So much for the lies about clean, renewable, sustainable energy. Where will all the trash go?
Category: Intermittent Wind and Solar
Ellenbogen’s (New York) Data from the July 2026 Heat Wave
Ellenbogen connected the voltage collapse to a growing reliance on inverter-based resources — solar and batteries — that disconnect from the grid when voltage or frequency moves outside their operating…
Synergy of Wind & Solar Generators in Australia’s NEM
The de-industrialisation of the Australian economy continues per Image 2 with quarterly volume down 0.5% year-on-year as rooftops exceed any growth.
Cheap Renewables? Reuters Recycles the Myth
“Wind and solar developers naturally want the public to equate nameplate megawatts with reliable supply, subsidized bids with total costs, and rapid deployment with technical necessity. They are selling projects.…
New York’s Wind Permitting Scandal
… the lack of a comprehensive cumulative environmental impact assessment prevents us from knowing the full impacts of the projected build‑out of wind and solar projects necessary to meet Climate…
Queensland Defies Aussie Data Center Green Energy Mandate
“… Failing to win the support of Queensland could be a deal breaker, according to the Climate Council …”
Aussie Renewable Energy Retailer Collapse Blamed on President Trump
I doubt President Trump even heard of this company but his magic apparently somehow caused its collapse.
New York State Bans New Data Centers to Rescue their Underpowered Green Energy Grid
Hochul: “… They drive up costs for local ratepayers, and I refuse to let those costs get passed down to New Yorkers …”
Aussie PM Announces Plan to Force US AI Companies to Pay for Australia’s Net Zero Transition
What could possibly go wrong with this plan?
China Wind & Solar: Output Lags Capacity
China, already losing money on its wind and solar buildout, evidently has a tiger by the tail with transmission capacity to get solar and wind from nowhere to somewhere.
Miliband Overrules His Inspectors to Approve Britain’s Second-Largest Solar Farm
Ed Miliband has approved Britain’s second-largest solar farm on 4,000 acres of prime farmland after overruling opposition from his own inspectors. The Telegraph has the story.
Doing The Opposite: Studies Show Gigantic Wind Farms Significantly Warm The Night
Proponents of the energy transition often ignore or conceal the negative local climate impacts of wind turbines. Report24 references a 2012 study published in Nature Climate Change by Liming Zhou…
Renewable Energy Will Impoverish Humanity
A wholly or predominantly wind and solar fuelled economy will not be able to sustain those corrective technologies and at the same time provide a generous margin for other uses.…
Solar and Wind + Batteries?
The ultimate question is whether they can provide the level of reliability modern societies require without creating escalating economic, environmental and system costs… they clearly cannot!
London Heat Adaption Event Cancelled by a Heatwave
Apparently the adaption event venue needed more adaption.
19% of Low Income Australians are Eating from Trash Cans – the True Cost of Net Zero
According to the Salvation Army, just under one in five Australians who sought emergency relief admitted to scavenging discarded food from trash cans.
New Study: Solar Photovoltaic, Wind Power Fail To Meet Annual Energy Demands 62% Of The Time
“Unlike dispatchable fossil-fuel or nuclear generation, solar and wind power output varies unpredictably with weather conditions, leading to mismatches between supply and demand.” — Sargentis et al., 2026
Germany’s Die Welt: “Too Much Is Too Much” … Green Energies Are Cannabalizing Each Other!
Daniel Wetzel in Die Welt (paid article) on a phenomenon: more and more plants are being put into operation, but the yield does not increase to the same extent.
New York State Renewable Permitting Scandal
I hope that the power of social media exemplified by Alexandra Fasulo can bring this to the attention of enough New Yorkers that the policies can be changed to protect…