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Category: Intermittent Wind and Solar
Wind Energy Churns up Grassroots blowback in Eastern Oklahoma
In Episode 22 of @cfact‘s Conservation Country video series, host @GabriellaHoffman travels to Eastern Oklahoma to learn about the region’s fight against wind industrialization. Tune in to learn more!
Another PTC/ITC Extension for Wind/Solar? Just Say NO
“The continued reliance on ‘clean’ energy tax credits is a political crutch…. Those who have introduced this legislation … should be working to phase out these subsidies more quickly, not…
Grid Balancing Costs Set to Rise To £8 Billion By 2030
Nobody in their right mind would have designed such a system. Unfortunately by the time of the next election, most of the damage will be irreversible.
Claim: Japan’s Coal and Nuclear Push Risks Displacing Renewable Energy
“… As coal and nuclear generation expand … they may displace domestic renewable energy …”
Oversupply Of Volatile Solar Energy Leads To Record NEGATIVE Prices!
“The record negative prices are the market’s loudest warning signal that we have an oversupply of unstable generation, but a dramatic lack of flexibility and storage capacity,” Klimanachrichten summarizes.
Why the UK and EU Keep Doubling Down on Net Zero Dogma in the Face of Spiralling Economic Dysfunction
Freely chosen economic illiteracy, like other ideological afflictions, appears immune to correction by experience. The hangman’s noose may concentrate some minds, but in Westminster and Brussels, the noose is worn…
Electrify Everything Policies in the Aussie State of Victoria are Breaking the Grid
Someone forgot to build the grid capacity to support the gas replacement policy.
Monbiot: Green Energy Advocates are Now Pragmatic Patriots Because of Iran and Trump
“Who’d have thought a fossil-fuel shill like Trump would be the one to spark a green revolution?”
Cracks Appear in Climate Consensus as Germany’s Energy Minister Admits Renewable Energy is Ruining the Country
Fifteen years after Merkel’s nuclear panic and decades after the Greens first infiltrated the corridors of power, reality is reasserting itself with the cold logic of physics and markets. The…
Wyoming wind farms are ecological death traps for eagles
Wind power does more than kill the eagles that happen by; it repeatedly draws them in then kills them.
$2 Trillion Later, The Green Revolution Collapsed: How Chasing Weather Power Bankrupted the Grid and Cost the World $40 Trillion in Growth
If that same capital had been spent on modern nuclear or advanced natural‑gas infrastructure, the outcome would have been transformative.
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…
The Iran War Reveals Who Is Living In A Fantasy World
Whether you like it or hate it, the war in Iran has definitely had the effect of exposing some of the ridiculous fantasies in the world to a serious dose…