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…
Category: Intermittent Wind and Solar
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.
Meteorologist Dr. Ryan Maue Warns “Germany Won’t Make It” If Winter Turns Severe
Meteorologist Dr. Ryan Maue warns at X that if the winter of 1962-1963 happened again with today’s Europeean energy system, then “Germany won’t make it”. The country has “exceptional energy shortfalls.”
Destroying countrysides to save Earth from a climate non-crisis
Climate-obsessed national governments often act to control local voices and choices in pursuit of “decarbonization” even without being bound by international treaties. However, nations frequently trample on both state and…
Breaking: The Trump Administration Protects U.S. National Security by Pausing Offshore Wind Leases
The Department of Energy in a 2024 report stated that a radar’s threshold for false alarm detection can be increased to reduce some clutter, but an increased detection threshold could…
Wind turbine eagle-kill secrecy may soon end
A new lawsuit could finally end the secrecy surrounding wind turbines killing eagles. Wyoming’s Albany County Conservancy (ACC) is suing the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) for failing to…
Green California to Keep Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant Open 5 More Years
Some Californians question why they need a nuclear plant, given all their renewable and battery investments.
Aussie Solar Farm Fire Briefly Interrupts Output
“This is the thing that happens with renewable energy” – Dubbo Deputy Mayor Philip Toynton.