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Category: Energy
Green Empire Strikes Back
We know the energy Jedi are winning the argument when the green empire has to resort to emotive pictures and mendacious invective to make their point. None of Tim Stanley’s…
India To Climate Cartel: Count Us Out
A country that the entire architecture of climate financing is supposedly built to help just declined to host the party. If climate summits worked as advertised, that would be unthinkable.…
Utopian Dreams of Net-Zero
Whether one believes in the CO2 hypothesis or not, more fossils are existential. Both to ensure progress and growth, and to cope with climate change, manmade or not.
Mining the oceans for fresh water – and Uranium
Traditional desalination has involved reverse osmosis, in which salty water is pressed against a membrane hard enough that freshwater squeezes through and the salt stays behind. On land, this requires…
Germany’s Industrial Suicide… Grid Agency Prepares Secret Power Rationing Plans Amid Electric Power Bottlenecks
The threat of sudden, uncompensated power shutdowns creates immense operational uncertainty. This environment deters foreign investors and pressures domestic industrial companies to shift investment and production abroad. Forced curtailments would…
Free-Market Electricity Reform Advancing (Advocates for Consumer Regulated Electricity)
The central message is simple: large new electric loads should be allowed to bring private power online without shifting costs or reliability risks onto existing ratepayers.
Anatomy of a State Blunder: Quebec’s “Green” Gas Fiasco
…the true lesson of this fiasco is political and democratic. It underscores the urgent need to break the lock on public debate. When a society converts environmental objectives into unassailable…
EU’s Pretense of ‘Transition’ Leadership Is an Economic Loser
The great majority of mankind aspires to more prosperity, which requires abundant and cheap energy – what the EU employed before adopting ecological dogma. The clash between climate ambitions and…
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.…
Hydrogen plane pioneer seeks lifeline funding
If it was at all feasible, aircraft manufacturers and the likes of Rolls Royce would be gobbling up the technology.
Comments on golden eagle errors in Wyoming’s wildlife action plan
Wyoming must act to protect the golden eagles.
AI won’t run on talking points
AI won’t run on talking points. It will run on affordable, abundant electricity. The market is already pointing us toward the fastest, most affordable path to more power. Let’s take…
America Is Leaving a Global Coal Opportunity on the Table
Modern export infrastructure, faster permitting, competitive tax and fee policies, and trade agreements that reflect the enormous opportunity before us could move the U.S. from an underperforming supplier to a…
Renewables ‘Can’t Keep Up’ With Data Center Pace. As Usual, the Left Wants Government to Step In.
The political left is worried that the rapid expansion of data centers across the U.S. – a controversial but necessary development considering our competition with China – is increasingly accompanied…
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…
Global LNG vs the European Union
“,,, relying on discretionary non-enforcement across all 27 EU Member States fails to address the financial and legal risks associated with [LNG] contracts that often span multiple years and that…
Solar for the soul or for the senses
I am all in favor of using solar, but don’t force it to perform functions for which it is clearly not suited. At the end of the day, excuse the…
Energy Security and Climate Realism Usher in Coal’s Rise
Stop pretending that every rise in renewables implies a fall in coal. Stop using extreme scenarios to frighten the public into accepting policy mandates that do not fit the needs…
Power Operators Must Plan Now for Four Quantum Attacks
Make post-quantum readiness a procurement requirement now. Gear bought this cycle will still be running past Q-Day, so its cryptographic future is set at the purchase order. Contracts should require…