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The Bulletin: October 29-November 4, 2025
The Bulletin: October 29-November 4, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. New Mexico Officials Report High Rate Of ‘Forever Chemicals’ In Residents Near Air Base | ZeroHedge Barack Obama Proposes a Scary Idea for Social Media Censorship Is Now A New Form […]
The Bulletin: September 17-23, 2025
The Bulletin: September 17-23, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. How to think about the prospects of truly green growth | Aeon Essays UN Sessions on Solar Geoengineering Trigger Unease – Inside Climate News Book Review: Small is Beautiful – by Shane […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The concept of Peak Sun Hours
The concept of Peak Sun Hours Further to my recent post about the intermittency of solar power, I thought I’d tackle some of you more mathematically challenged and hopefully bring more light (no pun intended) to the problems facing those who believe in 100% renewables running complex civilisation. If on a perfect cloudless sunny day you plot the […]
Negative energy return of solar PV in Northern Europe
Negative energy return of solar PV in Northern Europe Preface. I once yanked this paper after huge blow back, but in the past few years, I have no reason to doubt Ferroni and Hopkirks methods, boundaries, or conclusions, so I’m putting this post back. An ERoEI of less than 1 means there is a net […]
Solar panels in Sahara could boost renewable energy but damage the global climate – here’s why
Solar panels in Sahara could boost renewable energy but damage the global climate – here’s why The world’s most forbidding deserts could be the best places on Earth for harvesting solar power – the most abundant and clean source of energy we have. Deserts are spacious, relatively flat, rich in silicon – the raw material for the […]
Solar now ‘cheapest electricity in history’: How much will it matter?
Solar now ‘cheapest electricity in history’: How much will it matter? The International Energy Agency (IEA), the Paris-based consortium of 30 countries, has told us in its flagship World Energy Outlook 2020 that solar-produced electricity is now the “cheapest electricity in history.” That seems like very good news, that is, until the actual expected impact of that […]
The Dark Side of Solar Power
THE DARK SIDE OF SOLAR POWER Everybody loves solar power, right? It’s nice, clean, renewable energy that’s available pretty much everywhere the sun shines. If only the panels weren’t so expensive. Even better, solar is now the cheapest form of electricity for companies to build, according to the International Energy Agency. But solar isn’t all apples […]
Rolling blackouts in California show how reliance on solar and wind power can backfire
Rolling blackouts in California show how reliance on solar and wind power can backfire (Natural News) California issued its first rolling blackouts in nearly 20 years last week as the state’s grid operator tried to keep the power system from complete collapse in the midst of a heat wave, and some are pointing out that […]
Off-Grid solar 101
Off-Grid solar 101 Going Off-Grid for electricity can be one of the biggest challenges you can face and also one of the most expensive. After doing a Geoff Lawton Permaculture design course in 2013 I learnt the secret to taking my family’s home off-grid in the city which I had been wanting to do for […]
Solar, Wind, & Subterfuge
Solar, Wind, & Subterfuge Raw Realities of Renewable Energy Something that long hasn’t set well with me in the green movement is that so much of it is based on marketable products. For example, not long ago, the world was set alight by the idea of plant-based soda bottles. It was as if making plastic […]
The Fatal Flaw In A Perfect Energy Solution
The Fatal Flaw In A Perfect Energy Solution More than thirty years ago a giant tower was built in Manzanares, Spain, to produce electricity in a way that at the time must have seen even more eccentric than it seems now, by harnessing the power of air movement. The Manzanares tower was, sadly, toppled by […]
