Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
13 May 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - Australia, technological progress Tags: wind power
Sunset kills solar output the same way calm weather renders wind turbines utterly useless. Around the world $trillions have been squandered on occasional power generation which is always and everywhere dependent on sunshine and/or the weather. In the beginning, there was a perfectly functional power supply with reliable generators connected by a systematically designed grid […]
Occasional Wind & Solar Generation Guarantee Staggering Backup Costs
12 May 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia Tags: solar power, wind power
Like any ideological cult, wind and solar acolytes bury troublesome facts and replace them with oodles of helpful fiction. Start with the supposed cost of the electricity occasionally generated by wind turbines and solar panels. The usual trick is to invent some model said to capture the unique benefits of running on sunshine and breezes. […]
Faking It: Why ‘Cheap’ Wind & Solar Power Claims Never Stack Up
11 May 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: electric cars
Safety concerns around electric vehicles continue to mount with Australian fire and rescue services in New South Wales stating they might have to make a “tactical disengagement” of a trapped car accident victim if the battery is likely to explode.
Concerns Mount Over Exploding Electric Vehicles
10 May 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, transport economics Tags: electric trucks
The Wall Street Journal’s coverage of the high costs associated with electric trucks in the logistics sector brings critical scrutiny to the practical and economic viability of this transition.
Wall Street Journal: Companies are Balking at the High Cost of Running Electric Trucks.
10 May 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: solar power, wind power
The wind industry is looking a lot like a zombie apocalypse; evidently dead on its feet, but refusing to accept its mortality and die with dignity. The offshore wind industry in the US looks like a bloodbath, with dozens of major projects scrapped outright. Investors have pulled the plug, never to return. In Australia dozens […]
Zombie Apocalypse: Wind Industry Faces Total Collapse With More Projects Scrapped
06 May 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
The only thing scalable about wind and solar is the subsidies gouged from power consumers and/or taxpayers. While rent seekers can plant turbines and scatter solar panels from horizon to horizon, they can’t make the sun shine or the wind blow. Accordingly, sunset and/or calm weather makes the whole thing utterly pointless, at any scale. […]
US Taxpayers Hit With $425 Billion For Wind & Solar Subsidies Over Next Decade
05 May 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, Public Choice, public economics, transport economics, urban economics Tags: land supply
If there isn’t enough power for the new homes, where’s the power for all the soon-to-be mandatory electric vehicles supposed to come from? Net zero policy by climate obsessives is busy degrading the entire power grid to an increasingly part-time system. This is just one of the knock-on effects. – – – Our inadequate electricity […]
Electricity barrier: net zero climate policy means the UK housing crisis is getting worse
04 May 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia Tags: solar power
The chaos that’s wrecking our power supplies is what happens when engineers are replaced by ideologues. Long on cultish mantras about the ‘inevitable transition’ and the wonders of ‘free wind and solar energy’, but short on maths, physics and economics, the clowns in charge of our power supplies would have been charged with treason, not […]
Uncontrollable Surge: Daytime Solar Output Swamps Grid & Wrecks Power Market
04 May 2024 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
Dr Judith Curry gives the 2024 Annual GWPF Lecture on the subject of ‘Climate Uncertainty and Risk’.
2024 Annual GWPF Lecture – Judith Curry – Climate Uncertainty and Risk
03 May 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights
Update May 1, 2024 Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals grants Federal government’s petition for writ of mandamus in the case of Juliana v. United States, originally filed in 2015. Ruling excerpts are below in italics with my bolds. 20240501_docket-24-684_order In the underlying case, twenty-one plaintiffs (the Juliana plaintiffs) claim that—by failing to adequately respond to […]
May Day: Appeals Court Rules Against Kids’ Climate Lawsuit
02 May 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, law and economics, property rights Tags: solar power, wind power
Farmers have no hope of insuring their properties to cover damage caused to neighbouring solar factories. Public liability cover in property insurance contracts ordinarily caps out at around $20 million in Australia. As with any type of insurance, the greater the cover, the greater the premium. Although, there are certain risks that no insurer will […]
Farmers Uninsurable Risk: Solar Factory Neighbours Face Total Financial Ruin
02 May 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, transport economics, urban economics Tags: electric cars
Our investigation found that many EVs could become almost impossible to resell because of their limited battery life.
The Used EV Timebomb
02 May 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
How did the current obsession with decarbonization arise? Part of a lecture given by Prof. R, Lindzen to MIT Students for Free Inquiry on March 6, 2024 is posted by John Ray at his blog Greenie Watch. Excerpts in italics with my bold and added images. Currently, there is great emphasis on the march through […]
Why So Obsessed with Decarbonizing?
01 May 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: solar power, wind power
As night follows day, adding more wind and solar capacity inevitably results in rocketing power prices. The hard numbers say it all. China enjoys the world’s lowest power prices, thanks to cheap, abundant and reliable coal-fired power. Adding to their advantage, China is building dozens of new coal-fired and nuclear powered plants. It’s almost as […]
Countries With Most Wind & Solar Generation Suffer World’s Highest Power Prices
01 May 2024 Leave a comment
in economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
by Javier Vinós Part I of a three part series. The Sun is a variable star and the amount of energy it emits varies from month to month, year to year, and century to century. One of the manifestations of these variations are sunspots, which are more common when the Sun is more active and…
How we know that the sun changes the Climate. Part I: The past
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
A rural perspective with a blue tint by Ele Ludemann
DPF's Kiwiblog - Fomenting Happy Mischief since 2003
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
The world's most viewed site on global warming and climate change
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Tim Harding's writings on rationality, informal logic and skepticism
A window into Doc Freiberger's library
Let's examine hard decisions!
Commentary on monetary policy in the spirit of R. G. Hawtrey
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Thoughts on public policy and the media
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Econ Prof at George Mason University, Economic Historian, Québécois
Politics and the economy
A blog (primarily) on Canadian and Commonwealth political history and institutions
Reading between the lines, and underneath the hype.
Economics, and such stuff as dreams are made on
"The British constitution has always been puzzling, and always will be." --Queen Elizabeth II
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Laughing at Our Elites
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
WORLD WAR II, MUSIC, HISTORY, HOLOCAUST
News, reviews and talk all about the Tudors
Undisciplined scholar, recovering academic
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Res ipsa loquitur - The thing itself speaks
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Researching the House of Commons, 1832-1868
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Blogging on parliament, politics and people, from the History of Parliament
Reflections on books and art
Posts on the History of Law, Crime, and Justice
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Calling out media myths
Exploring the Monarchs of Europe
Cutting edge science you can dice with
Small Steps Toward A Much Better World
“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert”. - J Robert Oppenheimer.
The truth about the great wind power fraud - we're not here to debate the wind industry, we're here to destroy it.
Searching for the missing pieces of climate change communication
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
Recent Comments