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China’s Offshore Solar Giant Is Real, and It’s Doing the Most

Dear Cherubs, China has done what it so often does with infrastructure: taken a perfectly sensible idea and scaled it up until it looks like a dare. Off Dongying, in Shandong province, CHN Energy says it has brought online a 1-gigawatt open-sea offshore solar project built with 2,934 PV platforms, more than 2.3 million modules, and 11,736 steel piles hammered into the seabed. In other words, it is solar power, but with a shipping-industry gym membership.

A SEA OF PANELS

This is not your garden-variety floating array. CHN Energy describes the project as a fixed-pile offshore PV system, designed to sit about 8 kilometers from shore and handle waves, tides, strong winds, and seasonal sea ice without immediately filing for retirement. pv magazine reported that the panels are mounted on 60-by-35-meter steel platforms, tilted at 15 degrees, and connected through a 66-kilovolt subsea cable system with onshore transmission infrastructure. So yes, the engineering is serious. The drama is mostly in the size.

WHY IT MATTERS

The developer says the plant should generate about 1.78 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity a year, enough to meet the needs of roughly 2.67 million urban residents, while avoiding around 1.34 million tons of carbon dioxide and saving more than 500,000 tons of standard coal. Those are company estimates, so treat them as reported projections rather than holy scripture, but the basic point is hard to miss: this is a very large clean-power machine with a very large ambition. CHN Energy also says the site uses a “PV-above, farming-below” model, mixing power generation with aquaculture. Multi-use land? More like multi-use sea.

The timing is not random either. Reuters reported that China connected the world’s largest solar farm in Xinjiang in 2024, and The Guardian reported in June 2025 that China added 198 gigawatts of solar and 46 gigawatts of wind in just the first five months of the year, with installed solar capacity passing 1,000 gigawatts. So this offshore project is not a quirky one-off; it is part of a national habit of building renewable energy at a scale that makes other countries look like they are still printing brochures.

The hot take is simple: the future of solar may not always be rooftops and deserts. Sometimes it looks like a steel fortress at sea, built to wrestle weather, salinity, and gravity into submission. For readers who enjoy the bigger-picture angle on energy megaprojects, thisclaimer.com also tracks similar scale-and-geopolitics stories with a very internet-friendly sense of proportion.

Sources list
CHN Energy — https://www.ceic.com/gjnyjtwwEn/xwzx/202411/c315e1982ebc4a68844a7473a2734d18.shtml
pv magazine International — https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/29/china-commissions-worlds-largest-1-gw-open-sea-offshore-solar-project/
Reuters — https://www.reuters.com/world/china/worlds-biggest-solar-farm-comes-online-chinas-xinjiang-2024-06-03/
The Guardian — https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/26/china-breaks-more-records-with-massive-build-up-of-wind-and-solar-power
thisclaimer.com — https://thisclaimer.com
YouTube — https://www.youtube.com/@thisclaimer?sub_confirmation=1

China’s Offshore Solar Giant Is Real, and It’s Doing the Most

Dear Cherubs, China has done what it so often does with infrastructure: taken a perfectly sensible idea and scaled it up until it looks like a dare. Off Dongying, in Shandong province, CHN Energy says it has brought online a 1-gigawatt open-sea offshore solar project built with 2,934 PV platforms, more than 2.3 million modules, and 11,736 steel piles hammered into the seabed. In other words, it is solar power, but with a shipping-industry gym membership.

A SEA OF PANELS

This is not your garden-variety floating array. CHN Energy describes the project as a fixed-pile offshore PV system, designed to sit about 8 kilometers from shore and handle waves, tides, strong winds, and seasonal sea ice without immediately filing for retirement. pv magazine reported that the panels are mounted on 60-by-35-meter steel platforms, tilted at 15 degrees, and connected through a 66-kilovolt subsea cable system with onshore transmission infrastructure. So yes, the engineering is serious. The drama is mostly in the size.

WHY IT MATTERS

The developer says the plant should generate about 1.78 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity a year, enough to meet the needs of roughly 2.67 million urban residents, while avoiding around 1.34 million tons of carbon dioxide and saving more than 500,000 tons of standard coal. Those are company estimates, so treat them as reported projections rather than holy scripture, but the basic point is hard to miss: this is a very large clean-power machine with a very large ambition. CHN Energy also says the site uses a “PV-above, farming-below” model, mixing power generation with aquaculture. Multi-use land? More like multi-use sea.

The timing is not random either. Reuters reported that China connected the world’s largest solar farm in Xinjiang in 2024, and The Guardian reported in June 2025 that China added 198 gigawatts of solar and 46 gigawatts of wind in just the first five months of the year, with installed solar capacity passing 1,000 gigawatts. So this offshore project is not a quirky one-off; it is part of a national habit of building renewable energy at a scale that makes other countries look like they are still printing brochures.

The hot take is simple: the future of solar may not always be rooftops and deserts. Sometimes it looks like a steel fortress at sea, built to wrestle weather, salinity, and gravity into submission. For readers who enjoy the bigger-picture angle on energy megaprojects, thisclaimer.com also tracks similar scale-and-geopolitics stories with a very internet-friendly sense of proportion.

Sources list
CHN Energy — https://www.ceic.com/gjnyjtwwEn/xwzx/202411/c315e1982ebc4a68844a7473a2734d18.shtml
pv magazine International — https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/29/china-commissions-worlds-largest-1-gw-open-sea-offshore-solar-project/
Reuters — https://www.reuters.com/world/china/worlds-biggest-solar-farm-comes-online-chinas-xinjiang-2024-06-03/
The Guardian — https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/26/china-breaks-more-records-with-massive-build-up-of-wind-and-solar-power
thisclaimer.com — https://thisclaimer.com
YouTube — https://www.youtube.com/@thisclaimer?sub_confirmation=1

The impact is already visible. In the month after SunZia came online, California wind generation rose 37% and gas generation fell 35%. That is what new transmission is supposed to do; move cheap #CleanPower from where it is abundant to where it can displace #FossilFuels.

Largest US renewable project b...

The impact is already visible. In the month after SunZia came online, California wind generation rose 37% and gas generation fell 35%. That is what new transmission is supposed to do; move cheap #CleanPower from where it is abundant to where it can displace #FossilFuels.

Largest US renewable project b...

https://www.europesays.com/britain/41735/ HSBC launches $4B credit facility for China’s clean energy and low-carbon companies #ArtificialIntelligence #CleanEnergy #CleanPower #cleantech #DataCentres #decarbonisation #EnergyTransition #GreenLending #HSBC #LowCarbon #NetZero #RenewableEnergy #SustainabilityAndTransitionCreditFacility #SustainableFinance #TransportElectrification

Renewable energy myths debunked: Separating fact from fiction to accelerate sustainable power solutions and combat climate challenges. Clean energy is more viable and transformative than ever before. #RenewableEnergy #CleanPower

Renewable energy myths debunked: Separating fact from fiction to accelerate sustainable power solutions and combat climate challenges. Clean energy is more viable and transformative than ever before. #RenewableEnergy #CleanPower

EU renewable energy generation hits 49.3% in Q3 2025, marking a 4% increase from last year and signaling strong commitment to clean energy transition #RenewableEnergy #CleanPower

EU renewable energy generation hits 49.3% in Q3 2025, marking a 4% increase from last year and signaling strong commitment to clean energy transition #RenewableEnergy #CleanPower

Pentagon Reviews Clog Wind Project Pipeline

Why is the Pentagon blocking 165 wind energy projects in April 2026? Learn how this delay affects US energy goals and project developers.

#windenergy, #pentagon, #cleanpower, #usenergy, #energydelay

https://newsletter.tf/pentagon-blocks-165-wind-projects-april-2026/

The Pentagon has stopped 165 wind projects, which is 30 gigawatts of power. This is a much larger delay than the industry saw in 2025.

#windenergy, #pentagon, #cleanpower, #usenergy, #energydelay
https://newsletter.tf/pentagon-blocks-165-wind-projects-april-2026/

Do you live in Austin?

Did you know the Austin City Council is set to vote on allowing Austin Energy to deploy NEW natural gas power plants?

Do you think that’s a terrible idea?

Yeah, click here to tell them to vote NO

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-austin-city-council-vote-no-on-gas-peakers?source=direct_link&

#austin #energy #naturalgas #fossilfuel #pollution #greenhouse #cleanpower

Do you live in Austin?

Did you know the Austin City Council is set to vote on allowing Austin Energy to deploy NEW natural gas power plants?

Do you think that’s a terrible idea?

Yeah, click here to tell them to vote NO

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-austin-city-council-vote-no-on-gas-peakers?source=direct_link&

#austin #energy #naturalgas #fossilfuel #pollution #greenhouse #cleanpower

Meta Taps Space for Perpetual Power to Feed AI Hunger

Meta is getting solar power from space to help run its AI. This will give them power all day and night.

#MetaAI, #SpaceEnergy, #CleanPower, #DataCenters, #AI

https://newsletter.tf/meta-gets-space-power-for-ai-energy/

Meta Taps Space for Perpetual Power to Feed AI Hunger

Meta is getting solar power from space to help run its AI. This will give them power all day and night.

#MetaAI, #SpaceEnergy, #CleanPower, #DataCenters, #AI

https://newsletter.tf/meta-gets-space-power-for-ai-energy/

Meta will now get solar power from space, which is a new way to get energy 24/7. This is different from regular solar power that only works when the sun is out.

#MetaAI, #SpaceEnergy, #CleanPower, #DataCenters, #AI
https://newsletter.tf/meta-gets-space-power-for-ai-energy/

Meta will now get solar power from space, which is a new way to get energy 24/7. This is different from regular solar power that only works when the sun is out.

#MetaAI, #SpaceEnergy, #CleanPower, #DataCenters, #AI
https://newsletter.tf/meta-gets-space-power-for-ai-energy/

For the First Time in the U.S., Renewables Generate More Power Than Natural Gas

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/us-renewables-natural-gas-coal

#HackerNews #renewableenergy #naturalgas #sustainability #cleanpower #energymix

For the First Time in the U.S., Renewables Generate More Power Than Natural Gas

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/us-renewables-natural-gas-coal

#HackerNews #renewableenergy #naturalgas #sustainability #cleanpower #energymix

New nuclear power plant on Anglesey ‘more important than ever’ as Iran crisis deepens

The Chancellor described the signing of a contract to advance development of the UK’s first mini nuclear reactors…
#Nuclear #Anglesey #cleanpower #EdMiliband #GreatBritishEnergy #nuclear #nuclearpowerstation #nuclearreactors #PAMedia #RachelReeves #Rolls-Royce #thegovernment #Wylfa
https://www.europesays.com/2916910/

California's grid-scale batteries are game-changers! Covering 44% of the evening demand, they’ve reached 17 GW in just five years. Imagine if every grid added tens of GW—smoothing out peaks, replacing gas peakers, and keeping power flowing after sunset.

The result? Cheaper, cleaner, and more reliable energy. Fewer outages, lower bills, and a big boost in emissions cuts. This is how we build a sustainable future!

#ClimateAction #EnergyStorage #RenewableEnergy #Sustainability #CleanPower

California's grid-scale batteries are game-changers! Covering 44% of the evening demand, they’ve reached 17 GW in just five years. Imagine if every grid added tens of GW—smoothing out peaks, replacing gas peakers, and keeping power flowing after sunset.

The result? Cheaper, cleaner, and more reliable energy. Fewer outages, lower bills, and a big boost in emissions cuts. This is how we build a sustainable future!

#ClimateAction #EnergyStorage #RenewableEnergy #Sustainability #CleanPower

https://www.europesays.com/dk/50776/ Wind farm backers complain over plan to squeeze subsidies #ChiefInvestmentOfficer #CleanPower #EnergyInfrastructure #InflationIndexation #OnshoreWindFarms #RenewablesObligation #RetailPriceIndex #subsidies #Vestas #VestasWindSystems #VWDRY

Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables

https://grid.iamkate.com/

#HackerNews #Britain #Renewable #Energy #Electricity #Sustainability #GreenEnergy #CleanPower

Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables

https://grid.iamkate.com/

#HackerNews #Britain #Renewable #Energy #Electricity #Sustainability #GreenEnergy #CleanPower

https://theconversation.com/what-the-uks-first-geothermal-power-plant-means-for-the-nations-electricity-supply-276909

The UK’s first deep geothermal plant in Cornwall now generates steady, 24/7 renewable power for roughly 10,000 homes using heat from deep underground and also yields lithium, showing geothermal’s potential in strengthening the UK’s electricity supply.

#GeothermalEnergy #Renewables #CleanPower #SustainableEnergy

https://theconversation.com/what-the-uks-first-geothermal-power-plant-means-for-the-nations-electricity-supply-276909

The UK’s first deep geothermal plant in Cornwall now generates steady, 24/7 renewable power for roughly 10,000 homes using heat from deep underground and also yields lithium, showing geothermal’s potential in strengthening the UK’s electricity supply.

#GeothermalEnergy #Renewables #CleanPower #SustainableEnergy

#Renewables soar globally despite #US #climate pullback
Trump admin’s reversal of #endangermentfinding was met with dismay by experts; White House argues policy raised energy costs for consumers. Elsewhere in world, green technology is being implemented at pace: Africa’s #solar capacity expanded 17% last year, with 20 nations setting import records, and data this week showed China’s emissions may already be falling thanks in large part to its huge outlay on #cleanpower.
https://www.semafor.com/article/02/13/2026/renewables-soar-globally-despite-us-climate-pullback

#Renewables soar globally despite #US #climate pullback
Trump admin’s reversal of #endangermentfinding was met with dismay by experts; White House argues policy raised energy costs for consumers. Elsewhere in world, green technology is being implemented at pace: Africa’s #solar capacity expanded 17% last year, with 20 nations setting import records, and data this week showed China’s emissions may already be falling thanks in large part to its huge outlay on #cleanpower.
https://www.semafor.com/article/02/13/2026/renewables-soar-globally-despite-us-climate-pullback

#Renewables soar globally despite #US #climate pullback
Trump admin’s reversal of #endangermentfinding was met with dismay by experts; White House argues policy raised energy costs for consumers. Elsewhere in world, green technology is being implemented at pace: Africa’s #solar capacity expanded 17% last year, with 20 nations setting import records, and data this week showed China’s emissions may already be falling thanks in large part to its huge outlay on #cleanpower.
https://www.semafor.com/article/02/13/2026/renewables-soar-globally-despite-us-climate-pullback

#Renewables soar globally despite #US #climate pullback
Trump admin’s reversal of #endangermentfinding was met with dismay by experts; White House argues policy raised energy costs for consumers. Elsewhere in world, green technology is being implemented at pace: Africa’s #solar capacity expanded 17% last year, with 20 nations setting import records, and data this week showed China’s emissions may already be falling thanks in large part to its huge outlay on #cleanpower.
https://www.semafor.com/article/02/13/2026/renewables-soar-globally-despite-us-climate-pullback

#Renewables soar globally despite #US #climate pullback
Trump admin’s reversal of #endangermentfinding was met with dismay by experts; White House argues policy raised energy costs for consumers. Elsewhere in world, green technology is being implemented at pace: Africa’s #solar capacity expanded 17% last year, with 20 nations setting import records, and data this week showed China’s emissions may already be falling thanks in large part to its huge outlay on #cleanpower.
https://www.semafor.com/article/02/13/2026/renewables-soar-globally-despite-us-climate-pullback

via #Microsoft : A milestone achievement in our journey to carbon negative

https://ift.tt/UPbkJaA
#Microsoft #CarbonNegative #Sustainability #CleanEnergy #RenewableEnergy #ClimateAction #IEA #EnergyInnovation #PowerIT #CleanPower #Decarbonization #SustainableFuture #ClimateTe…

via #Microsoft : A milestone achievement in our journey to carbon negative

https://ift.tt/UPbkJaA
#Microsoft #CarbonNegative #Sustainability #CleanEnergy #RenewableEnergy #ClimateAction #IEA #EnergyInnovation #PowerIT #CleanPower #Decarbonization #SustainableFuture #ClimateTe…

Ah yes, the year 2025 when the sun apparently became our personal power plug. 🌞🔌 Let’s all wave goodbye to fossil fuels and pretend we didn’t see those nuclear plants 🏭 quietly chuckling in the corner while solar takes its victory lap. 😂🌍
https://electrek.co/2026/01/16/us-electricity-demand-surged-in-2025-solar-handled-61-percent/ #solarenergy #renewablefuture #cleanpower #fossilfuels #nuclearenergy #HackerNews #ngated

Record amounts of offshore wind secured in latest Government auction https://www.byteseu.com/1712835/ #BerwickBank #CleanPower #EdMiliband #Government #GreatBritain #MegawattHour #OffshoreWind #TheGovernment #UnitedKingdom

Record amounts of offshore wind secured in latest Government auction

The Government has secured record amounts of offshore wind power in an auction that officials insisted is good…
#UnitedKingdom #UK #Europe #EU #BerwickBank #cleanpower #EdMiliband #Government #GreatBritain #megawatthour #offshorewind #thegovernment
https://www.europesays.com/2702586/

https://www.europesays.com/uk/695246/ Record amounts of offshore wind secured in latest Government auction #BerwickBank #Britain #CleanPower #EdMiliband #England #government #GreatBritain #MegawattHour #NorthernIreland #OffshoreWind #Scotland #TheGovernment #UK #UnitedKingdom #Wales

Meta bets big on nuclear energy to feed its AI appetite

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/01/meta-nuclear-energy-ai-power/

Meta bets big on nuclear energy to feed its AI appetite

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/01/meta-nuclear-energy-ai-power/

Meta bets big on nuclear energy to feed its AI appetite

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/01/meta-nuclear-energy-ai-power/

Meta bets big on nuclear energy to feed its AI appetite

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/01/meta-nuclear-energy-ai-power/

Meta bets big on nuclear energy to feed its AI appetite

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/01/meta-nuclear-energy-ai-power/

Weekly output: FCC independence, Starlink mobile-broadband ambitions, TAE + TMTG, best WiFi hotspots

In addition to wrapping up my holiday shopping far later than I expected, this week saw me mostly finish migrating from Evernote to Obsidian after management at the note-taking app I’ve used since 2010 elected to impose a 92 percent rate increase.

12/18/2025: FCC Scrambles to Edit Website After Chair Refuses to Say Agency Is Independent, PCMag

Here we have yet another case of the 2025 version of FCC chair Brendan Carr taking a position on a tech-policy issue explicitly rejected by an earlier model year of this man. But this time around, the Trump-loyalist chairman made his heel turn even more obvious by apparently ordering up a hasty edit of the commission’s about-us page.

12/19/2025: SpaceX Exec Tips ‘Real’ High-Speed Cellular Starlink, With 15K More Satellites, PCMag

This story started with my attending a space-telecom conference in D.C. two Mondays ago, then I needed to educate myself much more about SpaceX’s ambitions for direct-to-device broadband from a future generation of Starlink satellites.

12/19/2025: Trump’s Truth Social to Merge With Fusion Startup You’ve Probably Never Heard Of, PCMag

Will the Trump family still be so enthusiastic about TAE Technologies if their backing somehow helps it finally commercialize fusion power generation and in so doing hammers the last nail into the coffin of the coal-fired power plants so beloved by our scientifically-illiterate president? (Answer: That question is probably irrelevant, because coal is already so uncompetitive that this administration’s fossil-fuel fetishists feel compelled to issue orders to keep obsolete coal plants online on a fake “emergency” basis.)

12/19/2025: The Best Wi-Fi Hotspot, Wirecutter

I updated the “What to look forward to” section of this guide–last updated almost a year ago–to note how AT&T has added two newer models to its lineup. One of them looks like an immense improvement over our previous pick from that carrier.

#ATTHotspots #BrendanCarr #cleanPower #D2D #directToDevice #directToCell #FCC #FCCIndependentAgency #FranklinA70 #fusionPower #SpaceX #Starlink #TAE #TMTG #TrumpMediaTechnologyGroup #TruthSocial #WiFiHotspots

Weekly output: FCC independence, Starlink mobile-broadband ambitions, TAE + TMTG, best WiFi hotspots

In addition to wrapping up my holiday shopping far later than I expected, this week saw me mostly finish migrating from Evernote to Obsidian after management at the note-taking app I’ve used since 2010 elected to impose a 92 percent rate increase.

12/18/2025: FCC Scrambles to Edit Website After Chair Refuses to Say Agency Is Independent, PCMag

Here we have yet another case of the 2025 version of FCC chair Brendan Carr taking a position on a tech-policy issue explicitly rejected by an earlier model year of this man. But this time around, the Trump-loyalist chairman made his heel turn even more obvious by apparently ordering up a hasty edit of the commission’s about-us page.

12/19/2025: SpaceX Exec Tips ‘Real’ High-Speed Cellular Starlink, With 15K More Satellites, PCMag

This story started with my attending a space-telecom conference in D.C. two Mondays ago, then I needed to educate myself much more about SpaceX’s ambitions for direct-to-device broadband from a future generation of Starlink satellites.

12/19/2025: Trump’s Truth Social to Merge With Fusion Startup You’ve Probably Never Heard Of, PCMag

Will the Trump family still be so enthusiastic about TAE Technologies if their backing somehow helps it finally commercialize fusion power generation and in so doing hammers the last nail into the coffin of the coal-fired power plants so beloved by our scientifically-illiterate president? (Answer: That question is probably irrelevant, because coal is already so uncompetitive that this administration’s fossil-fuel fetishists feel compelled to issue orders to keep obsolete coal plants online on a fake “emergency” basis.)

12/19/2025: The Best Wi-Fi Hotspot, Wirecutter

I updated the “What to look forward to” section of this guide–last updated almost a year ago–to note how AT&T has added two newer models to its lineup. One of them looks like an immense improvement over our previous pick from that carrier.

#ATTHotspots #BrendanCarr #cleanPower #D2D #directToDevice #directToCell #FCC #FCCIndependentAgency #FranklinA70 #fusionPower #SpaceX #Starlink #TAE #TMTG #TrumpMediaTechnologyGroup #TruthSocial #WiFiHotspots

Weekly output: FCC independence, Starlink mobile-broadband ambitions, TAE + TMTG, best WiFi hotspots

In addition to wrapping up my holiday shopping far later than I expected, this week saw me mostly finish migrating from Evernote to Obsidian after management at the note-taking app I’ve used since 2010 elected to impose a 92 percent rate increase.

12/18/2025: FCC Scrambles to Edit Website After Chair Refuses to Say Agency Is Independent, PCMag

Here we have yet another case of the 2025 version of FCC chair Brendan Carr taking a position on a tech-policy issue explicitly rejected by an earlier model year of this man. But this time around, the Trump-loyalist chairman made his heel turn even more obvious by apparently ordering up a hasty edit of the commission’s about-us page.

12/19/2025: SpaceX Exec Tips ‘Real’ High-Speed Cellular Starlink, With 15K More Satellites, PCMag

This story started with my attending a space-telecom conference in D.C. two Mondays ago, then I needed to educate myself much more about SpaceX’s ambitions for direct-to-device broadband from a future generation of Starlink satellites.

12/19/2025: Trump’s Truth Social to Merge With Fusion Startup You’ve Probably Never Heard Of, PCMag

Will the Trump family still be so enthusiastic about TAE Technologies if their backing somehow helps it finally commercialize fusion power generation and in so doing hammers the last nail into the coffin of the coal-fired power plants so beloved by our scientifically-illiterate president? (Answer: That question is probably irrelevant, because coal is already so uncompetitive that this administration’s fossil-fuel fetishists feel compelled to issue orders to keep obsolete coal plants online on a fake “emergency” basis.)

12/19/2025: The Best Wi-Fi Hotspot, Wirecutter

I updated the “What to look forward to” section of this guide–last updated almost a year ago–to note how AT&T has added two newer models to its lineup. One of them looks like an immense improvement over our previous pick from that carrier.

#ATTHotspots #BrendanCarr #cleanPower #D2D #directToDevice #directToCell #FCC #FCCIndependentAgency #FranklinA70 #fusionPower #SpaceX #Starlink #TAE #TMTG #TrumpMediaTechnologyGroup #TruthSocial #WiFiHotspots

Weekly output: FCC independence, Starlink mobile-broadband ambitions, TAE + TMTG, best WiFi hotspots

In addition to wrapping up my holiday shopping far later than I expected, this week saw me mostly finish migrating from Evernote to Obsidian after management at the note-taking app I’ve used since 2010 elected to impose a 92 percent rate increase.

12/18/2025: FCC Scrambles to Edit Website After Chair Refuses to Say Agency Is Independent, PCMag

Here we have yet another case of the 2025 version of FCC chair Brendan Carr taking a position on a tech-policy issue explicitly rejected by an earlier model year of this man. But this time around, the Trump-loyalist chairman made his heel turn even more obvious by apparently ordering up a hasty edit of the commission’s about-us page.

12/19/2025: SpaceX Exec Tips ‘Real’ High-Speed Cellular Starlink, With 15K More Satellites, PCMag

This story started with my attending a space-telecom conference in D.C. two Mondays ago, then I needed to educate myself much more about SpaceX’s ambitions for direct-to-device broadband from a future generation of Starlink satellites.

12/19/2025: Trump’s Truth Social to Merge With Fusion Startup You’ve Probably Never Heard Of, PCMag

Will the Trump family still be so enthusiastic about TAE Technologies if their backing somehow helps it finally commercialize fusion power generation and in so doing hammers the last nail into the coffin of the coal-fired power plants so beloved by our scientifically-illiterate president? (Answer: That question is probably irrelevant, because coal is already so uncompetitive that this administration’s fossil-fuel fetishists feel compelled to issue orders to keep obsolete coal plants online on a fake “emergency” basis.)

12/19/2025: The Best Wi-Fi Hotspot, Wirecutter

I updated the “What to look forward to” section of this guide–last updated almost a year ago–to note how AT&T has added two newer models to its lineup. One of them looks like an immense improvement over our previous pick from that carrier.

#ATTHotspots #BrendanCarr #cleanPower #D2D #directToDevice #directToCell #FCC #FCCIndependentAgency #FranklinA70 #fusionPower #SpaceX #Starlink #TAE #TMTG #TrumpMediaTechnologyGroup #TruthSocial #WiFiHotspots

Weekly output: FCC independence, Starlink mobile-broadband ambitions, TAE + TMTG, best WiFi hotspots

In addition to wrapping up my holiday shopping far later than I expected, this week saw me mostly finish migrating from Evernote to Obsidian after management at the note-taking app I’ve used since 2010 elected to impose a 92 percent rate increase.

12/18/2025: FCC Scrambles to Edit Website After Chair Refuses to Say Agency Is Independent, PCMag

Here we have yet another case of the 2025 version of FCC chair Brendan Carr taking a position on a tech-policy issue explicitly rejected by an earlier model year of this man. But this time around, the Trump-loyalist chairman made his heel turn even more obvious by apparently ordering up a hasty edit of the commission’s about-us page.

12/19/2025: SpaceX Exec Tips ‘Real’ High-Speed Cellular Starlink, With 15K More Satellites, PCMag

This story started with my attending a space-telecom conference in D.C. two Mondays ago, then I needed to educate myself much more about SpaceX’s ambitions for direct-to-device broadband from a future generation of Starlink satellites.

12/19/2025: Trump’s Truth Social to Merge With Fusion Startup You’ve Probably Never Heard Of, PCMag

Will the Trump family still be so enthusiastic about TAE Technologies if their backing somehow helps it finally commercialize fusion power generation and in so doing hammers the last nail into the coffin of the coal-fired power plants so beloved by our scientifically-illiterate president? (Answer: That question is probably irrelevant, because coal is already so uncompetitive that this administration’s fossil-fuel fetishists feel compelled to issue orders to keep obsolete coal plants online on a fake “emergency” basis.)

12/19/2025: The Best Wi-Fi Hotspot, Wirecutter

I updated the “What to look forward to” section of this guide–last updated almost a year ago–to note how AT&T has added two newer models to its lineup. One of them looks like an immense improvement over our previous pick from that carrier.

#ATTHotspots #BrendanCarr #cleanPower #D2D #directToDevice #directToCell #FCC #FCCIndependentAgency #FranklinA70 #fusionPower #SpaceX #Starlink #TAE #TMTG #TrumpMediaTechnologyGroup #TruthSocial #WiFiHotspots

Nuclear just had a record year — 2 667 TWh!

Reactors don’t “age badly” either: most run above 80% capacity for 50+ years.

Growth is led by Asia, home to 56 of 68 new builds in the past decade and 59 of 70 now under construction.

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/record-breaking-year-for-nuclear-electricity-generation

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Nuclear just had a record year — 2 667 TWh!

Reactors don’t “age badly” either: most run above 80% capacity for 50+ years.

Growth is led by Asia, home to 56 of 68 new builds in the past decade and 59 of 70 now under construction.

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/record-breaking-year-for-nuclear-electricity-generation

#NuclearEnergy #CleanPower #ClimateAction