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Finally, Bloomberg Admits Renewables Mania Caused Energy Shortages
Finally, Bloomberg Admits Renewables Mania Caused Energy Shortages Plus, new Environmental Progress Analysis finds German emissions rose in 2021 and in will rise again in 2022 Michael Bloomberg is directly invested in natural gas and renewables and is the owner and publisher of Bloomberg Media Between 2017 and 2021, Environmental Progress and I researched and published dozens of articles, testified before Congress, […]
The Energy Transition Will Be Impossible Without Fossil Fuels
The Energy Transition Will Be Impossible Without Fossil Fuels OPEC members and other participants of ADIPEC2021 are calling on governments and international institutions to be realistic about the global energy transition While countries like the UAE and Saudi Arabia are ready to embrace the energy transition, they argue that nations need to accept the role […]
What ‘transition’? Renewable energy is growing, but overall energy demand is growing faster
What ‘transition’? Renewable energy is growing, but overall energy demand is growing faster The rise in the renewable energy that’s available is still lower than the rise in global energy demand overall. The shortfall between renewable energy supply and power demand will only widen as economies reopen and travel resumes, with demand already spiking to […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXXI
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXXI Tulum, Mexico (1986) Photo by author So, dozens of political leaders, their hundreds of staff, multitudes of corporate leaders, and who knows how many ‘celebrities’ have all gathered in Glasgow, Scotland for an elite confab (#26) to discuss the ‘Climate […]
The “New Energy Economy”: An Exercise in Magical Thinking
The “New Energy Economy”: An Exercise in Magical Thinking EXECUTIVE SUMMARY A movement has been growing for decades to replace hydrocarbons, which collectively supply 84% of the world’s energy. It began with the fear that we were running out of oil. That fear has since migrated to the belief that, because of climate change and […]
Europe’s Energy Crisis Is a Warning Sign for America
A tanker is stocked with fuel as workers walk past at the Hamble oil refinery near Southampton, southern England, on Oct. 4, 2021. (Adrian Dennis/AFP via Getty Images) Europe’s Energy Crisis Is a Warning Sign for America An energy crisis is rocking the world, the likes of which we haven’t seen since the 1970s. Although headlines about […]
Winter’s discontent
Winter’s discontent “Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this son of York; And all the clouds that low’r’d upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.” Shakespeare, Richard III This may become the winter of our discontent as people around the world face a widening energy crisis, […]
The Hidden Costs of Solar Photovoltaic Power
The Hidden Costs of Solar Photovoltaic Power Introduction Despite many optimistic predictions, solar photovoltaic (solar PV) power still represents only a small fraction of the global electricity supply as of 2020. More than two decades of nearexponential growth and investment in solar PV development have taken place, yet the amount of fossil fuels being burned […]
Renewables Not So Reliable As US Hydropower Plunges 14%
Renewables Not So Reliable As US Hydropower Plunges 14% The transition away from hydrocarbons is not a seamless as many hope. The latest data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) shows a significant decline this year in hydropower generation amid historic droughts. The magical thinking about renewable energy and President Biden’s calls for the U.S. power grid […]
Crisis by design
Crisis by design Believe it or not, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has every right to stand before the nations of the world and lecture them on climate change. Not that Johnson himself has done much to address the crisis (indeed, given that having children is the single biggest cause of climate change at this point, Johnson’s inability […]
A far from perfect storm
A far from perfect storm Global warming may yet prove to be the one thing which saves us from our largely misguided attempts to respond to global warming. This is because, while the crisis is real enough, the solution that we have bought into is an absolute stinker. While a great deal of corporate profit […]
This isn’t going to work
This isn’t going to work If an energy policy sounds too good to be true, that is usually because it is. Take, for example, just one of the jigsaw pieces in current policy for reaching net zero by 2050: electric car batteries. Jillian Ambrose – who should know better – at the Guardian reports this weekend that: […]
The Myth of The “Energy Transition”
The Myth of The “Energy Transition” Today I want to tackle once again the subject of the much-hyped “energy transition” which has been thoroughly debunked from articles, books, documentaries, and presentation videos such as Planet of the Humans, Bright Green Lies (also located here), Life After Fossil Fuels, Earth and Humanity: Myth and Reality, The Hydrogen Economy Myth, Energy and Human Ambitions on […]
The Energy Transition Show: No Limits
The Energy Transition Show: No Limits Are there fundamental limits to the energy transition that will slow it down, or prevent us from decarbonizing our energy systems? Critics and skeptics of the energy transition have pointed to issues like the problems of producing key minerals, or the costs of renewable energy, or path dependency in […]
