Change in political climate may raise energy costs
This 2019 new year of political climate change now finds green energy lobbies lining up to extract more subsidy gratitude from an indebted Democrat House majority.
“Sustainable” fuels unlikely to replace hydrocarbons for air travel
By Steve Goreham: If "sustainable" aviation fuels are adopted, the scale of the capacity required would be huge.
Platte River Power’s “green” folly
Gambling on intermittent power sources for 100% of your juice is hugely risky... and irresponsible.
Green wave staggers U.S. power utilities
Generating utilities are proposing to go way beyond adding capacity. They also want to shut down perfectly good generators, to make room for a huge buildup of wind and solar (plus battery storage). A recipe for disaster.
Gas price hypocrisy
In 2016, as part of President Obama's last budget proposal, he proposed a per barrel tax on crude oil. Analysts estimated that levy would increase retail gas prices by 25 cents or more. Whom can we trust on energy policy?
Germany’s green transition has hit a brick wall
Oddvar Lundseng, Hans Johnsen and Stein Bergsmark Even worse, its growing problems with wind and solar spell trouble all over the globe.
Burnmorecoal.com hits green power utilities in stockholder meetings
Coal energy has new advocates.
VIDEO: CFACT with the yellow vests
Video of CFACT with the Gilets Jaunes or Yellow Vest protesters in France. WATCH NOW
Giant Colorado energy company Xcel goes crazy green
Xcel stands to make huge profits from global warming policy. Being a regulated utility, the more they spend the more they make... and the more customers pay.
Starbucks thinks virtue signaling can “save the planet”
Will your Starbucks actually get electricity from wind turbines? Will transmission lines run directly from the turbines to each Starbucks store? If not, how will they separate wind-generated electrons from the renewable-fossil-hydro-nuclear mixture on the regional grid?
Colorado Energy Plan bid rigging?
The Colorado Energy Plan is a massive $2.5 billion scheme by Xcel Energy that substitutes wind and solar-plus-storage power for existing coal fired generation. The Plan is supposed to be based on a competitive procurement that received a multitude of bids. Only a few were selected and the makeup of these big winners strongly suggests that there was some form of bid rigging on Xcel's part.
100% renewable deception
There are a number of studies that seem to say that 100% renewables is feasible without filling the world with batteries. How do they do that? It turns out that there are several common tricks.
Harnessing the power of the stars — Could fusion power the future?
Promising work is being done in fusion that involves accepting the massive heat involved and dealing with it. This is done inside a container called a “tokamak.” This unwieldly acronym is the one to know. It comes from Russian terms that together basically mean doughnut-shaped device that uses magnets to control hot plasma.
Was the Colorado energy plan made in Minneapolis?
The Colorado Energy Plan (CEP) proposed by Xcel Energy surprised people by its boldness, which some critics called reckless. It turns out that the CEP is just part of an Xcel-wide corporate strategy, which has little to do with Colorado.
The frightful cost of Virginia offshore wind
By Steve Goreham The wholesale price for electricity in Virginia is about 3 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh). The electricity produced from the two offshore turbines will receive 78 cents per kWh, or a staggering 26 times the wholesale price.