There’s not much wrong with solar power; except its exorbitant cost, limited and unreliable delivery and the toxic cocktail left behind when the panels expire after a decade of service, and end up crushed up in landfills. In remote locations, backed up with batteries and diesel generators, solar makes sense. However, in populated urban centres … Continue reading Time to Dump Subsidised Solar & Get Serious About Reliable & Affordable Power Generation
Category: USA
Doomsday Prepping: Americans Told to Give Up ‘Selfish’ Demand for Constant Electricity
Wind and solar ‘powered’ Californians and South Australians know what it is to have their power cut when the sun sets and/or calm weather sets in. Mass blackouts and load shedding are part and parcel of our inevitable transition to an all wind and sun powered future. But now we are told, that none of … Continue reading Doomsday Prepping: Americans Told to Give Up ‘Selfish’ Demand for Constant Electricity
Climate Cult Would Take Californians Back to The Dark Ages With All Wind & Solar Future
If this Summer’s power rationing and rolling blackouts weren’t enough, California’s wind and solar worshippers are determined to deliver much more of the same. One of their hopes is to ban all household gas appliances, forcing families to use electric powered kit, instead. The premise is that all the power needed will come courtesy of … Continue reading Climate Cult Would Take Californians Back to The Dark Ages With All Wind & Solar Future
Democrats Dreamin’: Wind & Solar No Solution to America’s Energy Needs
As part of his loopy New Green Deal, Sleepy Joe Biden reckons America can “transition from the oil industry” - with all the energy reliably supplied by oil and gas somehow replaced by chaotically intermittent wind and solar. The same squad of lunatics are also doing their darndest to kill off America’s nuclear power generation … Continue reading Democrats Dreamin’: Wind & Solar No Solution to America’s Energy Needs
Sunshine’s Free: But Solar Power’s More Than Double the Cost of Fossil Fuels and Nuclear
Sure, sunshine may be free, but solar power is the most expensive stuff around. And, of course, when the sky clouds up or the sun sets, solar power simply can’t be bought at any price. Assume, for the moment, the wind always blew and the sun always shone, then wind and solar power just might … Continue reading Sunshine’s Free: But Solar Power’s More Than Double the Cost of Fossil Fuels and Nuclear
No More Waste: Time To End Obsession With Intermittent & Unreliable Wind Power
The arguments against wind power are myriad, but the simplest and most obvious is that it simply doesn’t work: never has; never will. Keen to avoid the power pricing and supply calamity that’s beset wind and solar obsessed California – the Benton Public Utility District has come out swinging, declaring that there is no place … Continue reading No More Waste: Time To End Obsession With Intermittent & Unreliable Wind Power
New Green Deal’s Punishing Price: Ditching Fossil Fuels Would Cost Americans $29 Trillion
Green New Deal Democrats claim that America will soon be powered by nothing but sunshine and breezes and, thereafter, never use fossil fuels, again. Part of the premise involves creating an all-electric society, where every household or business is exclusively powered by electricity. The idea has been around for some time, but it appears renewable … Continue reading New Green Deal’s Punishing Price: Ditching Fossil Fuels Would Cost Americans $29 Trillion
Enough Already: Time To Declare America’s Pacific North-West Wind Turbine Free
American hostility towards these things is world-renowned, now those from the picturesque Pacific North-West have cried ‘enough already’. Blessed with enviable hydropower resources, Washington State is not the first in the Union to take a set against industrial wind power, and it won’t be the last. Keen to avoid the power pricing and supply calamity … Continue reading Enough Already: Time To Declare America’s Pacific North-West Wind Turbine Free
RE Rent Seekers Furious: Trump Sinks USA’s Offshore Wind Industry
Never a fan of the wind industry, Donald Trump has just destroyed its prospects all along America’s Atlantic coast. Trump’s ban on offshore drilling for oil and gas, has the altogether brilliant side-effect of preventing any more offshore wind turbines from cluttering up the coastlines of several states from Florida to North Carolina, with his … Continue reading RE Rent Seekers Furious: Trump Sinks USA’s Offshore Wind Industry
Get Smart: China’s CCP Aiming to Use Wind Farms as Backdoor To Wreck US Power Grid
China’s has lost quite a few friends thanks to a virus, but it’s their efforts to infiltrate and undermine Western powers that have spooked the USA and others about what its Communist Party is really up to. Recent efforts by the CCP controlled Chinese Guanghui Industry Investment Group to snaffle vast tracts of Texas, with … Continue reading Get Smart: China’s CCP Aiming to Use Wind Farms as Backdoor To Wreck US Power Grid