Sorry if this has been posted here before, I'm a lurker and don't post but thought this was funny so I went looking for an appropriate com to post in.

Bonus meme:

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In just 12 months, Donald Trump has sabotaged environmental agencies and slowed the spread of renewables. But climate disruption is still reshaping daily life, and cheap solar and wind are remaking the economy anyway.

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/45149956

Ecofascism

https://www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blogs/far-right-and-the-environment-key-themes-of-ecofascism/

https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/448724-investigating-the-role-of-disinformation-in-the-rise-of-eco-fascism

https://gnet-research.org/2025/04/30/ecofascism-and-green-accelerationism-ghosts-of-the-past-or-a-present-danger/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecofascism

https://www.firstnations.org/our-programs/stewarding-native-lands/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0264837722004963

The top graph is South Australia’s energy grid. The bottom is Queensland’s. Yellow is solar, green is wind, orange is gas, purple is imports, and black is coal.

Over the last week, Queensland used 27.3% renewable power, and South Australia used 81.4%. Source: https://explore.openelectricity.org.au/energy/au/

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/39343762

It's still not earning you money to spend electricity because you still have to pay the transfer fee which is around 6 cents / kWh but it's pretty damn cheap nevertheless, mostly because of the excess in wind energy.

Last winter because of a mistake it dropped down to negative 50 cents / kWh for few hours, averaging negative 20 cents for the entire day. People were literally earning money by spending electricity. Some were running electric heaters outside in the middle of the winter.