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Solar Energy Was America's Largest Source of New Energy for 21 Straight Months

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"Solar and wind accounted for almost 91% of new U.S. electrical generating capacity added in the first five months of 2025..." reports Electrek, citing new data from America's Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. "Solar has now been the largest source of new generating capacity added each month for 21 consecutive months, starting September 2023." The 11,518 MW of solar added during the first five months of 2025 was 75.3% of the total new capacity placed into service... Between January and May, new wind provided 2,379 MW of capacity additions, accounting for 15.6% of all new capacity added during the first five months of 2025. For the first five months of 2025, solar and wind comprised 90.9% of new capacity while natural gas (1,381 MW) provided just 9.0%; the remaining 0.1% came from oil (14 MW). Solar + wind are 22.9% of U.S. utility-scale generating capacity. The installed capacities of solar (11.1%) and wind (11.8%) are now each more than a tenth of the U.S. total. Taken together, they constitute 22.9% of the U.S.'s total available installed utility-scale generating capacity. At least 25-30% of U.S. solar capacity is in the form of small-scale (e.g., rooftop) systems that are not reflected in FERC's data. Including that additional solar capacity would bring the share provided by solar + wind to more than a quarter of the U.S. total. With the inclusion of hydropower (7.7%), biomass (1.1%), and geothermal (0.3%), renewables currently claim a 32.0% share of total US utility-scale generating capacity. If small-scale solar capacity is included, renewables are now about one-third of total US generating capacity.... Taken together, the net new "high probability" capacity additions by all renewable energy sources over the next three years — the bulk of the Trump Administration's remaining time in office — would total 113,097 MW. There is no new nuclear capacity in FERC's three-year forecast, while coal and oil are projected to contract by 24,913 MW and 1,907 MW, respectively... If FERC's current "high probability" additions materialize by May 1, 2028, solar will account for 16.7% of US installed utility-scale generating capacity. Wind would provide an additional 12.7% of the total. Thus, each would be greater than coal (12.2%) and substantially more than nuclear power or hydropower (each 7.2%). In fact, assuming current growth rates continue, the installed capacity of utility-scale solar is likely to surpass that of either coal or wind within two years... At the end of 2024, the mix of all renewables accounted for 30.96% of total generating capacity. Solar alone was 10.19% while wind was 11.68%. By the end of May, renewables' share had risen to 31.98% with solar at 11.13% and wind at 11.80%. FERC also says that 43 "units" of solar totaling 1,515 megawatts (MW) were placed into service in May, according to the article, "accounting for 58.7% of all new generating capacity added during the month."

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Software ETA’s

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Brent Simmons:

The only reason anything ever ships is because people just keep working until it’s ready.

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Data Base Management Systems Market Global Industry Size, Share, Applications, Segmentation, Company Profiles 2019 - Market Research Journalist

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Data Base Management Systems Market Global Industry Size, Share, Applications, Segmentation, Company Profiles 2019  Market Research Journalist

Data Base Management Systems Market report contains a forecast of the next 5 years, starting 2019 and ending 2025 with a host of metrics like supply-demand ...



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Scott Priutt is such a colossal asshole that the lobbyists who were bribing him with nearly-free lodgings evicted him

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Scott Priutt, an asshole, was Donald Trump's pick to head the EPA. (more…)

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That is so interesting
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How Do You Script a Movie Like Mad Max: Fury Road? Well, It Turns Out You Don’t.

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In this video from his Just Write YouTube channel, Sage Hyden looks at the unique creative process behind Mad Max: Fury Road. “Even though Mad Max: Fury Road is one of the best films of all time,” Hyden says, “it’s hard to say that it is well-written. Because the movie wasn’t written. At least, not in the traditional sense. It did not have a screenplay, and if it did have one, that screenplay would probably have been horrible.”

As Hyden explains, screenplays are typically supposed to include only “the most essential elements of the story, while maintaining the pace of the film.” This works well for many films, where the details of the action, costumes, and scenery will later be determined by entire teams of professionals. However, in a film like Mad Max: Fury Road, those physical details often do the work of telling the story, so they can’t be separated out.

In short, a movie like this couldn’t be created in a normal screenplay. “All of the reasons most frequently cited as the reasons Fury Road is good – the detailed worldbuilding, the visceral action, the visual storytelling – are all aspects that would, by the conventions of most screenplays, have been left out or downplayed, things that someone else down the line would figure out. Which is why it makes sense that this movie did not have a script. Instead, it had storyboards. Lots and lots of storyboards.”

“This movie is not a series of conversations interrupted by fist fights,” Hyden summarizes. “It’s fist fights and gun fights and car chases that function as conversations, [as] arguments … Mad Max: Fury Road can’t be called well-written, but it can be called well-told. And it is.”

So why don’t more movies do this, Hyden asks? In part, it’s because it’s an incredibly difficult process that requires a lot of skill and coordination. However, the other reason is more mercenary. As a new installment in an established franchise with a well-known director, Mad Max: Fury Road was allowed to have an unconventional pre-production process. But this would never happen for a new film in an untested franchise; when it comes to pitching films to the studios, storyboards can’t serve as substitutes for scripts. And because studios are married to that one model, they may be missing out on some amazing action-movie franchises.

(Featured image: Warner Bros.)

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Such a great movie
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MORTAL ENGINES Teaser Trailer Kicks Off Peter Jackson's Next Epic Saga

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Peter Jackson is working his movie magic, bringing to life the Philip Reeve's award-winning book series Mortal Engines. Check out the first teaser trailer and get ready to go on another epic journey.
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