Analysis: 10 mistakes people make about energy: No matter how much ‘sunshine or wind’ there is, it essentially means gambling on the weather to produce electricity’
https://zionlights.substack.com/p/most-people-are-wrong-about-energy Most people are wrong about energy The 10 mistakes that are holding us back By Zion Lights Excerpt: 1. Equating “renewables” with just wind and solar power Ask most people what renewables are, and they’ll say wind and solar power: the poster children of renewable energy. But even with significant finances being poured into […]
MSGA! Trump Makes Showering Great Again! – After 33 years, Trump finally repeals 1992 Dept. of Energy low-flow water regs on toilets, showers, dishwashers, & clothes washers – Now, Congress needs to remove regs permanently
“The Biden definition of a shower head was a staggering 13,000 words. The Oxford English Dictionary, by contrast, defines “showerhead” in one short sentence.”
It’s a long overdue win for American consumers, and Congress should follow Trump’s recommendation to remove the George H.W. Bush law that started all this mess from the books completely.
Vineyard Wind drinks oil! Each wind turbine generator houses 4,887 gallons of oil – Stands 814 feet tall, roughly 2.7 times taller than the Statue of Liberty
“Each GE Haliade-X 13 MW turbine has a 220-meter (722-foot) rotor, 107-meter (351-foot) blades, and is 248 meters (814 feet) tall – roughly 2.7 times taller than the Statue of Liberty.” And, Each Vineyard Wind WTG houses 4,887 gals of oil. pic.twitter.com/XpbYvaMex0 — Barbara Durkin (@Barbarajdurkin) May 7, 2025 # Background: Watch: ‘Juice’ debunks claims […]
Lessons from Spain’s Blackout: ‘It’s Okay to Notice When Solar & Wind Fail’ – ‘Probably the largest blackout in Europe’s history’
Breakthrough Institute: “Following major power outages in Spain and Portugal—probably the largest blackout in Europe’s history—many are already rushing to exonerate Spain’s wind and solar generation from culpability…But while a total grid collapse at this scale will be multifactorial, it is a simple statement of fact to observe that most of Spain’s solar and wind capacity was wholly unequipped to weather grid fluctuations, possessing none of those shiny new supporting technologies.
Running a power system mostly on wind and solar may be theoretically possible, but has yet to be demonstrated on any large grid in the world. Doing so would require a number of “grid-enhancing” solutions that are only just beginning to enter operational service at scale today. …
But it is, frankly, exactly what one would expect from the type of energy transition attempted by the Spanish government: breakneck deployment of renewables, a failure to ensure enough spinning generator capacity to maintain stabilizing grid inertia despite widespread understandings of these risks and vocal warnings from grid operators, and underinvestment in grid capabilities that could compensate for renewable energy’s unique technical risks to reliability. It is a testament to the gravity of such risks that an outage has already occurred, two years prior to the start of Spain’s planned phaseout of nuclear energy. …
[Solar and wind’s] benefits to the power system—modularity and low marginal costs—have to be balanced against their shortcomings—intermittency, large land area, and transmission requirements. Additionally, most solar and wind farms operating today use simpler equipment that are vulnerable to unexpected shifts in frequency and do not provide spinning or synthetic inertia that can compensate for grid frequency fluctuations. …
Both Spanish officials and some mainstream media coverage have been quick to dismiss any explanations that implicate wind and solar in the blackouts. “Reliance on renewables is not to blame,” wrote Reuters’ Ron Buosso. “Rather, the issue appears to be the management of renewables in the modern grid.” This dismisses the inherent risks that unaugmented wind and solar can pose to grid operation, and shifts accompanying blame away from the renewables sector and onto utilities and grid operators.
Don’t call it ‘climate denial,’ Sec of Energy Chris Wright claims he’s preaching ‘climate realism’
https://www.cpr.org/2025/05/05/climate-change-trump-secretary-of-energy-chris-wright/ By Sam Brasch Excerpt: It’s not hard to pinpoint when U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright catapulted himself—and his views on climate change—into the national spotlight. It started with a corporate dust-up over jacket logos. In late 2020, a Texas oil and gas firm tried to order company jackets from The North Face, but the […]
Green energy experiment by Spain and Portugal fails with power grid collapse and blackout
https://www.naturalnews.com/2025-05-05-green-energy-experiment-spain-portugal-fails-blackouts.html By Ramon Tomey A massive power outage on April 28 left millions without electricity, disrupting transportation, emergency services and commerce – one of Europe’s worst peacetime blackouts. The collapse followed Spain’s celebration of running entirely on renewable energy, exposing the instability of wind and solar power when traditional baseload sources (like nuclear or fossil […]
‘Got To Go’: DOE To Cut Off Billions Of Dollars’ Worth Of Biden-Era Green Energy Projects
“The entire program has to be shut down,” author and Climate Depot executive editor Marc Morano told the DCNF. “You can’t have the energy department picking winners and losers in the energy sector.”
El Blackout: Everything you need to know about Spain’s power outage
The sudden loss of large-scale solar generation in southwestern Spain caused a sharp drop in system frequency, which in turn triggered protective mechanisms in other generators’ under-frequency protection relays across the system. These protection mechanisms automatically caused other generators, namely Spain’s nuclear and other thermal plants, to trip offline…and contributed to the cascading failure that caused the widespread blackout.
Reuters spins Spain blackout, claims: ‘Don’t blame renewables for Spain’s power outage’ – Instead, blames ‘management of renewables’ & urges to ‘invest heavily in battery capacity to store electricity’
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/dont-blame-renewables-spains-power-outage-bousso-2025-04-30/ LONDON, April 30 (Reuters) – While it may be tempting to blame the unprecedented power outage that hit the Iberian peninsula this week on the rapid growth of wind and solar power in Spain, reliance on renewables is not to blame. Rather, the issue appears to be the management of renewables in the modern […]
Nuclear energy in the U.S. is undergoing a revival – Small modular reactors are ‘small, affordable, safe, dispatchable, clean energy’
https://www.foxbusiness.com/energy/nuclear-energy-undergoing-revival-united-states By Aislinn Murphy Nuclear energy in the United States is undergoing a revival. FOX Business correspondent Jeff Flock, reporting Wednesday from the site of a planned Natura Resources small modular nuclear reactor in Texas, said the U.S. has a “voracious appetite for energy” that nuclear reactors can help meet. Natura Resources, founded by Doug […]