#RenewableEnergy overtook #coal as world's leading source of #electricity in first half of #2025 - a historic first.
Electricity demand is growing around world but growth in #solar and #wind was so strong it met 100% of the extra electricity demand, even helping drive a slight decline in coal and gas use.
Developing countries, especially #China, led the clean energy charge but richer nations including the #US and #EU relied more than before on planet-warming #fossilfuels.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2rz08en2po

#RenewableEnergy overtook #coal as world's leading source of #electricity in first half of #2025 - a historic first.
Electricity demand is growing around world but growth in #solar and #wind was so strong it met 100% of the extra electricity demand, even helping drive a slight decline in coal and gas use.
Developing countries, especially #China, led the clean energy charge but richer nations including the #US and #EU relied more than before on planet-warming #fossilfuels.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2rz08en2po

@thejapantimes it seems that the US is dead set on going the way of the buggy whip and the Encyclopaedia Britannica. The buggy whip people missed the new automobile technology that replaced the horse and cart and Britannica missed the rise of digital encyclopaedias and the internet. There is a lesson for Australia in this too.
#fossilfuels

Doctorow on Solar Transition in far better shape than we're given to believe

"the material bill for solarization is in freefall, with no end in sight. The amount of stuff we need to make panels, transmission lines and batteries keeps declining. Further: the efficiency gains of “clean” technology are astounding — meaning that, for example, it not only takes a lot less material to make a solar panel, the panel we make out of so much less stuff generates a lot more power. More: we keep finding ways to substitute more abundant materials for materials that are harder to find or refine (for example, swapping out lithium in batteries and replacing it with sodium, one of the most abundant minerals on Earth). Finally: we keep finding new sources of the materials that we can’t readily substitute for"

#solarPunk #renewableEnergy #fossilFuels #climateChange #energyTransition

https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-10-02-there-goes-the-sun-carbon-shifting-039f968e727d

PR firms are spreading climate misinformation on behalf of fossil fuel companies. Could Australia stop them? https://phys.org/news/2025-10-pr-firms-climate-misinformation-behalf.html

#Australia #environment #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #fossilfuel #fossilfuels #lobby #misinformation

PR firms are spreading climate misinformation on behalf of fossil fuel companies. Could Australia stop them? https://phys.org/news/2025-10-pr-firms-climate-misinformation-behalf.html

#Australia #environment #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #fossilfuel #fossilfuels #lobby #misinformation

Kuwait, despite its vast oil wealth, is facing worsening power outages due to political gridlock, underinvestment and climate pressures — highlighting the unsustainability of fossil fuel dependence in a warming world. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/10/03/world/kuwait-oil-addiction-is-a-cautionary-tale/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #kuwait #oil #fossilfuels #energy #cleanenergy #climatechange

Doctorow on Solar Transition in far better shape than we're given to believe

"the material bill for solarization is in freefall, with no end in sight. The amount of stuff we need to make panels, transmission lines and batteries keeps declining. Further: the efficiency gains of “clean” technology are astounding — meaning that, for example, it not only takes a lot less material to make a solar panel, the panel we make out of so much less stuff generates a lot more power. More: we keep finding ways to substitute more abundant materials for materials that are harder to find or refine (for example, swapping out lithium in batteries and replacing it with sodium, one of the most abundant minerals on Earth). Finally: we keep finding new sources of the materials that we can’t readily substitute for"

#solarPunk #renewableEnergy #fossilFuels #climateChange #energyTransition

https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-10-02-there-goes-the-sun-carbon-shifting-039f968e727d

AI uses shittons of energy, bringing back coal and fueling fracking.
Fossil fuels increase earth's surface temperatures.
AI uses shittons of water to cool their data centers, causing droughts and ecocide.
Increased heat means data centers need even more water.

AI is Mars-forming Terra.

#LLMMeAlone #AI #FossilFuels #ClimateCrisis #drought #ecocide #ClimateJustice #TerraForming

AI uses shittons of energy, bringing back coal and fueling fracking.
Fossil fuels increase earth's surface temperatures.
AI uses shittons of water to cool their data centers, causing droughts and ecocide.
Increased heat means data centers need even more water.

AI is Mars-forming Terra.

#LLMMeAlone #AI #FossilFuels #ClimateCrisis #drought #ecocide #ClimateJustice #TerraForming

🎉1000🎉 #ClimateSolutions #Africa #Nigeria #Solar

I'm so so happy for the continent for finding ]claiming] more independence of [neo]colonialism and of #FossilFuels. Grabbing the chance of not making the mistake of industrializing based on expensive oil.

"Drive to solar power gathers pace across Nigeria" [3:34 min]
by CGTN Africa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnjsGuiK7YE

Quote by CGTNA:
"Sep 13, 2025
With rising costs, and unreliable electricity supply from the national grid, many in Nigeria are turning to alternatives like solar energy. Despite the country having regular sunlight, solar power makes up less than 0.5 percent of its generation capacity in 2022. And now households and businesses are tapping into the power of the sun, to fill the energy gap."

#TakeCareForLife #TakeCareForEarth
#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside
#EducateYourself on #ClimateBreakDown

🎉1000🎉 #ClimateSolutions #Africa #Nigeria #Solar

I'm so so happy for the continent for finding ]claiming] more independence of [neo]colonialism and of #FossilFuels. Grabbing the chance of not making the mistake of industrializing based on expensive oil.

"Drive to solar power gathers pace across Nigeria" [3:34 min]
by CGTN Africa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnjsGuiK7YE

Quote by CGTNA:
"Sep 13, 2025
With rising costs, and unreliable electricity supply from the national grid, many in Nigeria are turning to alternatives like solar energy. Despite the country having regular sunlight, solar power makes up less than 0.5 percent of its generation capacity in 2022. And now households and businesses are tapping into the power of the sun, to fill the energy gap."

#TakeCareForLife #TakeCareForEarth
#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside
#EducateYourself on #ClimateBreakDown

If geopolitical interest in the polar region has surged, so have U.S. and Canadian worries about how to defend their vast Arctic territories. That’s where icebreakers come in. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/17/world/nations-arctic-power-ships/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #shipping #fossilfuels #oil #gas #russia #us #energy #arctic #china #finland #canada

New LNG Projects: A Climate Bomb Equal to Coal?

New LNG export terminals could emit over 10 Gt CO₂e by 2030—nearly matching global coal plant emissions! The “gas transition” myth collapses amid methane leaks and LNG’s huge carbon footprint. #ecology #capitalism #collapse #climate#fossilFuels A major warning has been issued: global plans for new liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals could generate over 10 gigatonnes of greenhouse gas… EN/FR versions below ⬇️

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/09/04/new-lng-projects-a-climate-bomb-equal-to-coal/

New LNG Projects: A Climate Bomb Equal to Coal?

New LNG export terminals could emit over 10 Gt CO₂e by 2030—nearly matching global coal plant emissions! The “gas transition” myth collapses amid methane leaks and LNG’s huge carbon footprint. #ecology #capitalism #collapse #climate#fossilFuels A major warning has been issued: global plans for new liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals could generate over 10 gigatonnes of greenhouse gas… EN/FR versions below ⬇️

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/09/04/new-lng-projects-a-climate-bomb-equal-to-coal/

More than 85 scientists have published a lengthy joint critique of a recent Energy Department report that downplayed the effects of climate change, calling it riddled with "pervasive problems.” https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/09/03/climate-change/scientists-trump-climate-report/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #climatechange #climatechange #fossilfuels #emissions #environment #carbon #epa #us #donaldtrump #republicans

Sky-high electricity costs, coupled with the piecemeal support successive governments have given to big industrial power user, are said to have made power prices an obstacle to the U.K.'s shift towards cleaner energy. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/08/28/energy/electricity-costs-britain-net-zero/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #energy #uk #energy #electricity #coal #netzero #emissions #fossilfuels #renewables #wind #solar

“Renewables might now be cheaper than fossil fuel in the vast majority of cases, but this makes them less attractive to capital, not more. Fossil fuels are uncompetitive and highly profitable. Renewables are highly competitive and not very profitable.

As a result, fossil fuel extractors will fight tooth and nail to prevent market forces from operating.”

Basically, you are not going to change these companies from within because they can’t afford to give up their business model.

#renewables #fossilfuels #superannuation

“Renewables might now be cheaper than fossil fuel in the vast majority of cases, but this makes them less attractive to capital, not more. Fossil fuels are uncompetitive and highly profitable. Renewables are highly competitive and not very profitable.

As a result, fossil fuel extractors will fight tooth and nail to prevent market forces from operating.”

Basically, you are not going to change these companies from within because they can’t afford to give up their business model.

#renewables #fossilfuels #superannuation