The disastrous economics of trying to power an electric grid with 100% intermittent “renewables”

BY FRANCIS MENTON: In those jurisdictions that have succeeded in getting generation from renewables up to as high as about 30% of their total electricity supply, the result has been an approximate tripling in the price of electricity f

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Solar deserts are no solution

What is the environmental impact of converting fields and forests into solar arrays?

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​Why wind and solar won’t save the planet: A U.S. case history

If we keep shutting down reliable backup energy, we face the likelihood of nationwide, Texas-like blackouts.

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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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|2024-02-07T09:33:18-05:00February 9th, 2024|Comments Off on BLM takes comments on world’s biggest solar boondoggle

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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|2023-12-26T16:02:57-05:00December 28th, 2023|Comments Off on Former Greens Leader Bob Brown says wind and solar industries are profiteering off climate

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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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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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
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