So why make such a drama about the safety of nuclear power merely because you can spin your imagination into a fanciful, disastrous outcome? The real evidence to date has…
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Low Cost Chinese Coal Power is Driving a Decisive Advantage Over US AI Businesses
As nations increasingly embrace the 97% cost advantage of Chinese AI, the USA has this brief opportunity to seize back the initiative.
The Times May Be A-Changin’
The natives are increasingly restless, un-subservient, outraged at their ruling classes, and ready to replace the current authoritarian system. The status quo cannot go on forever.
The Democrats’ Green Delusion: Using the Iran War to Double Down on Renewables
The broader lesson of the Hormuz crisis — a lesson almost perfectly inverted by the American Prospect — is that energy security cannot be reduced to a story about the electricity grid.
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.…
Miliband Forces Wind Firms to Back Unions or Lose Subsidies
Miliband has stripped offshore wind companies of their right to apply for the clean energy bonus – a green subsidy scheme – unless they sign up to his Fair Work…
Britain: Time To Go Back to Coal
In other words, the only effect of the wind/solar generation obsession has been to drive up the cost of electricity to consumers and businesses to ridiculous levels. And, next time…
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.
Data Centers Start to Drive Residential Electricity Bills Down
..when the proceeds of major new customers are put towards new capacity, that is, more plants and improved transmission, everyone wins, especially consumers.
Energy Realism: The Foundation and Future of Human Progress
Energy realism is not about choosing one energy source over another. It is about choosing progress over polarization, facts over slogans, and practical solutions over wishful thinking.
Department of Energy Celebrates Second Advanced Reactor Achieving Criticality
“Today marks another historic moment for America’s nuclear renaissance,” said U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright. “From the first-ever airlift of a small reactor aboard a U.S. military C-17 to successful zero-power…
War in Iran and Hot Air at Home
Modern civilization needs ever greater quantities of affordable and reliable electricity, delivered in as environmentally benign way as possible. Wind power offers none of those things. Subsidies will never change…
America Needs a More Thoughtful Energy Conversation
What we need is a clear strategy for meeting rising energy demand while staying competitive in industries that will shape the future economy. That not only requires serious policy discussions…
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.
Green Energy Groups Sue to End Pentagon’s ‘de facto moratorium’ on Wind Power
For years, green energy developers steamrolled fishing communities and coastal residents, treating the approval pipeline as a rubber stamp. The Pentagon’s pause is simply the first time a federal institution…
Fueling the Coming Nuclear Renaissance
If all goes well, LIS will have fuel ready by the time new reactors are cleared to operate.
The Real Competition Behind the U.S Coal Revival
The question is not whether coal remains part of the energy system. It is how the U.S. builds the reliable, affordable and secure energy system needed to support AI, strengthen…
Too Much Wind and Too Much Sun
We are taking unprecedented risks with our electricity system, because those in charge of energy policy have no conception of how it works.
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