The principles of economics are not hard, nor are they a mystery. Jobs require viable businesses, viable businesses require cheap and reliable electricity. Deprive businesses of cheap and reliable power and those businesses will very soon cease to exist. Those truisms, however, continue to fall on deaf ears in Australia’s so-called ‘wind power capital’, South … Continue reading Renewable Energy Job Myth: Subsidised Wind and Solar Destroy Far More Jobs Than They Ever ‘Create’
Category: USA
Pointless Power: Without Massive & Endless Subsidies Wind Power Makes Absolutely No Sense
Warren Buffett said: “We get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That’s the only reason to build them. They don’t make sense without the tax credit.” Buffett might have continued, that subsidies are the only reason anyone invests in these things. Buffett might be an opportunistic profiteer, but at least … Continue reading Pointless Power: Without Massive & Endless Subsidies Wind Power Makes Absolutely No Sense
Power Poor: Reliable & Affordable Electricity The Critical Path To Economic Salvation
The path out of poverty is always and everywhere about reliable and affordable energy. And entrenched poverty is best explained by its absence. Want to know how important electricity is to modern life? Try living a comfortable and civilised life without it. More than a billion humans struggle through daily life without access to power … Continue reading Power Poor: Reliable & Affordable Electricity The Critical Path To Economic Salvation
(Un)-Natural Disaster: Industrial Wind Power Wiping Out What’s Left of America’s Wilderness
Producing electricity at the whims of mother nature means wind power has absolutely no commercial value, at all: strangely, power consumers want electricity as and when they need it, not just when the wind happens to be blowing. Absent massive and endless subsidies, there would be no wind industry. Period. But it gets worse; … Continue reading (Un)-Natural Disaster: Industrial Wind Power Wiping Out What’s Left of America’s Wilderness
Nuclear’s New Age: Americans Lead Race to Build Small Modular Plants
Small modular nuclear reactors have been powering submarines and ships for generations. Now, enterprising Americans are seeking to bring them onshore, in order to tap an inexhaustible and affordable supply of electricity - available 24 x 7, whatever the weather or time-of-day. With a few rare exceptions, the climate cult hates the concept of nuclear … Continue reading Nuclear’s New Age: Americans Lead Race to Build Small Modular Plants
Double Nightmare: New York’s Reliable Nuclear Power Plants Shutdown During Coronavirus Disaster
With the coronavirus pandemic laying them to waste, New Yorkers have plenty to worry about. Now their power supply is under threat, thanks to their wind and solar obsessed Governor, Andrew Cuomo. At Indian Point (situated north of New York City) nuclear power plants have been providing safe, reliable and affordable electricity 24 x7 … Continue reading Double Nightmare: New York’s Reliable Nuclear Power Plants Shutdown During Coronavirus Disaster
Jobs Freeze: America’s Wind & Solar ‘Industries’ Crushed By COVID-19 – 100,000 Sacked
So-called ‘green’ jobs are a case of easy come, easy go. The wind and solar ‘industries’ that gave birth to those jobs simply can’t survive without massive and endless subsidies, which means their days are numbered. With the axe being taken to subsidies across the globe, their ultimate demise is a matter of when, not … Continue reading Jobs Freeze: America’s Wind & Solar ‘Industries’ Crushed By COVID-19 – 100,000 Sacked
Gobsmacking Audacity: Wind & Solar Industries Demand $Billions in Handouts From COVID-19 Stimulus Package
America’s renewable energy rent seekers sought to snare $billions from Trump’s $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus and failed. Now they’re back with a vengeance, and hard at it again. The wind and solar ‘industries’ have always exhibited their very own gobsmacking version of audacity. But, with America facing an economic calamity of a magnitude not seen … Continue reading Gobsmacking Audacity: Wind & Solar Industries Demand $Billions in Handouts From COVID-19 Stimulus Package
Brutal Reality Check: Industrial Wind Power Ain’t ‘Green’ & It Certainly Ain’t ‘Clean’
Industrial wind power has landed in the “it seemed like a good idea, at the time” pile of monumental human failures. Producing electricity at the whims of mother nature means wind power has absolutely no commercial value, at all: strangely, power consumers want electricity as and when they need it, not just when the wind … Continue reading Brutal Reality Check: Industrial Wind Power Ain’t ‘Green’ & It Certainly Ain’t ‘Clean’
Virginian Vendetta: Wind & Solar Power Obsessed Government Signs Economic Suicide Pact
No country has powered itself with sunshine and breezes. No country ever will. But that doesn’t stop virtue signalling politicians claiming that they soon will. The people of Virginia are just the latest victims of the lunacy that’s gripped much of the Western world.Virginia’s Democrats have just signed an economic suicide pact - premised … Continue reading Virginian Vendetta: Wind & Solar Power Obsessed Government Signs Economic Suicide Pact