The forests of Canada are being turned to ash at a rate of a million hectares a month.

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Ontario Premier Ford didn't buy Water-bomber aircraft as he said, he lied.

Canada has no major solar or wind project.

A third (209) of the Climate Wild Fires Burning Are NOT being fought - 100's of thousands hectares.

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#CDNpoli #LPC #Carney #Wind #NewEnergy #Transition #Jobs #NDP #BCpoli #Build #Solar #Oil #Pipeline #Resistance #FN #FirstNations #EU #Klima

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The forests of Canada are being turned to ash at a rate of a million hectares a month ie-creek-fire-british-columbias-largest-ever-wildfire-remains-volatile-

Good news in hard times.

"Peak Energy just shipped the US’s first grid-scale sodium-ion battery"

Good news because we must transition off carbon fuels now, and good news because its not scarce or hard to mine, or behind some prick's tariff wall, its not dirty, won't burst into flames.

Because its salt. Like sunlight, its EVERYWHERE.

https://electrek.co/2025/07/30/peak-energy-us-first-grid-scale-sodium-ion-battery/

#climate #salt #grud #build #BuildFast #solar #wind

#Solar is now 41% cheaper than fossil fuels, new UN report finds: 'The sun is rising on a clean energy age' https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/solar-power-versus-fossil-fuels-cheaper-study #Solarpunk

Just noted... our #solar went live on 11th June, and as of today (just over a month later) we've just gone over our first 1MWh generated 😀

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Screenshot of part of the web UI of our solar inverter controller. Screenshot shows the text: Production 2.86 KW 16 Jul, 2025 10:26 AM 1.04 MWh Lifetime

SOLAR: yes, the tax credits are expiring at the end of the year (get started now!)

BUT... I was thinking how much #solar prices have dropped since I had mine installed in 2022 (catching the first wave of Biden's Inflation Reduction Act tax credits)...

1/n

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I8HVaJ0GNHtVKeAHN--w4xAM6x5wElTV/view

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© Residential solar and storage prices both reach new all-time lows Solar prices dropped for the third six-month period in arrow, hitting $2.50 per watt, the lowest median quoted price since we began tracking data in 2014. Quoted storage prices also fell, setting anew record low of $999 per kilowatt-hour stored. In 2025, we are monitoring potential tariff impacts on solar and storage prices.

Those "free market" Republicans are trying everything they can to kill the green energy market — not just killing tax credits, but tariffs and they even proposed *taxing* solar (it failed).

Why? Why do they effin care so much?

The easy answer...

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#climate #green #solar

New #blog post: Looking at changes in the UKs #solar capacity

After reading a post yesterday claiming that the UK's solar production jumped by 42% this spring, I had a look to see what our system achieved

Then, I fell down a couple of rabbit holes looking at changes in the UKs deployed capacity

https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/house-stuff/looking-at-uk-solar-generation-changes.html

I was curious to see if this was true for us - https://www.ecowatch.com/solar-power-generation-uk-2025.html

> Solar farms and rooftops in the United Kingdom generated a record 42 percent more electricity from January through May 2025 than during the same period in 2024

Sadly (but not too surprisingly) it isn't, but between Jan - May this year our #solar generated about 18% more than it did the year before

So increased sunshine is definitely a factor, but most of the gain in the article was prob expanding capacity

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During Jan - May 2024 we generated 996 kWh of electricity. In the same period this year, it was 1200.

🔋 Yesterday, a #Solar battery saved @edent@mastodon.social £1.55 by using 4.44kWh of stored electricity.

Total battery savings since August 2023:
💷 £808.01
⚡ 2,413 kWh

FAQ: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/solar-faq/

One of Europe’s Hottest Cities Rediscovers an Old Cooling Technique

By Laura Millan
August 8, 2023

"The streets of #Seville in southern #Spain were so hot that July afternoon that it felt almost impossible to walk outdoors. As temperatures approached 42C (108F), people scrambled to find shelter in air-conditioned homes, offices and public buildings. Yet, less than two miles from the city center, a cool breeze blew under a giant white roof.

"The structure is a part of CartujaQanat, an architectural experiment in cooling solutions that doesn’t rely on burning more planet-warming #FossilFuels. The site, about the size of two soccer fields, includes two auditoriums, green spaces, a promenade and a shaded area with benches. But its star performer remains hidden — the qanat, a network of underground pipes and tubes inspired by Persian-era canals.

"The grid of #aqueducts can lower surrounding temperatures by as much as 10C using just air, water and #solar power, according to Emasesa, the Seville public water company that helped to build it. The system is modeled on ancient tunnels dug to bring water to agricultural fields that were first documented in what is today #Iran. The Persians realized 1,000 years ago that the running water also cooled the air in the canals, so they fashioned vertical shafts to bring that air to the surface.

" 'This is not an air-conditioning system like the one you may have in your home,' says Juan Luis López, the project’s supervisor and an engineer at Emasesa. 'We use natural techniques and materials to reduce temperatures.' "

Read more:
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2023-seville-spain-extreme-heat/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/36fz1

#SolarPunkSunday #History #PersianTechnology #ClimateChange #KeepingCool #ExtremeHeat #AncientTechnology

Batteries are so cheap now, #solar power doesn’t sleep https://electrek.co/2025/06/20/batteries-are-so-cheap-now-solar-power-doesnt-sleep-ember/

As of yesterday, our house in London has exported *one MegaWattHour* of solar electricity.

All of our neighbours benefit from clean, green, locally generated power.

We have a small roof, with an east/west split, and yet #solar works brilliantly.

More details:
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/03/what-does-a-personal-net-zero-look-like/

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Graph showing a peak in summer.

#solar and #battery installation at a relatives house did well for #resilience - a cable break cut off the #UKPN grid feed for around an hour - whole house remained with #power from the #renewable #energy sources, the battery reserve was barely touched due to good sunlight (the people in the house didn't even need to switch off high consumption equipment, although I had suggested this should the power cut have lasted any longer (the grid supply returned around an hour later) #electricity

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Victron VRM real time display showing a large country house being entirely supplied for its energy requirements by solar and battery (due to the incoming grid power being lost)

And #HeatPump install all booked in!

If it all goes to plan, we'll have both #Solar and #HeatPump in before the end of the month 😳

Now for my sanity I may regret doing two installs back to back, but at least it’ll be done quickly!
#HeatPump #Solar