Hugh Butler

Author, research, innovation, angel investor, strategic management. Start-up in datacomms, solar. Medicine. 310 ppm @hughbutler35.bsky.social

[Hugh Butler @HughButler35]

@nicolasfulghum Got to be very disappointing to conservative and anti coal that @elonmusk just purchased 100GW manufacturing equipment from china to build that for the USA. Will make those anti solar have nightmares

[Hugh Butler @HughButler35]

@nicolasfulghum I see the normal belief systems. Instead of
1. Technology. (Data)
2. Economics (someone has figured the dollars)
3. Politics and belief system.
Has Ron lost his thinking ability? Or David. Or Brad? So called @Patriot__au
Reading is not hard and doesn't hurt ones brain.

[Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum]

LATEST DATA | Solar power has overtaken coal power in Texas

In the twelve months to March 2026, Texas solar (68.3 TWh) produced more electricity than coal (66.8 TWh).

Just five years ago, coal was still more than 7x larger than solar.

[Hugh Butler @HughButler35]

@renewablesmiffy Of course. The area is less than golf courses. less than Xmas tree nurseries.
50% of rooftops
Less than coal mines, gas right of ways, railways and mine tailings.
Never let that get in the way of fossil fuel companies executives lies.

[Hugh Butler @HughButler35]

"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."

Reality of land used by renewable energy increases, which are build out for next 3 decades
Farmers get $21,000 per tower. For 50 years, farmers have wanted off farm income.

[cosmic jester @cosmicjester]

Just quietly I’m pretty sure we had transmission lines before net zero

[Hugh Butler @HughButler35]

@EVCurveFuturist Net effect. Money in your pocket, not despots such as the 24 oil exporters

[Hugh Butler @HughButler35]

@cglassey_author Have you tried reading? It’s not hard and it doesn’t hurt.

Ignorance can be cured if you ask for help.

[Hugh Butler @HughButler35]

@GROGParty 20 years.
Coal gone.
Gas going going gone.
Happening.
Rome wasn't built in a day.
Hanging onto the past makes a dinosaur.
https://t.co/iiWBtPnJhZ

[Hugh Butler @HughButler35]

@Donsvess Point in time.
Take SA.
Reading is not hard and doesn't hurt your head.
26 years ago, all coal. Coal now zero.
Check data yourself.
Don't rely on Ben or advance to mislead you to
https://t.co/iiWBtPnJhZ

[Hugh Butler @HughButler35]

@HenrykK246 @ICannot_Enough There's 1) technology
2) Economics
3) Politics and belief system
Numbers don't lie. Flatline
Economics. Read IR report
So only left with a belief system that the sun shines out of Elon's arse.
To pretend no brand damage was done. Do you believe in father Xmas?

[Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson]

Great news!

New Q1 U.S. data show that not only do higher penetrations of WindWaterSolar still correlate with lower residential retail electricity prices in the U.S., but that correlation has strengthened in just three months!

What is more, of the 16 states that met 37% to 126% of their grid+BTM demand with WWS from Q2-25 to Q1-26, 14 had prices 1.5-5.5 cents/kWh BELOW the U.S. average!

-->claims that increasing WWS increases prices are not true

https://t.co/ieapw8SHmp

[Hugh Butler @HughButler35]

@DavidGlynneJon1 @AngusTaylorMP 7 things in 7 years.
Can they read.

[David Glynne Jones @DavidGlynneJon1]

Moronic @AngusTaylorMP
confirms that the Federal LNP Coalition has been completely captured by the fossil energy industry.

https://t.co/A0QudqeliO

[Hugh Butler @HughButler35]

@mzjacobson Australia? $29,000 over a decade.

[Hugh Butler @HughButler35]

@mcdev @SawyerMerritt Numbers are there.

[Hugh Butler @HughButler35]

70 pages of hallucination.
You lost all credibility down 20 lines when you mentioned thorium reactors. Reality vs hopium
Reminds me of the 20 well meaning scientists and experts who said Prof Mark Jacobson was wrong about his WWW in 2003. Still saying he was wrong 25 years later. Not saying he got it right. Certainly more than those others.

https://t.co/sKOksDOAAA

Suggest that IRENA has a better take on it.
https://t.co/vdotjPBDc9

[Hugh Butler @HughButler35]

@RobertsCarlos_ @McguinThe @Peter_Fitz The demographics have changed.
The usa has gone from sane to Trump.

[Chris Meder @EVCurveFuturist]

Germany shut nuclear. Critics said the system would fail. But zoom out. Wind & solar went from ~1% to ~45%, renewables from ~6% to ~56%, and fossil is getting squeezed. Messy in the middle, clear direction. This isn’t collapse. It’s system replacement playing out. #Bettrification

Generation didn’t collapse. It followed demand. After the energy shock, consumption fell and the system adjusted through efficiency, imports, and lower output.

Germany still runs one of the most reliable grids in the world, so the idea that industry couldn’t get power doesn’t hold.

👉 No systemic power shortages
👉 Industry response was to price, not supply
��� Gas drove electricity costs higher during the crisis

That’s the real story. Energy-intensive sectors were hit by a cost shock, not a lack of electricity. Some output was reduced, some production shifted, but that’s about competitiveness under high prices, not the system failing.

Prices spiked hard. German households were paying ~���0.47/kWh at the peak in 2022–2023. That’s now down to roughly ~€0.33–€0.39/kWh depending on contract in 2025–2026. Wholesale power collapsed from €300+/MWh peaks back to roughly €70–€100/MWh range.

So prices are falling, but still above pre-2022 levels. That’s because gas still sets the marginal price, not because renewables are failing.

Critics said this wouldn’t work. That removing nuclear would break the system.

But while the debate fixated there, wind and solar kept scaling anyway, moving from marginal to the backbone of the system. Even in 2025, with weaker wind and lower hydro, the trend held. Solar surged and the system adapted, exactly what a transition under load looks like.

Germany isn’t finished. Fossil is still balancing, storage is still scaling, and the middle is messy. But the direction is clear.

This isn’t transition. It’s another system replacement.

[AukeHoekstra @AukeHoekstra]

If you put that ethanol into the combustion engine of a car (that throws ~75% away as heat) and compare it with an electric vehicle, the end result becomes ~500:1 in favor of solar.
And solar can go on roofs or be combined with other agricultural appliations.

[Hugh Butler @HughButler35]

@dehiggs5 @ProfRayWills Avoid paid by fossil fuel companies ones.