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By Donn Dears -- August 22, 2017 1 Comment“To actually accomplish replacing all light vehicles in the UK with battery-powered vehicles, while also meeting the requirements of the UK’s Climate Change Act, would require building 39,000 new 2 MW wind turbines, which is nearly 6 times the number of wind turbines built over the last 15 years. The cost would be approximately $165 billion or £131 billion. (More, if offshore wind or solar is built.) This is 90% of the UK budget for its entire health care program, or nearly three times larger than the UK’s defense budget.”
The media went gaga over France’s and the UK’s proposal to eliminate the use of internal combustion engines in automobiles by replacing them with battery-powered vehicles (BEVs).
As it now stands, the global BEV count of two million represents a 0.2 percent market share.…
Continue ReadingEV Subsidies vs. Results: Reality Check in Norway
By Allen Brooks -- July 27, 2017 No Comments“The China study highlights that the government’s push to promote EVs may actually create a greater hurdle for it achieving its goal of restricting CO2 growth.”
Yesterday’s post noted That Tesla’s federal tax subsidies, which apply to the first 200,000 vehicles produced, could be reached and exceeded next year. In such an event, what happens to Tesla’s Model 3 backlog when price-sensitive EV buyers, who have ordered the car, realize it may be delivered without the tax subsidy?
The answer might be seen in the EU, where EV tax subsidies have been cut, leading to a sharp fall in sales. This recently occurred in Hong Kong, as I described last week. But other countries have put EV subsidies, and thus EV sales, on the bubble.
Norway’s EV Effort–But Oil Rises
Critics of EV studies such as that of Bloomberg New Energy Finance (NEF) point to the recent history of oil consumption in Norway, one of the leading EV success stories.…
Continue ReadingEnergy & Environmental Newsletter: July 24, 2017
By John Droz, Jr. -- July 24, 2017 5 CommentsThe Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving national, state, and local energy and environmental policies. Our premise is that technical matters like these should be addressed by using Real Science (please consult WiseEnergy.org for more information).
A key element of AWED’s efforts is public education. Towards that end, every three weeks we put together a newsletter to balance what is found in the mainstream media about energy and the environment. We appreciate MasterResource for their assistance in publishing this information.
Some of the more important articles in this issue are:
Property and wind turbines: A missing point in the discussion
Tourists shun areas hit by wind turbine ‘blight’
Navy: Interference From Wind Farms Dangerous to Military Aircraft
Study: A New Methodology for Investigating Turbine Infrasound Complaints
Wind turbines damage human health says Portuguese scientist
Wind and Solar Energy Are Dead Ends
The Best of Alex Epstein (so far)
73% Of World’s Renewable Energy Is Made By Burning Wood & Dung
Environmental Progress: a worthwhile site on nuclear power
Agenda Behind Global Warming Alarmism
A Step Toward Scientific Integrity at the EPA
Study: Temp Adjustments Account For ‘Nearly All Of The Warming’ In Climate Data
Most of what you’ve read about Greenland is wrong
Looks Like Global Action On “Climate Change” Is Dead
Leading Climate Scientist Says Debating Scientific Theories Would Be ‘Un-American’
EPA plans to challenge climate science in series of debates
Pittsburgh, Not Paris: Explaining the Climate Hysteria
Since Russia is in the news, here are some related recent stories not in the mainstream media:
Short Video: Russians Funding US Environmental Groups
Russia’s Propaganda War on Fossil Fuels
Why the Russians Conceived the Global Warming Scam
Russia as Media Manipulator: Nothing New
The Nazi Origins of Renewable Energy (and Global Warming)
Ecofascists Needed an Enemy, So They Chose Fossil Fuels
Greed Energy Economics:
Property and wind turbines: A missing point in the discussion
Study: Initiative to Save American Jobs
Short Video: Russians Funding US Environmental Groups
The left’s misleading green jobs claims
Wind and Solar: The Special Interest Effect
The Nazi Origins of Renewable Energy (and Global Warming)
California dumps millions of dollars of unusable renewable electricity to other states
World’s First Carbon-Capture Plant: The Worst Investment In Human History
How a Club of Billionaires and Their Foundations Control the Environmental Movement and Obama’s EPA
Few benefit from many govt preferential treatment, everyone pays the price
Renewmaggedon – Solar, Wind Industries Dying as Subsidies Dry Up
Maryland to Prohibit Offshore Wind closer than 24 Miles
Turbine Health Matters:
Wind turbines damage human health says Portuguese scientist
Study: A New Methodology for Investigating Turbine Infrasound Complaints
Wind turbine syndrome: infrasound and fury
Wind Turbine Accidents: A Data Mining Study
Wind Turbine Accidents as of June 1, 2017
Renewable Energy Destroying Ecosystems:
Birding groups score win against proposed turbine project
An Environmentalist perspective: Wind Energy Has Vastly Damaged Vermont
Montana doing Bird and Bat Study
Miscellaneous Energy News:
Wind and Solar Energy Are Dead Ends
Navy: Interference From Wind Farms Dangerous to Military Aircraft
The Best of Alex Epstein (so far)
73% Of World’s Renewable Energy Is Made By Burning Wood & Dung
Environmental Progress: a worthwhile site on nuclear power
Study: Utility Electric Generation ‘in crisis’ Across US
Federal Govt May Try To Pre-empt State Renewable Energy Policies
A Day in the Life of a State Utility Commissioner
Russia’s Propaganda War on Fossil Fuels
Some NY Towns Saying NO to Wind Projects
A Quick Guide to Spotting Graphics That Lie
NYS Has a Serious Wind Energy Problem
Court Upholds Connecticut’s Renewable Program
K-12 Teachers are “Educated” about Renewable Energy
Insanity and hypocrisy Down Under
The Nation’s Power Grid and the Broken Window Fallacy
Grid Threat as EV Demand Surge & Consumers misled on Engine Efficiency
The Senate Should Approve Pending FERC Nominees
The Fossil Fuel Industry’s Millennial Problem — and How To Solve It
Ecofascists Needed an Enemy, So They Chose Fossil Fuels
Gas Plant to be Built to Augment Renewable Energy
Manmade Global Warming Articles:
Agenda Behind Global Warming Alarmism
A Step Toward Scientific Integrity at the EPA
Study: Temp Adjustments Account For ‘Nearly All Of The Warming’ In Climate Data
Most of what you’ve read about Greenland is wrong
Looks Like Global Action On “Climate Change” Is Dead
Leading Climate Scientist Says Debating Scientific Theories Would Be ‘Un-American’
EPA plans to challenge climate science in series of debates
Pittsburgh, Not Paris: Explaining the Climate Hysteria
Why Christians Can’t Believe in Man-Caused Global Warming
Tired of Being Wrong, Climate Alarmists Move Doomsday to Next Century
China Urges The West To Reduce Emissions—While They Burn Coal & Get Rich
Germany is hypocritical regarding climate change
Why the Russians Conceived the Global Warming Scam
Russia as Media Manipulator: Nothing New
Response to MIT President: Paris Exit Scientifically Sound (Part 1 + Part 2)
Left-wing climate report claims Trump’s policies will kill millions — facts tell a different story
Study Blows Greenhouse Gas Theory Out of the Water
The Crisis of Integrity-Deficient Scientists
How to become a climate skeptic in 5 minutes
Environment: We’re in Era of Mass Extinction — of Reason
Who’s afraid of the big bad climate monster?…
Continue ReadingResponse to MIT President: Paris Exit Scientifically Sound (Part I)
By Willie Soon and Christopher Monckton of Brenchley -- July 5, 2017 12 Comments– by Istvan Marko, J. Scott Armstrong, William M. Briggs, Kesten Green, Hermann Harde, David R. Legates, Christopher Monckton of Brenchley, and Willie Soon
MIT president’s letter repeats standard climate alarm claims. Here are the facts (also see Part II tomorrow).
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… Continue Reading“Fortunately, contrary to Professor Reif’s claims, the actual current scientific understanding of Earth’s climate dispels the popular delusion that any manmade global warming will be dangerous. That means adhering to the Paris agreement would be ‘a bad deal for America,’ and not only on economic and equity grounds, as President Trump stated.”
“In the last 20 years, humans have released over a third of all the CO2 produced since the beginning of the industrial period. Yet global mean surface temperature has remained essentially constant for at least 15 years – a fact that has been acknowledged by the IPCC, whose models failed to predict it.”