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FERC considers constraining renewables

The looming threat of numerous blackouts is their fault.

By David Wojick |2022-12-22T14:43:57-05:00December 27th, 2022|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

Serious Arguments For Citizen Climate Warriors: Book review of “Dumb Energy” by Norman Rogers

The reality is that wind and solar are subsidized by seventy percent.

By Dr. Jay Lehr |2022-11-29T13:38:13-05:00November 28th, 2022|Comments Off

Wild west voltage spikes in South Australia and a billion watts of wasted solar

South Australia survived the big scary sunny day yesterday, but had to shut off solar power and throw all those sacred green electrons into a thousand open circuits.

By Joanne Nova |2022-11-23T16:16:30-05:00November 18th, 2022|Comments Off

Rural backlash against renewables with 67 rejections of solar over eleven months

BY ROBERT BRYCE: The punchline here is obvious: the hype about major expansions of renewable-energy capacity ignores first principles

By CFACT Ed |2022-10-14T11:39:52-04:00October 16th, 2022|Comments Off

Reliable wind and solar are not cheap

That wind and solar are cheaper is at best a half truth, more like an eighth truth.

By David Wojick |2022-08-11T10:44:21-04:00August 11th, 2022|Comments Off

They’re paneling paradise to put up solar — A lot

BY STEVE MILLER: Supplying 40% of the nation’s energy from the sun by 2035 means covering millions of acres of forest and desert with solar panel installations fenced off like prisons.

By CFACT Ed |2022-07-15T11:10:57-04:00July 16th, 2022|Comments Off

Wind rejected in CA and OH, NBC reports ‘at least 40’ communities have rejected big solar since 2021

BY ROBERT BRYCE: Rejections of Big Solar are exceeding Big Wind rejections.

By CFACT Ed |2022-03-31T18:53:38-04:00April 3rd, 2022|Comments Off

Why “cheap” solar increases the price of power

It is impossible for solar to generate reliably.

By David Wojick |2022-03-14T13:01:55-04:00March 3rd, 2022|Comments Off

“Clean” energy is dirtier than imagined

Wind and solar carry shockingly dirty footprints.

By Donn Dears |2022-02-04T12:31:43-05:00February 6th, 2022|Comments Off

Tell lawmakers the Virginia “Clean” Economy Act is a dangerous mistake

Tell the Virginia House of Delegates the truth about which energy sources work and which don't.

By Craig Rucker |2022-01-31T11:20:25-05:00January 31st, 2022|Comments Off

Assessing Virginia’s hidden wind and solar costs

Wind turbines and solar panels carry heavy footprints. There is nothing clear or green about them.

By Paul Driessen |2022-01-31T10:54:58-05:00January 31st, 2022|Comments Off

We should not compare electricity sources using nameplate ratings

Public relations efforts designed to make people feel good about weather-dependent electricity from wind and solar are misleading.

By Ronald Stein, Tom Stacy |2022-01-29T14:52:21-05:00January 29th, 2022|Comments Off

Paving Virginia with solar slabs is bad law

The ill-conceived Virginia Clean Economy Act (VCEA) has created an enormous stampede of proposed solar projects. The lineup of "subsidy farms" in progress is breathtaking. It is also stupid.

By David Wojick |2021-12-27T11:40:22-05:00December 27th, 2021|Comments Off

Irate farmers blast environmental harm caused by solar array

Farmers in central Virginia’s Louisa County got a glimpse of the much-acclaimed green energy future—they don’t like what they see.

By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. |2021-10-26T16:46:12-04:00October 21st, 2021|Comments Off