By Paul Homewood Emperor Wind may have no clothes, but King Coal carries on regardless! New Delhi: The Union coal ministry on Monday announced plans to increase India’s coal production to 1.404 billion tonne by 2027, with an eye to further boost it to 1.577 billion tonne by 2030. Current domestic […]
India To Increase Coal Production By 60%
India To Increase Coal Production By 60%
16 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles
What You’re Told About Greenhouse Gases is Wrong
15 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming

Mark Adams explains the deceptions in his American Thinker article The fables about greenhouse gases, especially about methane Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. “Climate change” is in the news daily, with each featured story getting an attention-grabbing sensationalist headline. The frenzy is at its peak now because it’s the time of […]
What You’re Told About Greenhouse Gases is Wrong
Europe’s Largest Wind Farm Facing Bankruptcy
13 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: celebrity technologies, wind power

By Paul Homewood h/t Joe Public More bad news for the wind industry:. https://twitter.com/IntermittentNRG/status/1723692080801710475 What is different about this one is that the PPA forces the wind farm to buy power on the spot market, when the wind does not provide enough:
Europe’s Largest Wind Farm Facing Bankruptcy
And you can get on your bike with this green claptrap
13 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, transport economics, urban economics Tags: climate activists

Germany’s Monumental Wind & Solar Power Fail Delivers Total Economic Disaster
13 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming

Ideological experiments come in all shapes and sizes, but Germany’s wind and solar craze is monumental – a monumental environmental, economic and social disaster, to put it mildly. Suffering routine power rationing, mass blackouts and Europe’s highest power prices is only just the pointy end of what Germany’s boffins called the ‘Energiewende’, which was touted […]
Germany’s Monumental Wind & Solar Power Fail Delivers Total Economic Disaster
The myth of cheap offshore wind has been exposed
11 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: celebrity technologies, wind power
By Paul Homewood London, 10 November – Net Zero Watch is calling for an investigation after it was reported that ministers are considering doubling the guaranteed prices on offer for offshore windfarms next year to between £70 and £75/MWh. The news comes after this year’s auction failed to attract any bids from offshore wind […]
The myth of cheap offshore wind has been exposed
More Questions about Electric Vehicles
11 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, transport economics, urban economics
Four months ago, the Antiplanner observed that the market for electric cars was supposedly booming. Yet I was skeptical. Ford, Toyota, and other mainstream manufacturers were making very limited runs of electric vehicles, making it hard to get one. Others, such as Fiat-Chrysler, weren’t making any at all. Other than … Continue reading →
More Questions about Electric Vehicles
Science denial
10 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of education, environmental economics Tags: Anti-Science left, conjecture and refutation, philosophy of science
Pointless Preaching: Zero Chance of Meeting Net Zero CO2 Emissions Targets
10 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
Setting pointless targets and announcing five-year plans is all the rage, which includes playing accounting tricks with carbon dioxide gas emissions. So-called net-zero carbon dioxide gas emissions targets are just the latest tool employed by crony capitalists to separate the poor from their hard-earned cash. Those behind the scam know full well the targets they […]
Pointless Preaching: Zero Chance of Meeting Net Zero CO2 Emissions Targets
This year ‘virtually certain’ to be warmest in 125,000 years, EU scientists say — ignoring contradictory evidence?
10 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in econometerics, environmental economics, global warming

The ‘virtual’ in virtually certain is from a computer model result: ‘we combine our data with the IPCC’. Two things to bear in mind: satellite data only started in the 1970s, with other less accurate (due to shortage of data) records being kept from the 1880s onwards, and ‘the mid-Holocene … mean annual temperature reached […]
This year ‘virtually certain’ to be warmest in 125,000 years, EU scientists say — ignoring contradictory evidence?
Self Imposed Energy Poverty Coming to Canada
08 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, econometerics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: Canada

Jock Finlayson describes how climate change policies are depleting Canadians’ financial means in his article Millions of Canadians May Face ‘Energy Poverty’. Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. The term “energy poverty” is not yet part of day-to-day political debate in Canada, but that’s likely to change in the next few years. […]
Self Imposed Energy Poverty Coming to Canada
California EV HELL: QUEUING for chargers at MIDNIGHT!!!
07 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, transport economics
By Paul Homewood Coming to a town near you!
California EV HELL: QUEUING for chargers at MIDNIGHT!!!
Mini Electric Costs £10K More Than Petrol–And Has An Effective Range Of 100 Miles
05 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, transport economics

By Paul Homewood I don’t use Facebook much, but am always astonished to see how many adverts for EVs appear. Are companies so desperate to sell them, or is this the Nudge Unit at work again? Anyway, it’s a good opportunity to check out prices again.
Mini Electric Costs £10K More Than Petrol–And Has An Effective Range Of 100 Miles
Offshore Wind Demands £95/MWh
05 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming

By Paul Homewood h/t Philip Bratby So now we get an actual figure on it!! From the Telegraph: No new wind farms will be built off Britain’s shores unless the Government lets operators earn more money from the electricity they produce, the chief of the nation’s biggest generator has said. Tom Glover, country chair of […]
Offshore Wind Demands £95/MWh


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