Energy Expert Robert Bryce: “It is a colossal black eye for the wind industry, which has collected tens of billions of dollars in federal tax credits by claiming its landscape-blighting, bird-and-bat-killing, property-value-destroying turbines are an essential part of the effort to avert catastrophic climate change.”
European Energy Firm Ordered to Remove 84 Wind Turbines from Osage Lands In Oklahoma
European Energy Firm Ordered to Remove 84 Wind Turbines from Osage Lands In Oklahoma
04 Jan 2025 1 Comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights Tags: wind power
Genetic tweak to three key crops massively boosts their growth
01 Jan 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: anti-GMOs movement, GMOs
By Paul Homewood h/t Philip Bratby Who would have thought! Global demand for food may rise by 60% mid-century. A central challenge is to meet this need using less land in a changing climate. Nearly all crop carbon is assimilated through Rubisco, which is catalytically slow, reactive with oxygen, and a […]
Genetic tweak to three key crops massively boosts their growth
ESG ‘vibe’ check: ‘Stock market investors are pulling a record amount of cash out of climate funds’ – ‘The main driver of the exodus is bad vibes’
31 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, financial economics, global warming Tags: climate activists
Stock market investors are pulling a record amount of cash out of climate funds, even though many have not underperformed.
ESG ‘vibe’ check: ‘Stock market investors are pulling a record amount of cash out of climate funds’ – ‘The main driver of the exodus is bad vibes’
As Germany’s Energy Crisis Heightens, Two Brief Windless Periods Pushes Grid To The Limit!
30 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: Germany
It is also often forgotten that wind turbines consume electricity when they are stationary or switched off. This is because all technical components (oil pumps, fans, control systems, etc.) must remain in operation even when they are still. Vestas specifies an electricity consumption of 55,000 kWh per year for a 4.2 MW turbine at standstill. During production times, the turbine supplies itself with electricity. But it is virtually idle 120 days a year.
As Germany’s Energy Crisis Heightens, Two Brief Windless Periods Pushes Grid To The Limit!
German Death Wish On Display
30 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: Germany
Tilak Doshi describes the self-inflicted German downfall in his Daily Sceptic article Germany’s Economic and Political Suicide. Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. It’s that festive time of the year when interesting tales get told around a fireplace. So here goes (minus the fireplace). Once upon a time there lived a country […]
German Death Wish On Display
System Balancing Costs
30 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: British politics, wind power
By Paul Homewood David Rose had a good article on wind constraint payments the other day on UnHerd. You can read it here. He began with the example of the Seagreen Offshore Wind Farm, commissioned two years ago. It lies just off the Scottish coast at Montrose. Seagreen has capacity of 1.1 GW, but as […]
System Balancing Costs
International Regulatory Authority Says California Grid at Risk of Energy Shortfalls
29 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - USA Tags: California, solar power, wind power
“With a resource portfolio that includes a substantial amount of solar [panels], the risk of supply shortfall is associated with summer evening periods when demand is high and solar output is diminished.”
International Regulatory Authority Says California Grid at Risk of Energy Shortfalls
By Any Other Name.
28 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: constitutional law, free speech, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left
The Natural Choice: As a starter for ten percent of the Party Vote, “saving the planet” is a very respectable objective. Young voters, in particular, raised on the dire (if unheeded) warnings of climate scientists, and the irrefutable evidence of devastating weather events linked to global warming, vote Green. After all, what sort of person…
By Any Other Name.
Govt Consultation on EV Targets
26 Dec 2024 1 Comment
in economics of climate change, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, transport economics Tags: British politics, electric cars, hybrid cars
By Paul Homewood The Government has begun consultations on the role of hybrid cars between 2030 and 2035: . The UK automotive and charging industries have been invited to shape the UK’s transition to zero emission vehicles, as the UK government works with the sector to harness the huge opportunities for economic growth and […]
Govt Consultation on EV Targets
Holes in IPCC Science Revealed
26 Dec 2024 1 Comment
in economics of education, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmism
Graeme Weber reports from Australia on the history revealing multiple holes in IPCC claimed “settled science.” His paper is IPCC – Miss/Diss information? shared with me by email. Graeme is an earth scientist, retired consulting geologist and advocate for nuclear energy. His text is in italics with my bolds and added images. Several years ago, […]
Holes in IPCC Science Revealed
UK Labour Caught in Own Net-Zero Trap
26 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: British politics, climate activists, wind power
Rupert Darwall explains how UK Labour ensnared itself in his Spectator article Labour has walked into a net-zero trap of its own making. Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. The government’s net-zero noose draws tighter. At energy questions in the House of Commons on Tuesday, the Conservative MP Charlie Dewhirst asked the […]
UK Labour Caught in Own Net-Zero Trap
UK Labour Caught in Own Net-Zero Trap
26 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: British politics, climate activists, wind power
Rupert Darwall explains how UK Labour ensnared itself in his Spectator article Labour has walked into a net-zero trap of its own making. Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. The government’s net-zero noose draws tighter. At energy questions in the House of Commons on Tuesday, the Conservative MP Charlie Dewhirst asked the […]
UK Labour Caught in Own Net-Zero Trap
UK Labour Caught in Own Net-Zero Trap
26 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: British politics, climate activists, wind power
Rupert Darwall explains how UK Labour ensnared itself in his Spectator article Labour has walked into a net-zero trap of its own making. Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. The government’s net-zero noose draws tighter. At energy questions in the House of Commons on Tuesday, the Conservative MP Charlie Dewhirst asked the […]
UK Labour Caught in Own Net-Zero Trap
‘Actually,’ MSNBC, Trump’s Energy Secretary Pick is Right, Climate Change Does Have Benefits
25 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmism
“But he also says climate change makes the planet greener by increasing plant growth, boosts agricultural productivity and likely reduces the number of temperature-related deaths annually. “It’s probably almost as many positive changes as there are negative changes,” he told conservative media nonprofit PragerU last year, referring to climate change. “Is it a crisis, is it the world’s greatest challenge, or a big threat to the next generation? No.”
‘Actually,’ MSNBC, Trump’s Energy Secretary Pick is Right, Climate Change Does Have Benefits
Coal Use Hits Record High in 2024 Thanks to India and China
23 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, growth miracles Tags: China
The only takeaways from the coal use data are that countries with sensible leaders are looking to the energy needs of their citizens and that climate is too complex an issue to attribute to a gas that is 0.04% of Earth’s atmosphere.
Coal Use Hits Record High in 2024 Thanks to India and China
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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