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Jul 11, 2022Liked by Bill McKibben

Readers might contemplate this graphic: "Mapped: Average Wind Speed Across the U.S."

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/mapped-average-wind-speed-across-the-u-s/

Versus China going full speed ahead on nature's wind - the U.S. seems to lack the political wind to use nature's wind beneficially. The U.S. Congress efforts on offshore wind are dismal.

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Jul 11, 2022Liked by Bill McKibben

Good old North Carolina. BOTH Madison Cawthorn and Mark Meadows were my so-called representatives in Washington. I consider living here advanced spiritual practice. (Living anywhere these days is advanced spiritual practice, I suppose.)

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North Carolina Republicans last week moved to destroy EV charging stations unless they also provided free gasoline and diesel fuel.

That's like saying we'll pull out all of the public drinking fountains unless you also provide beer and whiskey fountains.

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Bill, I love your work. But please stop with the pogrom against biomass energy. Understand the difference between current and fossil carbon, and recognise that carbon crops are there to do the heavy lifting for us. since we will never come up with a drawdown technology that comes anywhere close to photosynthesis.

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Wonderful news. Is more work being driven to handle excess capacity during low demand?

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