China’s industrial dominance is built on cheap, reliable and abundant coal-fired power. Sure, the CCP presents itself as a champion of wind and solar. Except, that it is way more interested in flogging wind turbines and solar panels to the Western economies it’s setting out to weaken and overtake, then it is on attempting to run on nothing but sunshine and breezes. That delusion is one it wishes to reserve to its global enemies.
Which brings us to this week’s roundup.
We kick off with the team from Jo Nova, reporting on the 52 new coal-fired power plants which the Chinese have built in a single year. With thousands more proposed and on the way.
China goes gangbusters building 52 big coal plants in 2025
Jo Nova Blog
Jo Nova
20 February 2026
The inability of wind and solar deliver electricity when and where it’s needed is obvious, even to the more feebleminded among us. Wind and solar ‘capacity’ simply doesn’t matter on a calm night. Now that electricity demand is surging thanks to AI data centres, the gap between dreams and reality continues to widen, as Eric Worrall reports below.
Claim: AI and Air Conditioning are Threatening Renewable Energy Dominance
Watts Up With That
Eric Worrall
16 February 2026
Sonya Ellison details the endless misery suffered by those unfortunate enough to have these things grinding away in their backyards.
Residents complain of widespread “wind turbine sickness” in Steuben County NY
Wellsville Sun
Sonya Ellison
11 February 2026
In this journal article, Nils Christiansen, Ute Daewel and Corinna Schrum detail and describe the phenomenon that surrounds these things operating offshore: the ability to interfere with surrounding currents, tides and climate. And all the while we were told these things were meant to fix all that!
Cumulative hydrodynamic impacts of offshore wind farms on North Sea currents and surface temperatures
Communications Earth & Environment; (7) 164, 1-12
Nils Christiansen, Ute Daewel and Corinna Schrum
February 2026
Alex Epstein has been smashing the great wind and solar scam for years now. This time Alex obliterates the armchair ‘green’ energy warriors who keep claiming that solar + batteries represents a meaningful power generation plus storage solution. Click on the play link for the related podcast.
20 years on from climate cult grifter, Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth”, the far-fetched delusional narrative presented has not aged well. Packed with hysterical claims and predictions that never materialised, Gore’s rant now stands as a perfect example of schlock science masquerading as propaganda. Meanwhile, as Miranda Devine reports, the Trump administration is literally full steam ahead: the wind and solar ‘industries’ are terminal and hysterical claims about the weather in 50 years are treated as such.
Trump debunking Al Gore’s climate fears has made the world a better place
New York Post
Miranda Devine
11 February 2026
In this punchy video put out by Net Zero Watch, Colin Brazier delivers an ode to the energy source that drove the Industrial Revolution and delivered the Civilisation far too many take for granted. Yep, that’s right – COAL.
The Way Up | A Net Zero Watch Short Film
YouTube
Net Zero Watch
10 February 2026
Stay tuned, STT will be back next week with more.
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