If that same capital had been spent on modern nuclear or advanced natural‑gas infrastructure, the outcome would have been transformative.
Category: Intermittent Wind and Solar
The Biased Oxford University Report That Claims Renewables Are Cheaper Than Gas
Until green ideology is exorcised from the Westminster bubble and woke universities, the climate idiocracy will continue to shape policy — and ordinary British families will continue to pay the…
Renewables Are Cheap Myth
I have long been meaning to address the myth that renewables provide the cheapest electricity. This myth has achieved “everybody knows that” status which means that a rebuttal must have…
Alberta Joins Solar/Wind Bust (uneconomic energy hits political risk)
“Why not state your real concern in plain English. ‘The profitability of my company and others in the renewable energy business is being negatively impacted by the refusal of the…
Yet Another Reason Why Wind And Solar Electricity Generation Will Never Work To Run An Economy
Our power grids are built around alternating current, that is current that varies in a regular sine wave pattern over time . . . . Voltage also varies in the…
The severe socio-economic costs of solar and wind
A heightened crescendo of voices reverberating across the world, to aggressively promote renewable energy, will continue to miss the point about the need to have a sustainable energy mix. Such…
Animals’ knowledgeable inherited behavior
The trick to seeing knowledgeable behavior is to stop and think. What would the critter have to know, perceive, decide, and do in order to perform this action? Over the…
Inconvenient wind turbine facts
Wind turbines are intermittent, inefficient, labor-and resource-intensive, and require a tremendous footprint on land or water. These massive turbines extract a heavy toll on eagles, hawks, birds, bats, and marine…
South Fork Wind Malinformation
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…
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,…
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