Warwick, New York has now experienced two battery energy storage system fires in just over two years — one in 2023, and another on December 19, 2025, just days before…
Category: Green tech
Gas Boiler Owners “Will Subsidise Heat Pump Users” With New Levy Under Ed Miliband’s £15 Billion Energy Plans
Gas boiler owners could face a £30 green levy on their energy bills to subsidise heat pump owners under plans reportedly being considered by Ed Miliband. The Mail has the story.
The Unreported Story Of Grid Scale Battery Fires
A New York agency going by the name NYSERDA (New York State Energy Research and Development Authority) is leading the charge to build these energy storage facilities, including in densely…
Shock COP Dirty Secret: At Least Half the Balsa Wood in Wind Turbine Blades is Illegally Logged in Amazonian Rainforests
The EIA recommended that wind blade manufactures and wind power developers suspend the use of balsa until Ecuadorian supply chains are traced and transparent. The answer to that, as Britain’s…
Record copper prices spark turmoil for green energy projects
There will be a thriving trade for copper thieves! Better watch out for your EV charging cable at night!
The Space Mirror Mirage: Physics, Economics, and the Glow of Investor Illusion
Reflect Orbital’s plan to light up the night sky might succeed — just not in the way it intends. It will illuminate the widening gap between technological imagination and physical…
Japan Tries out Osmotic Energy
Carbon-free. 24/7/365. No mining (salt mines excluded) involved. Available anywhere fresh water and saltwater meet. Works in conjunction with desalination plants. What’s not to like — at the right price?
Deadly Grid Battery Fallacy Exposed in Massachusetts
Clear rules for safe design of grid battery facilities are desperately needed if deadly catastrophe is to be avoided. Belsito has made this urgent need clear for Massachusetts. The other…
‘Green’ Europe’s Industrial Masochism
European leaders are driving not a bandwagon onto which the world is jumping but rather a hearse toward self-destruction.
Green Jobs Make Us Poorer
It is crystal clear that all talk of a “green revolution” is simply a pipe dream. These green jobs are only a façade, Potemkin jobs to give politicians and policymakers…
The Battery Storage Delusion.. what 35 million tons of industrial effort buys you
When viewed this way, power systems that required utility-scale batteries have one of the lowest Energy Return on Investment (EROI) ratios in the energy world. It takes a lot of…
Choosing the Positive Reality of Hydrocarbons Over ‘Green’ Fantasies
The LaLa Land of the green climate industrial complex is nice to contemplate over a glass of chardonnay, but nobody wants to live there.
U.S. “renewables” mad scramble to build is on
It looks like the U.S. renewables industry is going to be scrambling financially. This is certain for the next twelve months and maybe long after that. Watching the mad scramble…
BBC Celebrates Sales of Heat Pumps Rising From Near Zero to Near Zero!
It would take 650 years to get every home in the country fitted with a heat pump at that rate!
When Lithium-Ion Batteries Set Sail: Another Warning to be Ignored by the Climate Technocrats
The global shipping industry is already grappling with draconian emissions targets and bureaucratic overreach. Now, it’s being asked to risk floating battery farms across oceans, all to appease climate prophets…
Trump’s Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy Releases Report Exposing No Viable Path Forward for California’s High-Speed Rail Boondoggle
his 2025 compliance review demonstrates that CHSRA has not learned from its mistakes and mismanagement and has therefore failed to create an organization capable of effectively and efficiently managing project…
The Solar Panel That Ain’t One
Unworkable schemes come in two flavors. The first involves schemes too mad capped to work because they have no principle of operation behind them or they violate how the universe…
We need a grid battery public safety standard
The existing battery safety standards are grossly incomplete for the huge grid grid scale battery complexes being recklessly built in large numbers.
Government Takes RISKS With Taxpayers’ Money On Unproven Net Zero Tech
The GWPF’s Harry Wilkinson explains how taxpayers are on the hook if carbon capture schemes don’t work.
The Cold Chill of the Heat Pump Reality
It may come as a surprise to the most dedicated eco warriors that heat pumps don’t last forever. Those installing them now are in for a nasty shock 15–20 years…
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