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Yes, but nicely peer-reviewed, to deal with the "we ate them all" folks.

And we know what's causing the warming

I'm not fond of this unusual-views-of-single-scientist kind of article. You can always find, for example, a gravity-denying physicist.

It takes more than that to be definitive.

It's not nobody; they're actually selling a lot. It's that they're building large expensive pickup trucks, rather than trying for smaller cheaper vehicles that appeal to a big chunk of the population

It's also that they're trying to build large, expensive vehicles which need much larger batteries.

I like that idea, and have made the switch for c/climate

She married one of the Google founders for a few years, divorced him, and walked away with billion-dollar kind of money. Kennedy wanted her as a running mate because he figured she'd fund the campaign.

Yes, because phase transitions involve absolutely huge amounts of energy.

To actually do the volumes that make pumped hydro practical you need not just a hill but a space which can hold a truly huge volume of water.

The main reason is you can site it in a lot of places you can't put pumped hydro.

That's typically how mass transit is covered; as a cost, with no mention of benefits.

Roads don't get covered in the same way as they're generally not seen as profit-making enterprises.

BLM when talking about the US federal government and land use almost always means "Bureau of Land Management" which is responsible for federally-owned land which is not part of a national park, national forest, military installation, or other designated use.

It's more that you can still use the land under the panels, greatly reducing their effective footprint. That's a big deal, particularly for isolated islands, where 100% renewable will mean a fairly significant chunk of total land area being used for wind and solar.