To what extent are temperature levels changing due to greenhouse gas emissions?
28 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in econometerics, economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
By Paul Homewood A new Norwegian paper has found that the effects of man-made CO2 emissions are not strong enough to explain global warming in the last 200n years, implying that natural factors must play a large role: https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/To-what-extent-are-temperature-levels-changing-due-to-greenhouse-gas-emissions.pdf
To what extent are temperature levels changing due to greenhouse gas emissions?
No Bid: Offshore Wind Power Now So Expensive It Can’t Find Buyers
27 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: celebrity technologies, wind power
So much for all the cheap talk about wind power being cheap. Offshore wind power is so expensive it can’t attract a buyer. In the UK, the last round of the government’s annual auction – which awards 15-year contracts to wind and solar generators, taking their occasional produce at a set price – did not […]
No Bid: Offshore Wind Power Now So Expensive It Can’t Find Buyers
Winter Blackout Threat Drives Germany to Fire-Up More Coal-Fired Power Plants
26 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
‘Green’ energy ideologues are terrified of mass blackouts; the moment when the proles work out the wind and solar transition is a monstrous lie. In Germany, the worship of intermittent wind and solar has all the hallmarks of a deranged cult. However, as with most cults, it’s a zealous few that end up driving a […]
Winter Blackout Threat Drives Germany to Fire-Up More Coal-Fired Power Plants
Wind & Solar Transition Guaranteed to Deliver Mass Blackouts This Summer
25 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
The ‘transition’ to portable electric generators, flashlights and candles is well on its way. The inevitable consequence of attempting to run on sunshine and breezes is having power only when the sun is up and the wind is blowing, just right. Grid-scale energy storage is a myth, as is waffle about so-called ‘green’ hydrogen. The […]
Wind & Solar Transition Guaranteed to Deliver Mass Blackouts This Summer
Britain ‘will need gas to avoid blackouts for decades’
23 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
The story here refers to Britain’s ‘gas addiction’, but a renewables addiction will be far more problematic. At present gas power stations are being made ever more uneconomic by government net zero policies, but low wind days and hours are a given. Energy intensive carbon capture plans will only make matters worse. – – – […]
Britain ‘will need gas to avoid blackouts for decades’
Dismantling the Royal Society Large-Scale Electricity Storage Report
22 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
By Paul Homewood A new analysis by David Turvey dismantles the recent Royal Society report on electricity storage: Summary The Royal Society (RS) has recently released its Large-Scale Electricity Storage report that says we can provide the electricity we need using wind and solar power supported by large-scale hydrogen storage. The report […]
Dismantling the Royal Society Large-Scale Electricity Storage Report
David Friedman on climate change
21 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, David Friedman, development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, law and economics, property rights
Transition to Poverty: If Wind and Solar Get Any Cheaper, We’ll All Go Broke
21 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: celebrity technologies, wind power
The grand wind and solar ‘transition’ guarantees households and businesses get to suffer crushing power bills. Or, in cases where the massive subsidies to wind and solar power outfits are collected from taxpayers, rather than from power consumers through their power bills, those bills may be cheaper as a result. But the buck still stops […]
Transition to Poverty: If Wind and Solar Get Any Cheaper, We’ll All Go Broke
David D. Friedman – The Externality problem: Population, Climate, Pandemic
19 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, development economics, economic history, economics of climate change, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, history of economic thought, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, population economics, property rights, Public Choice
‘Green’ Energy’s Demand For Rare Earths Driving Wholesale Environmental Destruction
19 Oct 2023 1 Comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: celebrity technologies, wind power
Solar panels, wind turbines and electric vehicles all critically depend upon a raft of minerals known as ‘rare earths’, as well as mountains of copper and cobalt. With the exponential increase in demand for minerals comes an exponential growth in the mountains of toxic filth left behind during mining and processing those minerals. The minerals […]
‘Green’ Energy’s Demand For Rare Earths Driving Wholesale Environmental Destruction
Why heat pumps will never work in Britain
17 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
By Paul Homewood h/t Ian Magness Another damning report on heat pumps: Heat pumps are poorly suited to British homes and the Government’s relentless drive to install them will cause “uproar” across the country, energy leaders have warned. The controversial devices have been adopted across Europe, but ministers are warned […]
Why heat pumps will never work in Britain
Facts Trump Feelings: Grand Wind & Solar ‘Transition’ Tale Rapidly Unravels
15 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
The only certainties attached to the wind and solar transition are being constantly whacked with crushing power bills and sitting freezing or boiling in the dark, when the sun sets and/or calm weather sets in. Whereas Europeans are crab-walking away from their mad rush towards wind and solar – with many tapping into next-generation nuclear power […]
Facts Trump Feelings: Grand Wind & Solar ‘Transition’ Tale Rapidly Unravels
Kathryn Porter: The myth of affordable green energy is over
13 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: celebrity technologies, wind power
By Paul Homewood The pervasive narrative about offshore wind in recent years has been that costs are falling and that wind power is cheap. But scratch below the surface and you find that things are not quite so rosy. Turbine manufacturers have been losing money hand over fist in recent years. Collectively over […]
Kathryn Porter: The myth of affordable green energy is over
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