Climate Change/Mass Extinction Megathread

[Grey Fox]

What's Plug In Solar? That sounds great!

[crazy canuck]

The snow pack is so low that the prohibition on lawn watering goes into effect today.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

What's Plug In Solar? That sounds great!

A solar panel that you plug in via the regular plug.
A buddy of mine has those. Really nifty

[Syt]

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/trump-administration-cites-national-security-halt-us-wind-farm-projects-ft-2026-05-03/

Trump administration cites national security to halt US wind farm projects, FT reports

May 3 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration has brought U.S. onshore wind development to a halt, citing national security concerns, ‌the Financial Times reported on Sunday.

Approvals for about 165 onshore wind projects on private lands are being held up by the Pentagon, FT said, citing the American Clean Power Association and people close to the matter.

The affected projects ⁠include wind farms that were awaiting final sign-off, others in the middle of negotiations and some that typically would not require oversight by the Pentagon, the FT said.

Reuters could not immediately verify the report.

The American Clean Power Association and Pentagon did not immediately respond to requests for comment by Reuters.

Since August 2025, wind developers have faced a mix of setbacks, including a ‌lack ⁠of expected communication from the Pentagon, canceled meetings with no chance to reschedule, and being told that applications are no longer being processed, FT reported, citing people with knowledge of the situation.

Letters sent to ⁠developers in early April said the Pentagon was reviewing its processes for evaluating the impact of energy projects on national security, according to ⁠the newspaper.

The Trump administration has previously faced lawsuits after pausing wind projects after it cited new classified national security risks ⁠from radar interference.

Wind developers have faced repeated disruptions under Trump, who says wind turbines are ugly, expensive and inefficient.

Everything is national security now.

[Valmy]

Right as oil and gas prices are spiking and data centers are raising loads, let's reduce energy production. Brilliant.

[Zanza]

The reactionary German conservatives want to remove a law that would basically have forced all new installations for heating to be heat pumps or similar fossil free solutions.

But as our energy minister used to work as a gas lobbyists before, she wants to keep Germany dependent on fossil fuels. After sabotaging renewables, phasing out nuclear or sabotaging fibre networks it's just another fail by them.

This time supported by the Social Democrats (who approved the previous law in the last government). Their track record also has Nordstream or selling off our power grid.

Depressing to see when there are other better solutions in our neighbouring countries.

[Valmy]

The reactionary German conservatives want to remove a law that would basically have forced all new installations for heating to be heat pumps or similar fossil free solutions.

But as our energy minister used to work as a gas lobbyists before, she wants to keep Germany dependent on fossil fuels. After sabotaging renewables, phasing out nuclear or sabotaging fibre networks it's just another fail by them.

This time supported by the Social Democrats (who approved the previous law in the last government). Their track record also has Nordstream or selling off our power grid.

Depressing to see when there are other better solutions in our neighbouring countries.

Are they aware that Germany has no fossil fuel resources? Do they think eventually they will be able to just siphon natural gas out of the air?

[Zanza]

The energy minister wants to start fracking in Germany. Then we could produce some das ourselves.

And they always pretend that they can somehow make much more biofuels at commercially viable prices.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

Everything is national security now.

Everything has been national/"homeland" security for 25 years.

[Tonitrus]

One of my acts as fantasy POTUS would be to purge the term "homeland" from the government lexicon.