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Environment & Energy

applegrove

(127,088 posts) Thu Jul 17, 2025, 10:52 PM Jul 17

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â€œCalifornia is so far using forty per cent less natural gas to generate electricity than it did in 2023, which is the single most hopeful statistic Iâ€™ve seen in four decades of writing about the climate crisis.â€

www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes.bsky.social) 2025-07-12T10:38:05.906Z

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Great, hopefull, article: [View all] applegrove Jul 17 OP

Solar is a big contributor. usonian Jul 17 #1

Some sort of energy storage is required OKIsItJustMe Jul 18 #5

I am in the Sierra foothills and my energy costs are really minimal usonian Jul 18 #6

Actually, during the "Oil Crisis" (some) oil companies were looking to renewables OKIsItJustMe Jul 18 #7

I thought of wind power in winter (those storms!) but again, not cost-effective for a small user like me. usonian Jul 18 #8

"Manufactured homes" are a bit like utility-scale solar OKIsItJustMe Jul 18 #9

Well, this is an interesting line of a bullshit designed to obscure reality. The data is readily available from... NNadir Jul 18 #2

Thanks for your perspective. Much easier to clean up applegrove Jul 18 #3

Nonsense. So called "nuclear waste" hasn't killed anyone in this country and the garbage thinking to the contrary.... NNadir Jul 18 #4