‘The energy giant Exxon, once a resister, now pushes for draconian regulations on carbon emissions’ – Wants to ‘take advantage of some of the government support’ for carbon capture & sequestration
F Exxon! The World Is Past ‘Peak Climate,’ but Exxon Lags Behind – "The energy giant, once a resister, now pushes for draconian regulations on carbon emissions."https://t.co/amlCm3uc4m — Marc Morano (@ClimateDepot) May 5, 2025 https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-world-is-past-peak-climate-but-exxon-lags-behind-carbon-renewable-energy-regulation-1bcc620d By Allysia Finley Excerpt: The world hit peak climate four years ago. Companies and countries pledged to become “net […]
Fmr. PM Tony Blair moment of clarity! Rips UK climate plan: ‘Any strategy based on either ‘phasing out’ fossil fuels in the short term or limiting consumption is a strategy doomed to fail’
Blair said people were “being asked to make financial sacrifices and changes in lifestyle when they know that their impact on global emissions is minimal”. He said “any strategy based on either ‘phasing out’ fossil fuels in the short term or limiting consumption is a strategy doomed to fail”.
Alex Berenson on Spain blackout: ‘Renewable energy was fun while it lasted’ – Caused by ‘overdependence on solar & other renewable energy’ – ‘Congrats, Greta Thunberg!’
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-yet-more-legacy-media-deception URGENT: Yet more legacy media deception on a vital issue By Alex Berenson Excerpt: Overdependence on solar and other renewable energy is almost surely the reason almost 60 million people in Spain and Portugal lost power yesterday. Don’t try to find that fact in the NY Times, though. … I can’t believe I have […]
Watch: Morano on Fox on Spain’s Blackout: They were celebrating 100% renewables & then ‘the whole grid goes belly up’ – Also talks how Calif Gov. Newsom is still ‘dictating’ U.S. gas car bans
@ClimateDepot sounds off as Spain & Portugal are hit with massive power outages just days after Spain touted its 100% renewable energy-sourced grid. | @DagenMcdowell @DavidAsmanfox pic.twitter.com/PlMd84e9S6 — The Bottom Line (@BottomLineFBN) April 28, 2025 Full Segment: Morano on Fox on The Bottom Line – talking Spain’s energy blackout & how Calif. Gov. Newsom is […]
‘Spain celebrated the destruction of their nuclear plants. Now they’re seeing the result of this decision’
Spain’s blackout wasn’t just a technical failure. It was a political, strategic, and technical failure. Spain celebrated the destruction of their nuclear plants. Now they’re seeing the result of this decision. Renewables are direct current (DC). Power grids are alternating… pic.twitter.com/ExQnDsVo5m — The People’s King Elvis Libertarian for Hughes (@Real_King_Elvis) April 29, 2025 […]
Analysis: ‘Spain was running its grid with very little of what’s called ‘dispatchable spinning generation’ – Therefore, power plants were not able to ‘quickly adjust their output to keep the grid stable’
Before the outage hit, Spain was running its grid with very little of what’s called “dispatchable spinning generation” (also known as inertia). …
“Dispatchable spinning generation” means power plants, like gas or nuclear, that can quickly adjust their output to keep the grid stable. The name “spinning” refers to the turbines that traditional generation plants such as coal, gas, nuclear that use spinning turbines help with this.
Traditional plants provide this with their spinning turbines, but renewables don’t, making the grid more fragile if you don’t have a way to very rapidly load-balance in the case of an outage.
This likely contributed to the outage that hit Spain, Portugal, and parts of France, as the grid couldn’t handle sudden disruptions well.
UK Telegraph: ‘Net zero blamed for Europe’s biggest power cut’ – ‘Experts say a reliance on solar & wind power left Spain & Portugal vulnerable’
Traditional energy systems have mechanisms which allow them to keep running even if there is a shock, such as a surge or loss of power.
However, solar and wind do not have the same ability.
End the ‘Green New Scam’ Loan Machine
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2025/04/21/end_the_green_new_scam_loan_machine_1105095.html By André Béliveau The U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office (LPO) was created to help advance clean-energy infrastructure and technologies that allegedly had the potential to be adequate energy resources but struggled to secure private investment. With discussions underway about staffing and budget changes, defenders of the climate-centric status quo in energy policy rushed to preserve […]
‘Central Planning Fantasyland’: Whatever Happened to the Green New Deal? – ‘It failed because it is based upon a socialistic model of command-&-control akin to the former Soviet Union’
Mises.org: Indeed, the vast regulatory system that is the very pride of the progressive movement of the past 120 years plays a part in the inability of governments to carry out many of their grandiose schemes. But it is much more than just regulation; without market prices and the prospects of profits and losses, the government planners tasked with implementing these programs are unable to make rational economic decisions. When their own fiat decision-making process runs headlong into the regulatory system that was created to deter private enterprise from building profitable projects, what remains is a wealth-killing stalemate.
The Green New Deal has not failed because of a lack of political will or because government regulators were too good at their jobs. It failed because it is based upon a socialistic model of command-and-control akin to the former Soviet Union.
Newsom doubles down on climate policy: Seeks extension of state’s cap-and-trade signed into law by Gov. Schwarzenegger in 2006
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5251110-newsom-doubles-down-on-climate-policy/ by Rachel Frazin California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and top state Democrats announced Tuesday they would seek an extension of the state’s cap-and-trade emissions reduction program — countering Trump administration efforts to thwart such initiatives. Newsom — along with state Sen. Mike McGuire, the Senate president pro tempore, and Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas — made this decision following a recent federal […]