The crux of the matter appears to be the economic viability of these offshore wind projects.
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Wind Output Plaguing Texas (ERCOT weathers on)
Until sufficient utility-scale battery storage is available, which is unlikely anytime soon due to the cost of current technologies, the ERCOT power grid and all others will require substantial natural…
Texans Asked to Cut Electricity Use, As Wind Power Drops Off
Fortunately Texas still has plenty of gas generation:
More Media Lies About the Texas Electricity Grid
Guest “Lying must be like breathing to them” by David Middleton Solar, wind energy keeping Texas power grids running amid weekslong heat wave Inflated prices and power failures could have…
Wind Turbine Power and Land Cover Effects on Bat Deaths
Unrecorded deaths are > 500% higher than the recorded ones.
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.
Gas Power Is Cheaper Than Wind, Despite Carbon Brief’s Claims
If we had more gas-fired power and less wind power, our energy bills would be lower, not higher.
Reliable vs. Intermittent Generation: A Primer (Part I)
Therefore, if fuel costs are rising, and I am running my generation facility on a skeleton crew, what’s left for me to cut?
Demands for more subsidy expose the illusion of falling wind power costs
The absurdity of current Net Zero plans is now exposed for all to see.
The Final Nail in The Coffin Of “Renewable” Energy
Nut zero, then, is a striking instance of Monckton’s Law, which states that any attempt by governments to interfere in the free market in pursuit of some political objective or…
The Tories’ Wind Power Delusion–Matt Ridley
From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT By Paul Homewood Matt Ridley in the Spectator: A very strange parliamentary rebellion has been taking place with Boris Johnson, Liz Truss…
Wind Farm in Germany is Being Dismantled to Expand Coal Mine
Am I the only one to feel insulted by the BBC, Committee on Climate Change , Ambrose Evans-Pritchard and the rest of the green mafia, who constantly tell us that…
Blackouts… Because Climate Change! Blame Natural Gas!
Guest “They got it bass-ackwards, once again” by David Middleton Electricity operators must wake up to climate change — or brace for summer outagesBY ROMANY M. WEBB, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR –…
Fake News: Wind Tops Coal & Nuclear for First Time in US History
Guest “Situational statistics” by David Middleton Who else used to play Strat-O-Matic Baseball? One of my Moneyball–type strategies was to draft players with great situational statistics. I remember two players,…
BBC Climate Advice: Misery for Ordinary Britons, to Avoid the Need to Frack
Slower trains, more restricted road travel, colder homes – all because Britain’s political and media elite still cannot admit their renewable energy fantasy is a failure.
Texas: Wind Fails, Media Blames Natural Gas… Again
Guest “Just a bit outside!” by David Middleton Plunging Natural Gas Supply Shows Texas Still Not Ready for ColdBy Gerson Freitas Jr, Francesca Maglione, and Sergio ChapaJanuary 3, 2022, 12:06…
Wind Power Drops By A Third In Q3
We are familiar with short term drops in output, maybe for a few days or even weeks. But to lose effectively a third of generation for a whole quarter shows…
Power When You Need It? Not With Wind
From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT By Paul Homewood If this is the standard of research into the reliability of wind power, then heaven help us all: Nobody…
For 40% Of The EU And US To Drive EVs, 56,000-70,000 Km² Of Land Must Be Cleared For Wind Turbines
And now a new study documents how much more land must be converted to impervious surface so that new wind farms can supply the electricity to charge an exponentially-growing number…
ERCOT issues conservation alert… Media blames natural gas
Guest “Of course they did” by David Middleton ERCOT = Electric Reliability Council of Texas H/T to David Youatt for this suggested topic. June 14 ERCOT News Release News ReleaseJune…
The Future Of Energy: One Of These Things Is Not Real
In the reality on the ground, thousands of independent actors, both private and governments, are ready and able to fill the demand for fossil fuels and to make lots of…
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…
The performance of UK Weather Dependent Renewables: 2002 – 2020
And it is already happening in the UK: the “trip” of an Offshore wind farm on a breezy summer afternoon contributed to the major UK power outage of 9/8/2019. As…
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