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Getting real: It’s time to crunch the numbers on the transition from fossil fuels
Getting real: It’s time to crunch the numbers on the transition from fossil fuels What is needed for a transition to a clean energy environment? Analysis: We are used to hearing world leaders talk in blizzards of numbers about targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions and activists bidding higher, demanding the world move faster to net […]
Simple answer is we can’t do renewable energy the way it is being ‘planned’
Simple answer is we can’t do renewable energy the way it is being ‘planned’
The Renewable Energy ‘Paradox’: A More Costly Way Forward
Michael Shellenberger, eco-modernist and author of “Apocalypse Never,” speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Sydney, Australia on Oct. 1, 2022. (Horace Young/Epoch Times) The Renewable Energy ‘Paradox’: A More Costly Way Forward A California-based leading eco-modernist has disputed the widespread claim that renewables are a cheap and clean energy source, arguing that it’s […]
Is the Energy Transition Taking Off—or Hitting a Wall?
Is the Energy Transition Taking Off—or Hitting a Wall? Forecast cloudy: Solar panels are wiped off for peak performance at The Wash Basket Laundromat, in Palmyra, Pennsylvania, in 2011. The business qualified for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Energy for America Program assistance to add 72 photovoltaic panels to reduce electrical demand by a […]
Ramping Up Renewables Can’t Provide Enough Heat Energy in Winter
Ramping Up Renewables Can’t Provide Enough Heat Energy in Winter We usually don’t think about the wonderful service fossil fuels provide in terms of being a store of heat energy for winter, the time when there is a greater need for heat energy. Figure 1 shows dramatically how, in the US, the residential usage of […]
A Natural Gas Shortage Is Looming For The U.S.
A Natural Gas Shortage Is Looming For The U.S. As natural gas demand around the world breaks new records, U.S. shale producers are struggling to keep up with demand. While natural gas prices in the United States fell after a railway strike was averted last week, it looks likely that prices both at home and […]
Net zero is dead – so what now?
Net zero is dead – so what now? There is a deep irony that Europe’s wind turbine factories were among the first to close in the face of our growing energy crisis. Nevertheless, it goes a long way to demonstrating the fundamental flaw in the net zero project – while the harvested energy of the wind may be renewable, […]
Our Capitalist Civilization’s Last Shot
Our Capitalist Civilization’s Last Shot …or how proposed solutions only deepen the problem What hole…? Bah, gotta keep on diggin’… Image credit: Dominik Vanyi via Unsplash For those of my readers who follow this blog for a while now it has probably become pretty much clear that this global capitalist high-tech industrial civilization is slowly over. […]
California went big on rooftop solar. Now that’s a problem for landfills
California went big on rooftop solar. Now that’s a problem for landfills Solar panels purchased for home use under incentive programs many years ago are nearing the end of their life cycle. Many are already winding up in landfills. (Jim Cooke / Los Angeles Times) California has been a pioneer in pushing for rooftop solar power, […]
Dozens of reasons why solar power can’t replace fossil fuels
Dozens of reasons why solar power can’t replace fossil fuels Preface. All solar (and wind) do is add to the giant bonfire of burning fossil fuels — which still provide two-thirds of the power for the electric grid. Electricity is just a fraction of how we use energy, over 80% is fossil fueled because electricity […]
On Magical Thinking
On Magical Thinking In which the motivation behind the Honest Sorcerer gets revealed Image credit: Patrick Hendry via Unsplash My last article on the future of electricity has received quite a few critical comments both from proponents of nuclear as well as solar energy, accusing me with ‘denigrating’ their favored solution. The aim of this is project, the […]
Australia’s Energy Crisis Worsens As Gov’t Ask People To Keep Lights Off To Avert Blackouts
Australia’s Energy Crisis Worsens As Gov’t Ask People To Keep Lights Off To Avert Blackouts Australia’s energy minister asked Sydney and the New South Wales (eastern part of the country) residents to turn off lights and energy-intensive appliances in the evening to prevent power blackouts due to an ongoing energy crunch, The Independent reports. The federal energy […]
Why The Biden Admin Wants Censorship Of Renewable Energy Critics
Why The Biden Admin Wants Censorship Of Renewable Energy Critics National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy calls on Big Tech to censor renewable energy critics in the name of “public health” Biden Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy last week demanded that Facebook, Twitter and other social media companies crack down on those who are “seeding doubt about […]
Advancing interconnected solutions to the food, energy and finance crises
Advancing interconnected solutions to the food, energy and finance crises The governing body of the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) met in Rome on April 8, 2022 in an Extraordinary Session to examine the “impact of the Ukraine-Russia conflict on global food security and related matters under its mandate” and advise on how it should proceed. Meanwhile, just two […]
