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riversedge's Journal"now more than 3 million clean energy jobs in America, versus only 50,000 coal-mining"..........
It is a matter of time. I think I read somewhere just a few days that Wyoming was going to shut down 2 coal mines shortly.
An Unexpected Current That's Remaking American Politics
New forms of electricity storage are making the grid more renewable and more reliable—and may change the politics of climate change.
By MICHAEL GRUNWALD
April 29, 2019
At the annual National Republican Congressional Committee dinner in Washington this month, President Donald Trump made news with some curious remarks about wind power. What went viral was his untrue suggestion that the noise from wind turbines causes cancer, but his warning that home values instantly plunge 75 percent when a windmill is built nearby was equally false. He also claimed wind power is inordinately expensive, when in fact in much of America it is now the cheapest source of electricity. The president then play-acted a scene of a woman complaining to her husband about wind power’s supposed unreliability: “I can’t watch television, darling. Darling, please tell the wind to blow!”
That was baseless, too, yet at the same time it actually did refer to a serious challenge for the clean energy revolution: the “intermittency” of wind and solar electricity. As more renewable power replaces Trump’s preferred coal plants, and more states aim to eliminate fossil fuels from their electric grids, utilities are grappling with how to make sure they can ensure uninterrupted service when the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining. Some states are already starting to get major portions of their electricity from renewables, and while the president’s exaggerated scenario of weather-dependent TV reflects his general disdain for climate-friendly technologies, reliability could become an increasingly formidable problem as the grid gets increasingly green.
But now another technology revolution is underway that could help solve that problem: an electricity storage boom. The cost of lithium-ion batteries has plunged 85 percent in a decade, and 30 percent in just the past year, so utilities across the U.S. have started attaching containers full of them to the grid—and they’re planning to install far more of them in the coming years. Electricity has always been the toughest commodity to manage, because unlike water, grain, fuel or steel, it has been largely impossible to store for later use. But that is changing fast, and even though the dramatic growth of batteries on the grid will be invisible to most Americans, it has the potential to transform how we produce and consume power, creating more flexible and resilient electricity systems with less waste, lower costs and fewer emissions.
“This will be like the change from analog to digital, or landlines to cell phones,” says Advanced Microgrid Systems CEO Susan Kennedy, whose firm’s software helps utilities optimize their power choices every instant of every day. “The energy industry will never be the same.”
Electricity storage will reshape the grid in many ways, but the most important is its potential to accelerate the already explosive growth of renewable energy—and that will have political implications. Of the 21 states with the highest greenhouse gas emissions per capita, Trump won 20 of them, and the lone exception, New Mexico, just passed a law committing to 100 percent clean power by 2045. By contrast, Hillary Clinton won the eight states with the lowest emissions per capita. But that carbon divide is not necessarily permanent. Eighty percent of the wind power installed during Trump’s presidency has been built in states he won, and the five most wind-dependent states were all Trump states. And while the storage boom started in blue states like California and Hawaii, it is taking off in Texas, Florida, and the rest of Red America as well. Polls suggest “clean energy” is now popular throughout the country, even though “climate action” is not, and there are now more than 3 million clean energy jobs in America, versus only 50,000 coal-mining jobs. The president’s fossil-fueled rhetoric no longer reflects the reality on the ground. And the politics of energy might become less partisan in a world in which renewable power becomes much more common.......
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I have been listening to Repug Sen Ron Johnson, WI on MTP just now. He said the case is
closed-the Mueller investigation. He parroted Trump over and over including his border comments. msnbc.
Clyburn: 'The President Is Now Glorifying A Loser ... Robert E. Lee Was A Loser'
Source: TPM
April 28, 2019 10:53 am
House Majority Whip James Clyburn on Sunday said he found it “kind of interesting” that President Donald Trump had celebrated Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee as a “great general” given that Lee was, in reality, “a loser.”
Trump recently defended Lee as a way of excusing his comment following the deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017 that there were “very fine people on both sides” of the rally.
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“I think he’s expressing what’ts in his heart,” he said of Trump. “The fact of the matter is, Robert E. Lee was a great tactician, was not a great person. Robert E. Lee was a slave owner and a brutal slave master. Thankfully he lost that war.”
The majority whip continued: “I find it kind of interesting that the President is now glorifying a loser. He always said that he hated losers. Robert E. Lee was a loser and even if you could get beyond that, at the end of the Civil War, Robert E. Lee asked all of his comrades to lay down their guns and to furl those confederate flags, and if my memory serves, and put them in your attics, so if the President is going to glorify Robert E. Lee, let’s at least be consistent about it.”
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Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/clyburn-the-president-is-now-glorifying-a-loser-robert-e-lee-was-a-loser
Good one Rep Clyburn!!
https://twitter.com/mattshuham/status/1122513521818861568
Sally Yates: If Trump Weren't President, 'He Would Likely Be Indicted On Obstruction'
Source: TPM
April 28, 2019 1:03 pm
Former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates said Sunday that she believed the evidence of obstruction of justice in special counsel Robert Mueller’s redacted final report would be sufficient to charge President Donald Trump criminally if he weren’t in office.
“I’ve been a prosecutor for nearly 30 years, and I can tell you I’ve personally prosecuted obstruction cases on far, far less evidence than this,” Yates told NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell in an interview on “Meet the Press.”
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Yates said that while not all evidence of obstruction cited in Mueller’s report carried the same legal significance, as Mueller himself acknowledged, “there are several incidents that he described to which special counsel Mueller really couldn’t point to any significant factual or legal defenses.”
Trump fired Yates days into his presidency after she refused to defend the first iteration of his travel ban executive border that barred entry to the United States for people from several Muslim-majority countries, among other measures...............................
Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/sally-yates-if-trump-werent-president-he-would-likely-be-indicted-on-obstruction
Glad to her speaking out.
https://twitter.com/TPM/status/1122547026154139648
White Nationalists Storm Washington Bookstore Reading, Chanting 'This Land Is Our Land'
Source: HUFF POST
28/04/2019 8:38 PM IST
The group protested the author Jonathan Metzl's book reading on the same day a white supremacist gunned down a synagogue.
By Carla Herreria, HuffPost US
A small group of white nationalists stormed a book store in Washington DC to protest an event for a book on racial politics and how it’s impacting lower- and middle-class white Americans.
The group stormed the Politics and Prose bookstore on Saturday afternoon, interrupting a scheduled talk by Jonathan Metzl, a professor of sociology and psychiatry at Vanderbilt University who released his book “Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland” this spring.
Videos filmed by those in attendance showed the group standing in a line before the audience chanting, “this land is our land.” At least one man was yelling into a megaphone while people in the bookstore booed him.
The group identified themselves as “identitarians,” a far-right white nationalist group which is linked to Identity Evropa, which the Southern Poverty Law Centre lists as an extremist group........................................
Read more: https://www.huffingtonpost.in/entry/white-nationalists-storm-washington-bookstore-reading-chanting-this-land-is-our-land_in_5cc5c16de4b0fd8e35bda4dd?utm_hp_ref=in-politics
I would freak out if a group like this walked in on a book lecture. damn.
https://twitter.com/HuffPostIndia/status/1122518522263949312
https://twitter.com/cewigginton/status/1122255631757524992
'Joe Manchin endorses Susan Collins for reelection'
Oh crap. I hope when I say this is a wrong choice by Manchin, it will not be seen as slamming a Democrat!!
Susan collins polices are WRONG for America.
https://twitter.com/TheRynheart/status/1122500258393493504
When Trump asks "K.T. McFarland to write an untruthful letter to the file knowing the government wou
yup. I give @JudgeNap credit.
"When the president asks his former adviser and my former colleague K.T. McFarland to write an untruthful letter to the file knowing the government would subpoena it, that’s obstruction of justice." - @FoxNews Analyst @JudgeNap #ImpeachTrump
https://twitter.com/TheDemCoalition/status/1121867401270910976
@JudgeNap: "Barr was wrong" to decide that Trump's "criminal," "immoral," acts didn't obstruct justi
Fox analyst Napolitano: "Barr was wrong" to decide that Trump's "criminal," "immoral," acts didn't obstruct justice http://bit.ly/2VjefF1
https://twitter.com/TPM/status/1121549502366851072
https://twitter.com/joshscampbell/status/1121555433590681600
https://twitter.com/WashTimesOpEd/status/1121529341328928778
#ACA- #Obamacare USE Higher** in #Trump #Wisconsin Counties (map) #ProtectourCARE
https://twitter.com/Rat_Things/status/1122325823187509248
https://twitter.com/WisDems/status/1122161053553561603
To be clear: Trump's health care plan is to raise your premiums and let providers deny you coverage because of a pre-existing condition.
https://twitter.com/WisDems/status/1122307431772696579
@WisDems on @realDonaldTrump's visit to the state: "Having won Wisconsin by a mere 22,000 votes in 2016, Trump faces an uphill battle to regain the trust of voters who have since been harmed by Trump’s broken promises on health care and the economy."
https://twitter.com/JTHVerhovek/status/1122216393783615489
Women's health clinics need to increase their security after #Trump speads dangerous lies....
This is so wrong. Someone will be hurt or worse!
https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1122312361371508736
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1122312334414946306
https://twitter.com/TeaPainUSA/status/1122337390654296065
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