By Paul Homewood Which country will become the first to rat on its net zero target, to find some of putting it off, watering it down – or changing the definition of what counts? There must be a lot of money on it being Germany. Things are not going well in Germany’s bid to reach […]
Ross Clark: Will Germany be the first to ditch its net zero commitments?
Ross Clark: Will Germany be the first to ditch its net zero commitments?
30 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
Idea of green growth losing traction among climate policy researchers, survey of nearly 800 academics reveals
29 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
Prosperity via subsidies, making the energy that powers economies more scarce and/or more expensive, always sounded like a fantasy. – – – When she took to the floor to give her State of the Union speech on 13 September, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen largely stood by the script, says Phys.org. Describing her […]
Idea of green growth losing traction among climate policy researchers, survey of nearly 800 academics reveals
The six ways renewables increase electricity bills
28 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
By Paul Homewood London, 28 September – A new paper from the Net Zero Watch demonstrates conclusively renewables increase electricity bills — indeed, it is almost impossible that adding a new windfarm to the grid would ever reduce consumer prices. The author of the paper, Net Zero Watch director Andrew Montford, outlines a […]
The six ways renewables increase electricity bills
Halfway to Hell: Wind & Solar Transition Destroying German Economy
26 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
As wind and solar capacity increases, Germany’s once thriving economy shrinks. And it’s the sudden and dramatic collapse in German industrial output that’s allowed the wind and sun cult to cry ‘victory’ with a claim – based on a statistical fudge – that Germany obtained 50% of its power from ‘renewable’ sources. Sitting behind the […]
Halfway to Hell: Wind & Solar Transition Destroying German Economy
Values Of Used EVs Plummet, As Dealers Stuck With Unsold Cars
26 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, transport economics
By Paul Homewood The average cost of second hand electric cars is plummeting by a “phenomenal amount” as they sit for “months on end” without any buyers.
Values Of Used EVs Plummet, As Dealers Stuck With Unsold Cars
ECB Monetary Policy Conference – 20 October 2020: John Cochrane
25 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, macroeconomics, monetary economics, Public Choice
America’s Offshore Wind Industry Covering Up True Cost of Taxpayer Funded Subsidies
22 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: celebrity technologies, wind power
The rent-seekers that profit from the great wind and solar scam are always begging for more: more subsidies, tougher mandates and even greater renewable energy targets. Back in 1983, the American Wind Industry Association claimed that solar and wind would be “competitive and self-supporting on a national level by the end of the decade if […]
America’s Offshore Wind Industry Covering Up True Cost of Taxpayer Funded Subsidies
Rishi Sunak Waters Down Net Zero Pledges
21 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
By Paul Homewood So he did it! Net Zero targets are to be watered down, as long as the Cabinet approves it. The key points are: Petrol/diesel ban pushed back to 2035 Transition to heat pumps switch will be forced only when buying a new boiler, and from 2035. Upcoming property energy […]
Rishi Sunak Waters Down Net Zero Pledges
Subsidised Wind & Solar Debacle Delivers Massive Power Price Shock
18 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: celebrity technologies, wind power
Every country that’s tapped into the grand wind and solar transition has left power consumers suffering from Post Transition Stress Disorder – where households and businesses are being pounded with power prices at unprecedented rates. Australia, is no exception. At the minute Australians are being bombarded by media attempts to convince a wholly nonracist Australian […]
Subsidised Wind & Solar Debacle Delivers Massive Power Price Shock
In 5 Responses to Climate Change Deniers, Robert Reich explains inadvertently how the #climateemergency is a small problem, only twice the cost of the Great Recession
17 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, economic growth, energy economics, environmental economics, global financial crisis (GFC), global warming, macroeconomics Tags: climate alarmism
‘Green’ Hydrogen Hoax Implodes: The Economics Simply Don’t Stack Up
17 Sep 2023 1 Comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
The wind and solar scammers raking in massive subsidies have been joined by the ‘hydrogen huckster’, just as eager to exploit an opportunity when he sees one; an opportunity to gouge untold $billions from taxpayers. The shakedown is said to be justified on the bogus pretext that they’re out to save the planet. Scratch the […]
‘Green’ Hydrogen Hoax Implodes: The Economics Simply Don’t Stack Up
How Cheap & Reliable Coal-Fired Power Drove India From Poverty to The Moon
16 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: India, moon landings, space
Coal-fired power is at the heart of India’s mission to lift millions out of poverty. India has 285 plants with a capacity of 211GW already operating; it’s currently building a further 30GW of coal-fired generation capacity, with a further 35GW in pre-construction stages. A visit to India shows how serious it is about serious power […]
How Cheap & Reliable Coal-Fired Power Drove India From Poverty to The Moon
Simply Irresistible: Why Plugging Into Small Modular Reactors Makes Perfect Sense
12 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
Listen to the wind and sun cult and you’d think that Small Modular Nuclear Reactors are a work of far-fetched Science Fiction. The reality is that some 200 small nuclear reactors are presently powering 160 ships and submarines all around the world, and have been for decades. None of which sits with the narrative pitched by […]
Simply Irresistible: Why Plugging Into Small Modular Reactors Makes Perfect Sense
EU reality check – waking up from hydrogen daydreams
11 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
Credit: Scottish Power Hydrogen is no more the wonder gas than CO2 is the opposite. Apart from being very expensive to produce using so-called ‘green’ methods, it’s running into various obstacles elsewhere, such as absence of infrastructure. – – – Europe’s time spent sleepwalking to the tune of hydrogen lobbyists – draining funds and political […]
EU reality check – waking up from hydrogen daydreams
Wind & Solar ‘Transition’ Turns Trainwreck: Australians Face More Summer Blackouts
10 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
Dry spells, spell hot summers in Australia, which spell load shedding and mass blackouts, whenever the sun sets and/or calm weather sets in. The summer of 2017/18 was a scorcher. Back then, load shedding caught power consumers short in South Australia, Victoria and NSW. Energy-hungry businesses such as aluminium smelters and even hospitals were forced […]
Wind & Solar ‘Transition’ Turns Trainwreck: Australians Face More Summer Blackouts
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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