Alternative energy can’t replace hydrocarbons

For the cost of drilling a single shale well which may average 10 barrels of oil per hour or its equivalent in natural gas over decades, one can build two 500-foot-high, 2-megawatt (MW) wind turbines which will produce a combined output averaging the energy equivalent of 0.7 barrels of oil per hour.

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|2020-02-13T21:43:47-05:00February 17th, 2020|Comments Off on Alternative energy can’t replace hydrocarbons

Environment Florida misleads voters on renewable energy costs

Environment Florida may try to sell Floridians one bill of goods regarding wind power, but the facts tell us they are peddling economic snake oil.

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|2018-07-22T12:07:33-04:00May 26th, 2018|Comments Off on Environment Florida misleads voters on renewable energy costs

Another state realized solar subsidies are too expensive

Michigan officials are changing the way solar panel owners are paid for the energy they put back into the grid, joining a growing chorus of states that are recognizing the expensive costs of subsiding solar energy.

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|2018-04-23T04:54:03-04:00April 23rd, 2018|Comments Off on Another state realized solar subsidies are too expensive

Watch the Ivanpah solar plant incinerate birds and bugs

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) released video footage showing how the intense heat generated by the Ivanpah solar plant incinerates thousands of birds and bats.

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|2016-08-05T07:05:27-04:00August 5th, 2016|Comments Off on Watch the Ivanpah solar plant incinerate birds and bugs

Denmark says wind energy too expensive

Denmark’s government abandoned plans to build five offshore wind power farms Friday amid fears the electricity produced there would become too expensive for Danish consumers.

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|2016-05-13T21:41:25-04:00May 13th, 2016|20 Comments

New tech brings sunshine to solar’s future

When it comes to solar power, it has always been a choice of tapping the sun’s heat or light to produce energy – never both at the same time. But that may change now . . .

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|2013-12-24T19:59:13-05:00October 25th, 2013|Comments Off on New tech brings sunshine to solar’s future

Solar panel malfunctions going global

Getting electricity from the sun has always been expensive. But many communities have made investments in solar electricity figuring the costs could be recouped.

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|2013-07-17T14:23:13-04:00July 11th, 2013|3 Comments

Unprincipled lack of precaution on wind turbines

The problem with regard to consistency get larger as we come to realize that whatever they support is permitted; whatever they oppose violates the Precautionary Principle. They support windmills; therefore there is no violation. They oppose fracking; therefore it violates the principle.... In the view of activists and regulators, regulations exist to delay, block or destroy things they oppose. The fact that regulatory actions may well cause prolonged energy deprivation, poverty, unemployment, disease, malnutrition or premature death is irrelevant to them.

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|2013-06-24T13:19:58-04:00June 21st, 2013|6 Comments

Solar subsidies just tip of renewable cost iceberg

The collapse of Solyndra solar a while ago focused much attention on the cost of so-called renewable energy. But according to James Rust of the Heartland Institute, subsidies for solar are just the tip of the expensive renewables iceberg . . .

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|2013-06-18T17:17:17-04:00May 31st, 2013|Comments Off on Solar subsidies just tip of renewable cost iceberg

U.K. biomass plants fuel local opposition

Producing electricity from the burning of wood, or biomass, has long been viewed as an environmentally friendly way of generating power. But now this once favored source of green energy is losing its luster . . .

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|2013-06-18T16:31:14-04:00May 28th, 2013|Comments Off on U.K. biomass plants fuel local opposition

Renewable electricity mandate to zap ratepayers

Are efforts to mandate the use of solar, wind and other renewable energy sources a good idea? While many think so, the recent experience of Arizona seems to indicate otherwise. . . .

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|2013-06-14T12:48:08-04:00May 13th, 2013|Comments Off on Renewable electricity mandate to zap ratepayers

Environmental groups blocking renewable energy projects

Everyone knows that environmental groups oppose the construction of coal and nuclear plants – but do they also oppose wind and solar projects as well? The surprising answer is “yes."

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|2013-05-06T16:59:04-04:00May 3rd, 2013|Comments Off on Environmental groups blocking renewable energy projects

How ethanol programs cause 200,000 deaths each year

The EPA claims that ethanol, a fuel made from corn, has only a minimal impact on food prices. But Sam Kazman, general counsel for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, disagrees. . .

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|2013-05-06T16:48:36-04:00May 2nd, 2013|1 Comment

Federal regulators have bats in their belfries!

Bats are struck by blades traveling 100 to 200 mph at their tips or felled by “barotrauma,” sudden air pressure changes that explode their lungs, as explained in a 2008 Scientific American article “On a wing and low air: The surprising way wind turbines kill bats.”

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|2013-04-09T10:57:57-04:00April 8th, 2013|Comments Off on Federal regulators have bats in their belfries!

Cold kills more than heat & the Hockey Stick that wasn’t

Morano appeared on Canda's Sun TV to discuss why winter cold is killing many times more Britons than heat. He also addresses the stunning admission that a widely publicized study claiming unprecedented warming in the past 100 years was not "statistically robust"--another way of admitting that their conclusions are scientifically baseless.

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|2013-04-04T14:07:34-04:00April 1st, 2013|4 Comments
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