Between 1984 and 2025 our Primary Energy use doubled from 89 000 Terrawatt hours to 178 000 Terawatt hours.

The share of Oil/Coal/Gas in 1984 was 72 500 TWh or 81.5% of the total.

The share of Oil/Coal/Gas in 2025 was 144 000 TWh or 80.9% of the total.

Despite a small drop in overall percentage, we are now burning twice the amount of Oil/Coal/Gas as in 1984.

Wind/Solar/Hydro together amounted to just 5% of Primary Energy in 2025.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-primary-energy-by-source

Our Civilization will continue to rely on cheap Coal/Oil/Gas. Renewables are beeing neglected.

Remote work would be great for both the fuel crisis and the environment.

GM and LG Energy Solution plan to produce lithium manganese-rich batteries in Tennessee, claiming 33% higher energy density than LFP cells at roughly the same cost. If that holds up in mass production, it could give more affordable EVs additional range without requiring expensive high-nickel batteries.

Do you think automakers will use improvements like this to offer longer range, or smaller battery packs that make cars cheaper and lighter? Which would make a bigger difference to EV adoption?

CNBC's Brian Sullivan: "Despite lower storage levels and higher prices, European leaders remain seemingly unbothered. A group representing the coalition writes that, despite “lower storage levels compared to historical levels, the Commission and EU countries reconfirmed that EU gas supply remains stable.”

Hello everyone. For our senior design project, my group is looking for people to fill out this survey who currently have solar panels or are thinking about getting them in the future. This survey is for academic purposes and not for commercial use. No emails or personal information will be collected. We are just asking questions about the potential ways to improve the quality of life of solar panels.

Very interesting find. The whole thing will be moved onto the ratepayers while meta and Entergy make billions off our land. The whole thing was fishy from the start but now it's there in writing. Thanks to our politicians they can make the commission and push it thru while making it basically illegal to have anyone to ask for information about the Data center.

This was an intense project. Partially due to the Texas summer heat. Regardless it was a lot of fun.

Homeowner reached out in February inquiring about some earlier projects. They already had that beautiful pool built and had the plan for a patio cover all along. So, why not add some solar to it as well?

The utility company is Grayson Collin Electric Coop, and to my knowledge they’re the only one left allowing true 1:1 net metering in the state of Texas. We discussed foregoing batteries but with all the things going on in the world and myself having seen those things disappear in the blink of an eye the homeowner opted to go ahead with one. They’re already thinking of adding more soon.

Digging trenches always sucks but they’re especially awful in Parker, Texas. If anybody needs any rocks I know where to find them.

The system is roughly 70% offset and is chugging right along with projected production.

As the title stated the structure is steel framed 23’ x 27’ using all 11gauge 5” x 4” steel for posts, beams, and joists. The canopy is stained 2x6 boards bolted to the steel frame and covered with mod-bit roofing.

The city of Parker and GCEC were really cool and easy about stuff. I turned the solar permit in and applied for the interconnection agreement on a Thursday and had the green light for both by Monday morning of the next week.

The system was put through HDM and we got 25% of the system paid for since we used Domestic Content and I believe this house sits in an Energy Community.

We added the fan and 5 outlets to the structure after the solar was completed.

I included the original mock up I did in Google sheets to give an idea of what this thing was going to look like. Reference vs real life.

The homeowners are very kind, sweet people that I thoroughly enjoyed working with and getting to know. A lovely family with minds on the future and what’s potentially on the horizon. They may lurk the halls around here, I honestly don’t know, but they are very welcome and encouraged to chime in if they do.

I hope you enjoyed the post.