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Zelenskyy calls out monthlong wait for Hegseth to sign off on Patriot missiles
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Nuclear = subservience to Russia.. militarnyi.com/en/news/russ...
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“June 2026 was a defining month in India’s mobility transition."
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‘If the emission cone can be narrowed to more closely match the absorption cone of incoming sunlight, which is exactly what our work demonstrates experimentally, solar cells will, in principle, be able to approach efficiencies close to 43%’
A Chinese team has developed a new strategy to perovskite solar cells, enabling the production of large-area, commercial size flexible photovoltaic devices with power conversion efficiencies consistently exceeding 20 percent, the Xinhua News Agency has reported. www.globaltimes.cn/page/202610/...
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‘At end of 2025, small scale solar more capacity than grid…2026 to date - more solar then 24/25 combined’ ‘3 person house needs $4,500 of solar…7X petrol generator cost, but $200/month fuel cost’ ‘grid 2024 tripled tariffs for high-usage households in 2024’ ‘37-36% interest…most purchases cash’
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'In months after 2022 invasion of Ukraine, cheapest hour of average day cost €149 ($165.6)/MWh in Spain, €193/MWh in Germany & €252/MWh in Greece...over 2026 window, during Israeli/US War in Middle East, cheapest hour of day fell to between €16/MWh & €25/MWh' www.pv-magazine.com/2026/10/14/e...
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Still not sure what true cost of a solar panel is. China, India, & the US all heavily subsidize their manufacturing. China suggesting profitable is ~$.10/W within their system. Indian prices are higher - maybe $.15/W. US closer to $.30/W (maybe). India price subsidized too - not as much as China.
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Don’t rely on fossil fuels… “Bolivia’s dwindling natural gas reserves and declining exports have undermined its economy and intensified fuel shortages.” oilprice.com/Energy/Energ...
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They say you can get fast, cheap, and high quality - but not all three. Well, solar is fastest and cheapest. Well, Germany and California are showing increasing renewable grid penetration and are showing increasing uptime. Australia too. Sun 🌞 rises everyday.
5. Solar is still the cheapest source of bulk electricity in many countries, and the quickest to deploy, and now you couldn't stop it if you wanted to. The limits to PV build in most places that aren’t yet running into saturation effects are grid access and permitting.
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Say it with us: Russia was never a hoax. www.mediaite.com/media/tv/joe...
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‘Batteries have largely answered the frequency question. The next test is voltage stability as synchronous machines retire, and batteries with grid-forming inverters are well placed to answer that one too.’
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It used to be, the powergrid people made their money on daytime electricity, and big money during heatwaves when the wholesale prices went through the roof. Now, those are just sunny days, and wholesale electricity pricing is starting to fall around the world. Further ingenuity will come. #bullish
4. This leads to negative feedback mechanisms: low wholesale power prices in sunny hours, which in forward-looking jurisdictions are passed on to consumers. For example, Australia’s Solar Sharer scheme obliges many utilities to offer a price plan with 3 hours of free power around midday.
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930 MW - starting to look like California :-)
The following afternoon, when #solar joined the wind, we hit the lowest gas plant output I've seen to date: 930 MW at 1 PM (sub-hourly figures show even lower around 2:30 PM). We haven't had gas burn this low since May, when we also had lots of solar and minimal demand. /2
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Interesting chart, slightly off. 1. It’s solar cells, not modules. Normies don’t buy cells - they buy modules. However, cells are the global bottleneck getting worked right now - making chart relevant. 2. FirstSolar doesn’t make cells, but it’s 20 GW+ capacity is real. U.S. value 2-3X higher.
India is the second largest solar PV manufacturer in the world, but the gap between #2 and #1 is quite something.
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TRUTH - Zelenskyy sees that Putin/KGB/FSB/GRU/IRA’s entire global Fascist movement, (including installment of many Kremlin puppets like Assad, Yanukovych, Trump, Orban, Le Pen, Bolsonaro, AFD, etc.), starts with Putin’s global disinformation/propaganda/indoctrination/radicalization campaigns online.
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With the US #MidtermElections approaching, any disruption to Russian-linked influence networks would be significant. Automated traffic from Yandex plunged to 0.4% of its recent peak fueling speculation whether the attacks could affect Russian influence operations. 🥸 www.ibtimes.co.uk/drone-strike...
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This is the sin of modern social media. However, establishment media set the table by ceasing to be information - but instead entertainment. Of course, Information has always had issues with it being controlled, manipulated, and weaponized - but man are we good at drilling it in deep these days.
There are millions of bots commenting and posting Russian propaganda. There are paid influencers spreading it, with Russian bots supporting their content. There is a gigantic machine operating to radicalize and influence Western societies, and there is not enough defense in place.
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‘metal’s 17% rally this year’ Pullback! Yeah!! ‘Copper fell 0.2% to $14,588 a ton on the London Metal Exchange as of 11:25 a.m. in Shanghai. Aluminum, which is also used in AI infrastructure, dropped 0.3% and zinc lost 0.7%. Iron ore declined 0.3% to $90.70 a ton in Singapore.’ Oh…