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Time for 2025 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread. If you like these, you might like the second edition of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website until end of November 2025.
www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...
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Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon
www.worldscientific.com
October 20, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Time for 2025 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread. If you like these, you might like the second edition of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website until end of November 2025.
www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...
www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...
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Govt promotes charging using cable gullies across pavements but many councils resist them bit.ly/4q8Ze3V preferring to install lamppost charging but unit prices are much higher than domestic electricity and have 20% VAT added compared with 5% for home power
EV drivers could get grants for kerbside charging ‘gullies’
The government is offering councils the chance to subsidise installation as it seeks to increase the uptake of electric vehicles
bit.ly
October 13, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Govt promotes charging using cable gullies across pavements but many councils resist them bit.ly/4q8Ze3V preferring to install lamppost charging but unit prices are much higher than domestic electricity and have 20% VAT added compared with 5% for home power
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“She means ‘fewer.’”
- a Harvard graduate
- a Harvard graduate
Leavitt: "Electricians, plumbers -- we need more of those in our country, and less LGBTQ graduate majors from Harvard University. And that's what this administration's position is."
May 28, 2025 at 1:34 AM
“She means ‘fewer.’”
- a Harvard graduate
- a Harvard graduate
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Nothing sadder than a tough guy who needs to remind you he's tough, right after admitting to shielding Russia.
May 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Nothing sadder than a tough guy who needs to remind you he's tough, right after admitting to shielding Russia.
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The biggest endorsement I can make for Bluesky is that replacing Twitter with this app on my phone probably improved my general mood when I’m on my phone by 20-25%. I know there are better reasons but it is what it is!
May 27, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The biggest endorsement I can make for Bluesky is that replacing Twitter with this app on my phone probably improved my general mood when I’m on my phone by 20-25%. I know there are better reasons but it is what it is!
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Blair says a "strategy based on either 'phasing out' fossil fuels in the short term or limiting consumption is a strategy doomed to fail"
This is logically & categorically not the same as saying "net-zero is doomed to fail"
(If you can't see why, I can't help you)
2/6
This is logically & categorically not the same as saying "net-zero is doomed to fail"
(If you can't see why, I can't help you)
2/6
April 30, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Blair says a "strategy based on either 'phasing out' fossil fuels in the short term or limiting consumption is a strategy doomed to fail"
This is logically & categorically not the same as saying "net-zero is doomed to fail"
(If you can't see why, I can't help you)
2/6
This is logically & categorically not the same as saying "net-zero is doomed to fail"
(If you can't see why, I can't help you)
2/6
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“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).
April 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).
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A lesson understood almost everywhere in Europe - except in Britain
April 7, 2025 at 6:17 AM
A lesson understood almost everywhere in Europe - except in Britain
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Elon spent $300M on a Temu president. Now he’s getting a Temu presidency.
www.axios.com/2025/04/08/m...
www.axios.com/2025/04/08/m...
Elon Musk calls Peter Navarro "moron" as trade spat intensifies
Musk and his family have taken a public position against President Trump's most important economic policy.
www.axios.com
April 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Elon spent $300M on a Temu president. Now he’s getting a Temu presidency.
www.axios.com/2025/04/08/m...
www.axios.com/2025/04/08/m...
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Man Who Bumped Tesla While Parallel Parking Sentenced To Death
Man Who Bumped Tesla While Parallel Parking Sentenced To Death
WASHINGTON—Warning that even the slightest dent, knick, or scratch would henceforth be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Tuesday that Raymond Pratt, a 5...
theonion.com
April 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Man Who Bumped Tesla While Parallel Parking Sentenced To Death
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We deserved some good news!
April 2, 2025 at 1:46 AM
We deserved some good news!
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This was….five months ago
April 2, 2025 at 11:49 PM
This was….five months ago
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Make this go viral!
Her husband’s life was put at risk by the Signal texts.
Her husband’s life was put at risk by the Signal texts.
March 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Make this go viral!
Her husband’s life was put at risk by the Signal texts.
Her husband’s life was put at risk by the Signal texts.
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This from Der Spiegel - if confirmed - suggests that Trump’s key appointments are all seriously compromised … www.spiegel.de/internationa...
Hegseth, Waltz, Gabbard: Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online
Donald Trump's most important security advisers used Signal to discuss an imminent military strike. Now, reporting by DER SPIEGEL has found that the contact data of some of those officials, including ...
www.spiegel.de
March 26, 2025 at 9:53 PM
This from Der Spiegel - if confirmed - suggests that Trump’s key appointments are all seriously compromised … www.spiegel.de/internationa...
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Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
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Pete Hegseth in 2016: "The people we rely on to do dangerous and difficult things for us rely on one thing from us: That we will not... be reckless with the dangerous things they are doing for us. That's the national security implications of a private server that's unsecured."
March 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Pete Hegseth in 2016: "The people we rely on to do dangerous and difficult things for us rely on one thing from us: That we will not... be reckless with the dangerous things they are doing for us. That's the national security implications of a private server that's unsecured."
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Now might be a good time to protect your data if you’ve used this service.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
23andMe files for bankruptcy protection
The company said that it will now attempt to sell itself under the supervision of a court.
www.bbc.com
March 24, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Now might be a good time to protect your data if you’ve used this service.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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BofA fund manager survey: biggest drop in US equity allocation on record
March 18, 2025 at 9:15 AM
BofA fund manager survey: biggest drop in US equity allocation on record
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Too bad Uvalde Elementary didn’t sell Teslas.
March 11, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Too bad Uvalde Elementary didn’t sell Teslas.
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I just find this terribly strange and foolish. Stay on X, sure. Governments want all the communication outlets they can get. But by the same measure, why would you not be here.
33 million users. Still no sign of the British government, which remains active on Xitter.
Bluesky just reached 33 million. 🎆🦋
March 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I just find this terribly strange and foolish. Stay on X, sure. Governments want all the communication outlets they can get. But by the same measure, why would you not be here.
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Please, please. It's too much winning
March 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Please, please. It's too much winning