Thanks to Trump's attacks on clean energy, nearly $8 billion in investments and 16 projects were cancelled, closed, or downsized in Q1 2025.

Awww… No jobs for you because you wanted to vote racism and somehow also botched fascism.

  • Spacehooks@reddthat.comEnglish
    181·
    2 days ago

    Not sure if this is eating face. This is exactly what they wanted. Why? I have no idea. Like if solar is rated for your home you never have to pay electric again. Feels like those kayak ads where the person just wants to struggle.

    • Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pubEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

      Like if solar is rated for your home you never have to pay electric again.

      That is entirely the point, well, that and not believing in climate change, but it’s one of their motivations. Our government is motivated by spite and capital. If you’re stuck paying the power company, they’re continuing to reap the benefits.

  • snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    32·
    2 days ago

    I don’t understand how anyone could dislike solar panels, like bro it steals free energy from the fucking sun, it’s not as fun as fission but it’s still pretty good. I know everyone loves turbines and burning things but you still have to get the things to burn with fossil fuels. Meanwhile you can just put magic squares on every surface and get free power.

    • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      16·
      2 days ago

      but you still have to get the things to burn with fossil fuels.

      Well, the people selling coal are telling me solar is bad, and they’re renting 61 out of 17 available rooms in my tower.

      • PattyMcB@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        Honest question: what’s the level of maintenance on solar panels like now?

        I’ve always wanted them, but I can’t trust myself to actually clean and maintain them properly

        • Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          2 days ago

          So no one in the (non-residential) industry cleans their modules, except if you’re in the Southwest.

          The phenomenon of panels getting dirty is called soiling loss, and its defined either by how many solid particulates (e.g. soil, dirt, sand, agricultural dusts from nearby harvests, chemical particulates from nearby factories, etc.) or snow accumulates. I make that distinction because there’s different models that the industry uses for predicting these things: the Kimber model for non-snow, and the Townsend model for snow.

          The reason the (non-residential) industry doesn’t really care about washing their panels is because:

            1. rain washes any solids away, and
            1. panels generate heat if converting photons to electrons

          The Kimber model assumes that solids accumulate as a line function which restarts once it rains more than a certain amount. Weather data provided by NOAA in the States for instance can be fed into the model to calculate what percentage losses your panels will experience over their lifespan. Usually solar engineers over design their systems so they reach the energy amount across the entire system’s lifespan.

          For snow its the same, except when it snows a crazy amount like in the Northeast US and so much accumulates, all of the panel’s cells are blocked from direct sun and this delays the self-heating effect as the modules are essentially fully shaded. In those cases, depending on how bad the snowfall was or how frequently it falls, companies may elect to brush off the snow once or twice in a winter season.

          You’ll notice that I left out residential solar, which is what you most likely care about.

          Since residential solar is so finely tuned to meet the greater degree of constraints with working with a smaller array than community or utility scale arrays, more attention does need to be paid to cleaning the modules.

          Whoever is designing your system though should be able to build in a certain amount of soiling losses, and that will help dictate the final array design. If your developer or installer doesn’t know what this number is (should range from 0.5-4% loss compared to perfect world conditions), then I’d try to dig more for that or switch developers/installers if they don’t want to give that information up.

          It’s not worth it for homeowners or developers or installers to clean such small arrays unless it’s their prerogative to do so I guess. But I guess I’m a lazy engineer making that call so who am I!

  • Match!!@pawb.socialEnglish
    23·
    3 days ago

    remember, “made trains run on time” was just lies formulated as fascist propaganda because

  • Aussiemandeus@aussie.zoneEnglish
    7·
    3 days ago

    This is great for Australians if wr can keep the current labor government in power.

    They’re facilitating the Future Made in Australia initiative.

    "The Australian Government committed $22.7 billion over the next decade to build a Future Made in Australia.

    The Future Made in Australia agenda aims to:

    maximise opportunities as we move towards net zero secure Australia’s place in a changing global environment"

    Unfortunately we have a habit of believing the lies told by the opposition party that everything is shit now because of the people in power and if we elect the other party they will fix it. And so on and so on causing a changing leadership every four years.

    Further more the Liberal party are very pro trump to the point the leader of the opposition party Peter Dutton said the following “Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has said Donald Trump is a “big thinker and a deal maker” with a “genuine desire to see peace and stability” in the Middle East.”

    Along with our billionair oligarks like Gina Reighnhart who pay for the Liberal NationParty From her website “Peter Dutton could model himself on Donald Trump in a bid to woo disenchanted voters, who are tipped to lurch to the right at the next election in search of action on the cost-of-living and housing crises, experts say.” https://www.ginarinehart.com.au/australias-trump-the-push-for-peter-dutton-to-embrace-donald-trumps-campaign-style/

    TLD labour stays in the government provide billions in funding to build green energy in Australia and America moving away from it leaves us as a leading power in renewable.

    -edit Labour to Labor

    • PDFuego@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      -edit Labour to Labor

      We know this because of the bumper stickers informing us “There’s no U in LABOR”

      I’d like to know how the morons rocking these are spelling Liberal.

    • suodrazah@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      3 days ago

      *Labor

      Albanese is so meh, pandering to the LNP. Can we fuck negative gearing and fracking off already?

    • Funky_Beak@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      What I love too is. “People care about housing currently more than enviromental issues”. they also still care about having air to breath in and around that house you turnips. The use of polling to warp issues and redirect conversations in this country is almost comically basic bitch shit.

  • orcrist@lemm.eeEnglish
    24·
    2 days ago

    To be fair, the average worker in those red states was not going to see any money as a result of the projects. It’s easy to say that they voted against their own best interests, but unless they work in construction or some relevant field, this only has indirect implications on them.

    • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      So far, more than $6 billion in projects and over 10,000 jobs have been wiped out in GOP districts alone.

      Seems like 10,000 of them would have benefited from full time jobs.

      But that article is all over the place. It reads like copy-paste a bunch of loosely related facts without actually organizing it. No AI could have written it that poorly