U.S. Electricity From Fossils Fuels Dips Below 50% for the First Time Ever!

[Waterglass]

I wanted to post this under a conspiracy as the USA MSM failed to cover this HISTORIC story! Yea, I get it Orange Man Bad. So where are the other loud mouths trashing USA on Carbon Reduction? The babes from the Bronx and the International Woman of Mystery from Sweden? 

Here we go:

So did Trump fart in the bathtub? This story certainly did!

So this is HISTORIC and we aren't told sheet by our MSM. Who runs the MSM? I do NOT read any USA MSM. CNN, MSN, Wall Street Journal, CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX? So Google it and see what pops! NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Except by Reuters and OH BY THE WAY; The Sierra Club! This story was posted on Oilprice.com. ORANGE man badddddddddddddddd? 


https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-Gener...-Ever.html

To get what I think is going on I read the following web sites:

oilprice.com 

Hellenicshipping.com 

https://evmagazine.com/

Among these organizations the story is more likely to be true as they aren't supposed to float bullsheet or be sued.  They may have false accounting but when it comes to what's going on technology takes the lead. So was any of this mentioned by US MSM? 

HOUSTON, April 4 (Reuters) - Fossil fuels accounted for less than 50% of the U.S. power mix for the first month on record in March, according to energy think tank Ember on Friday, driven by a near-quarter rise in wind and solar power generation.Apr 4, 2025

HISTORIC: Fossil Fuels Produce Less than Half of US Electricity
April 11, 2025
Contact
Christine Ho, [email protected]

Washington, D.C. - Today, a new study by Ember reported that for the first time in history, fossil fuels produced less than half of the U.S. total energy generation for a month. In March, fossil fuels made up just 49.2 percent of the grid, while carbon-free energy contributed the majority 50.8 percent.

[putnam6]

Nuclear Energy, didn't we just have a Georgia reactor go online...

I remember 3 Mile Island, that and Chernobyl, it set back Nuclear Energy 25 years if not longer. 

Thankfully it wasn't abandoned or we would be screw'd. They started deeking around with earnestness on the viability of green energy around then and are still deeking

*** Note, we knew what happened fairly soon after both these incidents, just not specifics, now we have vague mentions of oscillations and inverter problems with no hint if these are solvable issues. ALL THIS AFTER committing to Net Zero ***

[Waterglass]

Nuclear Energy, didn't we just have a Georgia reactor go online...

I remember 3 Mile Island, that and Chernobyl, it set back Nuclear Energy 25 years if not longer. 

Thankfully it was abandoned or we would be screw'd. 

*** Note, we knew what happened fairly soon after both these incidents, just not specifics, now we have vague mentions of oscillations and inverter problems with no hint if these are solvable issues. ALL THIS AFTER committing to Net Zero ***

IT WORKS!

[putnam6]

IT WORKS!

Yes, it does think where we might be without those incidents though...

I had a People's Almanac Book of  Predictions, one thought we would have individual home power plants, likely nuclear-derived

[UltraBudgie]

Yes, it does think where we might be without those incidents though...

I had a People's Almanac Book of  Predictions, one thought we would have individual home power plants, likely nuclear-derived

I always get maudlin when I read things like The People's Book of Naïve Optimism, and think how it was reasonable to believe technology would be used to solve problems rather than monetize them. Ah, we were once so young...

[putnam6]

I always get maudlin when I read things like The People's Book of Naïve Optimism, and think how it was reasonable to believe technology would be used to solve problems rather than monetize them. Ah, we were once so young...

It has a broader scope than that, multiple esteemed participants from academia, the business world, writers, scientists, researchers; it was the 80s for sure, but some had cynical thoughts, and a few that hit close to the mark. And was still way off on cynical and optimistic predictions alike  

https://archive.org/details/peoplesalman...0unse_h9q0

Ive long lost my hard copy, but I did find it on Archive.org. It's not all unicorns and rainbows, it delved into corporate greed too, which has always been a friend of Uncle Sam, Coal Fossil Fuel and Natural Gas lobbies did plenty to retard American nuclear energy. As well as the likelihood of the reliance on Big Pharma and its inherent dangers. 

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[BeyondKnowledge]

It is all good until something unplanned for occures and the engineering just isn't there. It happens with all new technology. Unfortunately they want to throw away the old before the new is really proven.

When half the USA goes dark, how long to start it back?