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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXVIII–Personal Experience With ‘Renewables’
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXVIII November 20, 2022 (original posting date) Chitchen Itza, Mexico. (1986) Photo by author. Personal Experience With ‘Renewables’ Let me begin this contemplation by stating that I do not hate ‘renewables’ nor am I a fossil fuel industry shill (the two common accusations lobbed at me whenever I criticise the notion of a […]
“Worried About Next Two Months”: Solar Firms Running Out Of Cash In California
“Worried About Next Two Months”: Solar Firms Running Out Of Cash In California The solar industry in California is facing significant headwinds following the implementation of a new policy in April, which reduced incentives that had encouraged homeowners to install solar systems. Bloomberg reports the California Solar & Storage Association has found about 63% of its 400 solar […]
Sunshine Might Be Free But Solar Power is Not Cheap
Sunshine Might Be Free But Solar Power is Not Cheap Mississippi residents are consistently told that renewable energy sources, like solar panels, are now the lowest-cost ways to generate electricity, but these claims are based on creative accounting gimmicks that only examine a small portion of the expenses incurred to integrate solar onto the grid […]
When Renewables Are Not Renewable
When Renewables Are Not Renewable Sure the wind and sun are renewable, but the collectors we build are not Wind Turbines We term an energy source “renewable” when the energy provided is powered by the sun — wind and solar, or powered by gravitational forces — tidal. However, the energy collectors are not renewable. Solar […]
Solar Energy on the Frontlines and Old-Fashioned Clotheslines
Solar Energy on the Frontlines and Old-Fashioned Clotheslines Solar energy comes to Earthlings in many ways. Ancient Persians used passive solar architecture. East Africans about the same time funneled cool ocean wind through tunnels to cool themselves. Now at long last, solar energy is outpacing new fossil fuel and nuclear facilities on price, environmental safety, […]
Wind and Solar Energy Don’t Work
WIND AND SOLAR ENERGY DON’T WORK Leftists fantasize that before long, we can dispense with all reliable energy sources–coal, natural gas, nuclear, even hydro–and run our society entirely on wind and solar, two forms of energy that have been obsolete for 150 years. How can this be, since wind turbines only produce electricity when the […]
Achtung Baby! (It’s Cold Outside) – Germany’s ‘Green’ Energy Fail Rescued by Coal and Gas
Achtung Baby! (It’s Cold Outside) – Germany’s ‘Green’ Energy Fail Rescued by Coal and Gas Barely a week after Davos luminaries met with world leaders and Silicon Valley oligarchs to plot their latest phase of the Great Reset, the underlying provenance of their entire ‘climate emergency’ thesis is still struggling to correspond with reality. Their much-celebrated […]
A globalised solar-powered future is wholly unrealistic – and our economy is the reason why
A globalised solar-powered future is wholly unrealistic – and our economy is the reason why Over the past two centuries, millions of dedicated people – revolutionaries, activists, politicians, and theorists – have been unable to curb the disastrous and increasingly globalised trajectory of economic polarisation and ecological degradation. This is perhaps because we are utterly trapped in flawed […]
Solar Energy Is Renewable, But Is it Environmentally Just?
Solar Energy Is Renewable, But Is it Environmentally Just? Story Transcript DHARNA NOOR: It’s The Real News. I’m Dharna Noor. The solar industry has been soaring over the past several years. The US is now home to some two million solar installations. Solar energy now provides about a fifth of California’s power and it makes sense […]
California Rooftop Solar Mandate: An example of bad groupthink?
California Rooftop Solar Mandate: An example of bad groupthink? In recent news, California legislators have done a gimmick-trick that has earned the state loud applause from the environmentally-minded consumers and activists: California Energy Commission (CEC) recently voted 5-0 to add a new provision to the state’s building code. This includes a requirement that from 2020, […]
A brief review of the Buckland, Alaska, solar project
A brief review of the Buckland, Alaska, solar project Buckland is one of a number of projects in remote Alaskan villages that aim to replace expensive diesel with “cheap” solar. Here I examine how much diesel the Buckland array will actually save and how cheap the solar electricity that replaces it will be. The results […]
$200 Billion Saudi Solar Megaproject Might Never Happen
$200 Billion Saudi Solar Megaproject Might Never Happen A $200-billion solar power project that was planned to be the largest solar farm in the world might never happen, government sources from Riyadh told the Wall Street Journal. The Kingdom earlier this year announced the funding and a partnership with Japanese SoftBank as part of its […]
What If There Isn’t Enough Energy Going Forward?
Nuttapong/Shutterstock What If There Isn’t Enough Energy Going Forward? We’ll be forced to live with less. Maybe a LOT less. Currently the media is breathlessly cheering the record amounts of US oil production. Stories like this one get top billing on major news websites: Texas Gulf Coast exports more oil than it imports for the […]
Why The Coming Oil Crunch Will Shock The World
Anton Balazh/Shutterstock Why The Coming Oil Crunch Will Shock The World And why we need a new energy strategy — fast. My years working in corporate strategy taught me that every strategic framework, no matter how complex (some I worked on were hundreds of pages long), boils down to just two things: Where do you […]
A review of recent solar & wind auction prices
A review of recent solar & wind auction prices Recent renewable energy auctions in a number of countries have been won by record low solar and wind bids – proof, according to some media sources, that wind and solar are already cheaper than fossil fuels. This post addresses the question of whether these low bids […]
