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…
Category: Renewable energy
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…
2021: The Year Renewables “Lost Last Place”
Guest “Let’s go Mets!” by David Middleton There are three things that I am somewhat embarrassed of: I am not a native Texan… I was born in Connecticut, but I…
Total Energy Used and petrochemicals
By Andy May It came up in conversation: How much oil and gas goes into plastics and fertilizer production? It turns out the IEA has a 2018 report on this…
European Energy Prices set Records
By Andy May According to the Wall Street Journal yesterday, due to a rare lack of North Sea wind, already high European energy prices are climbing higher. “Gas and coal-fired…
Blocking The Wind
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I keep reading about how offshore wind farms are the electricity generating method of the future, because they’re so darn inexpensive. Here’s the New York…
The performance of UK Weather Dependent Renewables: 2002 – 2020
And it is already happening in the UK: the “trip” of an Offshore wind farm on a breezy summer afternoon contributed to the major UK power outage of 9/8/2019. As…
Why renewable energy won’t end energy poverty in Zimbabwe
Ellen Fungisai Chipango, University of Johannesburg Zimbabwe is one of the African countries that hopes renewable energy technologies will help to address their energy problems. About 42% of Zimbabwe’s households…
Weather Dependent Renewable power performance in Europe DE UK FR: 2020
In 2020, Weather Dependent Renewables (Wind and Solar Power) made up 58% of all power generation installations in the three Nations, DE UK FR. Together they contributed about 24% of…
Denmark’s largest battery – one step closer to storing green power in stones
The technology, which stores electrical energy as heat in stones, is called GridScale, and could become a cheap and efficient alternative to storing power from solar and wind in lithium-based…
Decarbonization and California’s 2020 Rolling Blackouts
Check you premises, California. Consider the consumer in terms of rates and reliability. Reverse course, don’t speed up. Acknowledge and respect the value of dense mineral energies for electrical generation.…
Claim: US power sector is halfway to zero carbon emissions
Given advancements in wind, solar, and battery technologies, these resources are likely to play important near-term roles in further power-sector decarbonization. According to the study, a large share of the…
California year 2020 blackouts caused solely by reliance on mandated unreliable renewable energy
It’s been 15 years since 2006 where California’s AB 32 Global Warming Solutions Act (never let it be said that California politicians are lacking in grandiose overstatement) was adopted so…
New NightShine Solar Panels “Game-Changers” In Fight Against Climate Change!
“Hitherto, daily and seasonal intermittency has been a killer for solar panels,” says Rickard Pierrot of TIC, one of the team behind the invention. “Only an idiot would make solar…
Professor Qingwei Ma seeks to unlock the potential of marine wave energy
Professor Ma’s project will build on the UK’s leading role in marine wave energy to overcome challenges to devices that capture the energy generated by waves and convert it into…
The battery invented 120 years before its time—OR NOT
So, BBC implicitly suggests we use a battrolyzer to compressively store green ~30% of wind nameplate capacity (its capacity factor) at a battrolyzer efficiency of maybe 65%, netting (0.3*0.65*0.9) ~18%…
The Catastrophic Texas Blackouts: Lessons For The Developing Countries
The irony however is lost on Mr. Kerry. He goes around lecturing poorer countries on the need for raised ambitions to fight climate change when it is those very same…
Chuck DeVore: Texas’ blackouts – here’s the truth about why they happened and what we have to do next
It’s important to note that had every Texas generator powered by natural gas, coal, nuclear and hydro operated at full output during the height of the storm’s demand, Texas still…
Summary UK Weather Dependent Renewables: 2019
As Government imposes more Renewables onto the Power industry, Power supply managers face major problems, as Political decisions insist on the impractical collection dilute and irregularly intermittent “Renewable Energy”. The…
The Texas Energy Disaster
By Andy May I live in Texas and write about climate science and energy, so I get a lot of questions about the recent problems. My wife and I are…
