Category: Climate Crisis
Stateside: Wednesday, April 16, 2025
On this edition of Stateside, a discussion on the damage caused by the ice storms in late March in Northern Michigan, along with Ingham County’s first confirmed measles case and ways to stay protected.
Europe Should Buy Chinese Transformers Now Available Due To Trump’s Trade War
The global clean energy transition has been throttled by an unlikely villain: the humble transformer. This once-overlooked piece of grid infrastructure has become one of the most critical bottlenecks in the race to electrify everything. As wind and solar projects stack up, as data centers expand to meet AI-driven demand, … [continued]
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A Change In Power, Part 3: Storing energy to use later
Solar and wind energy are sporadic sources of power. Even with enough production to power the entire state of Michigan, storage is needed to keep supply steady with demand. Batteries alone won’t suffice.
The Secret Way Donald Trump Is Fighting The Climate Crisis
It’s no secret — Donald Trump is opposed to basically all forms of climate action and doesn’t seem to understand that the world is running face first into a tremendously catastrophic climate crisis. But you don’t have to believe something exists in order to challenge it. Trump has cut funding … [continued]
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A Change in Power, Part 2: Keeping the lights on
The reliability of electric power and the resilience of the grid are major obstacles to the transition to clean energy as Michigan law requires. The mostly wood and wire grid in some places is a century old.