Western Civilisation was built entirely on our ability to harness, master and utilise energy, but, for the last half-century or so, its abundance has been taken for granted.
That delusional leadership across the West have signed up to suicidal, ideologically-driven wind and solar scams is the natural consequence of a generation who have absolutely no idea how critical energy is to everything we enjoy in life.
Australia is a prime example.
Subsidised wind and solar and anti-hydrocarbon rhetoric have delivered an electricity grid on the brink of collapse (along with crushing power prices) and equally crushing petrol and diesel prices. Sure, the IRGC’s blockade of the oil trade that ordinarily passes through the Strait of Hormuz might be seen as the immediate cause of Australia’s liquid fuel pricing and supply calamity, but the current crisis can also be attributed to policies which have locked up Australia’s own (substantial) oil and gas reserves, by the same ideologues that wrecked the power grid with their wind and solar obsession.
While Australia was busy wrecking its energy self-sufficiency, the USA headed in the opposite direction.
20 years ago, the US was a net energy importer; thanks to its shale oil and gas revolution it is now one of the world’s largest exporter of oil and gas.
US energy security has been a prime focus of the second Trump administration: the offshore wind power scam has been brought to a screeching halt, and coal, gas and nuclear are being backed to the hilt.
Which brings us to this week’s roundup.
In this post/podcast, Alex Epstein outlines just how seriously America is taking energy security – rejecting intermittent wind and solar and embracing any form of energy which is cheap, reliable and abundant.
A transcendent vision for US energy policy
Substack – Energy Talking Points
Alex Epstein
4 March 2026
As if to make our opening point, Sethakgi Kgomo tells the tale from the developing world’s perspective, where energy is anything but taken for granted. Those countries looking to drag themselves out of grinding poverty are rejecting the wind and solar scam being thrust upon them by cynical rent-seeking opportunists from the West; the same characters that have helped undermine energy security in their own backyards.
The severe socio-economic costs of solar and wind
CFACT
Sethakgi Kgomo
21 March 2026
The team from Jo Nova, once again, spoil the wind and sun cult’s narrative that China is the world leader when it comes to wind and solar power generation. The myth, of course, ignores the hundreds of coal-fired power plants they have built in the last 20 years and are in the process of building. And necessarily ignores the fact that China is well on its way to be the world’s largest nuclear power generator.
China aims to be the new global king of nuclear power, and no one is paying attention
Jo Nova Blog
Jo Nova
24 March 2026
Steve Begnoche reports on the self-destruction of yet another one of these things – this time the action occurs on the shores of Lake Michigan. Apparently the wind power outfit concerned is blaming, of all things, the wind! Here’s the pic, story below.
Wind turbine damaged at Lake Winds Energy Park in Riverton Township
Daily News
Steve Begnoche
21 March 2026
Stay tuned, STT will be back next week with more.
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Comment:
Germany is also part of Western civilization and has embarked on the same path of economic self-destruction: it has phased out domestic coal, banned fracking, shut down nuclear and coal-fired power plants, and massively expanded wind and solar power.
The result: when the sun is shining and the wind is blowing, there is a massive oversupply of electricity, for the export of which Germany pays enormous sums. During periods of low sunlight and weak winds, electricity must be purchased at high cost from abroad—produced in nuclear power plants in France, for example, or in coal-fired power plants. Electricity prices have skyrocketed, and security of supply is in question.