Massive Subsidy Cost Blowout Smashes ‘Cheap’ Solar Power Myth

Where solar power generates hyperbole and myth 24 hours a day, it struggles to produce useful electricity for more than 8 hours out of every 24. Depending where the panels are located in relation to the equator, and the angle of the Sun to the earth (think the height of summer vs the depth of … Continue reading Massive Subsidy Cost Blowout Smashes ‘Cheap’ Solar Power Myth

Energy No-Brainer: The Nuclear-Powered Path to Permanent Prosperity

The anti-carbon dioxide squad comes undone the moment they start ranting against nuclear power generation. The only stand-alone power generation system that does not generate CO2 during the process, that delivers power 24 x 365 - irrespective of the weather or time-of-day - with no need for batteries and no need for back up. The … Continue reading Energy No-Brainer: The Nuclear-Powered Path to Permanent Prosperity

Failed Wind & Solar Transition Heralds Shift to New-Age Nuclear Power

Every country with an eye on the future is switching to new-age nuclear power generation, joining plenty of other that have had the benefits of safe, reliable and affordable nuclear power for generations. The French long-ago set the benchmark, with a disorderly queue forming across Europe to join them as nuclear energy superpowers. Then there’s … Continue reading Failed Wind & Solar Transition Heralds Shift to New-Age Nuclear Power

Junk Energy: Uncontrollable Domestic Solar Power Generates Total Grid Chaos

Places like California and Australia are victims of their own idiotic domestic solar schemes, scams and subsidies. The disaster was as perfectly predictable as it was perfectly avoidable. But it’s still fun to watch! Sunshine-dependent solar power and wind-dependent wind power have no commercial value because the operators can never tell you when they might … Continue reading Junk Energy: Uncontrollable Domestic Solar Power Generates Total Grid Chaos

Never-Ending Story: Why Wind & Solar Wouldn’t Exist Without Massive Subsidies

The combined cost of renewable energy certificates, tax credits, soft loans and other subsidies is staggering. The total cost of which always lands with the power consumer and/or taxpayer, with the wholly unjustified benefits pocketed by crony capitalists, carpetbaggers and rent-seekers. The subsidised wind and solar scam has been running full throttle for more than … Continue reading Never-Ending Story: Why Wind & Solar Wouldn’t Exist Without Massive Subsidies

Floating Offshore Wind Turbines – Next Great Financial & Environmental Disaster

The environmental destruction caused by the offshore wind industry has completely flipped public opinion. The wanton destruction of marine habitats, fishing grounds and the wholesale slaughter of whales, dolphins and other marine mammals has drawn the same kind of attention that attracts people to multicar pileups. In this case, the characters responsible are easily identified … Continue reading Floating Offshore Wind Turbines – Next Great Financial & Environmental Disaster

Rounding Error: World’s Mega-Battery Power Contribution Measured in Minutes

Cornered with wind and solar’s hopeless intermittency, the cult cries “storage”, as some kind of crushing hex against the energy realists ready to tackle their delusional thinking. The ideologue never lets the facts get in the way of radical, self-destructive policies, especially when it comes to energy. The application of simple arithmetic is enough to … Continue reading Rounding Error: World’s Mega-Battery Power Contribution Measured in Minutes

Fake Electricity Rejected: Power Hungry Indians Ditch Pointless Solar Schemes

Only wealthy Westerners have the luxury of pretending to get their power from sunshine and breezes. Elsewhere, there are billions scrambling to have power delivered reliably and affordably, as if their lives and economic futures depend upon it. Which they absolutely do. For as long as cynical NGOs keep peddling ridiculously expensive solar panels – … Continue reading Fake Electricity Rejected: Power Hungry Indians Ditch Pointless Solar Schemes

Tangled Webs: How Crony Capitalists Built The Climate Industrial Complex

Crony capitalists come in all shapes and sizes, and so do their political enablers. The whole point of patronage, networking and gladhanding is obtaining benefits not available to anyone else. The only people that complain about a rort are those that aren’t in on it. The Climate Industrial Complex was built on will the back … Continue reading Tangled Webs: How Crony Capitalists Built The Climate Industrial Complex

Critters Crushed, Forests Trashed: Welcome To Your (Occasionally) Wind Powered Future

The wind and solar ‘industries’ profit from two tier environmental regulation. Where a gas or coal project gets knocked out of the park over a speckled banjo frog or a sea snake, the deliberate slaughter of rare and iconic creatures to make way for wind turbines or solar panels rarely raises an eyebrow with those … Continue reading Critters Crushed, Forests Trashed: Welcome To Your (Occasionally) Wind Powered Future