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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Climate-friendly cars that fit the planet and the budget - and the cello
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The title says it all:
Lambs grazing under an Oregon solar farm had 38 percent less grass in front of them than lambs in the open field alongside, and they put on the same weight to the gram, because shade makes a pasture grow less of everything except protein
The lambs also needed less water.
https://spacedaily.com/b-lambs-grazing-under-an-oregon-solar-farm-had-38-percent-less-grass-in-front-of-them-than-lambs-in-the-open-field-alongside-and-they-put-on-the-same-weight-to-the-gram-because-shade-makes-a-pasture-g/
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This is not an #agrivoltaics story but inspiring nevertheless:
"A burrowing owl’s entire security system is sightlines: flat, open, sparsely vegetated ground where nothing can stalk it unseen. A utility-scale solar farm is exactly that — graded, low-cut, fenced against most large predators — with bonus features no prairie offers: the shaded ground beneath the panels, where Clark says the owls hunt insects and “loaf” through the desert afternoons."
https://scienceblog.com/b-biologists-drove-19-burrowing-owls-evicted-by-a-phoenix-housing-project-50-miles-into-a-10000-acre-solar-complex-and-lowered-them-into-40-plastic-burrows-every-female-laid-eggs-within-a-month-and-29/
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In the 1970s "Reykjavík built a large-scale geothermal district heating system. Other towns in Iceland followed, many switching within a decade.
“This took unwavering political support. Financial support mechanisms that helped ordinary households make the switch without ruinous upfront costs,” Frostadóttir said.
Now, nearly every home in Iceland is heated with renewable energy, and more than 90% of it is geothermal."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/21/world-leaders-climate-crisis-el-nino
#ClimateWeek
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"After losing much of its forests in recent decades, [Ethiopia's] people have led the way in planting saplings across the country as part of the government’s Green Legacy Initiative."
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/sep/17/i-see-them-like-my-own-children-reforesting-ethiopia-with-50bn-trees-one-step-at-a-time
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Triple-digit temperatures in September.
"A heat dome currently sits across the Southern Plains and lower Mississippi Valley, bringing more brutal heat to the region for the next few days.
Much of the Southern Plains and Southeast will have highs in the 90s through the weekend, with cities like Oklahoma City, Dallas, Little Rock and Nashville flirting with triple digits."
https://weather.com/2026/09/20/forecast/regional/record-september-heat-wave-texas
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Plug-in solar panels now for sale in UK
"Plug-in solar panels will be hitting the shelves of DIY shops and High Street retailers after the government changed the rules to allow them to be legally sold in the UK.
Retailers including Argos will be stocking products from Thursday, and the government expects other shops to follow suit."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g3y6398nwo
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"Amid sweltering conditions in Nashville, the temperature on the artificial turf at Nissan Stadium reached 157F (69.4C)."
Eagles offensive lineman Jordan Mailata said the temperatures were another reason for the players’ union to push for a ban on artificial turf."
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/sep/21/titans-eagles-game-heat-cleats-melt-nfl-temperature
Water is for "the public interest".
"A group of 28,000 irrigators has lost a $1.5-billion class action against the Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MDBA).
A NSW Supreme Court judge ruled the MDBA had no duty of care to the group to avoid pure economic loss to one group of people above others.
In handing down his findings, Justice Faulkner said the Murray River system was to be operated in the "public interest".
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-31/judgment-in-murray-darling-basin-class-action/107096734
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Three years.
Three heatwaves.
Same story.
Renewables plus batteries keep the blackout blues away during heatwaves.
Try that with a mere schmere gas plant.
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"Amazon is quietly trying to build the biggest gas power plant in the country.
[It] has bought land and acquired permits in Pecos County, Texas, for an AI data center powered by a 7.65 gigawatt gas power plant.
Amazon says that the GW Ranch will use brackish groundwater that isn’t potable and thus can’t be used for irrigation or drinking.
But that’s not likely to quell public opposition."
https://newrepublic.com/post/214111/amazon-data-center-biggest-pollution-source-entire-country
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"Chiltepin pepper plants produced three times as much fruit as those grown in full sun.
Jalapenos matched their usual harvest while using 65 percent less water.
Tomatoes grown under the array came in at twice the normal yield.
Farmers get a second check from the same acre they already work.
The old choice between growing food and making power is starting to look like a false one."
https://energiesmedia.com/solar-panels-farmland-crops-agrivoltaics/
#Agrivoltaics
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@cinebox@masto.hackers.town
So, they route the air traffic control data through *a single cable*? Outages go from Boston to DC.
System designers have never heard of redundancy?
[Also:
What else important have we got running through a single cable?]
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"Much of the United States will experience some form of climate-fueled extreme weather this week, from dangerous heat across the Central and Eastern U.S. to heavy rain and flooding threats in Texas, the Grand Canyon, and Southern California. Unusually warm ocean waters are also amplifying tropical systems and the risk of extreme rainfall, underscoring the widespread influence of human-caused climate change."
https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-shift-index-alert/Climate-change-fuels-extreme-heat-flooding-tropical-threats-U.S
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"The heatwave in June 2026 led to 24 million lost hours of working and a £1.15 billion hit to the UK economy.
While £1 billion is lost overall, the greatest effects are borne by outdoor workers and those in physically demanding jobs, many of whom are among the lowest paid in the labour force."
https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/news/june-heatwave-cost-uk-economy-more-than-1-billion-study-finds/
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Forecast highs for Wednesday include 102 degrees in downtown Los Angeles, 107 in the San Fernando Valley, 103 in inland Ventura County and 107 in the Inland Empire.
Because of the humidity, however, DiCarlo said it will feel significantly warmer.
“In Ventura County it’s going to feel like it’s 110 or 112, even though the thermometer will read 103,” he said. Isolated storms are also possible.
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"A major warmup is on the forecast for the Bay Area this week, with temperatures projected to climb as high as the upper 90s and low 100s by Wednesday and Thursday. "
https://www.sfgate.com/weather/article/major-heat-bay-area-22420325.php
Interesting in a scary way:
"As of June 2026 it costs $1052 billion to maintain the debt, which is 19% of the total federal spending in fiscal year 2026."}
https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/national-debt/
That's interest payments.
And it's more than the overall budget requested by the US military department for FY2026, which was $961.6 billion
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New Mexico’s clean energy success story
In just five years, solar, wind, and batteries overtook fossil fuels, keeping air conditioners running while slashing pollution.
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/07/new-mexicos-clean-energy-success-story/
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"The Southeast is roasting under a heat dome that’s set to send several rounds of severe storms and flooding to the Northeast and Great Lakes this week."
https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/30/weather/northeast-storms-heat-climate
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"More than 135 million people across Europe, mostly in France, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom, face temperatures above 35 degrees Celsius (95 Fahrenheit) as the continent’s latest heatwave builds.
Both France and the UK are also facing widespread drought, like much of Europe, as shrivelled crops and drained rivers strain water supplies for households, farms and the environment."
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/13/more-than-135-million-people-in-europe-set-for-temperatures-over-35c
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"Nowhere is the US data center boom bigger than in Texas. But less than a year after declaring Texas the “epicenter of AI development,” Governor Greg Abbott has declared a moratorium on all new power grid connections for data centers—at least until developers provide more information about their projects’ potential impacts on the grid and communities."
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/texas-halts-data-center-connections-to-power-grid-amid-overwhelming-demand/
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"Rising climate costs erode sovereign creditworthiness, which in turn limits the fiscal capacity to spend on adaptation and mitigation, leading to still larger costs in future.
These are neither trivial nor distant concerns."
https://www.ft.com/content/71907c96-b99b-4d74-8065-3b48a3752183
You'd think they're talking about a Bangladesh or a Chad.
The article speaks about Europe.
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"Hot summer nights limit our ability to cool off and recover from extremely hot summer days. This can lead to higher heat stress, disrupted sleep, and related health risks.
Each summer, [major U.S. cities] currently experience an average of 27 unusually warm summer nights with a strong climate change influence, compared to one such night each summer during the 1970s."
https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-matters/warm-summer-nights-us-cities
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Baton Rouge, LA: "There is a heat advisory that will be in effect from 11AM through 7PM Labor Day due to heat index values between 105-110."
https://www.wafb.com/2026/09/07/heat-advisories-scattered-storms-labor-day/
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"The temperature at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, which the National Weather Service uses for the city’s official readings, hit 115 degrees [on Saturday]
The record-setting temperature comes as an extreme heat warning for Phoenix was extended on Friday through Aug. 28."
https://ktar.com/arizona-weather-news/phoenix-new-daily-heat-record-aug-22
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Starting to sound like the developing countries' dilemma:
"Authorities can only devote so much time, money and attention to problems. There’s now a real risk that intensifying immediate disasters will make it harder to tackle the underlying problem – even if citizens demand renewed action.
But if we don’t get serious in bringing down emissions and reducing our vulnerability to climatic hazards, the next disasters will only be worse."
https://theconversation.com/can-the-searing-european-summer-put-climate-action-back-on-the-agenda-or-will-disaster-response-take-over-289151
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"Western Europe has experienced its hottest June and July on record this summer, according to the European Union’s climate change monitor.
The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) also said levels of soil moisture were “significantly lower” than in July 2022 when the last severe drought gripped Western Europe."
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/10/june-and-july-hottest-on-record-in-western-europe-monitor-says
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"French wines have traditionally been characterised by higher levels of acidity and lower levels of alcohol. “With climate change, French wines are losing that finesse.”
Winemakers are faced with a difficult choice, Iverson said: “either pick the grapes earlier to be able to retain that acidity or accept wines that are unrecognisable to what they made in the past”. "
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260807-winemakers-across-europe-face-the-challenges-of-climate-change
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"[The EU's] pro-industry pivot is now crashing headfirst into Europe’s climate reality, with this summer’s extremes attesting to a fact highlighted by economists and activists alike: Global warming is bad for business.
Efforts to slash planet-warming pollution are a sound investment rather than an economic disadvantage."
https://www.politico.eu/article/economic-toll-europe-infernal-summer-climate-change/
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The broiling summer seems to be done now.
https://mastodon.social/@sergezaka.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy/117118320830677566
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"Romania has been forced to shut down the last working reactor at its only nuclear plant after drought caused the Danube river to fall to record lows – a rare move that will immediately affect power supplies in neighbouring Moldova."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/14/romania-nuclear-plant-shut-down-cernavoda-danube-river-water-drought
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"Land requires less heat than the vast and deep oceans to warm up, so all continents are warming more quickly than the seas. But Europe is particularly vulnerable for four reasons: changed weather patterns, its closeness to the Arctic, less snow and less air pollution."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/12/europe-worlds-fastest-warming-continent-climate-crisis-explainer
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Europe's summer of extreme heat is not over.
"Another wave of intense heat is set to sweep across an already parched Europe this week, raising wildfire risks, threatening crops and drying watersheds feeding the region’s critically low rivers."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-10/europe-s-fifth-heat-wave-risks-straining-rivers-power-and-crops
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"The hit to the region's economy can already be measured in the hundreds of billions of euros, economists and academics estimate. But they warn this is just the beginning, as costs are set to rise faster than temperatures.
The damage is already stretching public finances, setting off wild swings in inflation, redrawing the tourism map, and forcing the bloc to rethink how power is produced and how goods are transported."
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/how-hard-reality-climate-change-hit-europes-economy-this-summer-2026-08-10/
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"India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata party has lost a byelection in a seat it had held for three decades, after the Cockroach movement student protests that have shaken Narendra Modi’s government."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/04/india-bjp-rare-byelection-loss-cockroach-student-protests
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"Europe's refineries were mainly built in the 1960s and 1970s, and are optimized for cold and sub-zero temperatures thus leaving them poorly equipped for modern summer heatwaves.
Low water levels for key rivers mean that barges are forced to carry smaller loads, inland transportation costs rise, and deliveries of crude, refined products and refinery feedstocks become less efficient."
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Europes-Heatwave-Is-Hitting-Refineries-And-Power-Supplies.html
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"Romania’s river intervention does not show that nuclear power has ceased to be a useful low-carbon resource. It shows that a reactor can be technically sound while its inherited cooling assumptions become less reliable.
Climate resilience for legacy nuclear generation now belongs inside capacity planning, life-extension economics and grid design, not in an environmental appendix written after the major investment decisions have already been made."
https://cleantechnica.com/2026/08/06/climate-change-europe-nuclear-cooling-assumptions/
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"High pressure will keep South Central Texas hot and dry through at least Wednesday. With temperatures remaining above 100 degrees, the August heat wave will persist across San Antonio and the surrounding region."
https://www.ksat.com/weather/2026/08/23/high-pressure-system-keeps-south-central-texas-in-relentless-heat-wave/
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"Amid the record heat in the summer of 2026, more effective climate adaptation is gaining in importance for many people in Germany, a survey by the E.ON Foundation has found.
In a separate survey conducted by news site ntv, a large majority of respondents agreed that Germany needs to install more air conditioning in public buildings to better adapt to greater heat."
https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/most-germans-want-more-climate-adaptation-see-need-cooling-public-buildings
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FLORIDIA, Sicily, Italy
"Increasingly frequent and prolonged heatwaves are driving people indoors, leaving streets and piazzas deserted and prompting some residents to compare the extreme heat to a new form of lockdown."
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/europes-hottest-town-says-climate-change-is-reshaping-daily-life-2026-08-21/
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"Wildfires are projected to burn 39% more of Europe by the end of the century even in the best-case scenario for stopping the planet from heating, a study has found. In the worst-case scenario the researchers modelled, which would see global heating reach 3.6C above preindustrial levels, the burnt area would almost triple.
Improvements in fire management could moderate those increases by more than 70%, the study found, but not eradicate them entirely."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/20/wildfires-europe-increase-climate-scenario-study
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"One of Belgium’s biggest ever wildfires blazed out of control Monday even as cooler weather and rain in the morning eased conditions for hundreds of firefighters in remote and hilly countryside.
A forest ranger said the fire in Belgium could continue for months underground in peaty soil and sporadically flare up."
https://apnews.com/article/wildfire-belgium-france-heat-europe-greece-cd5a8524ca3136b009422bd24eb4194e
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"Carbon pollution has fuelled a “massive expansion” of marine heatwaves in Europe this summer, research has found, with some waters recording temperatures 6C higher than normal.
Climate breakdown was responsible for about two-thirds of the observed excess heat, the researchers said."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/19/carbon-pollution-massive-expansion-marine-heatwaves-europe
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"The head of the Swiss Cities Association has called for a national strategy to help municipalities adapt to climate change, warning that many urban areas were designed for weather conditions that no longer exist.
As examples, Hilfiker cited the removal of paving from public spaces, the greening of streets and the refurbishment of school buildings."
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/climate-adaptation/swiss-cities-association-seeks-nationwide-response-to-heatwaves/91905351
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" Firefighters across Europe struggled against multiple fires Friday as a new wave of record-breaking heat baked a swath of the continent, their task further complicated by exceptionally parched landscapes."
https://apnews.com/article/fires-france-england-heat-drought-bb9926465acf98a7790a7bf01294f604
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Heat deaths in west Europe:
"Germany recorded the highest toll, with an estimated 11,900 excess deaths linked to heat since April, according to the Robert Koch Institute. Data from government agencies and research institutions in Spain, France, the UK, Switzerland and the Netherlands put the region’s heat-related death toll at over 25,000."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-06/heat-deaths-top-25-000-in-europe-as-scorching-weather-persists
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"Extreme weather is hitting Europe, with wildfires in Serbia and Bosnia, floods and fires in Spain, and severe storms in Poland. Thousands have been evacuated as firefighters battle fires, floods and power cuts."
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/08/23/extreme-weather-hits-europe-as-wildfires-floods-and-storms-force-thousands-to-evacuate
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@Snoro@mastodon.social
This opinion is one that only sees the tech.
Much like too many pieces on e-cars miss the bigger picture (there are more ways to move people), so focusing on ACs misses the larger context.
There are many and proven cool ways to do urban cooling, and they can be extremely effective without drawing a single Joule of electricity. AFTER you do that, sure, turn on the AC.
"The Paris Agreement only works if each country is doing its fair share. Climate Action Tracker has rated South Africa’s targets as “insufficient”, projecting that if every country followed the same approach, warming would pass 2°C and could reach 3°C.
The tracker states that South Africa should cut its emissions by 40% between 2022 and 2035 to do its fair share of limiting warming to 1.5°C. The current target range represents a 16% to 29% cut."
https://groundup.org.za/article/sa-reaching-its-emissions-targets-but-they-too-easy/
