batteries

Making PJM all wind and solar would cost over $2.4 trillion in battery backup

Making wind and solar work at all requires a fantastic amount of battery backup, far more than is possible.

By David Wojick |2025-07-11T22:42:52-04:00July 12th, 2025|Comments Off

We need a grid battery public safety standard

The existing battery safety standards are grossly incomplete for the huge grid grid scale battery complexes being recklessly built in large numbers.

By David Wojick |2025-04-07T21:29:29-04:00April 7th, 2025|Comments Off

Grid battery cost issue storm looms in Massachusetts

Massachusetts just passed a law requiring the big utilities to buy a whopping 1,500 MW of batteries by this July.

By David Wojick |2025-01-04T23:30:09-05:00January 7th, 2025|Comments Off

The home-based battery storage fantasy

BY JONATHAN LESSER: Home batteries are yet another example of electricity “magical thinking.”

By CFACT Ed |2024-11-24T11:43:04-05:00November 24th, 2024|Comments Off

Energy is the future, bring a fire extinguisher

Alternative energy is exploding─literally.

By Steve Goreham |2024-10-27T16:17:19-04:00October 29th, 2024|Comments Off

The battery-electric Kool-Aid acid test

New fuels and new engines are in the pipeline.

By Duggan Flanakin |2024-10-18T10:45:35-04:00October 18th, 2024|Comments Off

Grid scale battery fires loom large

Construction of huge battery arrays with no concern for potentially catastrophic fires is out of control.

By David Wojick |2024-09-29T11:50:13-04:00October 1st, 2024|Comments Off

Net Zero energy storage presents a battery of problems

“Net Zero” accurately describes the net benefits of an inane energy transition to a battery of blackouts that will paralyze transportation, gridlock lives and workplaces, and produce mountains of toxic waste.

By Larry Bell |2024-06-24T09:53:25-04:00June 25th, 2024|Comments Off

The many problems with batteries

BY IDDO WERNICK: There are easier ways for humanity to avoid the problems that batteries are intended to solve.

By CFACT Ed |2024-06-03T09:40:38-04:00June 2nd, 2024|Comments Off

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.

By Ronald Stein |2023-06-14T11:42:19-04:00June 15th, 2023|Comments Off

Tesla rejects batteries for net zero storage

When a world leader in grid scale batteries says they are not the way to net zero electric power it is a big thing.

By David Wojick |2023-04-16T03:57:17-04:00April 17th, 2023|Comments Off

Astronomical battery cost looms over “renewables”

The amount of storage needed to make renewables reliable is so huge that even if the cost dropped fantastically we still could not afford it.

By David Wojick |2022-12-11T14:54:20-05:00December 15th, 2022|Comments Off

Backup battery cost fantasies abound

Energy policy needs to be based on sound engineering estimates, not wishful fantasies.

By David Wojick |2022-06-13T14:11:24-04:00June 8th, 2022|Comments Off

ZEV subsidies fail equity, economics, and environmental tests

“I’m literally saying get rid of all subsidies, but also for oil and gas.” – Elon Musk

By Duggan Flanakin |2021-12-14T10:55:22-05:00December 19th, 2021|Comments Off

Nevada lithium mine, key to “Green” energy, opposed by Greens

A proposed lithium mine on federal land in western Nevada may be brought low by – of all things -- buckwheat.

By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. |2021-09-27T21:17:12-04:00September 28th, 2021|Comments Off