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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 […]
How to Make Wind Power Sustainable Again
How to Make Wind Power Sustainable Again If we build them out of wood, large wind turbines could become a textbook example of the circular economy. Illustration: Eva Miquel for Low-tech Magazine. For more than two thousand years, windmills were built from recyclable or reusable materials: wood, stone, brick, canvas, metal. When – electricity producing […]
Insane Footage Shows Tornado Destroying Wind Farm In Iowa
Insane Footage Shows Tornado Destroying Wind Farm In Iowa Shocking footage from Iowa this evening shows multiple tornadoes wreaking havoc on massive wind turbines. This is yet another reminder that wind is not a reliable power source. Here’s the aftermath. Two months ago, a solar farm in Texas with hundreds of acres of ground-based panels was destroyed by a hail […]
Build It, And The Wind Won’t Come
Build It, And The Wind Won’t Come Weather-dependent generation sources are…weather dependent: Last year, despite adding 6.2 GW of new capacity, U.S. wind production dropped by 2.1%. Damaged wind turbines at the Punta Lima wind project, Naguabo, Puerto Rico, 2018. Photo: Wikipedia. Three years ago, in the wake of Winter Storm Uri, the alt-energy lobby and […]
Britain’s Net-Zero Disaster and the Wind Power Scam
Britain’s Net-Zero Disaster and the Wind Power Scam “This is not about complicated issues of cryptocurrency,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicolas Roos declared in the Sam Bankman-Fried trial, after accusing the defendant of building FTX on a “pyramid of deceit.” Much the same can be said about the foundations of Britain’s net-zero experiment. Energy is complicated, […]
Canada’s offshore wind resources are huge
Canada’s offshore wind resources are huge Nuclear energy is not the solution to achieving Canada’s emission reduction targets. Offshore wind power is safer, less costly, and carries none of the risks of nuclear technology. Canada’s offshore wind could deliver more energy than nuclear power. The aging CANDU nuclear reactors are being refurbished at substantial cost […]
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 […]
UK Grid Warns Of Electricity Shortage Due To Drop In Wind
UK Grid Warns Of Electricity Shortage Due To Drop In Wind The UK’s electricity grid operator has warned of a short supply over the next few days due to generator outages and a lull in autumn winds. The National Grid said on Oct. 14 that it was exploring various measures to create a buffer to avoid potential outages, like […]
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 […]
‘A Breath of Fresh Air’: Offshore Wind Power Could Produce More Electricity Than World Uses
‘A Breath of Fresh Air’: Offshore Wind Power Could Produce More Electricity Than World Uses “Let’s get going!” A new report from the International Energy Agency released Friday claims that wind power could be a $1 trillion business by 2040 and that the power provided by the green technology has the potential to outstrip global […]
Getting Real About Green Energy: An honest analysis of what it CAN’T promise
Getting Real About Green Energy: An honest analysis of what it CAN’T promise I want to be optimistic about the future. I really do. But there’s virtually no chance of the world transitioning gently to an alternative energy-powered future. These Are The ‘Good Old Days’ I’m often asked where I stand on wind, solar and […]
China’s Renewable Boom Hits The Wall
China’s Renewable Boom Hits The Wall When earlier this year China announced subsidies for 22.79 GW of new solar power capacity, those following the country’s renewable energy story must have started to worry. The capacity subsidized is half the amount approved in 2017, at 53 GW. And chances are that solar and wind additions will continue to […]
Rethinking Renewable Mandates
Rethinking Renewable Mandates Powering the world’s economy with wind, water and solar, and perhaps a little wood sounds like a good idea until a person looks at the details. The economy can use small amounts of wind, water and solar, but adding these types of energy in large quantities is not necessarily beneficial to the system. […]
45 Reasons why wind power can not replace fossil fuels
45 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 […]
Utility scale energy storage has a long way to go to make renewables possible
Utility scale energy storage has a long way to go to make renewables possible What follows comes from my book “When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation” , which is also where you’ll find the references backing up what I’ve written below. I often get letters from people about energy breakthroughs in biofuels, solar, […]
