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
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Cheap Energy Deficit: Climate Industrial Complex Conspires to Impoverish World’s Poorest
Western Nations are determined to prevent the World’s poorest from having cheap and reliable energy, a fact laid plain at the Glasgow gabfest, where the Climate Industrial Complex did its best to ensure that the likes of India will never have any hope of dragging themselves out of agrarian misery and grinding poverty. The wind … Continue reading Cheap Energy Deficit: Climate Industrial Complex Conspires to Impoverish World’s Poorest
“Juice: How Electricity Explains The World” or ‘Why Economic Development Depends on Reliable & Affordable Power’
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 at all, and two billion more are limited to a meagre trickle, because in developing countries it's both unreliable and too expensive for … Continue reading “Juice: How Electricity Explains The World” or ‘Why Economic Development Depends on Reliable & Affordable Power’
Second-Rate Solar: Cloudy Weather Brings Chaos to Communities Reliant on Solar Power
Recharging a mobile phone with a solar panel when you’re camping might be a wheeze, but don’t expect solar to deliver serious power when you need it most. A few years back, Greenpeace turned up in an Indian village, Dharnai and supplied it with a solar-powered micro-grid, crowing that “Dharnai refused to give into the … Continue reading Second-Rate Solar: Cloudy Weather Brings Chaos to Communities Reliant on Solar Power
Poverty Eradication Program: India Dials Up Reliable & Affordable Coal-Fired Power
It never takes them long to work out that wind power is the greatest economic and environmental fraud of all time. Eco-zealots have attempted to ram wind and solar power down the throats of Third World governments under the auspices of saving the planet and with the purported purpose of dragging millions out of poverty. … Continue reading Poverty Eradication Program: India Dials Up Reliable & Affordable Coal-Fired Power