The discussion covers how the U.S. approach compares to that of allies and partners, and whether Washington should recalibrate accordingly. The group examines feasibility concerns around the Ford-CATL licensing model as a template for managing Chinese technology partnerships and considers whether the current chaotic patchwork of investment screening rules, tariffs, and tax credit restrictions might actually give the United States unexpected leverage. Participants also explore what incentive structures and policy options are available to policymakers, and how Chinese firms themselves are thinking about strategies to enter the U.S. market
It was the reason I had to get out of bed to get them out of the fridgerator and on the stove so they’d have the two hours or so necessary to cook down and make many good meals this week. Pinto beans are my power source of protein, with inflation being so high and all mymoney going into the SuperDuty.
Bike rode fine yesterday without the dork disk, 💿 though I’ve been careful to keep it out of low and I ordered a new dork disk, chain, and cassette, bitching how it’s going to be another $60 with my yearly phone bill due, I don’t know the stupid bedliner on my credit card and soon enough the final payment for the truck cap. Continuing to straighten out and adjust the derailuer but it’s obvious the cassette and chain needs replacing, so I’ll do that when I install the dork disk. I should fix the low range on my bike but I rarely use it even riding trail. 🚲 After dinner, I rode down to Hannaford and got some eggs, milk and supplies. 🥚 Healthier then taking the SuperDuty out and uses a lot less gas. ⛽
Another nice morning before the rain comes, 🌅 and much cooler weather for the weekend. Having eggs 🍳 this morning with lots of spinach, onions, pinto beans. Then it’s off to work on the bike. 🚲 CDTA transferred the $13.11 balance from my now expired bus card to the CDTA app so I can use it that way. Eventually I’ll probably get another Navigator Swiper Card as it’s easier for boarding the bus then loading the app and showing it to the machine, but I figure I’ll use up what I have on the app, though these days riding my bike 🚵♂️ most days to work as a sad desperate person with a SuperDuty it will take a while. Last night for a while I sat back in the bed 🛏️ of the SuperDuty and looked at the stars ✨. Now just waiting for the camper shell to arrive 🚛 and maybe for the black flies to thin out a bit. Decided after looking at price of hood mounts for CB antenna, I should pull the one off the old truck and see if I can make it fit on new truck. And I do like looking at height lights on SuperDuty when I lock the doors after dark. Well I better get in shower, 🚿 and ride my bike to work. 🚲
Restrictions on solar development are proliferating nationwide, “often rooted in misinformation or unfounded fears,” including ones that involve “potential environmental and human safety risks,” according to an article published late last year in the Brigham Young University Law Review.
About 40 percent of American adults said in a 2022 poll that we are living in the “end times.” For much of the country, it’s an idea that’s almost mundane. The rapture is spliced into their Sunday sermons and enchants their world with a fearsome possibility. I’d hear bad news on television as a kid and think, is this it? Has the time come?
A report from CarbonBrief carried the revelation made by a think tank called Ember. Based on Ember's calculations in its latest global electricity review, coal-fueled electricity generation dropped by 0.2% last year to 33%, while renewables maintained a steady upward trajectory to edge past coal, hitting 33.8%.
Wind and solar power catered for 99% of the growth in electricity demand last year (solar represented the majority of that – 75% of it, in fact). The International Energy Agency separately said in its Global Energy Review 2026 report that "the absolute increase of solar PV generation in 2025 is the largest ever observed for any source".
The Trump administration will pay energy companies hundreds of millions of dollars to abandon their plans to build two wind farms off the U.S. coast, the Interior Department said Monday, in a repeat of a tactic the government used to cancel other offshore wind leases last month.
The firms will forfeit their leases in federal waters for the two wind farms, one of which would have been built off New York and New Jersey and the other off California. The government will reimburse the companies a combined $885 million, the amount they paid for the leases under the Biden administration.
In exchange, the companies have pledged to invest that money in oil and gas projects, including liquefied natural gas facilities along the Gulf Coast.
