As Energy System Comes Apart, Germany Now Preparing Emergency Natural Gas Rationing Plans

“The government is having a contingency plan drawn up to determine which companies should first stop receiving gas when Russian natural gas fails to arrive,” reports  Blackout News.de here. “A corresponding…

Help Us, Surrender, and Submit: DOE Secretary Granholm at CERA

Believe me, it would take a fool to not see that this empress has no clothes.

NYT Tiptoes Toward Energy Reality (“this debate is changing”)

Atlas is Shrugging. Wind and solar are parasitic to electricity from carbon-based energies. The New York Times energy writers are catching on just a bit, but how much longer will they stick…

Ukraine And Energy Realism

And of course the U.S. can’t supply these European energy needs because the Biden Administration is intentionally suppressing natural gas production here.

Mark Krebs on Energy Efficiency under Biden’s DOE (Part II of IV: EERE Modeling)

Tricks include inflated energy-price forecasts (for the disfavored energy, gas), lowballed maintenance costs for favored appliances (electric), and so on.

EIA: US Fossil Fuels Production to Reach Record Highs in 2023… The Permian is already there!

Guest “Frac On!” by David Middleton JANUARY 21, 2022EIA expects U.S. fossil fuel production to reach new highs in 2023 After declining in 2020, the combined production of U.S. fossil…

Column: Energy industry charging ahead with emissions reduction technologies — A preferred route to tearing up the world in search of minerals

Come 2050, the hydrocarbon industry will be sequestering carbon all over, will have developed new emissions reduction technology, will coexist with a reasonable level of wind and solar, and will…

Climate Industrial Complex Left Clueless As Fossil Fuels Proliferate

So, if anyone is thinking that fossil fuels are dead, they should think again. The 2.6 billion people in India and China will continue to use fossil fuels as their…

Column: Enthusiastic Idiocy vs. Infrastructure Optimization – Two Strategies for an Energy Transition

The COP26 model, the one built around a future temperature, is going nowhere, as was proven these past few weeks. Neither enthusiasm nor perceived need will, in fact, move mountains.…

African Energy Chamber: Fossil Fuels, Please

Ultimately, Africans deserve the same level of energy access and security that the rest of the world takes for granted. The number of people left behind is simply too large…

EIA: Renewables no longer expected to be #1 by 2050

Guest “Just a bit outside” by David Middleton In the Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) 2020 International Energy Outlook, renewables (including hydroelectric) were forecast to surpass petroleum and other liquid fuels…

How “the experts” can be totally wrong about energy

In this episode I will show definitively that our knowledge system is wildly irrational in its method of moral evaluation when it comes to not only fossil fuels but also…

The knife through the heart of COP26

Any prospect that China would play ball at COP26 have surely now vanished with their latest power generation numbers.

UK MPs Condemn Government’s 2030 Ban on New Fossil Fueled Car Sales and The Ill-Informed Push for Us All to Drive Electric

In producing probably one of the most authoritative reports on the subject ever written, we have listened to thousands of road users, from cyclists, bikers, motorists, through to our vital…

Green Deal: Fear of yellow vests rebellion spreads across Europe

Nevertheless, there is concern in Europe’s national capitals that the EU’s ambitious climate policy could cause social unrest. The Italian government, for example, fears rising electricity prices. The EU climate…

West’s Energy Transition Narrative Ignores The Reality in Asia

The plutocrats that regularly converge at the World Economic Forum and the policy makers in Western Europe and the US have been pushing their “Global Reset” and “Build Back Better”…

2020 Global Energy Data Shows Fossil Fuels Completely Dominate World Energy Use

The world’s developing nations completely dominate global energy use and emissions and are unwaveringly committed to future economically driven increased use of fossil fuels for energy growth with resulting future…

Nearly 60% of “House Democrats unite to send firm climate signal to Biden” according to Politico

Guest “Math class is tough” by David Middleton ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT House Democrats unite to send firm climate signal to BidenDemocrats across the ideological spectrum want strong climate change action…

World Report Card: The Inexorable March Toward Zero Carbon Emissions (Not!)

As we all know, the most important task currently facing the world is the elimination of carbon emissions from energy consumption in order to save the planet from the existential…

Global fossil fuel use similar to decade ago in energy mix

The authors of the report don’t seem to have worked out that countries such as China and India don’t want them for the simple reason that they don’t work. They…