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
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
Net Zero is Losing the Battle of Ideas
23 Oct 2024 1 Comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: British politics, solar power, wind power
It is encouraging that my intervention drew an enthusiastic round of applause which is testament to the growing scepticism about Net Zero among the general public. It appears to me that cracks are appearing in the cosy green consensus in Westminster and if we get our arguments right, we can win this debate.
Net Zero is Losing the Battle of Ideas
Dearth of Green Jobs in UK
15 Oct 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: solar power, wind power
Chris Morrison provides the analysis in his Daily Sceptic article ONS Reveals the Pitiful Number of New Green Jobs Being Created in the U.K. Economy. Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. The problem with the green U.K. economy, and its associated destruction of the hydrocarbon environment, is that there are very few […]
Dearth of Green Jobs in UK
America’s Ambitious Climate Plan Is Faltering
10 Oct 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, industrial organisation, politics - USA, survivor principle Tags: solar power, wind power
Global emissions are at records, while shift away from fossil fuels slows amid high costs, surging power demandSee By Ed Ballard and Amrith Ramkumar of The WSJ.Keeping the air clean is laudable goal, but the benefit of actions in this area need to outweigh the costs.Excerpts from the article:”Renewable energy is growing faster than expected.…
America’s Ambitious Climate Plan Is Faltering
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
Fake Electricity Rejected: Power Hungry Indians Ditch Pointless Solar Schemes
02 Oct 2024 1 Comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: India. solar power, wind power
Only wealthy Westerners have the luxury of pretending to get their power from sunshine and breezes. Elsewhere, there are billions scrambling to have power delivered reliably and affordably, as if their lives and economic futures depend upon it. Which they absolutely do. For as long as cynical NGOs keep peddling ridiculously expensive solar panels – […]
Fake Electricity Rejected: Power Hungry Indians Ditch Pointless Solar Schemes
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
Why There Will Never Be A Zero Emissions Electricity System Powered Mainly By Wind And Sun
30 Sep 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: solar power, wind power
he reason is that the intermittency of wind and solar generators means that they require full back-up from some other source. But the back-up source will by hypothesis be woefully underused and idle most of the time so long as most of the electricity comes from wind and sun. No back-up source can possibly be economical under these conditions, and therefore nobody will develop and deploy such a source.
Why There Will Never Be A Zero Emissions Electricity System Powered Mainly By Wind And Sun
Wind & Solar Transition Delivers Crushing Power Prices With Much Worse to Come
25 Sep 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: solar power, wind power
Think your power bill is crushing now; the worst is yet to come. The grand wind and solar ‘transition’ is – according to the 5 year planners – in its infancy, but already the effects of heavily subsidised and chaotically intermittent wind and solar are being spelt out in record retail power bills. To reach […]
Wind & Solar Transition Delivers Crushing Power Prices With Much Worse to Come
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
Energy Essentials: Why Modern Civilisation Critically Depends On Coal, Oil & Gas
24 Sep 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: renewable energy, solar power, The Great Enrichment, wind power
In a world where humans are regarded as cockroaches and wilful ignorance a winning virtue, it’s little wonder that misanthropes in the West hate everything about coal, oil and gas. Except the myriad benefits that they bring. You won’t find the same attitudes being expressed in India, China and Indonesia – where hydrocarbons are dragging […]
Energy Essentials: Why Modern Civilisation Critically Depends On Coal, Oil & Gas
The Problem Of Too Much Wind
19 Sep 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: British politics, wind power
By Paul Homewood FES 2024 As well as the problem of not having enough wind power at times, there is also the issue of having too much at other times. Consequently we have to pay generators to switch off. The National Grid’s Future Energy Scenarios this year estimated that 42.5 TWh would have […]
The Problem Of Too Much Wind
The bus-sized battery farms threatening to blight Britain’s countryside
17 Sep 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: British politics, wind power
By Paul Homewood h/t Philip Bratby Wind mills, solar farms and giant batteries. How to wreck the English countryside for no good reason! Mega projects designed to store renewable energy are drawing the ire of rural communities The bucolic Buckinghamshire village of Granborough, while picturesque, is not much of a landmark. […]
The bus-sized battery farms threatening to blight Britain’s countryside
VP Harris hasn’t ‘moderated’ on climate issues – She doubles down on ‘climate crisis’ narrative, still supports net-zero policies that will harm grids, U.S. farming, and domestic energy
11 Sep 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election, solar power, wind power
KamalaHarris hasn’t “moderated” on climate issues. She doubles down on “climate crisis” narrative, still supports net-zero energy policies that will harm grid stability, agriculture, and all energy-related sectors. Nor does she regret her IRA vote.
VP Harris hasn’t ‘moderated’ on climate issues – She doubles down on ‘climate crisis’ narrative, still supports net-zero policies that will harm grids, U.S. farming, and domestic energy
Looming ‘clean’ energy disasters off our coasts
04 Sep 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA Tags: wind power
One broken wind turbine blade shut down Massachusetts beaches. What would hurricanes do?
Looming ‘clean’ energy disasters off our coasts
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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