Coal pollution is cutting solar power output worldwide, study finds https://phys.org/news/2026-05-coal-pollution-solar-power-output.html
Solar power production undercut by coal pollution https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/05/solar-power-production-undercut-by-coal-pollution/
#environment #energy #renewables #fossilfuel #fossilfuels #coal #pollution
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@sb@metroholografix.ca
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Apr 22, 2026
sb arms & legs
@sb@metroholografix.ca
civilisation is dying and i aint try'na deny it help your community I work in #audio, formerly #software & #electronics I do #opensource #dev #selfhosting I #design and #print #stickers, #posters, #tshirts #anarchist #antiFascist #antiOligarch #antiBillionaire #musician #jazz #punk #2slgbtqAlly #mutualAid #LongCovid #MECFS #wearAMask #union #IATSE 680 #LANDBACK #FREEPALESTINE admin metroholografix.ca formerly sb@fed.sbcloud.cc #Wabanaki #SaintJohn #NewBrunswick #Canada #noAltNoBoost
metroholografix.ca
RE: https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/@cbcnb_mirror/116240918136048249
I'm one of those pesky holdouts. Do I want the absolute clowns at the head of NB Power having real-time access to my energy consumption? Absothefucklutely not!
Every "development" from nbp over the last decade has turned out to be a grift. They have wasted tens - maybe hundreds of millions of grifts, many millions more on funding dictators, and BILLIONS sunk into our #nuclear plant because they wouldn't listen to the experts about maintenance.
Take for instance Joi Scientific - the "perpetual energy" company nbp partnered with in order to buy yachts for conmen. Or how about the not one but TWO companies they spun up to "build" #smr (small modular nuclear reactors).
Buffoons!
There was of course the deal with the dictators of Venezuela to run our #HeavyFuelOil power plant on some proprietary product on a 25 year agreement, rather than invest in renewables.
nbp doesn't own a single windfarm, and has gone out of their way to make it harder for wind project to take root.
Losers!
Despite this, we have about 400MW of wind online - the majority of this has local #Indigenous groups as the majority investors.
nbp keeps fighting in court to extend the life of our #coal buring power plant (!!!) past 2030. And losing.
nbp is absolutely desperate for money and the government board is actually doing a pretty good job of protecting the citizens by constantly denying nbp's rate increase asks. There is NO WAY they are not going to sell our data to anyone who will give them a nickle.
Day after day, year after year, we not only let these incompetent and dangerous people poison us and waste ungodly sums of money... we're paying them millions of dollars to do so.
#nbPower #SurveillanceCapitalism #OilLobby
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@DoomsdaysCW@kolektiva.social
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Mar 25, 2026
DoomsdaysCW
@DoomsdaysCW@kolektiva.social
Fmr Journalist📰 and occasional Librarian 📚, #IndigenousAlly living on #Wabanaki land🌄. #NonBinary 
#Queer 
#ActuallyAutistic♾️ Pronouns: They, them, per, person, human. #Environmentalist🌳 #DemocraticSocialist🌹 Student of #Archaeology 💀& #History 📜 #NoNukes☢️ Anti-#Oligarchy🎩 #NoWar☮️ #GetMoneyOut💰#HumanRights🕵️♂️ #CeasefireNow🇵🇸 #BLM✊🏿 #IndigenousRights 🌿 #WaterIsLife💧Anti-#Corruption🔍 #ClimateCrisis🌍 #RightToRepair 🪛 #SolarPunkSunday 🌞
kolektiva.social
"In a detailed report released last week, titled The Urgent Case Against Data Centers, #FWW pointed to some of the 'documented harms caused by AI and data centers,' including:
- Enormous #energy footprints: A single hyperscale data center can consume as much energy as 2 million US households.
- A lifeline for #FossilFuels: The thirst for fuel is being met by keeping old #coal-fired power plants running and by building new natural gas ones. [And restarting old #NuclearPlants]
- Skyrocketing electricity costs: Increased #EnergyDemand can raise residential rates, which soared 31% from 2020 to 2025 (compared to 4% from 2015 to 2020).
- Drained water resources: By 2028, AI data centers could use as much water as 18.5 million households, just for cooling their servers.
- An investment bubble: A handful of companies are investing in one another and increasingly turning to risky debt structures to hide the threat of the bubble.
- A litany of other harms: This includes massive amounts of electronic waste (#EWaste), unrelenting noise pollution, loss of #farmland, political instability from deepfake videos, lost revenue from data center tax incentives, and child endangerment from #AI #chatbots."
#NoDatacenters #NoAI
#NoNukesForAI #UnrestrictedGrowth #WaterIsLife #NoisePollution
#AISucks #USPol
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@gregc@mastodonapp.uk
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Feb 17, 2026
NorfolkGreg
@gregc@mastodonapp.uk
I'm a #boater, and a #blues and #gospel #musician. I dabble in #webdesign and #wildlife #photography. At least, those are the things I'm most likely to post about. Also play #boardgames in my "spare" time, but don't have much of that. I was born in 1948. Last paid full-time work: 1998. No paid part-time work since 2009. Now live on the edge of a #village on the #coast of #Norfolk, close to the #norfolkbroads. #fedi22
mastodonapp.uk
10:00 and our #coal delivery has been made.
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@gregc@mastodonapp.uk
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Feb 16, 2026
NorfolkGreg
@gregc@mastodonapp.uk
I'm a #boater, and a #blues and #gospel #musician. I dabble in #webdesign and #wildlife #photography. At least, those are the things I'm most likely to post about. Also play #boardgames in my "spare" time, but don't have much of that. I was born in 1948. Last paid full-time work: 1998. No paid part-time work since 2009. Now live on the edge of a #village on the #coast of #Norfolk, close to the #norfolkbroads. #fedi22
mastodonapp.uk
We'd emailed the wonderful Liam of https://www.midlandsandcoast.co.uk/ to try to sort out a #coal delivery to #ourplace which fronts the #towpath of the #Bridgewater #Canal. I took a photo of his #boat last time we got #fuel from him. It's based the same distance on one side of #PrestonBrook #bridge as we are the other. This time I needed an emergency supply. He gave me a bag, lent me a barrow to carry it home and said he'd invoice me when he delivered all we have room to store.
As I collected the fuel the sun came out to reveal The Midlands & Coast Canal Carriers Ltd yard in all its glory.
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@drrjv__dup_31966@vmst.io
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Feb 13, 2026
DrBob, 🧠 Mechanic
@drrjv__dup_31966@vmst.io
“A nation ignorant of the equal benefits of liberty and law, must be awed by the flashes of arbitrary power: the cruelty of a despot will assume the character of justice; his profusion, of liberality; his obstinacy, of firmness” — Edward Gibbon (who wrote ‘The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’)
vmst.io
More Idiocracy
(as the United States enters the dark ages)
Trump infatuated with Coal and #Gold
“In a ceremony at the White House yesterday, surrounded by #coal industry leaders, lawmakers, and miners, President Donald J. #Trump was presented with a trophy that calls him “the undisputed champion of beautiful, clean coal.”
At the event, Trump signed an executive order directing the Defense Department to buy billions of dollars of power produced by coal and decried “the Radical Left’s war on the industry.”
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-12-2026
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@OliM@pixelfed.de
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Feb 01, 2026
Oli
@OliM@pixelfed.de
Fotografiere mal weniger, mal mehr. Gerade mehr - da ich sowohl ein 365-Tage-Projekt, als auch ein 52-Wochen-Projekt durchziehen möchte. Meistens irgendwo in der #Natur, im #Garten oder auf #Demos in #Mannheim unterwegs. Alle Bilder sind von mir #mywork. Wenn nicht explizit anders erwähnt, sind die Bilder aktuelle Aufnahmen. Im Archiv zu wühlen ist nicht so meins. Konstruktives Feedback ist immer willkommen!
pixelfed.de
'Heizen' #FotoVorschlag #365project #365projekt
Das #Grosskraftwerk #Mannheim (#GKM) hatte ich schon lange auf meiner Bucketlist - eigentlich bei besserem Wetter, aber gut. Auch wenn die #mvv vorgibt, die #Fernwärme dekarbonisieren - ein Großteil der Wärme kommt aktuell noch auß dieser CO2-Schleuder.
#blackandwhite #industry #industrie #kohleausstieg #mannheimkohlefrei #kraftwerk #powerplant #stopcoal #coal
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