Destination Blackout: Wind & Solar ‘Transition’ Wrecking Reliable Power Supplies

Because electricity demand is a here and now kind of thing, intermittent wind and solar will never amount to meaningful generation sources. Ever. The game has been all smoke and mirrors for more than 20 years. When the sun is up and the wind reaches a constant bluster, you can’t shut them up. But you … Continue reading Destination Blackout: Wind & Solar ‘Transition’ Wrecking Reliable Power Supplies

No Hopers: Inability to Deliver On Demand Makes Wind & Solar Utterly Pointless

Part-time power has no commercial value, which is why wind and solar are utterly pointless. Every single MW of wind or solar has to be “backed up” with another MW from a dispatchable source, which in the main means coal, gas, nuclear or hydro. Contemplate where your power comes from on a calm night, and … Continue reading No Hopers: Inability to Deliver On Demand Makes Wind & Solar Utterly Pointless

No Competition: Hopelessly Unreliable Wind & Solar Can’t Beat Coal, Gas & Nuclear

Rent-seekers keep telling us that wind and solar power are the cheapest of all. Our crushing and ever-increasing power bills wherever wind and solar signify, suggests otherwise. Their propagandists employ a bag of tricks in an effort to support the narrative. The game includes ignoring the capital cost of having every single (unreliable) megawatt of … Continue reading No Competition: Hopelessly Unreliable Wind & Solar Can’t Beat Coal, Gas & Nuclear

Freezing In The Dark? Just Ask Wind & Solar Generators to ‘Turn It Up’

The inherent absurdity in our headline is precisely the point. No one in touch with reality expects wind power during calm weather or solar power when the sun sets. No one believes that wind and solar generators can simply ‘turn it up’ on a calm night. Oh no, that responsibility is always left to conventional … Continue reading Freezing In The Dark? Just Ask Wind & Solar Generators to ‘Turn It Up’

Clouded Future: Government Disconnects Huge Grid-Wrecking Solar Power Plant

Solar panels love sunshine, dislike clouds and positively detest dust storms, hailstorms and Hurricanes. Now, if they weren’t meant to be producing power as and when we need it, none of that would matter very much, at all. Except that rent-seekers reckon that an endless sea of solar panels, hooked up to a few billion … Continue reading Clouded Future: Government Disconnects Huge Grid-Wrecking Solar Power Plant

Pure Retro: Wind & Solar Transition On Track to Deliver New (Very) Dark Age

The wind and solar ‘industries’ couldn’t care less whether you have power, as long as the subsidies keep rolling in. The path to penury - aka the ‘grand renewable energy transition’ - is dimly lit and the future, darker still. But, so it is, when you pin your entire energy hopes on the wind and … Continue reading Pure Retro: Wind & Solar Transition On Track to Deliver New (Very) Dark Age

Oil & Gas Producers Making Massive Profits From Intermittent Wind & Solar

Oil and gas producers are making a killing thanks to chaotically intermittent wind and solar, providing fuel to run gas and diesel generators as so-called ‘backup’. Mike Holly apparently doesn’t like monopolies and has a set against hydrocarbons. However, he makes a fair point targeting oil and gas producers making a killing every time wind … Continue reading Oil & Gas Producers Making Massive Profits From Intermittent Wind & Solar

Sunset & Calm Weather Reveal Wind and Solar’s Inherent & Fatal Flaw

If a 9-year-old proposed wind and solar as a generation system, you’d give her a gold star but tell her to do better next time. You’d go on to explain that electricity is needed around-the-clock, irrespective of the weather, and that households and businesses want to operate without interruption. Your tutorial on energy supply and … Continue reading Sunset & Calm Weather Reveal Wind and Solar’s Inherent & Fatal Flaw

Weather Rules: Calm Nights Keep Killing Wild Wind & Solar Transition Claims

Talk a big game and you’d better be prepared to back it up. The wind and sun cult have been telling us that we’re well on our way to wind and solar powered future, for years now. But the prevalence of calm nights says otherwise. Over the last 6 months, the sun has been setting … Continue reading Weather Rules: Calm Nights Keep Killing Wild Wind & Solar Transition Claims

Fade to Black: One Of These (Calm) Nights You’ll Be Freezing or Boiling In The Dark

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