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.

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

Apparently the main lesson learned was, don't use a CfD because you'll be contractually bound to your initial bid and be responsible for cost overruns. Instead consumers are paying upfront for construction, with no cap on costs for the next one.

Though of course that's not really a lesson learned. Their CFO knew enough at the time the deal was originally signed to resign over it.

But to give them due credit, they believed in this vision and put in the hard work to make sure it became true.

https://ember-energy.org/data/electricity-data-explorer/?tem...

Solar's global peak month in (northern hemisphere) summer 2024 nearly equaled nuclear, the full calendar year 2025 slightly beat nuclear and now it's possible that the next yearly minimum month coming up this december will match nuclear. That's a lot of change in just 2.5 years.

Also, the graph shows the world needs more wind power as it counter cycles both solar and hydro supply.

German car manufacturers leaned on their government to not protect the German solar industry from China a decade ago in case it affected their sales of ICE cars to China.

I would guess a lot of the pushback against EVs from the industry is because they have one eye on export markets that they gambled to trail Europe on EV adoption but which are about to topple like dominoes to Chinese-manufactured EVs.

Even when NEV sales in China were 50%, the share for Chinese brands was 80% NEV. It's the non-chinese brands that have everything to lose as that transition accelerates (latest numbers was 2/3rds NEV and ICE sales on a rolling 12 month basis are a third of their peak in 2017). The drop in ICE sales is more pronounced than the rise of EV in calendar year 2026, as you might expect when people realise that the old models are legacy from the day they are purchased.

So there's not a direct effect on Presidential elections but there's a second order effect.

Since it's obvious to you, why don't you share your take on it?

> Jamie, a crypto alum who asked not to share his last name, met a backer for his raw milk startup at a Miami kava bar. The crowd was "50% recovering opioid addicts from Appalachia and 50% Wall Street and Silicon Valley refugees looking for shelter from taxes, pandemic restrictions, and leftist ideological hegemony," he says. A crowd accumulated in the corner, smoking.

> He struck up a conversation with a jacked, Harley-riding investor while chain-smoking Marlboro Reds. Jamie told the investor about his startup, and the two talked about alternative wellness between drags. A week later, the investor signed a check. Smoking poles put him in pole position.

It's all weird but specifically "smoking poles" has a different meaning as far as I'm aware. I can't quickly Google up anyone using "pole" to mean cigarette.

What's the intended message here?

Like 2/3rds or 4/5ths of it on a fossil heavy grid.

But the clearest demarcation is the people who think dirty energy is cheaper than clean energy (or vice versa)

What about the poor people? What about the poor countries? What about industry keeping competitive?

All those questions flip once the price flips.

Personally I'm more worried about coal and gas interests forcing poor (and rich) countries to make unwise investments in fossil fuels so they keep getting a cut than I am about having to force them to move on from coal.

But where would Texas find gas?

A real burn-your-boats moment so there's no chance of them working together again after that.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-mix?tab=line&...

There's still complications e.g if the "dirty" electricity is being used to power an EV or a heat pump then it's reducing GHG compared with directly fossil fueled alternatives.

Even in America and among Republicans there's support for using less plastic straws and unless there's some extremely unexpected overlaps in opinion it basically means the only people who think it's a bad move also don't care about climate change and environmentalism seperate from the straw issue.

Germany also reduced theirs more than France since that point. And grown per capita GDP faster from a higher start.

Nuclear appears to be a distraction, it's not even visible on a graph of Germany's GHG emissions.