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why aren't all 4 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't; assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card: ▮▮▮▮▮ certainty · ▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable

Assertion Supported
Roberts: Pakistan recently imported solar capacity equivalent to 40% of total load
“Pakistan went, like, I think it was like two years or three years, 40% of its total load now was It has imported solar panels equivalent to 40% of its total load.”
David Roberts Feb 25, 2026 ▶ 1:03:19 Volts crossover: Six big energy questions
Assertion Supported
Roberts: Power-to-heat thermal storage reaches 95% efficiency
“Which gets you way higher efficiency. Like you can get 95% of your heat back out.”
David Roberts Nov 3, 2023 ▶ 19:11 The Volts crossover episode
Assertion Supported
Roberts: DOE prioritizes standardized nuclear construction practices over modular hardware
“If you talk to the people at the DOE, the loans office, they'll tell you what needs to be replicated and done the same way over and over again is not necessarily the hardware, the chunks of hardware, it's construction practices. It's the construction sub parts…”
David Roberts Nov 3, 2023 ▶ 32:39 The Volts crossover episode
Assertion Supported
Roberts: 25 US states have proposed balcony solar legislation
“25 states had laws either Proposed or announced to be proposed to legalize balcony solar.”
David Roberts Feb 25, 2026 ▶ 1:01:05 Volts crossover: Six big energy questions
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