Phoenix68
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"Under a blue sky, in a former cornfield on the outskirts of San Antonio, a group of local and state officials once gathered to inaugurate the state’s first large-scale solar farm. “I can promise you it won’t be the last,” Senator John Cornyn declared. It was an epic understatement.
That installation, the Blue Wing Solar Project, can generate about 14 megawatts. Thirteen years later, there are about 12,600 megawatts worth of solar farms available on the state’s main power grid. That’s enough to keep the air conditioning cooling more than 2.5 million Texan homes. The amount of available solar energy has nearly tripled in the past three years, and there are thousands more megawatts worth of solar projects in various stages of development.
On Wednesday, in the critical afternoon hours, as temperatures in all of the major metros neared or reached triple digits, solar generated about 12 percent of the state’s power needs. This was about the same as coal, though well behind wind (25 percent) and natural gas (43 percent.) Texas is and remains a state dependent on fossil fuels, but, more and more, the lone star in our solar system is energizing the Lone Star State."
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"The world is shifting towards a superheated climate not seen in the past 1 million years, prior to human existence, because “we are damned fools” for not acting upon warnings over the climate crisis, according to James Hansen, the US scientist who alerted the world to the greenhouse effect in the 1980s.
Hansen, whose testimony to the US Senate in 1988 is cited as the first high-profile revelation of global heating, warned in a statement with two other scientists that the world was moving towards a “new climate frontier” with temperatures higher than at any point over the past million years, bringing impacts such as stronger storms, heatwaves and droughts."
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Another cartoon from a science ***** lol