Solar and wind power – forever just round the corner
05 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: Big Solar, Big Wind, creative destruction, green rent seeking, renewable energy, solar power, wind power
What it would take for the US to run on 100% renewable energy
10 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA Tags: expressive voting, geothermal power, hydroelectric power, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, renewable energy, solar power, tidal power, wind power
Wind power doesn’t seem to do much for power prices in Germany and Denmark
22 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: Big Solar, Big Wind, power prices, renewable energy, solar power, wind power
Compare #electricity prices across the #OECD area and learn more here: bit.ly/1xitg8T @IEA http://t.co/MGCtTlv1v8—
(@OECD) March 26, 2015
Renewable energy to supply same market share in 2040 as in 1949
17 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
CHART: New EIA forecast — Fossil fuels will supply >81% of our energy for at least the next quarter century http://t.co/Oju3njQrfD—
Mark J. Perry (@Mark_J_Perry) April 15, 2015
Think renewables will be important source of future energy? Not so, fossil fuels will provide 81% of energy in 2040 http://t.co/9LOoqC3VRK—
Mark J. Perry (@Mark_J_Perry) March 15, 2015
The survivalist community have finally gone organic and renewable
14 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in environmentalism, health economics, politics - USA Tags: Big Wind, conspiracy theorists, organic farming, survivalists, wind power
For sale: luxury apocalypse-proof condos in a missile silo gu.com/p/4398h/tw via @guardiang2 @IAmTimDowling http://t.co/tH1B7M4lXT—
Guardian Visuals (@GraphicGuardian) November 13, 2014
Renewable energy may run out of land
07 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: land supply, renewable energy, solar power, wind power
The international success of Big Wind
24 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, global warming, rentseeking Tags: Big Wind, climate alarmism, global warning, green rent seeking, renewable resources, wind power
Maybe the future is not solar and wind, so those mass layoffs of climate alarmists are cancelled
16 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: Big Solar, Big Wind, climate alarmists, green rentseeking, solar power, wind power



via eia.gov
The relationship between energy use & GDP
Technology is getting much more efficient
(Source bit.ly/1Anl8AJ) http://t.co/7zYDhXv2lu—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) March 15, 2015
On the unsustainability of wind power – noise pollution edition
03 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, law and economics Tags: noise pollution, wind power
The poor carbon footprint of wind and solar
01 Aug 2014 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: bootleggers and baptists, global warming, green rent seeking, solar power, wind power

Paul Joskow pointed out that these costs do not take account of the costs of intermittency: wind power is not generated on a calm day, nor solar power at night. Conventional power plants must be kept on standby. Electricity demand also varies during the day in ways that the supply from wind and solar generation may not match.
HT: The Economist via Sinclair Davidson





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