Read all about it: Climate Depot’s coverage of green energy failures — Round up of recent reports
By: Marc Morano - Climate DepotJanuary 30, 2012 12:09 PM
A small sampling of recent reports and coverage.
Obama leaves event promoting clean energy in a motorcade of 22 fossil-fueled vehicles
Taxpayers Take Hit as Layoffs, Bankruptcies Plague Green Firms
U.S. to become net exporter of liquefied natural gas by 2016: The U.S. is on track to become a net exporter of liquefied natural gas by 2016′ — ‘The U.S. Dept. of Energy’s Energy Information Administration said it expected a cumulative increase in U.S. natural gas production through 2035. ‘This primarily reflects increased shale gas production resulting from the application of recent technological advances,’ the EIA said in its forecast for 2012′
Parent company of Obama-backed battery maker goes bankrupt after $118 million DOE grant — Biden touted during visit — ‘The parent company of an electric car battery maker that received a $118 million grant from the Obama administration filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Thursday. New York-based Ener1 said it has been affected by competition from China and other countries’
Drip, Drip, Drip: Yet Another Green Energy Stimulus Recipient Hits the Skids (the third this week!)
‘Earlier this week, Stimulus beneficiary Evergreen Energy bit the dust. Then, Ener1, a manufacturer of batteries for electric vehicles and recipient of Stimulus largesse, filed for bankruptcy. And today, the Las Vegas Sun reports that Amonix, Inc., a manufacturer of solar panels that received $5.9 million from the Porkulus, will cut two-thirds of its workforce, about 200 employees, only seven months after opening a factory in Nevada’
Flashback 2010: Fmr. GM executive Bob Lutz called global warming a ‘crock of sh*t’
Bankrupt Solyndra Caught Destroying Brand New Parts
Flat battery: Government reveals there are more charging points than electric cars in UK as sales slump — ‘Sales of electric cars have slumped so badly that there are now more charging points than vehicles on the road. Just 2,149 electric cars have been sold since 2006, despite a government scheme last year offering customers up to £5,000 towards the cost of a vehicle. The Department for Transport says that around 2,500 charging points have been installed’
Energy Dept. persuaded Solyndra to delay layoff news until after election
Watch Now: 130 year old World’s First Electric Car Hits the Road – Again – with nearly the same driving range as the Chevy Volt! (31 mile range vs. 40 mile range) — ‘The original vehicle had a range of 50 kilometers (31 miles) , but at that point the batteries ran down, an endurance problem that plagues electric vehicles even today’ (Volt has range of 40 miles) ‘The Ayrton & Perry electric car was originally presented 130 years ago and has now been recreated’
Analysis: Hyrbid Cars Are A Big Money Loser: ‘A hybrid car’s better-than-avg. gas mileage is economically irrelevant when it takes years of driving to amortize hybrid’s much higher up-front costs’ — ‘Even if you triple the Prius’ annual fuel savings – make it an even $1,000 a year, say – it will still take you nearly ten years to work off the higher up-front costs of the Prius…deep down, I think they buy hybrids because they want to tell others how “green” they are. It is a political act, not an economic one’
Detroit unsure over the future of green cars: ‘Ten years after Toyota Prius hybrid swept into the market, only about 3% of all cars sold in U.S. are electric or gas-electric hybrids’ — ‘Initially there was probably some excessive exuberance about the green auto. But the economics are not attractive yet for the average consumer’ – ‘Nissan has sold only 9,700 of its all-electric Leaf in the US market, and GM has sold just 8,000 of its rechargeable hybrid the Volt since its launch at the end of 2010, below the targeted 10,000’
Bankrupt Solyndra seeking to pay bonuses
Watch Now: Climate Depot’s Morano on Fox News about Chevy Volt recall & subsidies — ‘This has become the most heavily subsidized car since the East German Communist Trabant’ — Neil Cavuto of Fox News credits Climate Depot with exposing the Chevy Volt’s failure: ‘Thank you Marc. You were way ahead of this young man’
U.S. to become net exporter of liquefied natural gas by 2016: The U.S. is on track to become a net exporter of liquefied natural gas by 2016′ — ‘The U.S. Dept. of Energy’s Energy Information Administration said it expected a cumulative increase in U.S. natural gas production through 2035. ‘This primarily reflects increased shale gas production resulting from the application of recent technological advances,’ the EIA said in its forecast for 2012′
W. VA newspaper: Obama Winning His War on Coal — ‘Millions of families will pay more for electricity and an industry that is the backbone of some state economies…will be devastated’ — ‘Utilities already had announced plans to close more than two dozen coal-fired power plants, due to new EPA rules…On Thursday, the list was expanded…new EPA rules are forcing closure of six coal-fired power plants in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland…At some point – very soon – damage caused by Obama’s war on coal will be irreversible’
For much, much more on Climate Depot’s reports and coverage of green energy, see here.
Recent Articles
- Physicist: What Triggered the Ice Ages? The Uncertain Role of CO2
- Watch: Greta Thunberg addresses World Economic Forum: ‘The climate & ecological crisis can unfortunately no longer be solved within today’s systems’
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- Study’s Model Simulations Show Arctic Sea Ice Reached Lowest Point On Modern Record… In The 1940s, Not Today
- Court Update: ‘The Mann vs Steyn case’ – ‘Motion for Summary Judgment’ – ‘The 8 years since Mann filed suit have only confirmed the essential truth of Steyn’s characterization of Penn State’
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- Bjorn Lomborg: ‘Despite breathless climate reporting about ever-increasing fires, US fires burn 5-10x less today’
- The big tech bias blackout: 19th century monopoly was outlawed & so should 21st century – Stop modern day ‘robber barons’
- ‘Crimes against humanity’: Brazil Prez Bolsonaro could face charges in The Hague over Amazon rainforest – But forest reality debunks charges
- New tax on number of miles you drive? Incoming Transportation Secretary Buttigieg likes the idea
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- 30 studies since March 2020 finding COVID lockdowns had little or no efficacy
- Claim: ‘COVID-19 has shown what happens when we destroy nature’ – ‘Transformative change is urgently needed’ to avoid new pandemics
- Pete Buttigieg Puts Gas Tax Hike ‘On the Table’ During Transportation Confirmation Hearing – Also open to ‘vehicle miles traveled’ tax
- UN expects average person in 2100 to be 450% richer. ‘Climate change’ will theoretically reduce that to 434% richer
- Report: Rich nations exaggerated how much funding they gave to help world’s poorest countries cope with ‘climate change’
- Worried the Green New Deal was too ambitious? Greta says it ‘is very far from being enough’ – ‘It at least gets the discussion going’
- Biden should help clean up the developing world’s exotic mining tragedy – ‘Environmental degradation & humanity atrocities’ to support wind, solar, and EV batteries
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