Jim

“Perovskite”
― Bill McKibben, Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization

“Over the course of 2024, he reported on New Year’s Day, the state had used 25 percent less natural gas to generate electricity than it had the year before, a reduction that by the spring of 2025 had grown to 43 percent. That’s the single most hopeful statistic I’ve seen in 40 years of writing about our predicament.”
― Bill McKibben, Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization

“For households, the trinity of efficient appliances is an electric car or bike, a heat pump—and an induction cooktop.”
― Bill McKibben, Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization

“Sometime in the early part of the 2020s we crossed an invisible line where the cost of producing energy from the sun dropped below the cost of fossil fuel. That’s not yet common knowledge—we still think of photovoltaic panels and wind turbines as “alternative energy,” as if they were the Whole Foods of power, nice but pricey. In fact—and more so with each passing month—they are the Costco of energy, inexpensive and available in bulk.”
― Bill McKibben, Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization