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Offshore Wind is an Economic and Environmental Catastrophe
Offshore Wind is an Economic and Environmental Catastrophe California project would be one of the most egregious cases of environmental destruction in human history When it comes to “renewables” wreaking havoc on the environment, wind turbines have stiff competition. For example, over 500,000 square miles of biofuel plantations have already replaced farms and forests to replace a mere […]
‘Wind Power Fails on Every Count’: Oxford Scientist Explains the Math
‘Wind Power Fails on Every Count’: Oxford Scientist Explains the Math A wind farm outside of Palm Springs, Calif., on May 26, 2018. (John Fredricks/The Epoch Times) Wind power has been historically and scientifically unreliable, claims an Oxford University mathematician and physicist, with his calculations revealing the government to be pursuing a “bluster of windfarm […]
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 […]
Material and other limits to scaling wind up to 24 GW by 2050
Material and other limits to scaling wind up to 24 GW by 2050 Preface. Here are just a few of the many important points made in this excellent paper: Research showing no constraints on the materials needed to build wind turbines “dismiss potential physical constraints and issues with natural resource supply, and do not consider […]
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 […]
54 Reasons why wind power can not replace fossil fuels
54 Reasons why wind power can not replace fossil fuels Source: Leonard, T. 2012. Broken down and rusting, is this the future of Britain’s ‘wind rush’? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2116877/Is-future-Britains-wind-rush.html Preface. Electricity simply doesn’t substitute for all the uses of fossil fuels, so windmills will never be able to reproduce themselves from the energy they generate — they […]
Germany’s overdose of renewable energy
Germany’s overdose of renewable energy Anti-nuclear hysteria is destroying the environment This is part 2 in a series. Click here to read part 1. Germany now generates over 35% of its yearly electricity consumption from wind and solar sources. Over 30 000 wind turbines have been built, with a total installed capacity of nearly 60 GW. […]
Understanding Why the Green New Deal Won’t Really Work
Understanding Why the Green New Deal Won’t Really Work The reasons why the Green New Deal won’t really work are fairly subtle. A person really has to look into the details to see what goes wrong. In this post, I try to explain at least a few of the issues involved. [1] None of the new […]
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 […]
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 […]
Stunning drops in solar, wind costs mean economic case for coal, gas is ‘crumbling’
Stunning drops in solar, wind costs mean economic case for coal, gas is ‘crumbling’ Things are only going to get tougher for gas and coal compared to renewables. SOLAR POWER PRICES ARE DROPPING AT RECORD RATES. CREDIT: ACERA. Prices for solar, wind, and battery storage are dropping so rapidly that renewables are increasingly squeezing out […]
Inconvenient energy fact of the day
Inconvenient energy fact of the day In 2016, solar and wind provided just 0.8% of the total world’s energy (Total Primary Energy Demand (TPED)), even after trillions of dollars in taxpayer-extracted subsidies, and will reach only a 3.6% share of energy in 2040, according to the International Energy Agency World Energy Outlook 2017 forecast (see […]
Helm and the death of UK wind and solar
Helm and the death of UK wind and solar In his recent post on the Helm Review Euan Mearns predicted that Helm’s recommendation that “intermittent producers need to bear the cost of converting intermittent to firm capacity” will, if adopted, “sound the death knell for new wind and solar projects in the UK”. This post […]
UK offshore wind capacity factors – a semi-statistical analysis
UK offshore wind capacity factors – a semi-statistical analysis The average capacity factor at 28 operating UK offshore wind farms is 33.6% (most recent 12-month average) and 34.5% (lifetime), increasing to 36.1% and 37.5% when four demonstration projects are discarded. There is a dependence of capacity factor on age, with older farms showing capacity factors […]
