Claiming “renewable” energy from wind and solar is cheap and comes without environmental consequences, is a crucial and detrimental energy economic misunderstanding.
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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #587
Without Freedom of Thought there can be no such thing as Wisdom; and no such thing as Public Liberty, without Freedom of Speech.” — Benjamin Franklin (1722)
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #586
“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” – Archimedes
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #580
“I apologize for writing such a long letter, but I didn’t have time to write a short one.” – Mark Twain
Recycling Eco-Myths Is the Existential Threat
Our democracy faces an existential threat when the will of the people gives way to the coercion of the masses.
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #573
It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost [tossed] upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of the castle and to…
Solar power has massive potential to benefit humanity – with a different focus
Solar power may prove to be an excellent solution to one of the world’s most considerable problems: a lack of potable water.
Primary School Children Targeted with Green Propaganda by Just Stop Oil Millionaire Funder
Recently, Packham gave his backing to eco-protesters breaking the law and suggested that a “radical flank” could attempt to blow up oil refineries.
The Energy Transition is Social Vandalism
Dr. Euan Mearns emphasizes that every energy transition in history has been additive, motivated by the benefits of improved power, energy density, efficiency, and cost. However, he criticizes current shifts…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #569
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Allison Pearson: The public is wiser than the net zero hysterics
Spare a thought for the BBC’s climate editor. He appeared to be having conniptions on News at Ten
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #567
What is necessary for the very existence of science and what the characteristics of nature are, are not to be determined by pompous preconditions, they are determined always by the…
Man-Made Disaster’: Byron Donalds Blames ‘Green New Deal Stuff’ For Maui Wildfire
Republican Rep. Byron Donalds blamed “green new deal stuff” for the devastating wildfire in Maui, saying an electric company ignored “the basic things.”
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #565
In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.”
Some Concerns about the Recent Republican Debate
The fact that so many believe in the false climate crisis makes Dick Lindzen, perhaps the leading authority on geophysical fluid dynamics, look more and more like a prophet:
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #563
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates mysteries of eternity, of life, of…
Green Energy: Scientists Propose Turning Your House Foundations into a Scary Supercapacitor
If every house were to implement this energy storage “solution”, a single dielectric failure could lead to a sizeable chain reaction and release of energy, as adjacent houses suffered mechanical…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #561
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.” — Carl Sagan [
Nuclear (Con)fusion: Why the Gee-Whizz Factor Costs so Much
By Macskelek – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Like all gee-whiz moonbeams-to-cucumbers notions, this granddaddy of them all is irremediably failing, at prodigious cost to us all.
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #560
“Under this method, the theory that the world is flat is true if one uses only eyesight data and does not consider the voluminous other evidence that it is round.”
Yes, Virginia, there is a Climate Crisis
Nobody sees Al Gore, but that is no sign that there is no Al Gore.
Still Waiting for The Magical Future of Free Wind Power
The only question is how far down the road we get before the plug gets pulled.
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #557
“The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.”
The Cult of Darkness
From MasterResource By Edward Hudgins — December 22, 2023 “Energy is not for conserving; it is for unleashing to serve us, to make our lives better, to allow us to…