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,…
Category: solar power
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…
The Game Changer: HuffPost Embraces Nuclear Power
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Huffpost has published a very supportive post, about New York State embracing nuclear power as an equal player in the low carbon energy game. The…
"World’s First 24/7 Solar Power Plant Powers 75,000 Homes" for 3 hours per day.
Guest post by David Middleton SolarReserve’s Crescent Dunes Project in Tonopah, Nevada is quietly providing clean, green solar energy to 75,000 homes in the Silver State even when the sun…
"Forget Godzilla, NYC Gets Monster-Sized 'Virtual' Solar Power Plant"
Guest post by David Middleton 1.8 MW and 4 MWh of storage… Godzilla? Not even Ant-Man. The Brooklyn Navy Yard Cogeneration combined cycle natural gas-fired power plant generates over 150,000…
There is a Way to make Renewables Viable
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Renewables in their current form are a nonsense solution to the world’s energy needs. However, there is a combination of technologies which could make solar…
The Solar Plane – a Perfect Metaphor for What is Wrong With Renewables
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Solar Impulse 2 has finally completed completed the latest leg of its round the world flight. In engineering terms, a round the world flight…
A Solar Power Plant vs. A Natural Gas Power Plant: Capital Cost – Apples to Apples
Guest essay by Philip Dowd Here is a simple example that illustrates why current solar technology will be hard-pressed to replace existing carbon-fired power plants. Let’s suppose that a power…
What Powers The Electricity?
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There is a generator-by-generator analysis of the US power supply for 2012, called “eGrid”, available here as an Excel file. I’ve aggregated the data by fuel…
Californian Government Intensifies Attack on Renewables
Guest essay by Eric Worrall WUWT recently reported how California had abandoned rooftop solar, by excluding them from generous renewable credit schemes. California has now intensified its attack on renewable…
Underwater Balloons – a new idea in Energy Storage?
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Hydrostor has created an interesting innovation in energy storage. The energy is stored as compressed air, in giant underwater balloons. Hydrostor’s system works in several…
Germany's impossible and impractical wind and solar goal
Bjorn Lomborg writes to tell us of this new video analysis of the current state of solar and wind in the context: After decades and hundreds of billions of dollars,…
California Government Abandons Rooftop Solar, Favors Big Utilities
California has stunned green advocates, by excluding rooftop solar from their renewable energy mandate. According to the LA Times; California’s aggressive push to increase renewable energy production comes with a…
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