Soaring solar and a surge in hydro push more coal off the US grid

The first data from 2026 seem to indicate that last year was an oddity.

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My expectations were right save a couple of major missed targets. Wind increase was what I would have expected for hydro and the increase in hydro was what I would have expected for wind.

 

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I would agree, although the historic reason Washington doesn't have an income tax is because when they were drafting the state constitution they thought timber was an inexhaustible resource that would fund everything forever. Turns out that isn't true, but now we have an entrenched population of people who are incapable of doing the math to understand just how badly they are getting fucked by sales taxes instead of an income tax.

Sales tax are regressive and income tax can be set up as progressive. Oregon has no sales tax.

 

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Practical Engineering made a video about this - All Dams Are Temporary. One issue with dams is that they silt in over time and it isn’t feasible to remove all that silt. They’re also generally terrible for the environment. The sooner we can shift away from fossil fuels and dams, the better.

All of everything is temporary...except entropy. Entropy is forever.