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13 May 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - Australia, technological progress Tags: wind power
Sunset kills solar output the same way calm weather renders wind turbines utterly useless. Around the world $trillions have been squandered on occasional power generation which is always and everywhere dependent on sunshine and/or the weather. In the beginning, there was a perfectly functional power supply with reliable generators connected by a systematically designed grid […]
Occasional Wind & Solar Generation Guarantee Staggering Backup Costs
12 May 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia Tags: solar power, wind power
Like any ideological cult, wind and solar acolytes bury troublesome facts and replace them with oodles of helpful fiction. Start with the supposed cost of the electricity occasionally generated by wind turbines and solar panels. The usual trick is to invent some model said to capture the unique benefits of running on sunshine and breezes. […]
Faking It: Why ‘Cheap’ Wind & Solar Power Claims Never Stack Up
10 May 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: solar power, wind power
The wind industry is looking a lot like a zombie apocalypse; evidently dead on its feet, but refusing to accept its mortality and die with dignity. The offshore wind industry in the US looks like a bloodbath, with dozens of major projects scrapped outright. Investors have pulled the plug, never to return. In Australia dozens […]
Zombie Apocalypse: Wind Industry Faces Total Collapse With More Projects Scrapped
02 May 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, law and economics, property rights Tags: solar power, wind power
Farmers have no hope of insuring their properties to cover damage caused to neighbouring solar factories. Public liability cover in property insurance contracts ordinarily caps out at around $20 million in Australia. As with any type of insurance, the greater the cover, the greater the premium. Although, there are certain risks that no insurer will […]
Farmers Uninsurable Risk: Solar Factory Neighbours Face Total Financial Ruin
01 May 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: solar power, wind power
As night follows day, adding more wind and solar capacity inevitably results in rocketing power prices. The hard numbers say it all. China enjoys the world’s lowest power prices, thanks to cheap, abundant and reliable coal-fired power. Adding to their advantage, China is building dozens of new coal-fired and nuclear powered plants. It’s almost as […]
Countries With Most Wind & Solar Generation Suffer World’s Highest Power Prices
29 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: solar power, wind power
If you fell for the government propaganda that renewables are the cheapest form of energy, the Guardian will help set you straight.
Guardian: Politicians “Propagated the Myth” that Renewables are Easy
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’
28 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: solar power, wind power
Crony capitalists wallowing in wind and solar subsidies and their ideologue enablers make sure the buck always stops with you. The cost of those subsidies is not only endless, it is simply staggering. In Australia the combined figure for subsidies to wind and solar is now in excess of $15 billion annually, and with the […]
Loser Always Pays Staggering Hidden Cost of Wind & Solar ‘Transition’
27 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: solar power, wind power
By Paul Homewood One of my regular contacts has analysed wind power data over the last five years, using the official half-hourly National Grid data. The analysis highlights just how intermittent wind power can be: https://www.nationalgrideso.com/data-portal/historic-generation-mix/historic_gb_generation_mix
Wind Power Scarcity Data Analysis
25 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: solar power, wind power
By Paul Homewood h/t Ian Magness It’s nice to see that Ben Marlow has finally woken up to reality, after years of promoting Net Zero: For an industry built on the quiet purr of its expensive technology, the sound of the electric car market screeching to a halt is too loud not […]
The West’s electric car giants now risk destroying themselves
02 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: solar power, wind power
As the sun sets on a calm afternoon, talk about a ‘wind and solar transition’ sounds delusional, because it is. The cult is driven by that very delusion, however. But those who have been dragged along for the ride are finally waking up to the fact that first world economies can’t run on sunshine and […]
Never-Reliable Wind & Solar Mean Ever-Reliable Coal-Fired Power Only Hope
31 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: land supply, solar power, wind power, zoning
…you can’t get anything built because of these statutes,” Mike McKenna, a Republican strategist with extensive experience in and around the energy sector, told the DCNF about Congressional gridlock on permitting reform.
Biden’s Signature Climate Law Has a Major Achilles’ Heel — And Dems Are Making It Worse
29 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: solar power, wind power
Frozen wind turbines and solar panels buried under piles of snow and ice produce nothing at all, except photo opportunities. When the weather conspires against the ‘unreliables’, somewhere there will be a coal, or gas or diesel powered generator ready to swing into action and prevent you from freezing in the dark. However, if the […]
The Real Climate Crisis: Relying Upon Weather-Dependent Wind & Solar
28 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: electric cars, solar power, wind power
By Paul Homewood Building new gas power plants will, of course, “only make the transition to renewables-based power unnecessarily costly”. How do I know? Because I heard it from a bunch of climate activists calling themselves Beyond Fossil Fuels. What’s more, building new gas plants runs contrary to the “emerging consensus” that Europe […]
The EU’s net zero retreat is gathering steam
25 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: celebrity technologies, Germany, wind power
If the wilderness being turned into smouldering ash is used as a platform for hundreds of 260m high/300 tonne industrial juggernauts, it’s all for the greater good (as in the case above, where huge areas of pristine tropical rainforest is being wiped out in Far North Queensland to make way for hundreds of these things). […]
Real ‘Green’ Energy: Germany Bulldozes Ancient Fairytale Forest For Wind Turbines
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