And you can get on your bike with this green claptrap
13 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, transport economics, urban economics Tags: climate activists
Germany’s Monumental Wind & Solar Power Fail Delivers Total Economic Disaster
13 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
Ideological experiments come in all shapes and sizes, but Germany’s wind and solar craze is monumental – a monumental environmental, economic and social disaster, to put it mildly. Suffering routine power rationing, mass blackouts and Europe’s highest power prices is only just the pointy end of what Germany’s boffins called the ‘Energiewende’, which was touted […]
Germany’s Monumental Wind & Solar Power Fail Delivers Total Economic Disaster
The myth of cheap offshore wind has been exposed
11 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: celebrity technologies, wind power
By Paul Homewood London, 10 November – Net Zero Watch is calling for an investigation after it was reported that ministers are considering doubling the guaranteed prices on offer for offshore windfarms next year to between £70 and £75/MWh. The news comes after this year’s auction failed to attract any bids from offshore wind […]
The myth of cheap offshore wind has been exposed
More Questions about Electric Vehicles
11 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, transport economics, urban economics
Four months ago, the Antiplanner observed that the market for electric cars was supposedly booming. Yet I was skeptical. Ford, Toyota, and other mainstream manufacturers were making very limited runs of electric vehicles, making it hard to get one. Others, such as Fiat-Chrysler, weren’t making any at all. Other than … Continue reading →
More Questions about Electric Vehicles
Pointless Preaching: Zero Chance of Meeting Net Zero CO2 Emissions Targets
10 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
Setting pointless targets and announcing five-year plans is all the rage, which includes playing accounting tricks with carbon dioxide gas emissions. So-called net-zero carbon dioxide gas emissions targets are just the latest tool employed by crony capitalists to separate the poor from their hard-earned cash. Those behind the scam know full well the targets they […]
Pointless Preaching: Zero Chance of Meeting Net Zero CO2 Emissions Targets
Self Imposed Energy Poverty Coming to Canada
08 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, econometerics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: Canada
Jock Finlayson describes how climate change policies are depleting Canadians’ financial means in his article Millions of Canadians May Face ‘Energy Poverty’. Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. The term “energy poverty” is not yet part of day-to-day political debate in Canada, but that’s likely to change in the next few years. […]
Self Imposed Energy Poverty Coming to Canada
The Battle for Syria: International Rivalry in the New Middle East by Christopher Phillips (revised edition, 2020)
08 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, economics of crime, energy economics, International law, law and economics, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: Iran, Israel, Middle-East politics, Syria, war against terror
There are quite a few book-length studies of the Syrian Civil War. The distinctive thing about this one is that academic and author Christopher Phillips insists that other regional countries weren’t ‘drawn into’ the conflict once it had got going but, on the contrary, were involved right from the start, helped to exacerbate the initial […]
The Battle for Syria: International Rivalry in the New Middle East by Christopher Phillips (revised edition, 2020)
California EV HELL: QUEUING for chargers at MIDNIGHT!!!
07 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, transport economics
By Paul Homewood Coming to a town near you!
California EV HELL: QUEUING for chargers at MIDNIGHT!!!
Mini Electric Costs £10K More Than Petrol–And Has An Effective Range Of 100 Miles
05 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, transport economics
By Paul Homewood I don’t use Facebook much, but am always astonished to see how many adverts for EVs appear. Are companies so desperate to sell them, or is this the Nudge Unit at work again? Anyway, it’s a good opportunity to check out prices again.
Mini Electric Costs £10K More Than Petrol–And Has An Effective Range Of 100 Miles
Offshore Wind Demands £95/MWh
05 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
By Paul Homewood h/t Philip Bratby So now we get an actual figure on it!! From the Telegraph: No new wind farms will be built off Britain’s shores unless the Government lets operators earn more money from the electricity they produce, the chief of the nation’s biggest generator has said. Tom Glover, country chair of […]
Offshore Wind Demands £95/MWh
NatWest combs customer accounts – and tells them to go vegetarian
04 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: nanny state, political correctness, regressive left
By Paul Homewood h/t Ian Magness From the Telegraph: NatWest is telling customers to stop eating meat and to drive electric cars after combing their accounts to calculate their carbon footprint. A “Carbon Footprint Tracker” on the bank’s mobile app uses the transaction data of customers and makes recommendations on how […]
NatWest combs customer accounts – and tells them to go vegetarian
South Africa’s Slow, Inevitable March Towards Collapse
04 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of crime, energy economics, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, urban economics Tags: South Africa
Why Intermittent Wind & Solar Always Deliver Higher Power Prices
03 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: celebrity technologies, wind power
Looking to thank someone for your latest power bill, then look no further than subsidised wind and solar. The ‘unreliables’ are the principal reason why retail power bills are rising at unprecedented rates. Behind the curtain, there are a number of forces at work which, over the last decade or so, have entirely upended the […]
Why Intermittent Wind & Solar Always Deliver Higher Power Prices
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