Policymakers would do well to heed energy experts like Schernikau and Stein. Chasing luxury beliefs do not cost well-heeled climate bureaucrats and renewables ideologues much, but the burdens of irrational energy policies will be borne by the world’s poorest. The real path forward lies in pragmatic, technology-neutral approaches that prioritise energy abundance over austerity.
Time to Stop Pretending Renewables Are Cheap
Time to Stop Pretending Renewables Are Cheap
14 Dec 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, economics of regulation, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: celebrity technologies, solar power, wind power
Wind And Solar Power Both Capricious and Costly
10 May 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: celebrity technologies, solar power, wind power
Bill Ponton reminds us that in addition to being fickle, renewables are also costly, in his American Thinker article What are the merits of renewables? Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. The Spanish blackout made us all aware of how unstable the grid can get when renewables are in the driver’s seat, […]
Wind And Solar Power Both Capricious and Costly
Net Zero Watch warns of growing grid instability
08 May 2025 1 Comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: celebrity technologies, solar power, wind power
With more than 50 million EU electricity consumers suffering blackouts yesterday, campaign group Net Zero Watch has reiterated its warning that the UK power grid is also becoming increasingly unstable.
Net Zero Watch warns of growing grid instability
Have The Intermittent Energy Blackouts Begun?
03 May 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - USA Tags: celebrity technologies, solar power, wind power
As Schellenberger points out, with just “a hair” more frequency variation it could have been far worse. Will that happen some time soon? I’m not going to pretend I know. But I do know that the electricity system in most of Europe and many U.S. states is in the hands of crazed fanatics who have no idea what they are doing. My own bet would be that there are many far worse blackouts to come, until this idiotic “net zero” thing is abandoned.
Have The Intermittent Energy Blackouts Begun?
Germany Already Rationing Energy…”Avoid Using Electric Appliances Until After 11 A.M.!
05 Jan 2025 1 Comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: celebrity technologies, Germany, solar power, wind power
Recall that Germany’s green energy masterminds decided that it would be best to decommission the country’s fleet on nuclear power plants, and to produce weather-dependent power with wind farms operating in the north of country, and then supply it to southern Germany via power transmission lines. There’s on problem with the masterplan from the green masterminds: the wind doesn’t blow all the time and so shortages result and rationing becomes necessary!
Germany Already Rationing Energy…”Avoid Using Electric Appliances Until After 11 A.M.!
Reality Collides: Constant Blackout Threat Spells Doom For Wind & Solar ‘Transition’
07 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - Australia Tags: celebrity technologies, solar power, wind power
A run of calm nights (particularly during very hot or very cold weather) reveals the utter pointlessness of intermittent wind and solar. And, so it is in the land Downunder. Australia’s hard Green-Left Federal government is doing its best to stare down reality, as its grand wind and solar ‘transition’ unravels. The so-called energy ‘policy’ […]
Reality Collides: Constant Blackout Threat Spells Doom For Wind & Solar ‘Transition’
Why Are UK Electricity Prices So High?
04 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: British politics, celebrity technologies, solar power, wind power
By Paul Homewood . As we are well aware, the UK has some of the highest electricity prices in the world. It is commonly claimed that the rapid price rise in recent years has been driven by the soaring price of natural gas. In fact, this is only a small part of the story. I […]
Why Are UK Electricity Prices So High?
UK Approves $2.5 Billion Funding for Power Link to North Sea Wind Farms
19 Nov 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: British politics, celebrity technologies, wind power
By Paul Homewood Just another couple of billions of your money! From OilPrice.Com The UK’s energy regulator Ofgem on Friday awarded a $2.5 billion (£2 billion) funding package for a subsea and underground cable between Scotland and northern England that would give North Sea wind farms additional access to […]
UK Approves $2.5 Billion Funding for Power Link to North Sea Wind Farms
Green Blues…As Fog Persists For Days In Germany, Green Energy Output Falls To Near Zero!
12 Nov 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: celebrity technologies, Germany, wind power
At 5 p.m. last Wednesday, Germany’s 1602 offshore wind turbines in the North and Baltic Seas stood still…solar output was also near zero. Germany had to scramble to keep supply going. The enemy of green energy: the high pressure system By KlimaNachrichten In the words of Professor Claudia Kemfert: It is a myth to believe…
Green Blues…As Fog Persists For Days In Germany, Green Energy Output Falls To Near Zero!
Rural and coastal residents delay, block green energy projects
28 Oct 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice Tags: celebrity technologies, solar power, wind power
Environmentalists insist that they love the “little guys” — until they get in their way, ask inconvenient questions or try to block renewable energy projects intended to save the planet from “human-caused climate cataclysms.”
Rural and coastal residents delay, block green energy projects
Germany’s Nuclear Power Rejection Delivers Wind & Solar Driven Energy Calamity
04 Oct 2024 1 Comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: celebrity technologies, Germany, solar power, wind power
Germany’s wind and solar obsessed energy policy has delivered a perfect power pricing and supply calamity. Not only did their green tinged lunatics squander billions on chaotically intermittent wind and solar, they deliberately destroyed one of Europe’s best run nuclear power generation fleets, in the bargain. Whenever calm, cloudy weather hits – aka ‘dunkelflaute’ – […]
Germany’s Nuclear Power Rejection Delivers Wind & Solar Driven Energy Calamity
Tangled Webs: How Crony Capitalists Built The Climate Industrial Complex
02 Oct 2024 1 Comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, Public Choice, rentseeking, resource economics Tags: celebrity technologies, solar power, wind power
Crony capitalists come in all shapes and sizes, and so do their political enablers. The whole point of patronage, networking and gladhanding is obtaining benefits not available to anyone else. The only people that complain about a rort are those that aren’t in on it. The Climate Industrial Complex was built on will the back […]
Tangled Webs: How Crony Capitalists Built The Climate Industrial Complex
If You Want an Investment Portfolio Full of Dog Stocks Try Filling it With Renewable and Green Punts
24 Sep 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, financial economics, global warming Tags: celebrity technologies, solar power, wind power
Out in the real world where serious money talks, it is becoming obvious that the conclusion has been drawn that many green technologies, unless subsidised by the state, provide profit-free, second-rate solutions to problems invented around a politicised climate crisis.
If You Want an Investment Portfolio Full of Dog Stocks Try Filling it With Renewable and Green Punts
Pierson on Wellington cycleways
20 Sep 2024 Leave a comment
in politics - New Zealand, transport economics, urban economics Tags: celebrity technologies, cycleways
Lukje Pierson writes: A few weeks back, Wellington City Council published a story summarising what thousands of us think of its priorities for the next decade. Buried on page 40, you’ll find what Wellingtonians really think of the council’s controversial new cycleways. It turns out just 30% of us are happy, while 60% want to […]
Pierson on Wellington cycleways
Unaffordable & Unreliable Electricity Inevitable Result of Wind & Solar ‘Transition’
28 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia Tags: celebrity technologies, solar power, wind power
Access to reliable and affordable power is just another thing Westerners have taken for granted, for far too long. A band of weather-obsessed ideologues have set about methodically destroying our once perfectly affordable and thoroughly reliable power supplies, by propounding the delusional notion that wind and solar can replace that well-designed system which has powered […]
Unaffordable & Unreliable Electricity Inevitable Result of Wind & Solar ‘Transition’
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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