Now, private citizens and public officials are pumping the brakes, trying to slow a movement in which momentum exceeded readiness, politics outweighed planning, and taxpayers were left holding the bag…
Category: Energy
The Electricity Myth: Data Centers Aren’t the Villain
Every major emerging technology has required more energy and infrastructure. Everything digital runs through data centers, making them foundational, not optional. Questions should center on their undertaking rather than their…
New York Following Cuba’s Strategy For Powering The Electrical Grid
If we keep up our current energy policies for long enough, we can also get to the point where our thermal (fossil fuel) power plants are too old to be…
Germany’s Nuclear Confession Is a Crack in Net Zero Pretense
Merz’s nuclear confession suggests that the political class cannot keep dodging reality forever.
Troubles at NuScale Power, Fermi America
Energy hyperbole and the madness of crowds are evident with both NuScale Power and Fermi America. Bubbles burst.
Trump Administration Gets Strategic With Offshore Wind
…if these deals are structured as settlements of claims, they are likely to be much more insulated from judicial interference than mere administrative orders…
90% Subsidized… Bielefeld Germany’s €7 Million Hydrogen Garbage Truck Fleet Sits Idle
The case of Bielefeld’s idle garbage truck fleet is an example of bureaucracy’s rank inability to operate a society, serving as a reminder that “green” technology is a costly folly.
RGGI Status Update
…it is past time for the states to ask whether this experiment is worth the cost. If politicians really want to lower electricity costs, the easiest step is to drop…
The Case Against Industrial-Scale Solar in the UK
Britain needs an honest national conversation about what its energy future actually requires — one grounded not in what is fashionable or financially convenient, but in the austere realities of…
Zap Energy: The first fission-fusion company
Responding to the ETH Zurich study, Johal says she hopes all the fusion designs become commercially successful – but believes that Zap’s design will produce economies of scale thanks to…
Two Bets On The Future Of Wind Energy: Who Is Right?
My bet is that within about a decade, China will be taking multi hundreds of billions of dollars, if not trillions of dollars, of write-offs on its wind energy investments.
Why electricity costs more than we think…and why, in Germany, solar is about 10x more expensive than coal
What does it actually cost to keep the lights on, reliably, 24/7/365 year after year?
Positive national energy momentum at risk of being swamped by…everything else
Even Ontario’s premier Doug Ford has chastised the federal government to show some respect to Alberta and Saskatchewan, singling them out, an act that has happened exactly never times before.
California’s Climate Overreach
“The Affordable Insurance and Recovery Act (SB 982) would impose liability on fossil fuel companies for ‘climate-attributable damages,’ expected to be assessed in billions of dollars. It would empower California’s attorney…
Save Long Beach Island (LBI) Sues NOAA for Failure to Protect the Migration Corridor of the Critically Endangered North Atlantic Right Whale
Lawsuit seeks to compel NOAA to act on a year-old petition to designate the whale’s migration path a “critical habitat” to ensure its survival.
UAE’s OPEC Exit: Pragmatic Oil Policy, Not ‘Stranded Assets’ Panic
The UAE’s departure, the largest and most consequential since the cartel’s founding, weakens OPEC+ materially and reputationally, but it does so because of internal rifts, US supply abundance and regional…
MIT scientists say fusion overcoming energy challenges
Once fusion energy achieves commercial success, Mumgaard envisions a high demand, especially in countries like Japan, South Korea, and Singapore that are attracted to an energy source that uses so…
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…
Democrats Make It Clear That If They Retake Power, U.S. Energy Security Will Once Again Be at Risk
comments from leading Democrats make clear just how quickly the work to protect cost-effective energy can be undone by a simple change of congressional leadership or presidential administrations.
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