While this is true in 2025 the USA registered the largest increase in coal usage globally, consuming 10% more coal in 2025 than in 2024 undoing a couple of years of improvements. Clearly showing that government policy has huge sway on private industry. All of that culminated in the USA being the only region globally to increase its carbon intensity (intensity isn't total emissions, it's emissions per unit of energy generated). China's coal usage stayed steady while adding a shitton of renewables, and India's coal increased a pittance of a percent but added significant renewables to the mix so their carbon intensity dropped too.

Because the news cycle often caps serious relevant stories with funny and stupid ones. This is the latter. If it doesn't interest you, well that's why we have headlines, just don't read the content.

American craft brewing is quite well celebrated throughout the world. Your microbrewery beverages suck arse (try drinking a real Budwiser, I mean the one which the Americans stole the name from in Budjovice and then trademarked, so you'd need to buy it under the name Czechvar rather and Budvar in the rest of the world), but then those in most countries do.

I mean we could cut you off from roads, sewers, power systems, deny you access to any help what so ever, ban you from airports, trains, not pick up your garbage, and force you to swim through rivers instead of using bridges. Would that convince you to pay taxes?

So does every other energy supply, what's your point?

The numbers aren't that high. Those are the numbers that AI spits out as a percentage of USA budget spending. When you consider the budget deficit you actually get significantly less back for your tax dollars, or you include an approximately 20% load of debt in your numbers (if you proposed that to a bank they'd show you the door).

But really percentages can mean anything. If I blow half my check on gambling, and half my check on rent and triumphantly say 50% of my money goes to my cost of living expenses, it really kind of glosses over the fact that I use food stamps to eat due to my other bad habits doesn't it. Kind of like how the USA's medicare and medicaid budget somehow props up the most expensive healthcare industry in the world all the while blowing trillions on pointless wars that could make your entitlements *better*.

Given they have demonstrated a relentless interest in skirting laws and regulations and when finally caught out on it, tying up the process in the legal system I don't think they should be building anything, much less power stations. Just ask the people who live near Colossus 2 how much fun it is to live next to a whole lot of unregulated illegal turbines which really emphasise how bad health and environmental effects can be when some rich fuckers want their power *now* instead of waiting to do something properly.

iFixIt blames some part shortages on eBay people, but not for the SteamDeck. There are no parts supplies. None. Not ebay, not Amazon, not iFixIt.

So they aren't. Throwing a nickel you don't want to have in your pocket to a homeless person does not make you a humanitarian. Accidental or incidental right to repair is not a repair policy.

And there we have it, another Slashdotter proving once again they aren't here to have a meaningful discussion but instead be a worthless troll. Buddy, surely you have something better to do with your Saturday evening like fucking yourself?

The peak demand comes -- right at the time we'd be getting near-peak from solar.

Why isn't the USA focusing more on having people fit solar to their houses with a battery and inverter. This would take the load off the grid during these peak-sun/peak-demand periods and sure-up the grid.

This is one of the few times that the output of renewables tracks demand so why not?

AC problem.

*Take AC to mean whatever you want, it works all the same. Suck it Fox News. - Sincerely: Europe.

Credit to you for being a racist MAGGOT who thinks that fentanyl or "illegals" have even the slightest impact on these figures.

This has literally zero to do with GLP1 as the effects on this on wider health will still take several years to have a measurable impact. Many of the things you list are long term effects that may improve health over time, but while GLP1 may e.g. reduce Type 2 diabetes, it doesn't cure the disease in those who have it.

That is one factor for sure, but there are many things that contribute to this. Cancer remains a top cause of death and we have gotten far better at catching and treating it earlier.

Please do us a favour and don't think. It's not working well for you.