Claims that South Fork Wind is a reliable source of electricity are based on fact but the information is used out of context to manipulate readers into believing that offshore…
Category: Intermittent Wind and Solar
Renewables Catastrophically Expensive
Which is why no company using lots of power, certainly not any of Elon’s, actually tries to do it.
Claim: AI and Air Conditioning are Threatening Renewable Energy Dominance
“… Achieving a genuine and sustained global-scale energy transition … requires greater emphasis on reducing energy demand …”
Wyoming Moves to Pull the Plug on Costly Pronghorn and Sidewinder Wind Projects
… by moving to pause the Pronghorn H2 and Sidewinder leases after emotional local testimony, a damning court ruling, and a last‑minute downsizing sales pitch, they began the process of…
New York Times Gives Wind Turbines a Free Pass to Slaughter Birds
True stewardship means looking at the data without ideological blinders. It means acknowledging that wind turbines are apex predators of the sky. It means admitting that the push for “Net…
Macron says Spain’s mega-blackout was due to the country’s reliance on renewable energy
He said: ‘The debate about Spain is a false one. Its problem is that it has a 100 per cent renewable energy model that its own domestic grid cannot support’
Bald Eagle’s Grizzly Death at Obama‑Funded Wind Project Site Triggers Federal Fine
Until regulators and policymakers confront the reality that these projects are wiping out key predators in the natural food chain, it is dishonest to market this form of power as…
Claim: China Should Learn from California’s Clean Energy Example
“… With the right policy, coal is not essential to ensuring a reliable electricity supply… “
Do Renewables Make for Cheaper Electricity?
Do they or don’t they? It’s the perennial argument, and I claim that it shouldn’t be difficult to show that they do not. However, I have to admit that there…
Are Green Energy Subsidies Driving California’s Plan to Expropriate the Wealthy?
Soaring energy bills, a political crisis, and an insane plan to expropriate wealth creators who drive the Californian Economy.
Australians to Receive Free Midday Grid Solar Power – But Don’t Charge your EV
Happy exploding transformer day: “… very high levels of consumption during the free-power period … may lead to increases in network costs. …”
Constraint Payments Soar to New Record
As the Telegraph states, this is essentially a Scottish problem, as there is not enough transmission capacity to carry all the wind power south when it is windy. But naively,…
Honeywell CEO Vimal Kapur: Powering Data Centers with Renewables is “Against Physics”
“Even after 3 or 5 years more innovation?” “It’s against physics”.
Plans for huge wind farm paused over ‘unfair’ grid charges
Why should anybody else pay for all of this work, other than the wind farm itself?
“What is the … Plan for Gas?”: Even the Guardian has Slammed Mad Miliband’s Latest Green Energy Brainstorm
“… the scariest report out of the energy department … an “emerging risk” of running out of gas supplies by 2030 …”
£2.7 Billion Bill for Floating Wind
I can think of no other branch of government that could, or ever has, signed away £38 billion of taxpayers’ money on a white elephant that has zero value at…
Scotland’s Biggest Offshore Wind Farm Wasting Three Quarters of Energy
Scotland’s biggest offshore wind farm wasted three quarters of the energy it produced last year after being paid hundreds of millions of pounds to switch off its turbines. The Telegraph…
Save LBI Says Offshore Wind Projects Grossly Underestimate Harm to Marine Mammals, Challenges NOAA to “Prove Us Wrong” with a Focused Monitoring Program
Save Long Beach Island, Inc. (Save LBI), a grassroots organization dedicated to sound energy policies and preserving our shore and ocean environment, has long contended that the high levels of…
Offshore wind turbines steal each other’s wind: yields greatly overestimated
Such overestimation not only hides true energy costs but also underestimates power variability, integration, and curtailment risks, and it distorts policy pathways
Aussie Greens Demand Wind Farm Cancellation to Protect Endangered Birds
The Green on Green civil war is heating up in Australia.