Tag: Oil
Michael Mann To Bill Gates: What World Are You Living In?
Bill Gates pictures himself as a technology and system innovator. In October, the billionaire philanthropist recontextualized climate action, global health, and development as mutually exclusive and in competition with each other in advance of the international climate summit, COP30. With his status as one of the original Silicon Valley tech … [continued]
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A Pipeline That Won’t Be Built and the Real Trade Beneath the Canadian Climate Deal
The public debate around the Canadian Smith Carney memorandum of understanding (MOU) has focused on what appears to be a federal retreat on climate policy in exchange for support for a new crude oil pipeline. That surface reading is easy to reach in the first hours and days of commentary. … [continued]
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Texas To Host Gigantic 11-GW Solar, Energy Storage, Nuclear, & Gas Energy Island
The US startup Fermi has reserved a spot for solar power and energy storage in its plans for the 11-gigawat Project Matador campus in Texas alongside natural gas and nuclear energy.
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Exposing the Learning-Curve Myth: Why Enhanced Geothermal Cannot Follow Solar’s Cost Trajectory
Enhanced geothermal systems have been positioned by advocates as a scalable source of firm, low carbon electricity that can complement wind and solar. The idea has appeal. The deep heat of the crust is available everywhere and geothermal energy is not intermittent. Policy agencies have published scenarios showing EGS costs … [continued]
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Fossil Lobby Is Out of Arguments in 2025
TL;DR: Fossil narratives are collapsing. Economics, physics, and real-world deployment all now point one way: solar + storage. For several decades now, the fossil lobby has followed the renewable sector like a bad debt — constantly painting molehills as mountains, inventing false comparisons, and trying to derail public understanding any … [continued]
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