Deprive a well-fed Westerner of energy for more than a few hours and you’ll get their attention. The reliable and affordable power supplies that we’ve taken for granted were built up over a century. A raft of suicidal energy policies introduced in the last 20 years will have them destroyed before this decade is out. … Continue reading Reliable & Affordable Energy Is Life Itself: Why Wind & Solar Are Making Us All Worse Off
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Intermittent, Diffuse & Costly: Why Wind & Solar Can Never Power This Planet
The key to wealth and prosperity is reliable and affordable energy. Which is why the ‘unreliables’, wind and solar threaten both wealth and prosperity (except, of course, those wallowing in the obscene and seemingly endless subsidies paid to the owners of windmills and solar panels). Dr. Lars Schernikau, born and raised in Berlin, Germany studied … Continue reading Intermittent, Diffuse & Costly: Why Wind & Solar Can Never Power This Planet
Zero Return: Intermittent Wind & Solar Devour More Energy Than They Can Ever Return
Sunset and calm weather have been with us since the dawn of time; wind and solar power have existed for barely a generation, and only as a result of massive subsidies. The notion that modern economies can operate around the vagaries of the weather and time of day is, of course, patent nonsense. The factory … Continue reading Zero Return: Intermittent Wind & Solar Devour More Energy Than They Can Ever Return