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Gift #4: Elon and Donald just shot the GOP in the foot … and if we’re lucky, they will bleed out.

Happy holidays, Bill and family ♥️🤍💙

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Thank you for all you do! It's a better world because you're in it. You give many good people hope and inspiration 💚🌏🌳

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Bill, Intersect Power, a developer of renewable energy projects, just formed a strategic partnership with Google to co-locate data centers and clean power generation. See: https://www.intersectpower.com/intersect-power-forms-strategic-partnership-with-google-and-tpg-rise-climate-to-co-locate-data-center-load-and-clean-power-generation/

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Thank you!

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Love the image of the congregation recessing outdoors singing "Go Tell..."!

Re: your first gift...

Elon proved this year in Memphis that standing up a data center using aero-derivative gas turbines can be done in WEEKs with no connection to the grid. He carted in 17 of these behemoths to run Colossus, his new AI training platform which he claims is more powerful than Frontier, the former #1 supercomputer in the world, housed here in Oak Ridge.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/elon-musks-massive-ai-data-center-gets-unlocked-xai-gets-approved-for-150mw-of-power-enabling-all-100-000-gpus-to-run-concurrently

https://www.environmentenergyleader.com/stories/as-musks-memphis-supercomputer-launches-concerns-raised-over-xais-gas-turbines-and-air-permit,48419

Needless to say, this is deeply upsetting to many Memphians already suffering from poor air quality.

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Oops. That last comment was from me, not from Third Act Faith.

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thank you as always for the research and outreach that you do to make these gifts of hope possible. We are with you!

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Thanks for the gifties, Bill--much needed! And thank you for being you. We're not giving up.

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Let me second that sentiment. THANKS FOR YOU,

BILL!

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Apologies. I almost never comment on articles, which I guess is a good thing. Zeke let me know that I should have read your piece as saying all the companies were OK, not that Stripe was not and, by association, Zeke was not. In the end, I'm just really glad to know that two of the most oft-quoted and articulate voices on climate change strongly support each other at this beyond critical juncture.

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Indeed. I learn stuff from him constantly!

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Thanks Bill, I'll take even small wins today. Good wishes for your Christmas Eve ceremony.

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To you and your family Bill. Would you check out the new ruling in France for solar panels on parking lots? It’s an idea I’ve been talking up for years. Shade for your car while shopping too !!

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Happy Holiday’s to

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Thanks, Bill. I listened to podcast twice. So far. Just for fun. I also like to forward articles to politicians who might be able to use the information to do good things. Can’t hurt, right. Happy Holidays.

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Bill, what is non-admitted insurance please?

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After years of lurking at Bill McKibben's Twitter and Substack accounts, I realized that I have long been able to afford the Substack's "voluntary and modest subscription price." So, I've subscribed. It feels good to pay for value received.

A Recovering Penny Pincher

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I hope you'll entertain a 'Christmas Service' down here....We really need it.....J. H.

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Microgrids would be resilient against the Skyler Philippi accelerationist ideology with explosive laden drones

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