Trump has a plan to fix the electricity grid — Increase supply
https://www.cfact.org/2024/09/09/trump-has-a-plan-to-fix-the-electricity-grid-increase-supply/ By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. Citing the need for more electricity to continue growing the artificial intelligence (AI) sector and keep the U.S. tech industry ahead of China, former President Donald Trump on Sept. 5 vowed in a second term to issue a “national emergency declaration to achieve a massive increase in domestic energy supply.” But […]
‘Drill, Baby, Drill!’: 63% of Battleground State Voters Want More Fossil Fuels
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/partner_surveys/drill_baby_drill_63_of_battleground_state_voters_want_more_fossil_fuels Despite concerns about climate change, increased domestic oil and gas production is favored by a majority of voters in key “battleground” states in this year’s presidential election. A new telephone and online survey by Rasmussen Reports and the Heartland Institute finds that 63% of Likely Voters in six battleground states would support a law that would […]
USA produces mostly fossil fuel energy, 84% – Solar & wind make up just 2.2% of all energy – Over the past decade, solar & wind increased total energy production by 2.1% compared to fossil fuels increase at 27.9%
Bjorn Lomborg: ” The US produces mostly fossil fuel energy (84%). Solar and wind make up just 2.2% of all energy (not just electricity). Over the past decade, solar and wind increased total energy production by 2.1%. Fossil fuels increased energy production by 27.9%.
The US is mostly run on fossil fuels, also in 2023. 82% of all energy (not just electricity) consumed comes from coal, oil and gas. Nuclear is 9%, renewables (mostly biomass) is 9%. Solar and wind contributes 2.5%.
The US, has since 2019, produced more energy than it consumes. And it has never been more energy-independent since WWII. Last time of small energy surpluses was 1957.”
China is the coal furnace of the world: China uses 12 times as much coal as the U.S. & four times as much as India
China is the coal furnace of the world, and everyone is fine with that By Jo Nova Even though India now consumes more than Europe and the US combined, there is really only one coal consumer. Just to update those figures… Remember you are a planet-wrecker, but China just has growing pains China burns four times as […]
Not-Transitioning: India burns more coal than the US and Europe combined and just ordered $33b in ‘new coal plants’
https://joannenova.com.au/2024/07/not-transitioning-india-burns-more-coal-than-the-us-and-europe-combined-and-just-ordered-33b-in-new-coal-plants/ By Jo Nova India is going gangbusters building coalThe need for energy in India is so dire, the Modi government just leaned on the power companies to get their act together. Instead of adding the usual 1 – 2 gigawatts of new coal power, which they have for a lot of the last decade, […]
Stephen Moore: Climate change movement goes to court — will judges ban fossil fuels?
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/06/26/stephen-moore-climate-change-movement-goes-to-court-will-judges-ban-fossil-fuels-1468223/ By Stephen Moore Things aren’t going well at all for the global warming crusaders. Despite hundreds of billions of tax dollars spent on green energy over the past decade, the world and America used more fossil fuels than ever before in history last year. The electric vehicle movement is stalled out, solar and wind […]
Wash Post: ‘AI is exhausting the power grid. Tech firms are seeking a miracle solution’ – ‘Artificial intelligence is driving an expansion of fossil fuel use’
Washington Post: “The voracious electricity consumption of artificial intelligence is driving an expansion of fossil fuel use — including delaying the retirement of some coal-fired plants. …
Tech companies had promised “clean energy would be this magical, infinite resource,” said Tamara Kneese, a project director at the nonprofit Data & Society, which tracks the effect of AI and accuses the tech industry of using “fuzzy math” in its climate claims. “Coal plants are being reinvigorated because of the AI boom,” Kneese said. “This should be alarming to anyone who cares about the environment.” … Data centers, the nondescript warehouses packed with racks of servers that power the modern internet, have been around for decades. But the amount of electricity they need now is soaring because of AI. … A ChatGPT-powered search, according to the International Energy Agency, consumes almost 10 times the amount of electricity as a search on Google.
Wash Post admits reality: ‘Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power’ – U.S. ‘power grid’ being pushed ‘to the brink. Utilities can’t keep up’ – ‘It is staggering’ – But WaPo frets energy shortage ‘threatens to stifle the transition to cleaner energy’
Washington Post’s is concerned that this power shortage “threatens to stifle the transition to cleaner energy, as utility executives lobby to delay the retirement of fossil fuel plants and bring more online.”
“When you look at the numbers, it is staggering,” said Jason Shaw, chairman of the Georgia Public Service Commission, which regulates electricity. “It makes you scratch your head and wonder how we ended up in this situation.
Media finally gets it! ‘Duke Energy is transitioning away from coal. It means power bills are becoming more expensive’
Marc Morano comment: Duke Energy spokesman calls gutting reliable coal power — “improvements” to the grid. Yet they are virtually signaling to political mandates for Net Zero. As utilities close down reliable fossil fuel energy generation, they claim unspecified “benefits” to the “transitions.” In the video, Tesla home generator batteries are touted for the inevitable blackouts coming. Ideologies, politicians, activists, and colluding corporations and utilities are monkeying around with our once reliable grid due to climate politics. Then they offer some customer ‘rebates,’ ‘incentives’, & ‘subsidiy’ programs that are supposed to alleviate the constantly rising energy prices. This is an insane process that needs to stop, and Duke Energy spokesmen need a remedial education on how to speak to the public and stop lying about green energy ‘improvements’ to the grid. At the same time, they collude and do their part to sabotage the grid.
Net Zero Leaves U.K. Paying Five Times More for Electricity Than China
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/04/09/net-zero-leaves-u-k-paying-five-times-more-for-electricity-than-china/ BY DR JOHN FERNLEY The United Nations established the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change in 1988 and in 1995 the first climate change Conference of Parties (COP1) was held in Berlin. There has been a COP meeting every year since then, apart from 2020 when covid intervened. Last year COP28 was held in the […]