#UnpopularOpinion: #Europe should deploy air-con en masse, through reversible Air-to-Air #HeatPumps.
The increase in Energy use for cooling in the Summer will be largely compensated by the reduction in Energy use for #heating in the winter.
#ClimateChange #EU #Europe #HeatPump #AirCon #AirConditioning #Energy
Remember that pumped hydro project sited on a Yakama sacred site? The one the developer said would power 500K Oregon and Washington homes?? The one that was supposedly critical to meeting WA's renewable energy goals???
JK it's actually for a data center. Green colonialism has been a scam all along.
#Indigenous #Oregon #Washington #PNW #energy #LandBack
streetroots.org/news-stories/2…
Yakama Nation and its allies have been fighting to stop the project for nearly a decade. New information shows the project is intended to feed the “world's greenest” data centerHenry Brannan (Street Roots)
57 countries (accounting for around half of global GDP) have come together in a coalition for a Just Transition Away from Fossil Fuels.
Obviously the aspiration will confront the vested interests in the oil industry & their supporters across Govt.s but this *does* represent one more item the scales for the ongoing, if as yet fragmented, green transition.
Each move to normalise this transition will (eventually) make the Green Transition more likely.
#energy #politics
opendemocracy.net/colombia-oil…
Nearly 60 countries launch coalition to accelerate the energy transition against the backdrop of the blockade of the Strait of HormuzJulian Reingold (openDemocracy)
