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Trump continues the gasoline Dream and the world is moving on (ODT)
via You’ll Soon be Driving an Electric Car, but it will be Made in China and You won’t be Great Again
Solar photovoltaic and wind power are rapidly getting cheaper and more abundant – so much so that they are on track to entirely supplant fossil fuels worldwide within two decades, with the time frame depending mostly on politics. The protestation from some politicians that we need to build new coal stations sounds rather quaint.
via Solar PV and wind are on track to replace all coal, oil and gas within two decades
It’s almost scary to think that the world as we know it may well be run by Artificial Intelligence (AI) one day.
Source: Artificial Intelligence: Will it really terminate the labour force?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Donald Trump has pronounced solar power “too expensive” and has pledged …
We are a nation of boat people on Aboriginal land. We are a country built on immigration by migrants, refugees and First Peoples and most of us are damn proud of this, even if Immigration Minister Peter Dutton isn’t. I know I’m proud of where I come from.
Source: Time to embrace the potential refugees offer Australia
A key theory proposing that a burnt-out sun sucks in and destroys its own planets has been proven by NASA’s Kepler telescope. The man who led the observation team, Andrew Vanderburg, explains what it means for us.
Since the end of the World War I, for tens of millions of Arabs, a dream is far from becoming a reality.
Source: The Middle East’s century to come – Al Jazeera English
Despite government rhetoric that coal must go, experts say without policy changes this most carbon intensive fossil fuel is set to stay beyond 2030
Source: Will the UK phase out coal in a decade? | Environment | The Guardian
West Australia energy minister says the future is in solar, noting that it is cheap, democratic, and was likely to displace the state’s ageing coal generators. And this man used to head the IPA!
Source: W.A. says solar is the future as it prepares to dump coal : Renew Economy
