Million Solar Stars

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Solar Stars Agree. Beam us up with Solar Power!!

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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview in March 2025 with the understanding it would only be released after her death. This is her final message from it.

Rest in Peace, Jane. Thank you for your wisdom, humor, and guidance. docs.google.com/document/d/1hn…

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Just look at what happened with solar investment - it’s astonishing. Solar has seen the most rapid investment growth, soaring from $142 billion in 2015 to a projected $441 billion this year.

One solar panel of 30 kg replaces 8 tonnes of coal (or 40 barrels of oil) and 25 tonnes of CO2 Let me show you: Every solar panel has a number of wattpeak or Wp, that indicates what it produces in "ideal" (1000W/m2) sunshine conditions. So in ideal conditions it would produce 1W x 8760 hours per hear = 8760 Wh = 8.7 kWh. In reality it's much less of course, if only for the night. The average worldwide and in the US is 1.3 kWh/Wp/y iea-pvps.org/wp-content/upl… So a new 500 W solar panel that is supposed to last 35 years produces 1.3 x 500 x 35 = 22 750 kWh. Coal contains around 8141 kWh / ton, but before you get electricity you lose a lot. BP introduces a factor for that of 2.83. So a ton of coal contains 8141 / 2.83 = 2886 kWh. You need 22750 / 2886 = 7.88 ton to replace a solar panel. Including mining and refining the emissions per kg of coal, gasoline and diesel are all around 3 kg of CO2. (For gas it depends: at least half as bad as coal but for fracking gas it can actually be worse. scijournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/es…) I'm writing this now because I'm just back from a writing holiday and I find a lot of nonsense about how fossil fuel is more efficient in my timeline. Maybe this can serve as a post to refer to when fossil fuel nonsense pollutes your timeline.

Every month at Cleanview, we track new power projects that come online across the US. In July, 99.7% of new power capacity came from clean energy and storage projects.

Solar's rise is the fastest in the history of electricity It's not stopping - and can't be stopped - and will dominate electricity consumption by 2035, everywhere *save this post* ft.com/content/5a9731…

Nobody is close to "admitting" anything, other than what was found by the people who actually did the work to analyze the root causes of the blackouts - FERC and ERCOT. The primary issue was weatherization of natural gas infrastructure, and poor cold weather performance of all generation sources, including wind and solar. The issue wasn't an over-reliance on wind an solar, but an over-reliance on natural gas - which failed miserably. ferc.gov/news-events/ne…

American solar manufacturing is surging — new factories, homegrown jobs, and American-made power. This is what the reconciliation bill would destroy.

@AlexEpstein The idea that batteries only exist to “clean up solar/wind messes” ignores reality: fossil fuels also need backup—just ask Texas when gas plants failed. Batteries increase grid resilience, smooth peaks, and lower costs. Subsidies accelerate adoption, not distort it.

Most popular energy myth on X right now: Batteries were helpful on a given grid on a given day, therefore we need battery, solar, and wind subsidies. Truth: Without subsidies, batteries would be used, but less—since they wouldn’t need to compensate for solar/wind unreliability. When you see someone showing that batteries were helpful in TX, a lot of that help was only necessary because subsidized solar/wind led to insufficient dispatchable/reliable capacity in TX (and elsewhere). So batteries were needed to mitigate solar and wind’s reliability problems. Insofar as batteries are needed this way they are PART OF THE MASSIVE BACKUP/LIFE-SUPPORT COST solar/wind imposes on the grid (and forces others to pay for). That said, batteries are legitimately and increasingly useful for peaking power and other things on an unsubsidized market. If we get rid of subsidies we’ll have exactly the right amount of battery use, instead of batteries being yet another excess cost caused by solar/wind favoritism.

It's peak demand time right now in Texas. A thousand megawatts of gas & coal plants have gone offline TODAY, more than 10,000 total. Plenty of power bc solar is cranking out >23,000 megawatts ON PEAK. Your policy is one of energy subtraction that will hurt grid reliability and raise costs.

Wow. Looks like Texas ‘destroyed’ their grid with the green new scam. Sad.

Solar power in China will exceed ALL sources of electricity combined in the USA in 3 to 4 years. Wake up call.

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Solar and storage ARE American energy dominance. No other energy sources come close. Tell the Senate: solarpowersamerica.org/campaign/defen…