The lesson is the same for data centers and households: Prosperity requires electricity that is available when needed. Dependable systems of conventional energy sources will continue to power the tech…
Category: Energy
Energy Crisis: Germany Enters Heating Season with Historically Low Gas Reserve Fill Levels
Experts are warning that Germany is heading into the heating season with dangerously low natural gas reserve fill levels. Currently, Germany’s gas reserve fill level stands at only 55%!
Norway Rejects Climate Orthodoxy’s False Choice, Builds Wealth
Energy abundance and human flourishing track together in every dataset anyone has assembled. Norway understands this and acts on it. Poor nations understand it too. What they lack is not evidence but…
U.S. Nuclear Waste: History of a Failed Endeavor
The Trump Administration’s reform of energy policy has recently reached nuclear waste. A leaked White House document, reported Politico, prioritized the idea of greater state participation for localized, decentralized storage. One federal…
Wrong, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Nuclear Power Isn’t the Reliability Problem
Readers deserve a balanced comparison of all generating technologies, not another attempt to redefine one of the world’s most reliable energy sources as unreliable simply because it, like every other…
The Progress(ives) War on Reliable and Affordable Electricity
Progress and Progress(ive)…. two words with somewhat similar spelling but with entirely different meanings. I asked Grok to help identify the distinctions. Progress… a forward movement, advancement, or improvement over…
Claim: Solar saved the day when Heatwaves Forced Shutdowns of European Nuclear Plants
Blaming government infrastructure failures on nuclear energy.
Energy future: Made in China by coal
…in China, 55% of power is produced by coal and the cost of household electricity is 8 cents per kWh. In the UK, coal’s percentage of electricity was 30% in…
Green Movement’s Selective Outrage Over ESA Reforms
Wildlife deaths caused by hydrocarbons were a moral travesty. Identical deaths caused by subsidized wind and solar became an acceptable trade, a transition cost, a footnote to “saving the world.”…
Aussie Activists Moaning about Massive New “Climate Bomb” Gas Field in the Northern Territory
“… No amount of jobs or money can compensate for this devastating future. …”
Nuclear waste storage ….. no big deal
Nuclear power will be the future. There is no doubt about it. Nuclear is the cleanest, greenest, cheapest, safest, energy source ever. There is no doubt about that, no matter…
Carney’s Dagger: How Ottawa’s Trade Brinkmanship Threatens US National Security Strategy
If cooler heads do not prevail, Carney’s dagger threatens not only the oldest and most intimate trading relationship in North America but also the energy security interests of the entire…
New York’s New Solar Religion Is Absolutely Devastating To Wildlife, Farmland
A government convinced it can control the climate by conquering the countryside is not practicing science. It is imposing an ideology on a citizenry that pays the tribute in property…
America Doesn’t Have an AI Problem. It Has a Competitiveness Problem.
AI is no longer just a technology issue. It is an energy issue. It is a permitting issue. It is a transmission issue. It is a manufacturing issue. Increasingly, it…
Protecting Rate Payers or Throwing Them to the Wind?
Hopefully this analysis has revealed some of the reasons for rising utility rates when incorporating renewables into the electrical grid despite the renewables having no fuel costs. It also shows…
British Gas Boss Warns UK Faces Winter Fuel Shortage Due to Reliance on Imports
The boss of British Gas’s owner has warned the UK faces fuel shortages this winter as stockpiles fall to just 30% owing to an over-reliance on imports. The Telegraph has more.
Congressional Races Will Impact Energy Affordability and Reliability
Pro-energy policies make the U.S. the world’s largest producer of oil and natural gas, help facilitate a revival of our environmentally friendly nuclear energy industry, and recognize the importance of…
Backlash Against AI Data Centers Is Real, Organic, Widespread
All the money in the world from Big Tech and their allies in Washington, D.C., won’t make a difference. Only a real and sustained demonstration that we are on the right…
Wyoming needs eagle death numbers before it approves more wind projects
Wyoming needs to decide how many eagles it is willing to kill.
AI: Peak Demand and Peak Supply Postponed (fossil future)
Age-old fears of declining fossil fuel supply and falling demand have, once again, been upended by the engines of progress. The anti-CO2 crusade, futile and wasteful, has been set back…