The grand ‘wind and solar transition’ sounds great until you’re left freezing or boiling in the dark - the only inevitable outcome of attempting to run on nothing but sunshine and breezes. Solar output collapses on a regular, daily basis (a phenomenon that’s been referred to as ‘Sunset’ for some time now). Even when the … Continue reading Fade to Black: One Of These (Calm) Nights You’ll Be Freezing or Boiling In The Dark
Category: Batteries
Wind & Solar Scammers’ Propaganda Pitch Attempts to Bury Community Opposition
The wind and solar scam has always benefited from the MSM’s gooey-eyed love of ‘renewable energy’, as they parrot it. Most hacks and commentators are nothing more than propagandists. And they have been at it for more than 20 years, which means it takes some effort to peel away the lies, myths and hyperbole and … Continue reading Wind & Solar Scammers’ Propaganda Pitch Attempts to Bury Community Opposition
Renewable Storage Claims Incinerated: Lithium Batteries Burn For Days
When self-immolating lithium-ion batteries start spewing toxic smoke, the action last for days because firefighters won't go near them. They simply let them burn themselves out, and if that takes a week, so be it. And it’s not just those in service providing deadly pyrotechnic displays (see above the giant Tesla that burned for days in … Continue reading Renewable Storage Claims Incinerated: Lithium Batteries Burn For Days
Renewable Energy Batteries: Toxic Timebombs, Delivering Truly Trivial Output
The grand wind and solar ‘transition’ looks ridiculous enough, but claims about giant batteries fixing the grand intermittency problem look positively idiotic. The cost of storing meaningful volumes of power is staggering, accordingly the volumes actually available for release into the grid are positively trivial. Then there’s the battle that giant lithium-ion batteries have with … Continue reading Renewable Energy Batteries: Toxic Timebombs, Delivering Truly Trivial Output
Mega-Battery Owners Rolling in Cash Whenever Wind & Solar Output Collapse
Sunset and calm weather provides the perfect opportunity for rent-seekers profiting from the market chaos that follows. The owners of fast-start diesel and gas-generators make out like bandits, as the spot price for power goes from less than $100 per MWh to tens of thousands of dollars per MWh. Couple a sudden collapse of wind … Continue reading Mega-Battery Owners Rolling in Cash Whenever Wind & Solar Output Collapse
French Lithium Battery Warehouse Explodes In Terrifying Toxic Fireball
Self-immolating lithium-ion batteries spewing toxic smoke is just another part of our grand wind and solar transition. And it’s not just those in service providing deadly pyrotechnic displays (see above the giant Tesla that burned for days in Victoria). Those past their use by dates are also giving thrilling thermal displays, as they turn their … Continue reading French Lithium Battery Warehouse Explodes In Terrifying Toxic Fireball
Broken Dreams: Constant Calm Weather Wiping Out Britain’s Wind Industry
The wind industry treats natural meteorological phenomenon - like calm weather - as a grand conspiracy. They’ve even coined their very own curse, calling such lengthy events “wind droughts”. Wind and solar-dependent Germans call gloomy, windless weather ‘dunkelflaute’. Wild claims being smashed by nature is a common feature of earthly hubris. Icarus learnt the hard … Continue reading Broken Dreams: Constant Calm Weather Wiping Out Britain’s Wind Industry
Practical Reality: Off-Road Campers Grapple With Solar Power’s Natural Limits
https://youtu.be/HQthAzrrzkg?si=QRqmGfcAuf0mIsPe The Sun cult reckon solar (with a few $trillion worth of lithium-ion batteries) is already capable of powering the planet. Reality begs to differ. The performance claims made by solar panel sales reps are always overhyped. Actual output never matches the numbers laid out in glossy brochures or on slick websites. A lot of … Continue reading Practical Reality: Off-Road Campers Grapple With Solar Power’s Natural Limits
Mission Impossible: Why Batteries Can’t Solve Wind & Solar’s Reliability Problem
Reduced to waffling about grid-scale battery storage, the wind and solar industries are having a hard time demonstrating that they have any kind of future, at all. Delusional promoters of the grand wind and solar 'transition' reckon the hopeless intermittency of wind and solar can cured by “storing” it. Pitches include using insanely expensive lithium … Continue reading Mission Impossible: Why Batteries Can’t Solve Wind & Solar’s Reliability Problem
Grand ‘Green’ Energy Flop: Europeans Wake Up to Wind & Solar Debacle
The results of attempting to rely on sunshine and breezes can’t be hidden forever. As wind and solar generating capacity increases, the inevitable consequences are soon revealed: namely, routine power rationing, mass blackouts and crippling power prices. And yet the acolytes continue to maintain that we’re only a few mythical mega-batteries away from an all-wind … Continue reading Grand ‘Green’ Energy Flop: Europeans Wake Up to Wind & Solar Debacle
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