I wonder how they’ll manage to put 25,000 offshore wind turbines in place after seeing the long battle (back to 2001 for the first permit) to get Cape Wind in…
Category: solar power
The stark reality of green tech's solar and wind contribution to world energy
Summed in in one graph that says it all.
Renewable Energy Poses Security Risk, New Paper Warns
London, 2 June: A new paper published today by the Global Warming Policy Foundation warns that intermittent wind and solar energy pose a serious energy security risk and threaten to…
Renewable Energy in Decline
By Steve Goreham Originally published in Communities Digital News. The global energy outlook has changed radically in just six years. President Obama was elected in 2008 by voters who believed…
Do the Math: Solar Panels and Hockey Sticks
Guest essay by Chris Yakymyshyn Vermonter Bill McKibben was recently quoted in Salon Magazine: “The roof of my house is covered in solar panels. When I’m home, I’m a pretty…
Claim: Let's put batteries on wind and solar farms
From Stanford University Stanford scientists calculate the energy required to store wind and solar power on the grid Renewable energy holds the promise of reducing carbon dioxide emissions. But there…
Lomborg: Renewables are stuck, although green hopes keep rising
Guest essay by Bjørn Lomborg Globally, renewables have been *declining* for the last two centuries, and have remained stuck at about 13% for the past 40 years. People expect them…
DOE Green Energy Loans: $11.45 million per job and a rounding error's worth of averted carbon emissions.
Guest Post by David Middleton The cost of each taxpayer-financed green energy job created since 2009: $26.32 billion divided by 2,298 jobs = $11.45 million per job… Green energy jobs…
Solar panels as inexpensive as paint?
This would be nice, except this idea keeps surfacing every couple of years, and I’ve yet to see one actually become viable. – Anthony “Organic photovoltaics can be fabricated over…
An update on my solar power project – results show why I got solar power for my home (hint: climate change is not a reason)
UPDATE: I’ve answered questions from commenters below in the FAQs, and added additional diagrams – Anthony Much to the chagrin of people who are sure I’m evil, in the pocket…
The carbon footprint of alternate energy technology
From Stanford University Stanford scientists calculate the carbon footprint of grid-scale battery technologies Americans take electrical power for granted whenever they flip on a light switch. But the growing use…
Predicting Power Madness at Decadal Scales
In light of the recent announcement by Ofgem chief executive Alistair Buchanan that the chances of avoiding power cuts looks very slim in the UK, Dr. John Brignell, proprietor of…
Life After Energy: What if fossil fuels disappeared tomorrow?
There is an anti-human TV program on the History Channel called Life After People, which portrays the aftermath of the imaginary scenario where all people on Earth suddenly vanished in…
How Green Was My Bankruptcy? U. S. Army Edition.
Guest Post by David Middleton Great News! Siemens will generate an 18% return on a project that will have a negative return on investment (-9%)… All at the taxpayers’ expense!…
NYT, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and David Crane have no clue about how grid tied solar power actually works with the grid
Hurricane Sandy seems to have brought out the latent stupidity in just about everyone in their zeal to get in on the climate alarm resurgence. I laughed out loud when…
A LOL ! press release on renewable energy from wishful thinkers at the University of Delaware
From the University of Delaware a press release that made me laugh out loud when I read it for the sheer disconnect with reality. The bold in first sentence about…
Mind exploding: an all carbon solar cell
From Stanford University , the first carbon sequestration project that makes energy. I wonder, will Al Gore say the electricity produced by a carbon solar cell is “dirty energy”? Somewhere,…
In other news…"Ten Reasons Why Fracking is (not) Doomed"
Guest Post by David Middleton I ran across a really funny story on Real Clear Energy last Friday… Once you get past all of the nonsense about fracking polluting groundwater…
How Green Was My Bankruptcy? “Roadmap for Solar Energy Development on Public Lands” Edition
The agency has already approved 17 large-scale solar energy projects on public lands that are expected to produce nearly 6,000 megawatts of electricity, enough to power about 1.8 million homes.…
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