The PowerHouse School Concept

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In my last post, “Expensive Energy Kills Poor People” , I spoke of the women of Lesotho. In the comments someone asked what I would…

“I Am Going To Lecture You On Climate Change:” BBC Reporter Gets Schooled for Hypocrisy

Let the BBC’s reporters peddle their luxury beliefs to those who think they can afford them.

“The Price Anderson Suicide Pact” (Devanny on nuclear power insurance reform)

The notorious Price-Anderson Act, enacted in 1957 as part of a federal effort to get peaceful atoms into commercial use, has been extended seven times and is set to expire…

Texas Schools Pull $8.5 Billion From BlackRock Over ESG

“Under Larry Fink’s leadership, BlackRock has been misusing client funds to push a political agenda for years. Nowhere was that more egregious than in Texas, where BlackRock was simultaneously trying…

Britain’s Net Zero Disaster and the Wind Power Scam

… foundations of sand – naïve optimism reinforced by enthusiastic lobbying divorced from engineering reality.

Climate Change Weekly #484: Climate Change and Texas’ Electric Power Problems

From Heartland Daily News H. Sterling Burnett YOU SHOULD SUBSCRIBE TO CLIMATE CHANGE WEEKLY. IN THIS ISSUE: Miss Anything at Heartland’s Climate Conference? No Problem. Climate Change and Texas’ Electric Power…

Corruption Of Science By Money And Power

One might ask if the Rockefeller Foundation, once a friend of science, society and industry, is now a powerful enemy.

Aussie Academics: Scaring School Children Improves their Climate Behaviour

Apparently its OK to step up climate education, because the kids are scared anyway, and scaring them more “engages them with positive actions”.

Finally, A Solution to The Problem of Intermittent Power Generation — The “Virtual Power Plant”

It’s one more front in the all-out war against your well-being now being waged by our government.

A New Board Game to Induce Climate Guilt in School Children

Just what we need, right? A board game designed to make kids feel even more miserable and guilty about climate change.

“Dream Big and Dare to Fail” Is Great High School Valedictory Advice but Terrible Energy Policy

…throwing out the furnace just before winter starts is not part of the solution.

The Power of the Li’l Green Group in PBS Frontline’s “The Power of Big Oil”

Frontline apparently accepts, without any question whatsoever, every bit of Al Gore et al.’s guilt-by-association accusation from the core people who promulgate it. They inadvertently reinforce how global warming is not actually…

John Kerry Old School Playground Bully on Climate

The real shame is that it is an agenda-driven phony climate war. There is no need for this, especially in light of the real problems we face today.

Pennsylvania Power Plant Closures Would Cause Real Harm for Illusory Environmental Gains

From the CO2 Coalition By Gordon Tomb – February 8, 2022 Visible from Western Pennsylvania’s Allegheny Mountain ridges are coal-fired power plants—and their plumes of water vapor—that have been integral…

Wind Power Health Effects (latest from Scientific Reports)

In view of the adverse health impacts of exposure to turbine-generated LFN, it is recommended that the government set regulations on the requisite distances of wind turbines from residences, for…

China is Constructing an Experimental Orbital Solar Power Satellite

China has announced an energy roadmap which includes plans to build a megawatt solar power satellite by 2030, and a gigawatt scale space based solar power satellite by 2050. If…

A Little Arithmetic: The Costs Of A Solar-Powered Grid Without Fossil Fuel Back-up

At current prices of around $200/KWH the 560 GWH of storage will run around $112 billion, or around half of the annual budget of the state government of California.

A Tale of Two States: A Warning About Joe Biden’s Power Plan

If the U.S. adopts the California/Biden plan, there is no backup state for us to import our power. There’s just high prices, rolling blackouts and empty promises. Those are the…

Energy unleashed by submarine volcanoes could power a continent

The research shows that submarine eruptions cause megaplumes to form but the release of energy is so rapid that it cannot be supplied from the erupted molten lava alone. Instead,…

Potentially powerful pipeline precedents

Fracking (horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing) has unleashed bounties of US oil and natural gas, dramatically reduced energy prices from their historic 2008 peak, saved families and industries billions of…

NASA is Funding a Search for Alien Civilisations Powered by Solar Cells

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Maybe someone out there has solved the problem of renewable energy intermittency. With intelligent life in scant supply on Earth, boffins search for technosignatures of…

Energy giants want to thwart reforms that would help renewables and lower power bills

Daniel J Cass, University of Sydney Australia’s energy market is outdated. It doesn’t encourage competition and that’s holding back the transition to renewable energy. Important reforms to modernise the market…

From Peanuts to Power: The Jimmy Carter Solar Farm

Guest “anatomy of green propaganda” by David Middleton An old high school friend of mine posted this article on his Facebook page over the weekend: Former U.S President Jimmy Carter…

Climate Journalist Accidentally Makes the Case for Fossil Fuel Powered Industrialization

Guest essay by Eric Worrall A climate concerned journalist has accidentally hi-lighted the common factor uniting poor people suffering horrendously from a succession of severe weather disasters; lack of resources.…