A minority here somewhere

 

By Guy Venables

The unstoppable solar tsunami

 By John Hanger

Solar shortly will be 59% of Botswana's total generation capacity! Solar does more to electrify Africa & end energy poverty than any technology. Oil & gas imports are unaffordable for poor countries. New coal & gas plants are unaffordable. Solar & batteries are the option!

Solar increases Botswana's TOTAL generation by 148%, since 2024. Botswana had 0.76 GW or 760 MW of TOTAL generation at end of 2024. Solar was 10 MW or 1.3% of that total. Botswana adds 1.1 GW of solar, with 271 MW operating & 820 MW under construction!

Botswana is not a key contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions. But it is emblematic of all the developing countries in the sunbelt (its latitude is +-22 degrees south). These countries are installing solar hand over fist because it is cheap. Cheaper than oil and coal and gas. So cheap that total electrical capacity is doubling (or more) every year because of new solar installations. People who never had electricity before now have it. Factories that struggled to afford electricity or even to have electricity now have it.

And the costs of solar and batteries haven't yet stopped falling. This is an unstoppable revolution. And we enter the era of dirt-cheap electricity. Except where countries have turned their faces against it. In the US, and in Australia, where the right-wing parties are inexplicably promising to subsidise coal power stations. The stupid really burns, doesn't it?

Fly, my flunkies

 By John Cole

Incumbent has a "B" in it

 By John Buss

The final GOP message to undecided voters ahead of the midterms is compelling.

Imaginary supporters

 By John Buss

Trump is good for the climate???

 By Matt Davies

Stop publishing lies

 By Nick Anderson

Bugger off to Mars

 By Patrick Chapatte

They're looting a luxury shop in Paris

 Pat Bagley

I'm demolishing it

 By Jack Ohman

I thought I was voting for racism

 Drew Sheneman

Livestreamed execution

 The axis of evil.  By Mike Luckovich

Let's get him a third term

By Mike Smith 

Got your back

 By Bill Bramhall

Red carpet

 By Bill Bramhall

A knife in the back

 By Badiucao

A cartoon I made in 2025 Feb went viral again. its sad and pathetic to see its still relevant today. Ukraine deserve all the support it needs！ Trump Putin and Xi are enemy of peace and humanity.

Shabby and depraved

By BabylonBros 

Trump can't stop clean energy revolution

 

Edwards Sanborn solar + storage facility in California
Image Credit: Terra-Gen

From RenewEconomy

Despite his bluster and conspiracy theories, US president Donald Trump and his administration have been unable [to] stop renewable energy’s relentless momentum through the first 18 months of his second term, with strong and continued growth from solar, wind, and battery storage.

A new analysis from the Sun Day Campaign of data from the US government’s own Energy Information Administration shows that electricity generated by renewable energy sources through the first seven months of 2026 increased by 10.7 per cent compared to the same period in 2025.

This growth was led by utility-scale solar, which saw generation increase by 22 per cent, small-scale solar (up 12.6 per cent), hydropower (up 9 per cent), and wind (up 5.9 per cent).

Electricity generated by all renewable energy sources accounted for over 29 per cent of total US electrical generation in July – up from the 22.3 per cent share of generation recorded at the start of the second Trump administration.

Conversely, and highlighting the comparative weakness of this administration’s efforts, the electrical output of the US fossil gas and nuclear power plants experienced growth of only 1.8 per cent and 1.5 per cent, respectively.

Even worse for the Trump administration and its numerous efforts to prop up the country’s coal industry, electricity produced by US coal facilities fell by 10.2 per cent.

During the first 18 months of this second Trump administration – running from January 20 to the end of July 2026 – installed utility-scale solar capacity increased by 32.7 per cent, or 41,051.6 megawatts (MW).

Small-scale solar capacity increased by 17 per cent, or 9,112.4 MW, while wind energy capacity increased by 8 per cent, or 12,195.4 MW, including 800 MW of offshore wind.

Uutility-scale battery energy storage capacity doubled during these 18 months, adding 26,629.5 MW.

By comparison, US coal capacity fell by 4,131.8 MW, or 2.4 per cent, while nuclear power added only 800 MW of new capacity and natural gas capacity rose by 7,561 MW, or 1.5 per cent.

“Over the last 18 months, the Trump Administration has used every conceivable trick to delay, hinder, or cancel new clean energy projects,” said Ken Bossong, the Sun Day Campaign’s executive director.  “Yet, while fossil fuels and nuclear power have added just 2.6 GW of net new capacity, renewables and battery storage have grown by 88.7 GW.  Clearly, the White House has bet on the wrong horse.”

The EIA projects that over the 12-months through to July 31, 2027, utility-scale solar will add 43,558.0 MW of new capacity while the wind sector will grow by 9,481.8 MW, including 3,355.0 MW of offshore wind. At the same time, battery energy storage capacity will increase by 23,428.9 MW.

During this same 12-month period, the EIA projects that there will be no new generating capacity added by the nuclear power sector, and an overall net decline of 1,452.7 MW in fossil fuel capacity.

Please give

 By Mike Luckovich

Is it too late to abandon ship?

By Mike Luckovich