Households are already £800 worse off a year as a result of Net Zero policies on electricity costs, whether directly via energy bills or indirectly via higher taxes and prices.…
Hinkley Point C UK: France’s EDF Boondoggle Sets a Record
Europe’s biggest nuclear power operator EDF, which manages France’s fleet of 57 reactors, is under pressure to show it can improve on its record of reactor construction. Recent projects have…
Climate Change — Where the Experts Make Fools of Themselves
Yale’s climate “experts” are backed by a $44 billion endowment, plus regular grants from left-wing foundations with aggregate assets a multiple of that. They will not go away any time…
Study: “The strange and persistent psychological distance between us and climate disaster”
Are you or have you ever been affected by a climate disaster?
Sorry, The New Republic, Climate Change Isn’t Causing Somali Migration. Blame Civil Strife and Poverty
here is no evidence that this drought is worse than those that drove historic migration. The cited claim that recent drought in Somalia was made “a hundred times more likely”…
Guardian: Net Zero would be Less Expensive than One Persian Gulf Oil Crisis
Apparently UK Net Zero to 2050 will only cost £100 billion (US $134 billion), or £4 billion / year. But a lot of the money has to be spent upfront.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Defining Moment
We stand at a defining moment for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and for the future of nuclear energy in the U.S. American’s electricity demand is rising sharply due to…
House hearing on bird killing ignores wind
So while I learned a lot about black vultures and double-crested cormorants, I heard nothing about much-needed legislation to protect birds from being slaughtered by wind turbines. That should be…
University of East Anglia: Climate Science is like the Invention of Steam Power, Electricity and Vaccines
But “… The recognition of the value of science for society can no longer be taken for granted …”
California’s Looming Fuel Crisis: Refiners Are Trying to Warn the State
California is steadily dismantling the fuel infrastructure that keeps its economy running. At the same time, demand for that fuel remains enormous. That mismatch is now reaching a point where…
Ursula von der Leyen Calls Abandoning Nuclear Power “A Strategic Mistake” – 15 Years After Supporting the Nuclear Phase-Out
While in 1990 one-third of Europe’s energy came from nuclear, today it’s only close to 15%. This reduction in the share of nuclear was a choice. And in hindsight, it…
U.S. Gas and Renewables Help Buffer Power Consumers From War Costs
The huge growth of U.S. natural gas production and renewable energy together helps insulate consumers from global volatility and price increases today. But it also offers the opportunity through permitting…
New Temperature Study in Reno Finds Strong Urban Heat Island Bias at Official Climate Station
Study finds that the official temperature station at Reno-Tahoe International Airport consistently records warmer temperatures than a nearby properly sited reference station.
Clean Tech’s “Huge Blow”: Catalyst Fund (Gates’s Breakthrough Energy) Terminated
Just another milestone in the retreat and demise of the “energy transition” that many on the free-market side predicted decades ago. [1] Vindication, however, is small consolation for the massive waste and…
Climate Change and CO2 Derangement Syndrome
Skeptics who want to challenge these ideas face a very tough battle.. And being right is not enough. Throwing a bomb, as the DOE, the US Department of Energy, did…
Another £150 Billion For Net Zero–OBR
These costs are only the tip of the iceberg, as far as Net Zero is concerned. They are only the items that appear on the government’s balance sheet.
DOE green lights project for Puerto Rico’s electric grid
The effort to bring Puerto Rico’s grid into the 21st century has a long way to go, but a federal approach that focuses on reliable, rather than intermittent, energy has a…