Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach (@weschenbach on X) Germany 2025 is the engine room of European industry and the warning siren for anyone who thinks intellectual arrogance and green wishful…
Category: Renewable energy
The Road To Hell Is Paved With Green Intentions
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Sometimes you can’t help but marvel at how much we’re all willing to pay for the illusion of “green progress.” New Jersey decided—like half the…
Why Is Cheap Electricity So D@mn Expensive?
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [See update at the end] We’ve been told over and over by very serious people that wind and solar are far cheaper than natural gas…
White Lies, Damn Lies, and California Lies
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach It must be another day ending in a “y”, because once again, Governor Gavin Goodhair Newsom of California is pushing lies about California. Here’s the…
Scotland’s Tidal Bet: Net Zero, Net Loss
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Let me invite you to consider the Scottish coast, where the tides are large and the headlines are gushing—much like the capital outflow—over the MeyGen…
Energy Department Could Ax Costly Renewable Energy Offices
The potential cuts, worth millions of dollars, would impact offices within the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, including Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies, Solar Energy Technologies, Wind Energy…
Energy Consumption in 2024 and the Spanish Power Failure
What does the April 2025 Spanish power failure tell us about how we compare solar and wind to stable fossil fuel and nuclear power generation? By Andy May Global energy…
They Fought The Carbon And The … Carbon Won
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Short post. A graph that some people will prefer you ignore. That’s it. That’s the whole post. Rock on! w. My Usual Request: When you…
The Hidden Renewable Energy in Central Asia
One of the biggest threats to human health, and a major source of air pollution, is regularly hidden in statistical reports as “renewable energy:” the burning of dung, wood, and…
Energy Modeling as Gambling Addiction
Say you’re at a slot machine … and you pull the lever. The wheels spin and then stop: you see two 7’s and a cherry. If you’re normal, you say,…
Zero Emissions Grid Demonstration Project Follies: No Fraudulent Demonstration Projects Allowed!
… we should accept no claim of achievement of zero emissions electricity from anyone who maintains a continuing connection to a grid with hydrocarbon generation on it. Otherwise, there is…
Lazard’s LCOE
By Andy May Lazard’s levelized cost of energy (LCOE) is cited on the internet all the time as the source for “solar and wind are cheaper than fossil fuels.” They…
John Constable’s talk at Universidad de las Hespérides
By Andy May h/t Wim Röst The Universidad de las Hespérides is in the Canary Islands, off the coast of Morocco. The Hespérides are the nymphs of the evening and…
Fossil and Non-Fossil Fuels
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In my previous post, The Myth Of Replacing Fossil Fuels, I looked at the new BP global use of fossil and non-fossil fuels. In this…
The Actual Levelized Cost Of Energy
Guest Post By Willis Eschenbach A company named Lazard puts out an annual report on something called the “Levelized Cost Of Energy” (LCOE). Here’s the April 2023 version. The LCOE…
Billionaires and your natural gas stove
By Andy May More on the environmental group’s plot against your natural gas stove in an exclusive Washington Times article here. The Rockefeller Brothers Fund hosted a meeting between them…
The Copper Conundrum
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There’s been a lot of talk lately about how the scarcity of “rare-earth” minerals like lithium and cobalt will short-circuit the “green revolution”. In that…
The “Pollock Limit”
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Christopher Monckton recently put up a fascinating post entitled “The Final Nail in The Coffin Of “Renewable” Energy”. In it, he references the work of…
Energy Use 2020 to 2021
By Andy May We now have another year of energy consumption data, what does it tell us? The graph from ourworldindata.org is shown below: Energy use is going up. Are…
The Wind Power Mirage
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I came across a laudatory article about the Scottish Hywind project, entitled “The world’s first floating offshore wind farm turns 5 — here’s how it’s…
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