Guest skewering by David Middleton From Inside Climate News… 24-Hour Solar Energy: Molten Salt Makes It Possible, and Prices Are Falling Fast Molten salt storage in concentrated solar power plants…
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Aussie Heatwave Electricity Shortfall, Hospital Emergency Measures, Coal Blamed
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t JoNova – South Australia and the Australian State of Victoria learned the hard way that when power demand surges, you can’t turn up the…
Politico: President Trump to Support US Solar Manufacturing
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to Politico author Emily Holden, President Trump may be on the verge of erecting trade barriers against cheap imports of Chinese solar panels, to…
Claim: Transformation to wind and solar achievable with low indirect GHG emissions
From the POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH (PIK) Different low carbon technologies from wind or solar energy to fossil carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) differ greatly when it comes to…
Renewables Advocates Trash Talk Nuclear Fusion
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to renewables advocates, renewables will soon be so cheap it won’t be worth pouring more money into researching nuclear fusion. Renewable Energy Threatens the…
Reported Plunge in Renewable Costs Prompts Aussie Government to Pull Subsidies
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Australian government is so impressed by the alleged plunge in renewable and battery storage costs they think it will no longer be necessary to…
Hurricane Harvey Threatens Wind Farm Output
Guest essay by Eric Worrall At least one news outlet has noticed that renewable energy is exceptionally vulnerable to hurricanes and other extreme weather events. How will renewables power the…
Panda Meet Graph
Guest post by David Archibald China recently built a photovotaic farm in the shape of a panda at a cost of some $40 million. To create the visual effect…
Solar Import Tariff Proposal Splits the Industry
Guest essay by Eric Worrall President Trump is expected to rule imminently on a petition by US solar manufacturer Suniva to impose tariffs on cheap imports of solar panels. Prospect…
Solar Companies Using ‘2008 Sub-Prime Lender’ Tactics To Sell Panels
Energy Andrew Follett Energy and Science Reporter 2:42 PM 07/19/2017 The consumer group Campaign for Accountability (CFA) asked the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Wednesday to investigate rooftop solar companies for…
Eclipseocalypse – Electrics Brace for Solar Darkness
When the sun goes dark, California will lose the equivalent of five nuclear power plants of power. Martin Rosenberg | Jun 29, 2017 The Energy Times California is bracing…
Monumental, Unsustainable Environmental Impacts
Replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy would inflict major land, wildlife, resource damage Paul Driessen Demands that the world replace fossil fuels with wind, solar and biofuel energy – to…
EIA data shows wind & solar provide only 3.2% of U.S. 2016 energy
Submitted by Larry Hamlin A recent EIA report on energy production shows that wind and solar despite receiving tens of billions in government subsidies provided only 3.2% of U.S. energy…
Solar Panel Fire Destroys Multi-story Building Roof
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Man BearPig – A massive fire has ripped through a new building development in London, thankfully untenanted and still under construction. Witnesses suggest the…
Waste From Solar Panels: 300 Times That of Nuclear Power
Note: The title of the post was changed at 5:12 PM CDT, June 29, 2017. The original title was “Toxic Waste From Solar Panels: 300 Times That of Nuclear Power.” Please…
California dumps millions of dollars of unusable renewable electricity to other states
Guest essay by Larry Hamlin California’s renewable energy policy pushing huge mandated increases in wind and solar so the state’s globally irrelevant greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets can be met…
"Fast Moving Clouds": The Latest Excuse for a Government Funded Solar Bankruptcy
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t JoNova – What do you say when the government demands to know what happened to all the public money they lent to your failed…
Impending US Solar Energy Crash?
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Financially troubled solar businesses seem to be hitting the headlines a lot these days. Solar Industry Slowdown Catches Up With SolarCity By Mrinalini Krishna |…
Hilarious: Renewables Won't Work – Even If Climate Claims are True
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Imagine for a moment that all the wild claims of climate driven future weather disasters will occur as predicted. In this imaginary future climate dystopia,…
Study: The solution to unreliable wind and solar power? Build more!
From the “twice as expensive, half as reliable” department comes this paper from SPRINGER where they seemed to have figured out (finally) that wind and solar just isn’t all that good…
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