… foundations of sand – naïve optimism reinforced by enthusiastic lobbying divorced from engineering reality. The post Britain’s Net Zero Disaster and the Wind Power Scam first appeared on Watts Up With That?.
Britain’s Net Zero Disaster and the Wind Power Scam
Britain’s Net Zero Disaster and the Wind Power Scam
30 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: British politics, wind power
Time to Bring Nuclear Energy Into the 21st Century
30 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: atomic energy
The silver lining of this month’s United Nations COP28 global warming conference is the growing consensus that nuclear energy is critical to meeting national carbon dioxide reduction goals.
Time to Bring Nuclear Energy Into the 21st Century
Aussie Coal State Premier Promotes the End of Coal
30 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: Australia, coal power
Queensland’s long reigning premier Annastacia Palaszczuk may have cut and run in the face of negative polls and a looming election, but her successor’s plan to accelerate coal job losses will help?
Aussie Coal State Premier Promotes the End of Coal
Wind Curtailment Costs To Rise To £3 Billion By 2030
30 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: wind power
By Paul Homewood h/t Ian Magness It appears that the BBC will print any nonsense it is handed by the renewable/climate lobby: Wasted wind power will add £40 to the average UK household’s electricity bill in 2023, according to a think tank.
Wind Curtailment Costs To Rise To £3 Billion By 2030
Beijing Breaks Seven Decade Cold Weather Record
28 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: China
I wonder how their solar panels and frost sensitive EVs are working out for them?
Beijing Breaks Seven Decade Cold Weather Record
Investors Are Turning on A Key Pillar of Biden’s Climate Agenda
27 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, financial economics, global warming
“I think the investor class has grown weary of the industry’s lack of profitability,” Blink Charging’s CEO Brendan Jones told the WSJ. EV charging companies once received lofty valuations from investors, Jones told the WSJ. The post Investors Are Turning on A Key Pillar of Biden’s Climate Agenda first appeared on Watts Up With That?.
Investors Are Turning on A Key Pillar of Biden’s Climate Agenda
Hottest In 125,000 Years?
26 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
Anybody who claims that this year is the hottest for 125,000 years is fraudulent.
Hottest In 125,000 Years?
After COP28: What Transition From Hydrocarbons?
25 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
How Do You Want Your Energy ‘Transition’? Mario Loyola wrote at The Wall Street Journal The Impossible Energy ‘Transition’. Excerpts in italics with my bolds. After two weeks of negotiation, the United Nations climate conference in Dubai agreed last week to “transition away” from fossil fuels. Left unanswered is whether governments are supposed to do […]
After COP28: What Transition From Hydrocarbons?
EV Push Imploding
25 Dec 2023 1 Comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
Levi Russell writes at Heartland The Rush to Force Everyone into Electric Vehicles is Imploding. Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. A recently published article in the peer-reviewed academic journal Transportation Research tells us that cars, even the supposedly anointed battery electric variety, are far too convenient and that the state must be empowered to “restrict […]
EV Push Imploding
The Case Against Offshore Wind
25 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: British politics, wind power
It might come in handy if anybody else wishes to grill their MP!
The Case Against Offshore Wind
Grand ‘Green’ Energy Flop: Europeans Wake Up to Wind & Solar Debacle
24 Dec 2023 1 Comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
The results of attempting to rely on sunshine and breezes can’t be hidden forever. As wind and solar generating capacity increases, the inevitable consequences are soon revealed: namely, routine power rationing, mass blackouts and crippling power prices. And yet the acolytes continue to maintain that we’re only a few mythical mega-batteries away from an all-wind […]
Grand ‘Green’ Energy Flop: Europeans Wake Up to Wind & Solar Debacle
Predictably, the Rush to Electric Cars Is Imploding
22 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, transport economics, urban economics
Anyone who tells you these power grabs aren’t coming is telling you not to believe your own eyes.
Predictably, the Rush to Electric Cars Is Imploding
The California Sun is Setting on Exorbitant Rooftop Solar Subsidies
21 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: solar power
Solar Net Energy Metering in California: From Rosy Inception to Rocky Realities
The California Sun is Setting on Exorbitant Rooftop Solar Subsidies
From Now To 2100 Emission Reduction Policy Costs Greatly Exceed Any Net Benefit from Averted Warming
20 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, econometerics, economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: climate alarmism
The benefits of not meeting Paris Accord emissions-reduction targets outweigh the costs associated even with worst-case-scenario global warming throughout the 21st century.
From Now To 2100 Emission Reduction Policy Costs Greatly Exceed Any Net Benefit from Averted Warming
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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