Here comes The Sun

BY JOE BASTARDI: While sunspot activity has been going down, Net incoming radiation has not. 

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BLM takes comments on world’s biggest solar boondoggle

The Bureau of Land Management has just proposed a monstrous (in size and scope) plan for solar power development called the Western Solar Plan.

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Former Greens Leader Bob Brown says wind and solar industries are profiteering off climate

Every day the Greens sound more like Skeptics

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America pursues intermittent renewables as worldwide nuclear expansion underway

About 60 nuclear power reactors are currently being constructed in 15 countries, notably China, India, and Russia. Check out Sweden.

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|2023-11-29T10:33:14-05:00November 30th, 2023|Comments Off on America pursues intermittent renewables as worldwide nuclear expansion underway

Investors abandoning “green” energy as they realize it’s never going to be cheap

Decisions are being delayed, contracts abandoned, auctions left without bidders and almost no new projects started.

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|2023-10-24T11:33:59-04:00October 21st, 2023|Comments Off on Investors abandoning “green” energy as they realize it’s never going to be cheap

Katie Pavlich on private conservation efforts and clean energy follies

Katie Pavlich joins District of Conservation again to dish Season 2 of her Fox Nation show and trending public policy issues.

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|2023-07-31T18:15:42-04:00July 31st, 2023|Comments Off on Katie Pavlich on private conservation efforts and clean energy follies

The world needs more than intermittent electricity from wind and solar

The forced transition to occasional electricity generation from breezes and sunshine has proven to be ultra-expensive for the wealthy countries of Germany, Australia, Great Britain, and the USA. For the poor... devastating.

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|2023-06-30T03:48:20-04:00July 1st, 2023|Comments Off on The world needs more than intermittent electricity from wind and solar

Limitations on mining for electricity

Just for electricity from EV batteries, and the electricity occasionally generated from wind turbines and solar panels, the World Bank estimates that more than three billion tons of metals and minerals could be required over the next three decades.

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|2023-06-14T11:42:19-04:00June 15th, 2023|Comments Off on Limitations on mining for electricity

Green industrialization greatly increases CO2 emissions

What we need is supply chain emission analysis.

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|2023-06-09T16:13:32-04:00June 12th, 2023|Comments Off on Green industrialization greatly increases CO2 emissions

Solar farm runoff pollutes property, couple awarded $135 million

A federal jury has awarded a couple in southwest Georgia $135.5 million after runoff from “Lumpkin Solar” severely polluted waters and soils on their rural property.

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|2023-06-05T09:40:28-04:00June 6th, 2023|Comments Off on Solar farm runoff pollutes property, couple awarded $135 million

Giant solar array set to go up in rural Virginia county

The Board of Supervisors in Central Virginia’s Albemarle County unanimously approved a massive solar array project in an area otherwise dotted by farms, forests and vineyards.

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|2023-04-24T10:29:55-04:00April 25th, 2023|Comments Off on Giant solar array set to go up in rural Virginia county

JP Morgan CEO calls on governments to seize land for wind and solar

“We may even need to invoke eminent domain – we are simply not getting the added investments fast enough for grid, solar, wind, and pipeline investments.”

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|2023-04-11T14:43:58-04:00April 11th, 2023|Comments Off on JP Morgan CEO calls on governments to seize land for wind and solar

Renewables and fossil fuels are not comparable in their ability to sustain humanity

"Energy transition" falsely leaves the impression that there exists a quick, easy, and scalable alternative to fossil fuels.

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|2023-04-03T10:52:41-04:00April 2nd, 2023|Comments Off on Renewables and fossil fuels are not comparable in their ability to sustain humanity

Greens refuse to discuss recycling renewables and restoring mining locations to pristine condition

restoration of mining locations to pristine conditions Decommissioning, recycling, and restoration of the landscaping back to its original pristine condition is not in the cards for wind, solar, and EV battery materials.

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|2023-03-22T12:21:19-04:00March 19th, 2023|Comments Off on Greens refuse to discuss recycling renewables and restoring mining locations to pristine condition

A simple reason why net zero is impossible

Grid scale storage at the scale needed to replace fossil fuels with wind and solar is impossibly expensive.

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|2023-03-14T15:16:49-04:00March 17th, 2023|Comments Off on A simple reason why net zero is impossible
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