But taken together, the problems of wind, solar, and batteries are substantial and call for a mid-course correction from look-the-other-way, mention-and-run, wish-and-hope Big Green. Jane Goodall, just as James Hansen,…
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Windless nights make net zero impossible
It is very simple. The cost of storing electricity is so huge it makes getting through a single windless night under a net zero wind, solar, and storage plan economically…
The Many Problems With Batteries
There are easier ways for humanity to avoid the problems that batteries are intended to solve.
The Used EV Timebomb
Our investigation found that many EVs could become almost impossible to resell because of their limited battery life.
FES Scenarios Won’t Meet Energy Storage Needs
As we know, solar produces virtually nothing in winter, and if wind power is down to 10% of capacity, that would provide only 16 GW.
EV Owners Facing Soaring Insurance Costs
Electric car owners, including Tesla Model Y’s, are experiencing escalating insurance costs, with some renewals going up to £5,000 or more. Several insurance brands, including Aviva, are refusing to cover…
The Exploitation of Green Energy
Those subsidies are providing financial incentives to the developing countries mining for those green materials to continue their exploitation of poor people and environmental degradation of their landscapes.
Battery Airplanes? Nope! (MIT Technology Review)
In order for electric planes to play a more significant role in decarbonizing air travel, energy density may need to quadruple,
MIT Weighs in On Energy Storage
The Report is an exercise by genius would-be central planners concocting enormously complex models that just happen to come to the results that the authors are hoping for, while at…
The World Bank’s Impractical Electric Car Claptrap
If the World Bank and British government follow through on their plan to ban the combustion engine, they may well have riots on their hands.
Assessing Virginia’s Hidden Wind and Solar Costs
But that will happen only when winds are blowing at speeds required for full rated capacity, perhaps 40-45% of the year, sporadically and unpredictably. When winds do not cooperate, Virginia…
New York Has No Idea Whatsoever How To “Decarbonize” Its Electric Grid
Long-duration storage is necessary so depending upon a technology that does not even exist in a pilot project is an incredible risk.
Add The Wall Street Journal To The People Who Can’t Do Basic Arithmetic
The simple fact is that wind/solar plus battery systems would not need any government subsidies if they were cost effective. The Biden Administration is proposing to hand out many, many…
Battery Basics for Climate Warriors
There are basically only three non-kinetic electrical storage mechanisms: electrochemical, pseudocapacitive, and capacitive. We deliberately exclude indirectly kinetic pumped hydro, for which there are two big expansion problems: insufficient remaining…
Designing batteries for easier recycling could avert a looming e-waste crisis
As concern mounts over the impacts of climate change, many experts are calling for greater use of electricity as a substitute for fossil fuels. Powered by advancements in battery technology,…
There aren’t enough batteries to electrify all cars — focus on trucks and buses instead
Road transportation is a major consumer of fossil fuels, contributing 16 per cent of all human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, which warm up the Earth’s atmosphere and cause changes to the…
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…
Report: Green Energy Economy Is Simply ‘Impossible’
A new report is out from The Manhattan Institute Date: 03/26/19 Mark P. Mills, Manhattan Institute Hydrocarbons—oil, natural gas, and coal—are the world’s principal energy resource today and will continue…
Giant rechargeable batteries could soon be installed across Britain to help power wind farms and solar panels
From The Daily Mail The business secretary Greg Clark is expected to announce the plans this week The batteries will help wind and solar panel farms supply during high demand…
Getting Energy From The Energy Store
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Inspired by an interesting guest post entitled “An energy model for the future, from the 12th century” over at Judith Curry’s excellent blog, I want…
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