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USA & China Electricity Generation TWh & CO2e Trajectories Since 2000 Are Startling

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For a decade I’ve been tracking the exponential expansion of wind, solar, and to a lesser extent hydro electricity generation. continued] The post USA & China Electricity Generation TWh & CO2e Trajectories Since 2000 Are Startling appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Only One Country Is Making Progress On Electrifying Everything

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Jacobson’s work in the USA and then internationally with his 100% Renewables by 2050 modeling laid much of the groundwork for this. For close to twenty years, it’s been clear that electrifying everything is a key climate change wedge.

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Wasted Money & Sunken Assets: Subsidies and Financing for Fossil Fuels

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continued] The post Wasted Money & Sunken Assets: Subsidies and Financing for Fossil Fuels appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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LLNL’s Energy Flow Diagrams Show That The US Isn’t Moving The Needle On Climate Action

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In 7 years of electrification and deployment of wind and solar, the US barely budged the needle, in fact declining slightly to more wasted energy in 2016 and 2017 before improving again in 2018 and onward.

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Renewable Energy Generation: Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy, a lesson exported from Detroit

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Fifty years later, the USA is faced with a similar challenge, energy independency and climatic change. On December 16, 2010 the US DOE Energy Information Agency (EIA) published a report projecting that renewable energy will still only constitute 12 percent of the USA’s energy sources by 2035. mpg by 2016.

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With Heat From Heat Pumps, US Energy Requirements Could Plummet By 50%

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Electrification and heat pumps radically reduce the requirement to build new wind, solar, nuclear, hydro, and geothermal primary energy sources.

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Hey Exxon! Hey Chevron! My Friends At the EPA Are Declaring What You Do Dangerous & You Will Pay. Pack Up Losers, It’s Time For You to Go!

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And I’m especially happy and excited about how much this pisses off the worst of bad guys operating in the USA today. One of the other big business groups the WSJ is talking about is the motley group of US Senators and US Congress members who got their money directly from the oil, gas and coal industry.

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