good article. The article itself immediately notes that these minerals are only used by thin film solar, which is a minority of solar worldwide but a 1/4 of US production cause of First Solar.

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Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 3d

Kurzgesagt does a good job of explaining how AI muddies our understanding of facts and harms actual content creators. The question is, will it destroy them? I'm hoping integrity will win out, but we'll see.

AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

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Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 4d

Very cool. I just listened to the @volts.wtf podcast on it the other day. Not having to build cooling into a pack with super high cycle life seems like a game changer. Still waiting to learn more about total upfront pack costs though.

www.volts.wtf/p/whats-the-...

What's the deal with sodium-ion batteries?

Landon Mossburg on beating lithium-ion on cost and safety with a grid storage system that has no moving parts.

www.volts.wtf

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