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Kenneth Green has studied energy and environmental policy at free-market think tanks in North America for over 20 years. He holds a Doctoral degree in Environmental Science and Engineering from UCLA, and has over 850 publications to his credit.

Reliable electricity? Bah humbug!

In a refreshingly honest article in the Boston Review, David McDermott Hughes confirms something that we energy evangelists have been saying for some time: Environmentalists do not simply want people to transition to “green energy,” they want humanity put on energy rationing, for the good of the planet. Now, apparently, they’ve also decided that we need to add intermittent fasting to our energy diet because, gosh darnit, electricity in developed countries like the United States is just too darn reliable for our own good! It needs to go out once in a while, or, well, the planet is doomed. According to [...]

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|2020-11-11T10:31:45-05:00October 25th, 2020|Comments Off on Reliable electricity? Bah humbug!

California brown-outs illustrate the dystopian outcomes of utopian targets

Power plants with the ability to produce almost 6,000 megawatts, or about 15 percent of the electricity on California’s grid, were reported as being offline when temperatures surged.

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|2020-10-12T07:50:41-04:00October 9th, 2020|Comments Off on California brown-outs illustrate the dystopian outcomes of utopian targets

Utopian targets and dystopian outcomes: California brown-outs

All told, power plants with the ability to produce almost 6,000 megawatts, or about 15 percent of the electricity on California’s grid, were reported as being offline when temperatures surged last Friday

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|2020-09-10T17:20:55-04:00September 11th, 2020|Comments Off on Utopian targets and dystopian outcomes: California brown-outs

California reveals the sad reality of “renewables”

They ought to make a movie. “Lights! Camera! Action!” Lights? Lights! Can we have some lights here?

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|2020-08-28T09:11:43-04:00August 28th, 2020|Comments Off on California reveals the sad reality of “renewables”

COVID-19 shows the need to deregulate work-styles

Of those employed pre-COVID-19, about half are now working from home.

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|2020-07-22T22:56:50-04:00July 23rd, 2020|Comments Off on COVID-19 shows the need to deregulate work-styles

Pipeline insanity migrates south from Canada

Canada has been unable to build a major oil pipeline for over a decade.

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|2020-07-08T09:00:44-04:00July 8th, 2020|Comments Off on Pipeline insanity migrates south from Canada

Another Covid-19 silver lining – hygienic wipes beat the sewer fascists!

In the UK, Friends of the Earth wants to make wipes both less useful and less available, calling for “an end to synthetic fibres, like plastic, in wet wipes; Better, clearer messaging on wet wipes to prevent them from being flushed down toilets; and a ban on the marketing of any single-use wipes as flushable.

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|2020-06-20T09:37:09-04:00June 21st, 2020|Comments Off on Another Covid-19 silver lining – hygienic wipes beat the sewer fascists!

Forecast models encounter reality

People accustomed to seeing forecasts of things that are somewhat remote, somewhat abstract in time, place, and consequences are suddenly being exposed to how the sausage is made in predictive forecasting, and many are not liking what they’ve seen.

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|2020-05-27T14:56:26-04:00May 28th, 2020|Comments Off on Forecast models encounter reality

CFACT: Technology to enable private conservation of oceans?

New technology that could dramatically (and affordably) expand our ability to not only track destructive activities in the oceans, but to trace them back to particular actors and locations.

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|2020-04-10T10:05:46-04:00April 12th, 2020|Comments Off on CFACT: Technology to enable private conservation of oceans?

COVID19 lessons: More ways to govern, work and live smarter

When technology, smart choices, individual freedom and national self-reliance lead the day.

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|2020-04-05T17:37:09-04:00April 7th, 2020|Comments Off on COVID19 lessons: More ways to govern, work and live smarter

COVID19 lessons: Govern, work and live smarter

Tough times teach tough lessons. Tossing aside foolish policy is a lesson worth learning.

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|2020-03-26T11:46:05-04:00March 26th, 2020|Comments Off on COVID19 lessons: Govern, work and live smarter

Telecommuting — An empowering lesson from COVID-19

Telework-reforms are something we can easily implement moving forward from COVID-19 that would let us learn from a crisis and immunize ourselves better against future challenges.

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|2020-03-18T20:33:39-04:00March 19th, 2020|Comments Off on Telecommuting — An empowering lesson from COVID-19

Canadian Astroturf

Who pushes the anti-energy agenda in Canada?

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|2020-03-10T11:10:08-04:00March 12th, 2020|Comments Off on Canadian Astroturf

Bezos buys world’s largest virtue-signal

The world's richest man spends $10 billion on virtue signalling hoping to appease the anti-capitalist Left.

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|2020-02-24T13:36:24-05:00February 24th, 2020|Comments Off on Bezos buys world’s largest virtue-signal
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