Search Results for: "wind"
Relevance | Date“Why We Won’t Quit the Climate Fight” (the growing futility, despair of climate alarmists)
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- February 12, 2019 1 Comment“We are old climate veterans who have tried to do our part, in every way we know how, to keep our fossil-fuel addicted civilization from driving off a cliff. Are we tired? Sure. Discouraged? Absolutely. Pissed off? Yep. Sad? Call it broken-hearted.”
– Kathleen Dean Moore and SueEllen Campbell, Why We Won’t Quite the Climate Fight, Earth Island Journal, January 28, 2019.
“The admittedly ‘tired … discouraged … pissed off … broken-hearted’ deep ecologists can either live in gloom and despair or check their premises to entertain happiness…. Don’t quit–study. Consider Julian Simon’s The Ultimate Resource 2 for starters. And live joyfully.” (below)
It is a fossil-fuel world for as far as the eye can see. Abundant, affordable, and reliable, mineral energies are the ones that consumers voluntarily purchase.…
Continue ReadingEnergy & Environmental Newsletter: February 11, 2019
By John Droz, Jr. -- February 11, 2019 2 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:
Bill Gates about the foolishness of renewables
Short Anti-wind video by Ohio citizens
Study: The $2.5 trillion reason we can’t rely on batteries to clean up the grid
Evolution of Electricity Rates
New Huge Study: Wind Turbines Devalue nearby Homes
Abstracts for upcoming 8th International Meeting on Wind Turbine Noise
PhD Letter re Turbine Health Impacts
German citizen anti-wind effort results in installations slump
Electoral Platitudes = Energy Trauma for Citizens
Goodbye to a misguided war on coal
Hot Day in Australia results in massive blackouts
Study: Grid Scale Electricity Storage Can’t Save Renewables
The 10 Most Insane Requirements Of The Green New Deal
The Green New Deal is a leftist politician’s worst enemy
Green New Deal: The Devil Is in the Details
Green New Deal: Looks Like A Dem Parody Bill
The Green New Deal is a Prescription for Poverty
Greenhouse-warming theory does not appear to even be physically possible
Physicist: Don’t fall for the argument about ‘settled science’
Revised: Deficiencies In the IPCC’s SR15 Special Report
Why the Left Loves and Hates Science
Greed Energy Economics:
Bill Gates about the foolishness of renewables
Study: The $2.5 trillion reason we can’t rely on batteries to clean up the grid
Evolution of Electricity Rates
New Huge Study: Wind Turbines Devalue nearby Homes
The Three Major Problems with a Carbon Tax
Study: Tax Abatements and the Texas Wind Industry
Short video: Texas town has $30M burden after going “100% renewable”
Green Energy Being Abandoned As Economics Go Red
The foolishness of Canadians paying a Carbon Tax
The Myth of the Revenue-Neutral Carbon Tax
Carbon Taxes Aren’t Working Any More
Wyoming takes its yearly look at raising a tax on wind energy
PG&E may shed $40± billion worth of renewable contracts
Could PTC rush jeopardize U.S.…
Continue ReadingNuclear Power: Joe Romm Goes Free Market (Again)
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- February 6, 2019 4 Comments“The nuclear industry has effectively priced itself out of the market for new power plants, at least in market-based economies. That’s why nuclear power’s share of global power generation has dropped to around 11 percent — its lowest level in decades.”
– Joe Romm, ThinkProgress, February 4, 2019
As he periodically does, Joe Romm has again trashed nuclear power as an alternative to fossil fuels, claiming that wind power and solar power are cheaper, can access affordable batteries for overcome intermittency, and can be scaled to the quantities needed (wrong, wrong, and wrong–a story for another day).
In “Taxpayers Should Not Fund Bill Gates’ Nuclear Albatross,” Romm states:
The reality is that nuclear power is so uneconomical that existing U.S. nuclear power plants are bleeding cash — and in many places it’s now cheaper to build and run new wind or solar farms than to simply run an existing nuclear power plant.…
Continue ReadingEnergy, Economic Upheaval to Address “Climate Change” (626-group letter exposes much)
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- February 4, 2019 6 Comments“[Our groups] look forward to working with you to address the gravest environmental crisis humanity has ever faced, to protect all present and future generations around the world, while centering the rights of those communities and workers most impacted.”
Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute called it the “Back to the Dark Ages Manifesto.” It is so drastic and far-reaching that major environmental groups do not dare to touch it, much less sign on. (The smart Statists know not to reach too far too fast, instead taking gains incrementally and preparing for the next run up the Hill.)
Too much, too soon (as in a carbon tax) loses in a democracy where voters are energy users, and fossil-fuel scares in a distant future compete with here-and-now problems.
But the January 10, 2019, letter from 626 Left groups is a remarkable “coming out” moment for the fringe, anti-energy, anti-industrial, anti-freedom cabal.…
Continue Reading