That’s the subject of a presentation I’ll be giving in Calgary, Alberta, on November 16, 2026, hosted by the Friends of Science Society.
Possible UK Energy Storage Systems
Lets see though how these machines stack up for grid level storage. What does it take to store a week’s worth of UK Energy Demand of 27 TW Hrs
On El Hierro Island, At Least They Kept The Diesel Backup
You can buy more and more of these things, but they just produce more and more electricity that you don’t need (and must discard) on a breezy summer day, and…
Two Movies, One Ballot. Same Early-Vote Numbers, Opposite Elections, Seven Days Out
Everybody is looking at the same spreadsheets. Two completely different elections are being watched.
Marine fuels – the bill hiding in your next pair of shoes
Have you ever considered that your next pair of shoes may come with a climate policy surcharge? A charge which you will not find itemized on the receipt but rather…
Wind Turbines vs Nature: How Reckless Renewables Are Destroying the Environment
In August 2025, Steven Nowakowski took my husband, Bruce, and me on an incursion into a wind turbine installation on a ridge in Australia’s wild far north, to show us…
Britain’s North Sea Gas Field Approval Marks Another Win for the Iron Law of Electricity
Jackdaw today with Rosebank approval looming in the future as Britain Takes an important step away from Net Zero insanity.
Much of the AI-will-kill-us-all scare is driven by a charity movement gone crazy
Funding a push for global governance of AI development is not altruism; it is crazy.
Proposed natural gas pipeline expansion forecast to lower energy bills in Massachusetts
Embracing Project Beacon would also mean making a clean break with anti-energy policies that have held sway in Massachusetts up until now.
Storm Boelo
This is what happens when you give storms silly names; it was precisely why the Met Office started it in 2015.
The new Alaska gold rush
UKMP is a potential new U.S. source of copper, zinc, and other metals vital to domestic supply chains. Trilogy’s Arctic project was added earlier this year to the FAST-41 program…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #712
“Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.”—…
Sudden Stratospheric Warming, Powerful El Niño Combination May Lead To Extreme Europe Cold, Energy Crisis!
Extreme cold threatens Europe, energy crisis… When two of the planet’s most powerful climate phenomena align in an unprecedented surge, atmospheric scientists pay close attention.
No, New York Times, California’s Climate Has Always Been a Land of Flood, Drought, and Fire
The lesson of California history is not that nature was once benign and humans somehow broke it. The lesson is that California has never been climatically benign.
MISO Obliterates Solar, Storage, and Wind Capacity Values
For years, utility companies have pursued a reckless strategy of prematurely retiring their reliable, affordable coal plants while pretending that a combination of wind, solar, and storage could replace their…
Two New Studies Find Thwaites Glacier Melt Cannot Be Driven By Human Activity Or A Warming Ocean
These authors do not suggest humans are warming the deepwater around Antarctica by enhancing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, but that warming (and cooling) have been ~100% “driven by…
The AI Boom Needs Superconducting Wire, Not Another Record
The next superconductor breakthrough will not be a number in a table. It will be a length of tape that holds its current after a thousand bends and a decade…