The climate grifters who descended on Glasgow to tout the purported benefits of wind power were done in by the weather, as wind power output collapsed for weeks across Europe in the lead up to COP26. During most of September and into October, Europe’s wind farms were the victims of the Big Calm, when the … Continue reading Quality Fail: Wind Power Output During COP26 Embarrasses Climate Industrial Complex
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Post-Renewables Europe: Coal Prevents Mass Blackouts As Great Wind Drought Continues
While hot air output shot up in Glasgow, Europe’s great wind drought continues unabated. Wind power output amounted to a trickle through most of September and into October. We dubbed it the ‘Big Calm’. Well, the Big Calm appears now to be less of an anomaly than the new normal. In Britain, grid operators are … Continue reading Post-Renewables Europe: Coal Prevents Mass Blackouts As Great Wind Drought Continues
No Solution to Wind Power’s Hopeless Intermittency: Cost Kills Big Battery Myth
The big wind drought in Europe has acolytes ranting about giant batteries saving the day. It’s a typical but delusional response to wind power’s hopeless intermittency. True enough, at the margins, it is possible to store electricity. But, the cost of doing so on any kind of scale is simply out of this world. Then … Continue reading No Solution to Wind Power’s Hopeless Intermittency: Cost Kills Big Battery Myth
Europe’s Epic Renewable Energy Fail Makes Transition to Nuclear Power Truly Inevitable
The fastest way to get people thinking about electricity, is to deprive them of it. Europe’s power pricing and supply calamity has sharpened thinking and provided a golden opportunity for engineers and free-market economists to wrest back control from ideologues and renewable energy rent-seekers. Until the Big Calm hit Western Europe last month - causing … Continue reading Europe’s Epic Renewable Energy Fail Makes Transition to Nuclear Power Truly Inevitable
Mad Max Rides Again: Post-Renewables Europe Desperate For Fossil Fuels
Western Europe’s wind drought has them scrambling for fossil fuels, like their lives depend upon it, and it’s as if they didn’t see it coming! Who would ever have thought that the wind might stop blowing for extended spells? The almost dystopian panic brings to mind George Miller’s post-Apocalypse action-thriller, Mad Max 2. Mel Gibson’s … Continue reading Mad Max Rides Again: Post-Renewables Europe Desperate For Fossil Fuels
Not-Zero: China’s Insatiable Demand For Real Energy Sends Coal, Oil & Gas Prices Soaring
The wind and solar cult reckon that coal is already dead and that gas is mortally wounded - energy markets say otherwise: the price of Australian coal has tripled since 2019; and gas and oil prices are off the charts. When it’s freezing cold and there’s not a breath of wind or shred of sunshine … Continue reading Not-Zero: China’s Insatiable Demand For Real Energy Sends Coal, Oil & Gas Prices Soaring
When The Lights Go Out Across Europe: Wind Power Droughts Promise Mass Blackouts
The point has been reached when serious people are starting to talk seriously about serious power generation. Europe has been struck by an outbreak of calm weather and its wind power output has, predictably enough, plummeted. The disaster unfolding across the continent is like watching the same train wreck, over and over, again. The idea … Continue reading When The Lights Go Out Across Europe: Wind Power Droughts Promise Mass Blackouts
Climate Short-Changed: Big Calm Heralds Britain’s Renewable Energy Crunch
Appears the climate doomsayers were right: the ‘Big Calm’ has struck Britain and Western Europe - slashing wind power output, without relent. Far from being the panacea for a changing climate, wind power generation is now, apparently, a victim. Over the last few months, wind power output has thoroughly collapsed in Germany, across Western Europe … Continue reading Climate Short-Changed: Big Calm Heralds Britain’s Renewable Energy Crunch
‘Green’ Energy Delusions: Promise of All Wind & Solar Powered Future Is Pure Fantasy
Anyone still talking about an ‘inevitable transition’ to wind and solar power must have skin in the game. That wind and solar fail to deliver when consumers need power most, is hardly news. STT has been laying it out on these pages since December 2012. Since then, sunset and calm weather have continued to smash … Continue reading ‘Green’ Energy Delusions: Promise of All Wind & Solar Powered Future Is Pure Fantasy
Sunset & Calm Weather: Why Fossil Fuel Companies Love Intermittent Wind & Solar
The penny is starting to drop for the anti-fossil fuel squad: reliance on chaotically unreliable wind and solar guarantees dependence on fossil fuel. No bad thing in our view, mind you. The wind and solar acolyte started out believing that coal was already dead as the dodo and gas would soon follow. However, already 20 … Continue reading Sunset & Calm Weather: Why Fossil Fuel Companies Love Intermittent Wind & Solar
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