Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.

The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed

The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.

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"Utah produced more power from solar than any other source in May, marking a new first" Several quotes from me & @dvschroeder.bsky.social in the article, check it out! Zero fuel cost, reliable & fast-to-build renewables are the path to Utah's energy future! #utpol www.sltrib.com/news/environ...

Utah produced more power from solar than any other source in May, marking a new first

“Wind plus solar is on a tear right now,” said Utah climate scientist Logan Mitchell. “We may have achieved liftoff.”

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A milestone for Utah! In May, for the first calendar month ever, solar was our number-one electricity source at 32.9%, surpassing gas (32.2%) and coal (28%). Three big new solar farms have boosted Utah's solar capacity by more than 50% over the last year. 🔌💡

Here’s the list of countries taking action to save energy and cut costs during the energy crisis. The United States isn’t doing anything.

International Energy Agency@iea.org · 2mo ago

Our Energy Crisis Response Tracker just got a major update 📢 It now tracks both short-term energy-saving & consumer support measures and longer-term policies aimed at strengthening resilience. And it offers new filters to help users explore the data 👉 iea.li/4sSDRFb

This is the obvious path forward for Israel & Palestine www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/o...

Opinion | The Hard Truth My Party Needs to Face

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These folks just published a real study measuring the local temp impacts of data centers: about +1.8°F (max 4°F) in neighborhoods up to a third of a mile nearby. Much smaller than the other draft paper, but in neighborhoods, need to mitigate waste heat. asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/sustainableb...

Data Center Waste Heat as an Emerging Urban Thermal Hazard: First Field Measurements of Neighborhood-Scale Air Temperature Impacts

Abstract. Data centers are among the fastest-growing sources of concentrated anthropogenic heat in urban environments. Despite heat flux densities that exceed peak solar irradiance by a factor of 2–6,...

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EU: The European Union will require sale of mobile phones with “user-replaceable and longer-lasting batteries” starting in 2027. The regulation demands “availability of spare parts and manuals for 10 years to curb planned obsolescence”.

Science is good. We should fund it.

Me in @sltrib.com on Rocky Mountain Power's latest IRP that zeros out wind and solar for the next 20 years in Utah: “It’s a major missed opportunity, it'll lock us into a more expensive generation mix that’s riskier and exposed to volatile fossil fuel prices.” #utpol www.sltrib.com/news/environ...

Me in @kuer.org PacifiCorp has no new wind or solar projects planned for Utah customers through 2045 That’s why Mitchell said URC stands to make a difference “This program is a concrete way to build new clean energy resources for serving Utah customers” www.kuer.org/politics-gov...

The Utah Renewable Communities energy program is almost ready for launch

June 2 is the deadline for communities to officially enroll in Utah Renewable Communities. Participating customers will pay $4 a month toward new clean energy sources in the West.

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"He wanted it big. He wanted lots of gold, lots of marble. He wanted visitors awestruck by his architectural expansion of the country’s symbolic seat of power." {gift link} www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Follow along with us at @nature.com as we bring you today’s #ArtemisII lunar flyby - straight from mission scientists at Mission Control in Houston. I’ll have live updates throughout the day on this historic Moon mission. 🧪🔭 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This winter is a postcard from the future with a dramatically warmer climate. It is in our collective power to determine how warm the future is based on how quickly we can reduce our emissions. The time to act is now.

The Salt Lake Tribune@sltrib.com · 4mo ago

Deer Valley Resort became the latest Utah ski area to fall victim to the warm winter of 2025-26. It announced Thursday that it would close this weekend - nearly a month before its announced closing date.

Opinion: All emissions matter. Every tank of gasoline, cross-country flight and fossil-fueled load of laundry makes the earth a little warmer. So anything you do to reduce your emissions makes the problem a little easier to solve — once we collectively decide we want to solve it.

Opinion: Now is the perfect time to buy an electric vehicle

Opinion: Now is the perfect time to buy an electric vehicle

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Letter: This summer, when temperatures sizzle and water is scarce, ask yourself what you can do so that our political leaders (state and federal) promote our future instead of destroying it.

Letter: The Trump administration paid $1 billion to stop wind turbine projects. Who thinks that’s the best way to spend that money?

Letter: This summer, when temperatures sizzle and water is scarce, ask yourself what you can do so that our political leaders (state and federal) promote our future instead of destroying it.

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Letter: Why are our state leaders so fixated on nuclear energy — one of the most expensive options out there — when we could lead the nation in clean, reliable and economically sound geothermal?

Letter: Utah is a hotbed of geothermal energy. Why aren’t we using it?

Letter: Why are our state leaders so fixated on nuclear energy — one of the most expensive options out there — when we could lead the nation in clean, reliable and economically sound geothermal?

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I just resigned from NASA. It breaks my heart to leave, but I’ve become convinced the best path forward is to do the best science I can, and that can’t be here anymore. I’m still in love with the promise of those four magic letters. Ad astra per aspera, and remember: Earth is the only good planet.

The US government lost more than 10,000 STEM PhDs last year, according to an analysis by Science of newly released OPM data, with 11 departures for every hire. And many OPM calls "voluntary" separations were probably pushed. www.science.org/content/arti...

U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office

A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies

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Trump provokes an historically unprecedented brain drain from the US. The United States has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office.

the pace of awful news has outstripped our ability to give it the attention and duration it all deserves

Admitting publicly that you only want this bill that is designed to disenfranchise voters is necessary to make sure your party wins is quite a choice. The GOP has done away with subtlety and euphemisms and is now all "we need to cheat because the polls say people don't like us."

The lawyers are likely correct that Carr would lose this in court. They were also likely correct that Trump would lose his lawsuits against ABC and CBS -- but their corporate owners (with much deeper pockets to fight than a local station) folded instead. That’s the real threat.

Tim Hanlon@timhanlon.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"Carr has very little power to follow through. TV stations are not at serious risk of being banned from airwaves b/c of Carr’s crusade. However, comments still carry weight since [he] represents the US gov't & advances Trump’s policy agenda." (@brianstelter.bsky.social) www.cnn.com/2026/03/14/m...

when a presidential admin screws up as badly as the trump admin has screwed up in Iran, accountability is essential. There must be congressional hearings, investigations, and consequences for those responsible--including people losing their jobs, going all the way up to the top 1/2

i would like to have people take war seriously

OSINTRadar@osintradar.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The White House posts about the Iran War.

"wherever renewables have been installed, they are turning out to be security gold." prospect.org/2026/03/13/i...

The National Security Case for Renewable Energy - The American Prospect

Turns out oil is vulnerable to price shocks caused by blood-crazed presidents.

prospect.org

The Iran war is showing that renewable energy is a national security imperative, and that fighting renewables tooth and nail as the White House has been doing since day one deeply undermines national security, as @ryanlcooper.com writes. prospect.org/2026/03/13/i...

The National Security Case for Renewable Energy - The American Prospect

Turns out oil is vulnerable to price shocks caused by blood-crazed presidents.

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credit where due, Macron is right on this one prospect.org/2026/03/13/i...

The National Security Case for Renewable Energy - The American Prospect

Turns out oil is vulnerable to price shocks caused by blood-crazed presidents.

prospect.org

Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 5mo ago

President Macron making the case for renewables in light of the US-Israeli attack on Iran, "Everything we do to move towards transition is also about reducing our dependence and therefore our exposure to geopolitical risks"

“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath Some costs aren’t costs.

One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss

Copenhagen, the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet, publishes a biannual Bicycle Account, and buried in its pages is a rather astonishing fact.

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This action "is a ringing alarm bell warning all of us of the extent to which this administration has succeeded in degrading our governing institutions in such a short period of time." My statement progressivereform.org/cpr-blog/epa...

Statement on the EPA’s Final Rescission of the ‘Endangerment Finding’ - Center for Progressive Reform

Over the course of more than a century, serious statespeople came together to build the modern administrative state out of a shared commitment to redeeming their constitutional duty to form a more per...

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6mo ago

Trump: "We are officially terminating the so-called 'endangerment finding'"