Need to Know by Stephen Leahy

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Food Crisis and the Ethanol Connection
Plants make shitty solar panels
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Stephen Leahy
1000 Nuclear Reactors
That's how much solar and wind electricity could be plugged in.
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Stephen Leahy
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100% Renewable Energy for the World: Possible and It's Happening
More countries joining the 100% renewable energy club
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The Dawn of the Hypercane
Category 6 hurricanes are here and more are coming
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Gasoline vehicles are +60x more likely to catch fire than EVs
Need-to-Know Fact: A gasoline vehicle is 60x more likely to catch fire than an electric vehicle.
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A Perfect Storm of Misinformation
How to improve your BS detector
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How Solar Could Free Up 29.8 Million Acres of Prime US Farmland
Corn is a Shitty Solar Panel: 160x more energy from an acre of solar than an acre of corn ethanol
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Possible and Doable: 100 Per Cent Renewable Energy for the World
Welcome to the web version of Need to Know: Science & Insight, a new form of personal journalism that looks at what we Need-to-Know at this time of…
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67.3% of All Energy Generated in the U.S. is Wasted
We don't need more energy, just better energy services
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Stephen Leahy
Wildfire Smoke: Unsafe In Any Amount
New research reveals the health risks of breathing wildfire smoke
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Clean power will soon produce half of the world's electricity
Fast growing solar power surged 29% in 2024
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Canada’s Oil Sands Among the World's Biggest Sources of Air Pollution
The desperate struggle with the oil and gas industry to control ballooning CO2 emissions and air pollution
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