California is leading the nation in battery energy storage. No current figures are available, as the sector is growing so fast it is difficult to keep up. At the end…
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The Energy Storage Fiasco — How Soon Will It Be Abandoned?
It seems that the frequency of these spontaneous fires increases with the size of the battery. Can this problem be solved? I have no idea. But it certainly has not…
Grid battery cost issue storm looms in Massachusetts
Assuming it is just the investor-owned utilities that most of us use, the big question is then how will the cost be divided among them? The new law is silent…
Santa’s Green Energy Crisis
This Christmas, I learned an important lesson. While green energy has its place, it’s not yet ready to power the demands of a global holiday operation. Reliable energy sources are…
New York DEFR Concerns Update
I am convinced that implementation of the New York Climate Leadership & Community Protection Act (Climate Act) net-zero mandates will do more harm than good if the electric system transition…
The Cost Of Miliband’s Flywheels
It seems unlikely that flywheels would last more than a few years, certainly not without plenty of maintenance. Either way, the cost of flywheels would be considerable.
Grid scale battery fires loom large
America faces a growing threat from grid scale lithium battery fires. Construction of huge battery arrays with no concern for potentially catastrophic fires is out of control. There are no…
The Green New Folly: How Virtue-Signaling Killed a Ferry and Wasted Millions
The Missunde III debacle should serve as a cautionary tale to anyone who thinks the Green New Deal or Net Zero policies will usher in some kind of environmental utopia.…
Heat-Pump Sales Plummet by Almost 50% Across Europe
Just 765,000 heat pumps were sold in 2024 across the 13 European countries that represent 80% of the market, the European Heat Pump Association said.
Steel Giant May Have to Bail On $500 Million Biden-Harris Admin Green Grant, CEO Says
However, even with the $500 million infusion from the government, the economics of the Middletown conversion still may not make sense for the company, Goncalves told Politico. Cleveland-Cliffs is one…
Stealing the Future with Green Steel
In the climate obsessed’s rush to “decarbonize” heavy industry, hydrogen-based steel manufacturing is being touted as a “clean” alternative to the traditional coal-based process for steelmaking. With seemingly little thought…
Shock New Claim: ‘Green’ Hydrogen Produces 37 Times More Global Warming than Carbon Dioxide
Bottom line – there is no cost effective, feasible, reliable and scalable replacement for hydrocarbons available, or likely to be available, in the near future. Blackouts and severe rationing will…
Yet More Reasons Why Green Hydrogen Is Going Nowhere
The gist of the paper is that the existing natural gas infrastructure of storage facilities, pipelines and power plants absolutely cannot be repurposed for use by hydrogen; and indeed, there…
‘Mostly unusable’ | Existing gas pipes would need massive retrofit or crippling de-rating to carry hydrogen: study
Existing fossil gas infrastructure such as pipelines and appliances are “mostly unusable” with hydrogen, without either major investment, or changes in operation that would significantly reduce the amount of energy…
Dem VP Pick Gov. Tim Walz thinks we should ‘power our Navy using algae’ – Claims ‘the Pentagon is not a bunch of green tree-huggers’ – Morano responds
Wrong! The Pentagon is absolutely ‘a bunch of green tree-huggers’ under Biden-Harris.
Can American Conservation Survive ‘Green’ Energy?
A future with denser, cleaner urban footprints that preserve natural habitats requires that we continue to decrease the natural resources and land we consume, particularly with our population predicted to peak…
When Green Dreams Go Up in Smoke: The Great Lithium Truck Fiasco of I-15
it’s not easy being green. And maybe, just maybe, we should take a step back and reevaluate our priorities before we put all our eggs in one lithium-ion basket.
NYT exposes EV ‘green’ fraud: ‘More than 70% of world’s cobalt…the blood diamond of electric vehicle batteries, comes from Democratic Republic of Congo, where child labor & sexual violence are rampant in mines’
More than 70 percent of the world’s cobalt, sometimes called the blood diamond of electric vehicle batteries, comes from the Democratic Republic of Congo
Biden Administration Launches A Great Leap Forward Into Green Energy
The unifying aspect of all of these projects is that they are uneconomic and would never be adopted by the people of their own choice with their own money.
Exploding Batteries Spark Deadly S Korea Factory Fire
Lithium batteries are at risk of exploding if they are damaged or overheated. While a fire can be extinguished, it remains at risk of reigniting without warning due to the…
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