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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia Tags: solar power, wind power
Solar panels deliver power for around 6 hours a day, struggle during wet/cloudy weather and a decent hailstorm or hurricane wipes them out completely. Anyone recommending solar power as a solution to our growing need for electrical energy needs their head read. Certain parts of the world suffer regular, violent hailstorms, where hailstones outsize golf […]
All Hail Nuclear: Because Solar Panels Can’t Survive Hailstorms or Hurricanes
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: British politics, wind power
Floating offshore wind is probably the most expensive form of electricity ever deployed on a commercial basis in the UK, and all the signs are that it will remain so.
Net Zero Watch warns of years of rising electricity bills
18 Aug 2024 1 Comment
in econometerics, economics of education, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate activists, climate alarmism
What matters is what happens when mistakes are made.
Roger Pielke Jr. details ‘The Top Five Climate Science Scandals’: Study claiming no ‘climate crisis’ retracted ‘for not for being wrong…but instead for expressing views that are politically unhelpful’
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in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, energy economics, health economics, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: 2024 presidential election, price controls, tariffs
As a Senator, Kamala Harris embraced all sorts of terrible ideas, such as the Green New Deal and Medicare for All. But she’s now disavowed those proposals in an attempt to make herself seem more reasonable. Trump, by contrast, is consistent. For better or worse, he’s pushing in 2024 the same agenda that he ran […]
Kamala Harris, Price Controls, and the Contest for the Dumbest Policy Proposal of 2024
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmism
Whatever the motivations, spending trillions of dollars to replace fossil fuels with expensive and unreliable wind and solar sources is foolish, futile and dangerous.
Math Confirms Foolishness of Climate Alarmism
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: nanny state, Switzerland
Installing air conditioning in Switzerland is often subject to rules set at the cantonal level. Geneva is the strictest canton. To qualify, a home owner must prove they have a legitimate need, for example, by producing a medical certificate, and install systems that capture some of the heat emissions and condensation produced. Other cantons require […]
Why doesn’t Switzerland have more air conditioners?
15 Aug 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, economics of crime, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, law and economics Tags: climate activists
If NGOs or collection campaigns don’t help out, the climate-blocking criminal could end up in prison as a substitute. How many years would that amount to?
Globe-Trotting Climate Activist Fined 100,000 Euros After Blocking Frankfurt Airport
15 Aug 2024 1 Comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, liberalism, Marxist economics Tags: British politics, climate activists, Internet
By Paul Homewood Guido has news on the batch of SpAds advising the clueless Ed Miliband. Their extreme backgrounds are s concerning as Miliband’s own. The fact that he has picked these says it all.
Ed Miliband’s Hard Left Policy Team
14 Aug 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: solar power, wind power
There’s something altogether pathetic about those that push wind and solar as the path to an energy Utopia. A place where unicorns, fairies and pixies are in charge and numbers get treated with contempt. Numbers such as those collected by Frances Menton and Robert Bryce and the pieces below. Numbers that demonstrate that, after almost […]
Energy Numbers: Decades of Data Detail Wind & Solar’s Pathetic Performance
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election
The threat of recurrent blackouts is rising, and we are getting closer than ever to having electricity when it happens to be available, instead of when we need it.
Energy should play key role in 2024 Pennsylvania (and US) elections
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, law and economics, property rights Tags: British politics, wind power
By Paul Homewood h/t Philip Bratby Is there no limit that this moron will go to wreck this country? Giant wind turbines taller than London’s Gherkin building are to be built across Britain’s countryside after Ed Miliband rejected calls to impose a height limit. The Energy Secretary’s decision means turbines as high as 850ft can […]
Wind turbines taller than skyscrapers to march across British countryside
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate activists, climate alarmism
We’ll be eight degrees hotter in ten, not ten but 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.
Earth 14 years away from Ted Turner’s 2038 Countdown to Cannibalism: 2008 Flashback: ‘Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals’
10 Aug 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: electric cars
Electric Vehicles running on wind and solar power captured and stored in lithium-ion batteries is all part of the grand ‘transition’, or so we’re told. Except when those batteries self-immolate, burn for days and spew out a deadly toxic plume that threatens anything but breaths for miles around. Not that the pyrotechnic mayhem attracts much […]
EV Explosion: Lithium Battery Fires Provide New & Exciting Firefighting Opportunities
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in energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, transport economics Tags: electric cars
Meanwhile petrol and diesel engine car sales have risen 24% and 20% respectively.
Germany Green Transition Collapse: Electric Vehicle Sales Plummet 47% In First Half of This Year!
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in comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, population economics, Public Choice Tags: climate alarmism
Roger Pielke Jr. explains at his blog Why Climate Misinformation Persists. Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. H/T John Ray Noble Lies, Conventional Wisdom, and Luxury Beliefs In 2001, I participated in a roundtable discussion hosted at the headquarters of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) with a group of U.S. Senators, […]
Roots of Climate Change Distortions
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