Reposted from the Fabius Maximus Website Larry Kummer, Editor Geopolitical News 1 July 2019 Summary: An oddity of US political debates is that both Left and Right lie like rugs.…
Tag: Renewable energy
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…
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…
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…
Bjørn Lomborg: No, renewables are not taking over the world.
Bjørn Lomborg writes on his Facebook page: We’re constantly being told how renewables are close to taking over the world. We’re told they are so cheap they’ll undercut fossil fuels…
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…
Wind turbines are neither clean nor green and they provide zero global energy
From The Spectator We urgently need to stop the ecological posturing and invest in gas and nuclear Matt Ridley The Global Wind Energy Council recently released its latest report, excitedly…
Renewable energy reduces power prices by more than cost of subsidies, study finds
From The ABC Renewable energy reduces power prices by more than cost of subsidies, study finds By Liz Hobday Posted Thu at 3:06pmThu 6 Dec 2018, 3:06pm Photo: Solar and…
Biofuel justifications are illusory
It’s time to really cut, cut, cut ethanol and other renewable fuel mandates – maybe to zero Paul Driessen The closest thing to earthly eternal life, President Ronald Reagan used…
Talking Truth to Climate Consensus
By Rud Istvan A sound bite summary* The climate consensus now has two derogation levels for those who disagree. Climate ‘contrarians’ like Bjørn Lomborg disagree about mitigation policies. Climate ‘deniers’…
Obama May Finally Succeed!
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach For this post I’ve taken as my departure point a couple of very interesting graphs from over at Not A Lot Of People Know That.…
National Renewable Electricity Standard: Why raise electricity prices?
Guest essay by Steve Goreham Originally published in The Washington Times Earlier this month, Representatives Jared Polis (D Colorado), Ben Ray Luján (D New Mexico), and Ann Kuster (D New…
Claim: Let's put batteries on wind and solar farms
From Stanford University Stanford scientists calculate the energy required to store wind and solar power on the grid Renewable energy holds the promise of reducing carbon dioxide emissions. But there…
Lomborg: Renewables are stuck, although green hopes keep rising
Guest essay by Bjørn Lomborg Globally, renewables have been *declining* for the last two centuries, and have remained stuck at about 13% for the past 40 years. People expect them…
Europe bails on green energy
Dr. Benny Peiser at The Australian: Europe pulls the plug on its green future Slowly but gradually, Europe is awakening to a green energy crisis, an economic and political debacle…
A step in the right direction? Major shift in the UK’s government attitude to climate change
Story submitted by D.McNeil I’d like to bring some points to the attention of your readers that were raised in an article in the Independent published on 11th May 2013 …
The Faults, Fallacies and Failures of Wind Power
Guest essay by Viv Forbes Wind power is not free. All natural energy resources such as coal, wind and sun appear “free” – no one has to incur costs to…
Life After Energy: What if fossil fuels disappeared tomorrow?
There is an anti-human TV program on the History Channel called Life After People, which portrays the aftermath of the imaginary scenario where all people on Earth suddenly vanished in…
A LOL ! press release on renewable energy from wishful thinkers at the University of Delaware
From the University of Delaware a press release that made me laugh out loud when I read it for the sheer disconnect with reality. The bold in first sentence about…
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