ZeroGravitas

The UK actually has escalating targets, so in the year they predict the crossover at 33% each in August, the BEV share for cars for the full year is mandated to be 38% (and 52% the next year).

They softened some of the enforcement but that is still the legal target currently.

Open access link to the full book the article is based on (since it's slightly hidden on the book page):

https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/6212/Peer-Production

You seem to have missed that he wasn't popular on those things that didn't change. Healthcare in particular was low, immigration was at best middling.

> And previously, voters’ trust in his economic management was the one thing propping him up. But the Iran war destroyed it

Americans are surprisingly sane when polled on individual issues, but the political system doesn't generally reflect that.

> Americans think AI might take their jobs and kill their families.

You could replace "think" with "were repeatedly told, unprompted, by the 3rd-rate Bond villains running the AI corporations"

Maybe the people building the datacentres should come out and say they can't build them without screwing over local communities, see how that goes down.

New lows in "but at what cost" reporting.

Asking a Tibetan activist in India about what is going on in Chinese Tibet is like asking Floridian Cuban Republican activist to comment on Cuba's solar power initiatives.

Would that pass Thomson Reuters Trust principals? It shouldn't.

https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en/about-us/trust-principles

How do Chinese owned industrial factories in Brazil differ, apart from being more efficient and able to pivot to new markets better? Which seems like useful properties in a war footing?

Do you want your war munition manufacturers to say "we'd have better short term bonuses if we didn't manufacture what you need but instead just kept manufacturing our old stuff with no regard for the nations future"?

Why do AI stocks rely on corrupt assholes being in charge?

Seems like a moment for "are we the baddies?" style reflection.

No Child Left Behind was a Republican thing. Specifically George W Bush as it had elements of federal control that some other Republicans didn't like.

Teacher unions didn't like it.

So many odd aspects to this. The mom was already an activist involved in education and was going to question the state's approach to education even before she found out her kid was struggling with maths.

And she thinks she was decieved by his Elementary School even though he's bright and industrious and running his own successful business at 14?

Many things are not adding up here.

I'd assume based on being in the NYPost that it's propaganda, but it's at the very least weird propaganda.

I think they are implying she lost not because a wealth tax is unpopular with voters, but unpopular with the rich people who buy elections to avoid paying taxes.

> For example, you can't make ammonia from electricity but you can from heat generated by either fossil fuels or nuclear.

This is wrong for two reasons.

One: you can make heat with electricity from renewables sources, if that were necessary.

Two: you don't need heat because you can make ammonia with green hydrogen from electrolysis then follow the standard Haber-Bosch process. The normal fossil route does this too but gets the hydrogen by splitting fossil gas and vents the waste CO2.

You'll own nothing and Sam Altman will be happy.

China has focused on "urban mining" in their most recently published 5 year plan so if the pattern holds western journalists will be surprised to learn about the importance of this in a decade or two, probably just after a war restricts some vital supply line.

German TV had local experts who could tell the audience in real time that the authorities in Fukishsima were lying about the unfolding disaster.

A slightly racist belief in the Japanese as superior at following the rules meant a big shock when the Germans realised that even the Japanese could not be trusted with nuclear power.

Degrowthers just believed climate scientists that there is a problem and then believed climate deniers when they said none of the solutions work.

If you accept both of these then like Vaclav Smil, you'll conclude that you need to use less fossil fuels and nothing else will replace them. And if you care about fairness globally then 1st world nations need to really use less.

It all makes perfect sense if you believe all the lies told about renewables.

Most of the people mocking it helped spread those lies, which makes attacking the people who believe them a bit rude.

> I will also remind you that there is not a single industrialised economy anywhere on earth that has successfully supplied new electricity growth with only renewable energy. Not one.

Nuclear fans across the internet seems to have adopted this talking point recently and none of them have noticed it doesn't make any sense.

What are you even claiming here?

Vague non-binding promises of cheap power in 10 years is cheaper than building clean power today.

For existing nuclear, stealing it from the other grid users is cheaper than building clean power today.

I'd probably be fine with the average opinion of silicon valley workers. Even accounting for the overabundance of priveliged white men that leads to a libertarian/fascist undercurrent. It's the sociopaths that rise to the top by fucking everyone else over that are a problem.

Tesla Model 3s in the UK (and other Right hand drive countries) are made in china so you may want to revisit that bet.

Story from Florida in 2020, with arrest of Republican operative

GREG ALLEN, BYLINE: In Florida and some other states, recruiting ghost or shadow candidates is a well-known political strategy. Katherine Rundle, the state attorney in Miami-Dade County, has seen it before.

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/979340075

Let's hope no one starts an ill informed and hypocritical conspiracy theory about the mail-in voting that has made it so much easier to vote.

Narrator: it was not an honest question.

The dam only runs about 33% of the time so 8 hours a day and the batteries run nearly every day so just 3 months of additions is nearing half a grand coulee dam of electricity output. Or two Coulee dams a year in grid battery production.

The existing batteries in Texas and California have already delivered a coulee-dam-year (21TWh) so far in 2026.

Grid batteries was one of the few areas that escaped Trump's gutting of the IRA and was included in other Infrastructure bills.

And a side effect of the EV market getting hobbled also redirected battery factory capacity from that market.

I'm not sure what's online yet but there is a pipeline.

edit an estimate from earlier this year:

> By the end of 2025, 20 gigawatt-hours of dedicated storage cell lines had opened, and the industry is on pace to hit 96 gigawatt-hours by the end of this year.

There's something about the trick of abusing a process set up to hire temporary staff quickly for overseas disasters and pandemics to take over and destroy a government department you don't like that feels LLM-like to me.

I wonder if Musk's team is using AI to find loopholes in laws he can abuse.

> The West ... continues to disadvantage itself through eco nonsense

I'm assuming the Chinese EVs that he raves about, and the 1,700 TWh of new renewables generation added since his last visit that helped clear the air are not "eco nonsense" by this definition?

A completely renewable grid is less important than electrifying the low hanging fruit of heating and transport.

Anything below 800g of CO2 (which means basically every current grid) means electrifying is a net win. Even the famously coal heavy South African grid is already past that barrier and even if it wasn't all grids are getting cleaner over time.

A grid that has maxed out wind and solar and then used only coal for 2 weeks would be one of the cleanest grids in the world right now, on par with France or Sweden.

Chasing 100% on a grid to satisfy the complaints of people who are concern trolling isn't smart nor necessary. What you need is bulk cheap electricity to allow you to reduce your heating and transport costs and clean your air at the same time.

She just did her yearly recap of the market:

https://bsky.app/profile/solarchase.bsky.social/post/3mxjkhs...

It was the third of its type in Europe built by roughly the same people, fifth if you include Chinese models built separately, so not a totally new design.