Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Dr. Willie Soon; According to North Michigan Assistant Professor Professor Ryan Stock, despite having a “gender positive” female empowerment programme, Gujarat Solar Park is…
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Solar panels generate mountains of waste
Solar panels generate mountains of waste They also heat the planet, blanket wildlife habitats and cause other ecological damage
Forbes: “Blackouts Expose Perils And Costs Of California’s ‘Electrify Everything’ Push”
Even Forbes, whose deep green editors recently censored Michael Shellenberger for criticising the climate movement, has sharply criticised California’s headlong rush into a new dark age of unreliable electricity.
Rolling Blackouts in California? Who could have guessed?
The blistering heat wave is expected to tax the state’s power grid. A Flex Alert has been issued for Friday that asks Californians to reduce power usage from 3 to…
NASA is Funding a Search for Alien Civilisations Powered by Solar Cells
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Maybe someone out there has solved the problem of renewable energy intermittency. With intelligent life in scant supply on Earth, boffins search for technosignatures of…
How efficient are solar power storage systems?
‘Testbench’ project improves quality of measurement results and facilitates comparison Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) More and more photovoltaic systems are equipped with batteries that store power produced during sunshine…
Aussie MSM: Heavy Industry Not Seeing the Advantages of Low Cost Renewable Energy Opportunities
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to the Sydney Morning Herald, one of Australia’s leading newspapers, aluminium smelters and other heavy industry is just not seeing what their role could…
BBC Climate change: Green energy plant threat to wilderness areas
Guest essay by Eric Worrall “If we let these developments go ahead, the biodiversity will be gone long before climate change starts affecting it” Climate change: Green energy plant threat…
How much electricity may produce a $1 Billion Solar Plant backed by the Obama Energy Department?
Guest post by Albert Parker en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crescent_Dunes_Solar_Energy_Project#/media/File:Crescent_Dunes_Solar_December_2014.JPG It is in the news, as expected Crescent Dunes, the world largest concentrated solar power plant featuring 10 hours of molten salt thermal energy…
DC Solar Owners Plead Guilty to Largest Ponzi Scheme in Eastern California History
From the DOJ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, January 24, 2020 Top Executives Plead Guilty to Participating in a Billion Dollar Ponzi Scheme—the Biggest Criminal Fraud Scheme in the History of…
U.S. Government continues to dump funds into an electrical sinkhole
Guest post by Ronald Stein Founder and Ambassador for Energy & Infrastructure of PTS Advance, headquartered in Irvine, California When I read the WSJ article “The Best-Laid Energy Plans” about…
Report: A Cloud Drifting Over a Solar Farm Knocked Out Power for 10hrs
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Dr. Willie Soon; an independent report blamed operator incompetence for allowing clouds to affect the solar energy supply. NT sacks energy chiefs after report…
Predictions are Hard, Especially About the Future
Gasoline vs Electric Vehicle Future Fuel Costs This was originally a comment on David Middleton’s post, https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/10/31/the-oil-age-is-doing-just-fine-bloomberg-new-energy-finance-notwithstanding/ The original comment was from Detengineer, in reply to another comment from Mark,…
Claim: We Must Unleash the Climate Friendly Hydrogen Unicorn
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to the Aussie ABC, Australia’s government broadcast service, things will fall apart unless we ditch coal and start exporting climate friendly hydrogen to a…
Aussie Clean Energy Investment Falling as Political Support Falters
Even a hint of political apathy is enough to crash investment. Clean energy investment falls back to 2016 levels amid policy uncertainty Katharine Murphy Political editor@murpharooWed 11 Sep 2019 04.00 AEST The…
BBC: Green Energy Boom Forcing Increased Production of a Potent Greenhouse Gas
Guest chuckle by Eric Worrall The BBC claims the potent greenhouse gas sulfur hexafluoride leaking from EU wind turbines and other renewable electricity infrastructure components produces the global warming equivalent…
BBC: Solar panels: Thousands of customers complain
D’oh! Robert Skillen, who was the director of the firm when Mr Thompson bought his system, said Mr Thompson’s panels would make him money. Mr Skillen is now in business…
The Dirty Extractive Underbelly of Clean Energy
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Greens advocating a clean energy “revolution” rarely pause to consider the enormous increase in mining activity which would have to occur to support their new…
Solar energy badly harms the environment. It must be taxed, not subsidised
From The Times of India September 2, 2019, 10:12 am IST Sanjeev Sabhlok in Seeing the Invisible | India | TOI The Modi government has been shovelling scarce taxpayer resources…
Scientists ‘Tantalised’ by Draining Every Hydropower Dam in The US For Solar Panels
From Science Alert CARLY CASSELLA 31 AUG 2019 If all the hydro-power dams in the United States were removed and replaced with solar panels, it would take up a fraction…
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