“ Wind farms accounted for 35 percentof Oklahoma’s electricity production before Traverse came online. The state has about 4 million residents and about a million and a half households.
The $2 billion Traverse wind farm and two smaller facilities will power 440,000 households, around 30 percent of all households in the state.”
So - 65% of Oklahoma’s electricity is coming from renewables?
Since 2003, when he was first elected Chair of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Inhofe has been the foremost Republican promoting climate change denial. He famously claimed in the Senate that global warming is a hoax, invited contrarians to testify in Committee hearings”
Illinois did a bait-and-switch with the electric vehicle licensing fees. You used to be able to get a lower cost sticker which was $35 for three years. Then last year it switched to $270 for ONE year, a 2300% increase.
Apparently many customers here in GA are asking GA power to up it’s investment in solar farms… though as the article notes, not everyone spoke in favor of going greener.
At this point there are a few different places where we could use a word that means “never happened before, but is exactly on track with how things have been going for a while now”.
The most energy-inefficient design of all, he says, may be nuclear power, which is heavily subsidised, costly and pushed by a politically powerful lobby. Using it to address shortages of electricity or to counter climate change, he argues, is like offering starving people rice and caviar when it’s far cheaper and easier to give just rice.
Fortunately, the 300ft tsunami in British Columbia in November 2020 was inland and nobody lived there… … the bad news is that as glaciers melt, more slippy stuff will come unglued from its mountainside.
You might want to look twice before buying a lakeside cottage in the mountains with a view of a glacier…
… the bad news is that as glaciers melt, more slippy stuff will come unglued from its mountainside.