By Paul Homewood Another electric bus fire in London. This is Putney Bus Garage: https://twitter.com/ediz1975/status/1750116346606633023 The story has also been covered in the The Standard here.
Third Electric Bus Fire In London This Month
Third Electric Bus Fire In London This Month
28 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, transport economics Tags: road safety
Global Warming: Observations vs. Climate Models
27 Jan 2024 1 Comment
in econometerics, economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
By Paul Homewood Roy Spencer has written a long, detailed critique of climate models: https://www.heritage.org/environment/report/global-warming-observations-vs-climate-models The full report is worth reading, but his key graph and conclusions are below:
Global Warming: Observations vs. Climate Models
Germany: “Renewable Energy Sector Facing The Abyss”…”On The Brink” …Economy Breaking Up
27 Jan 2024 1 Comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: celebrity technologies, Germany, wind power
The policies of (worst ever) Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Green Party) are leading the German economy to disaster.
Germany: “Renewable Energy Sector Facing The Abyss”…”On The Brink” …Economy Breaking Up
Andrew Montford: Does the Climate Change Committee understand the energy storage problem?
26 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in econometerics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
We need to know.
Andrew Montford: Does the Climate Change Committee understand the energy storage problem?
Talking Climate, Disasters, Media and More with Roger Pielke, Jr.
26 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of natural disasters, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
Water metering – a small piece of silver buckshot
25 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, environmental economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: economics of networks, privatization
Chris Parker at Treasury sometimes quips that there are no silver bullets for solving housing in NZ, only pieces of silver buckshot. Basically you’ve got to do a lot of things to solve the problem; any one of them on their own won’t do it. I was on RNZ’s The Panel yesterday afternoon (here, from around…
Water metering – a small piece of silver buckshot
Electric bikes start record number of fires in New York
24 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: electric bikes
They claimed 18 lives and caused 150 injuries, with fatalities increasing 200 per cent in 2023.
Electric bikes start record number of fires in New York
Shift to renewable energy would make economic growth impossible, says expert
22 Jan 2024 1 Comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economic growth, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, macroeconomics Tags: climate alarmism
By Paul Homewood h/t Philip Bratby Even climatologists are beginning to realise that the emperor has no clothes! Economic growth as we know it is impossible if governments shift to 100 per cent renewable energy, a renowned French climatologist has said. Jean-Marc Jancovici, the author of World Without End, the […]
Shift to renewable energy would make economic growth impossible, says expert
French ‘rubbing their hands’ as Britain forced to import £1.5bn of electricity
21 Jan 2024 1 Comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
Another expensive and wasteful result of ‘net zero’ climate obsession in government, as the much vaunted renewables policy continues to prove fatally flawed, no matter how much is spent on it. One obvious problem with wind power is that the times of peak electricity demand and the times of optimal wind conditions rarely coincide. In […]
French ‘rubbing their hands’ as Britain forced to import £1.5bn of electricity
Guardian: A third of British Teenagers think Climate Change is Exaggerated
21 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
According to the Guardian, climate deniers have influenced teens by infiltrating youtube with disinformation videos.
Guardian: A third of British Teenagers think Climate Change is Exaggerated
Wind turbines kill too many birds and bats. How can we make them safer?
19 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
By Paul Homewood h/t Dennis Ambler . Even the greeniacs are starting to understand the damage to wildlife from wind turbines: As wind power grows around the world, so does the threat turbines pose to wildlife. From simple fixes to high-tech solutions, researchers are finding ways to reduce the toll.
Wind turbines kill too many birds and bats. How can we make them safer?
Shipwrecked: America’s Offshore Wind Industry Being Crushed By Rising Construction Costs
18 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, labour economics, unions Tags: wind power
2023 was the year when the offshore wind industry’s grand implosion began. Major investors bailed out as the insane cost of attempting to (occasionally) generate electricity with no commercial value in hostile marine environments began to bite. Dozens of projects have been scrapped and others are now highly doubtful. And for those wind power outfits […]
Shipwrecked: America’s Offshore Wind Industry Being Crushed By Rising Construction Costs
No Such Thing as a Low-Energy Rich Country
18 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
By Paul Homewood Read Trevor Stark’s analysis here.
No Such Thing as a Low-Energy Rich Country
Deirdre McCloskey: What Is Classical Liberalism? | Robinson’s Podcast #145
17 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, history of economic thought, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, political change, Public Choice, public economics
Speaking of ice ages
16 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: Arctic ice caps, climate alarmism
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