Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach The BBC, that bastion of slanted reportage on all things green, has an article about a new solar power plant entitled “The Colossal African Solar…
Tag: Solar power
The $2.2 Billion Bird-Scorching Solar Project At California's Ivanpah Plant
It’s not just Wind Turbines that kill wildlife, from the Wall Street Journal: “A giant solar-power project officially opening this week in the California desert is the first of its…
Zombie asks a question
Zombie, of San Francisco’s “Zombietime” fame, writes in with a question that he has graciously allowed to be given to our readers. He writes: I’m preparing to write an essay…
Newsbytes: Green Energy Disaster Sinks Siemens CEO
From Dr. Benny Peiser and The GWPF Merkel’s Green Shift Backfires As German CO2 Emissions Jump – solar business closing Siemens, Europe’s largest engineering company, has lost patience with its…
Moronomics
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Reading my Sunday paper today, I find the following: Customers Can Sell Back Solar Power. The Los Angeles District of Water and Power will allow…
We Had To Pave The Environment In Order To Save It
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Trading food for fuel, in a world where high food prices already affect the poor, has always seemed like a bad idea to me. If…
NYT, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and David Crane have no clue about how grid tied solar power actually works with the grid
Hurricane Sandy seems to have brought out the latent stupidity in just about everyone in their zeal to get in on the climate alarm resurgence. I laughed out loud when…
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…
How Green Was My Bankruptcy? “Roadmap for Solar Energy Development on Public Lands” Edition
The agency has already approved 17 large-scale solar energy projects on public lands that are expected to produce nearly 6,000 megawatts of electricity, enough to power about 1.8 million homes.…
Another Obama sanctioned taxpayer funded boondoggle goes bellyup
From WSJ: The financial pipeline was cut short before engineers could begin operating the Blythe Solar Power Project, a 1,000-megawatt system with capacity to power 300,000 homes, according to the…
Another publicly larded solar company – this one wants to walk away from their solar manufacturing plant
BOSTON (AP) — Evergreen Solar is asking a bankruptcy judge for permission to walk away from its former plant in Devens. The company, which received tens of millions in state…
Shocker: BP quits solar power industry
BP Exits the Solar Industry (via Planet Gore) By Greg Pollowitz Bloomberg: BP Plc, Europe’s second-largest oil company, will shut its solar power unit and quit the business entirely after 40…
Solar power without silicon solar cells? New magnetic effect of light into insulators discovered.
‘We’ve all been taught that this doesn’t happen’ From the University of Michigan A dramatic and surprising magnetic effect of light discovered by University of Michigan researchers could lead to…
Sunengy, with a chance of typhoons
Yes, it floats on water, and has a Fresnel lens from the local high school projectionist club, but what about typhoons and lesser gales? No mention of that. Somehow, this…
News bites: The Green Energy Collapse
From the GWPF, a collection of headlines: Across the world, unsustainable subsidies for wind and solar are being cut back.—Lawrence Solomon, – Financial Post, 3 December 2010 The French government…
"Sahara Solar Breeders" don't sand a chance
Or, “how to make pie in the sky using our simple recipe”. From the New Scientist, making solar power is just as easy as building a few factories in the…
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