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SilverLining’s Geoengineering Techno-Optimism Is Distracting From Real Climate Solutions
Organizations promoting utopian techno-optimism have long appealed to policymakers and investors by offering simplistic technological escapes from complex environmental challenges. SilverLining, a geoengineering-focused non-profit, represents exactly this kind of appeal. It’s triggered me because of its aggressive PR efforts that have put its founder on influential media outlets, including ones … [continued]
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Musk Visits With The Saudis — With US Citizens’ Private Data In His Pocket
Elon Musk was part of the Trump coterie who flew to meet with the Saudis this week. The planned series of forums and spectacles was a way for Musk, who runs his own artificial intelligence (AI) company, xAI, to position himself within fierce peer competition for funding from the Saudis. … [continued]
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America Closed For Business: Bill Rolling Back IRA Provisions Will Slash Investment
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), enacted in 2022, marked a seismic shift in U.S. industrial and energy policy, promising clarity and stability to a previously fragmented clean energy landscape. It introduced comprehensive, decade-spanning incentives designed to catalyze investments across renewables, hydrogen hubs, electric vehicles, and domestic manufacturing. Almost immediately, this … [continued]
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From Backyards To Balconies: The New Face Of Solar Power With Bright Saver
Bright Saver, a San Francisco-based nonprofit, is helping to reimagine how people access solar power, especially those who’ve been shut out of traditional solar systems. Instead of a large rooftop array of solar panels and complicated permits, the company is offering an affordable, plug-in solar solution that can work for … [continued]
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More And More Questions Arise About The Supposed Efficiency Goals Of Musk’s DOGE
Musk’s DOGE (“Department of Government Efficiency”) really has it all wrong. This group of non-federal employees insists that government waste is strangling the US economy, but the redistribution of funds isn’t actually making the US federal government more efficient — it’s benefiting the über wealthy with their insatiable appetite for … [continued]
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