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…
Category: solar power
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…
Ouarzazate
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach The BBC, that bastion of slanted reportage on all things green, has an article about a new solar power plant entitled “The Colossal African Solar…
What's That Musky Smell?
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, the man who has made billions with a “b” by sponging off of your taxpayer dollars, the man you can always find face-down at the…
Renewable Energy would be Great – if it Worked
Guest essay by Eric Worrall One of the great myths promoted by renewables proponents is that government subsidies are not the enablers of renewables, they are simply accelerating a transition…
Greens Concerned Vast Federal Land Clearances for Renewable Energy Projects Might Harm Nature
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Some green groups finally seem to be expressing concern that colossal renewable infrastructure projects on federal land, clearing, poisoning and paving over millions of acres…
Forget solar panels, optical 'rectenna' converts light directly to electricity
From Georgia Tech, a news release that we missed when it first came out, but still well worth talking about. First Optical Rectenna – Combined Rectifier and Antenna – Converts…
The truth about energy subsidies – solar gets 436 times more than coal
The next time some paid troll whines about coal getting government subsidies, and wind and solar being “pure” show them this. From the Washington Times: By Stephen Moore One of…
Renewable Incoherence: The Calls for a Green Grand Challenge
Guest essay by Eric Worrall If current generation renewables are a viable replacement for fossil fuels, why are so many greens calling for lavishly funded “Grand Challenge” projects and “Apollo…
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