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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.

By Gabriella Hoffman |2023-07-31T18:15:42-04:00July 31st, 2023|Comments Off

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.

By Ronald Stein |2023-06-30T03:48:20-04:00July 1st, 2023|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

Green industrialization greatly increases CO2 emissions

What we need is supply chain emission analysis.

By David Wojick |2023-06-09T16:13:32-04:00June 12th, 2023|Comments Off

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.

By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. |2023-06-05T09:40:28-04:00June 6th, 2023|Comments Off

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.

By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. |2023-04-24T10:29:55-04:00April 25th, 2023|Comments Off

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.”

By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. |2023-04-11T14:43:58-04:00April 11th, 2023|Comments Off

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.

By Ronald Stein |2023-04-03T10:52:41-04:00April 2nd, 2023|Comments Off

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.

By Ronald Stein |2023-03-22T12:21:19-04:00March 19th, 2023|Comments Off

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.

By David Wojick |2023-03-14T15:16:49-04:00March 17th, 2023|Comments Off

NetZero Reality Coalition forms and scores first big win

NZRC stands in opposition to leftist “NetZero” advocates who seek to tear down energy sources that work, while pushing energy sources, such as intermittent wind and solar, that are not up to the challenge of powering the world's needs.

By Craig Rucker |2023-03-17T12:13:53-04:00March 16th, 2023|Comments Off

Illinois town nixes solar desert

To add insult to injury, the owner of the 49-acre property, where the thousands of solar panels were to be installed, changed his mind and came out in opposition to the project.

By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. |2023-03-10T11:18:05-05:00March 11th, 2023|Comments Off

Electricity prices are soaring in heavy wind energy states

Electricity ratepayers are getting crushed in Europe and American states that copy Europe's energy mistakes.

By Steve Goreham |2023-03-05T10:40:58-05:00March 7th, 2023|Comments Off

Solar panel appears then disappears at Sydney temp station

Perhaps the BOM just thought no one would notice, and “it’s for a good cause, eh?” We can’t have the punters thinking Sydney was cooler today than in 1883.

By Joanne Nova |2023-02-04T15:03:25-05:00February 5th, 2023|Comments Off

Illinois town faces solar “high noon”

It is doubtful that Bundleflower Solar would even pursue the project in Pontiac (or anyplace else) without the prospect of Energy Tax Credits under state law, as well as the federal subsidy for solar developers, known as the Investment Tax Credit (ITC).

By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. |2023-02-01T11:41:46-05:00February 2nd, 2023|Comments Off