Guest essay by Larry Hamlin The EIA IEO 2019 report shows that end use energy sectors including industrial, residential, commercial and transportation made little use of renewable energy in 2018…
Category: Renewable energy
Why today’s renewables cannot power modern civilization
By Dr. Lars Schernikau Dr. Lars Schernikau has founded, worked, and advised many organizations in the energy, raw material, and coal sectors in Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas. Lars…
Explaining Wind Turbine Lethality
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach For reasons that will soon become evident, the comments on my previous wind turbine post reminded me of a long-ago sunset dinner with my gorgeous…
Paying Much More For Much Less
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There’s an interesting and authoritative new [commenters pointed out it’s from 2012, I can’t find any newer research] study on the lifespan of those ugly…
How much energy storage costs must fall to reach renewable energy’s full potential
Cell Press The cost of energy storage will be critical in determining how much renewable energy can contribute to the decarbonization of electricity. But how far must energy storage costs…
Promising new solar-powered path to hydrogen fuel production
News Release 1-Aug-2019 Lehigh University team are the first to use a single enzyme biomineralization process to create a solar-driven water splitting catalyst that produces hydrogen with the potential to…
NREL Energy Storage System Cost Benchmark
Guest post by Roger Caiazza One of the biggest issues with plans to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy is intermittency. At some point that can only be addressed by…
China has slashed clean energy funding by 39%, leading a global decline
See the links in the “big picture paragraph” From MIT Technology review Worldwide funding of clean-energy projects fell to its lowest level in six years, in a staggering blow to…
ANALYSIS: COST OF U.S. TRANSITION TO 100% RENEWABLES – $4.5 TRILLION
By Tim Benson A June 2019 analysis from Scottish consulting firm Wood Mackenzie estimates the cost of transitioning the United States to 100 percent renewable energy by 2030, as recommended by the “Green…
Terence Corcoran: Why the global fossil-fuel phase-out is a fantasy akin to time travel
From The Financial Post Terence Corcoran June 21, 2019 1:59 PM EDT To produce the power needed to offset fossil fuels, Canada would have to build two and a half…
The great hundred billion dollar+ renewable energy fleecing of American taxpayers & energy users
Guest essay by Larry Hamlin The colossal magnitude of renewable energy federal and state government driven subsidies, taxes and higher energy cost impacts has never been systematically revealed to the…
PG&E wins court case allowing it to renegotiate $34 billion in renewable energy contracts
Guest essay by Larry Hamlin Pacific Gas & Electric has won a huge legal decision from the bankruptcy court agreeing with its position that in can proceed to renegotiate $42…
EIA data shows wind & solar met 3% of U.S. energy after $50 billion in subsidizes
Guest essay by Larry Hamlin The EIA AEO 2019 report shows that in year 2018 wind and solar energy resources provide about 3% of U.S. total energy consumption while fossil…
Inherent unreliable renewables dictate GND “100% renewable electricity” mandate yields unavoidable GHG emissions
Guest essay by Larry Hamlin The Green New Deal (GND) and California’s SB 100 are both draconian and completely unrealistic pipe dreams that politically mandate “100% renewable electricity” for the…
The decline of Weather Dependent Renewables in Europe: 2008 – 2018
Reposted from edmhdotme Introduction The EurObserv’ER organisation publishes data annually on all types of EU28 Renewable installations and their productivity. EurObser’ER is backed by the EU and promotes the transition…
Is the Long Renewables Honeymoon Over?
From The GWPF 5/11/19 Dr John Constable: GWPF Energy Editor The European renewables industry press, which is usually unequivocally upbeat in its assessments, is currently reporting a broad spectrum of…
Researchers Say Renewable Energy Mandates Cause Large Electricity Price Increases
By Tim Benson A 1-4 Percent In Renewable Generation Raises Electricity Prices By 11-17 Percent An April 2019 working paper from the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago…
Renewables are a better investment than carbon capture for tackling climate change
Who knew that shooting yourself in the foot was less harmful than shooting yourself in the head?~ctm Lancaster University Solar panels and wind turbines coupled with energy storage offer a…
Grid Scale Battery Nonsense 2019
By Rud Istvan, WUWT readers emailed Charles the Moderator concerning two flurries of renewable Fake News PR in the past week: 1. The breathlessly reported planned FPL addition of the…
Physics Reveals ‘Green’ Energy Sources Are Unrealistic And Unsustainable
From The Federalist March 29, 2019 By The Federalist Staff Can existing “green” energy match the efficiency of fossil fuels? Mark P. Mills, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, shares…
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