It's mid-June. #NYR & #gokingsgo (chosen only for market size) have just completed the Stanley Cup Finals, triple OT winner via a Michigan. The highlights on @SportsCenter on @espn are:
Lots of people seem to not understand that closing coal and replacing it with natural gas is not a win.
It's a one-time step down in emissions to a new, hard layer that's every bit as challenging to dislodge as the coal before it.
the most revealing parts of this story to me are that the Tuohy's portrayed — or at least signed-off on the portrayal of — Oher as unintelligent or incapacitated in THE BLIND SIDE, and that their children also received royalties from the film.
Today is a big day for nuclear power in the USA. Georgia Power reports that Vogtle 3 is now commercial, serving customers. Georgia Power says the 1,250 MW unit is the first US "newly constructed" nuclear unit to come online in 30 years. A thread follows:
https://t.co/m1G7Jhq7tn
Even during the period of unusually high solar and wind that Bloomberg cherry-picked to claim “ACs Keep Humming on Renewable Power,” solar and wind at times provided < 20% of Texas electricity. Of course, that portion of the time didn't make the Bloomberg story.