Links tagged “solar”
- Grid Operators Warn Of Potential Outages in States Closing Coal Plants
- Green killing machines: EU prepares to abandon environmental impact assessment for renewables
- California energy officials warn of possible blackouts this summer for up to 4 million people
"It lacks sufficient capacity to keep the lights on this summer and beyond..."
- California Is Impoverishing Its Low-Income Residents With Electricity Prices
Robert Bryce: California residential users now pay about 66 percent more for electricity than homeowners in the rest of the U.S. ... The ongoing price hikes are terrible news for low- and middle-income consumers in California, which has the highest poverty rate in the country. At a time of skyrocketing inflation and gasoline prices, many just can't afford to pay; last month, several news outlets reported that more than a quarter of residential customers in San Diego County are behind on their utility payments.
There's a lesson here for the rest of the United States, not just about how not to run an electric grid, but about who bears the cost of some of the most extreme measures to combat climate change. ... Promoters of renewable energy never tire of claiming that weather-dependent renewables are cheaper than conventional forms of producing electricity. But the ongoing price increases prove those claims are hogwash. ... California should not be attempting to solve the climate change challenge on the backs of the poor.
- Watch: Morano on Stinchfield on Newsmax TV talking folly of wind power & its impact on species
- John Kerry: I’m putting natural gas ‘on notice’ – They have ‘no more than 10 years’ to capture CO2 emissions or else
“We have to put the industry on notice: You’ve got six years, eight years, no more than 10 years or so, within which you’ve got to come up with a means by which you’re going to capture [emissions], and if you’re not capturing, then we have to deploy alternative sources of energy,” he told Bloomberg TV.
Kerry declared that he was only giving the gas industry “no more than ten years” to find a way to capture and eliminate carbon emissions or we’re going to “deploy alternative sources of energy.”
- New Study: Wind, Solar Energy Now Killing 48% Of Priority Bird Species With ‘Population-Level Effects’
Of California’s 23 vulnerable bird species studied (barn owls, golden eagles, road runners, yellow-billed cuckoos…), scientists have found 11 are now experiencing at least a 20% decline in their population growth rates because wind turbines and solar panels are killing them and/or destroying their limited-range habitat.
- Alex Epstein’s Earth Day truth: Fossil fuels make Earth BETTER – ‘World has never been a better place for human beings to live’
Epstein: "Fossil fuels are making Earth a better and better place by providing uniquely low-cost, reliable energy to billions of people--and are needed by billions more."
Fossil fuels have actually made us far safer from climate by providing low-cost energy for the amazing machines that protect us against storms, protect us against extreme temperatures, and alleviate drought. Climate disaster deaths have decreased *98%* over the last century.
Solar and wind only provide electricity (20% of energy use)—and they don't even do that well. Because solar and wind are unreliable, they don't replace reliable power plants—they add to the cost of reliable power plants.
3 billion people use less electricity than a typical American refrigerator. 1/3 of the world uses wood and dung for heating and cooking.
The world needs to continue and expand its massive use of fossil fuels, while ensuring we have the freedom necessary for truly cost-effective alternatives to emerge. E.g., we need to decriminalize reliable, non-carbon nuclear energy."
- Protect farmland to protect food supply: ‘Solar farms use land. The right place for solar is poor grade land of low environmental value’
Renewable energy is a fundamental element of future energy supply and solar energy is an important element within this. Solar farms use land. The right place for solar is poor grade land of low environmental value, commercial roof space and brownfield sites.
- Wimped Out! AP Concedes Biden ‘Overpromised’ on US Green Energy Savings
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Analysis debunks ‘false’ UN’s WMO ‘Key Climate Indicators’ report – Point-by-point rebuttal of ‘alarmist’ report
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HSBC suspended a senior executive for downplaying risks of climate change to investors & warning about ‘nut jobs’ promoting climate fears
HSBC: Stuart Kirk's perfectly reasonable comments: “Who cares if Miami is six metres underwater in 100 years? Amsterdam has been six metres underwater for ages, and that’s a really nice place. We will cope with it,” he said.
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‘This claim is demonstrably false’: Scientists rebut NOAA sea-level projections – Reality Check: ‘Tide gauges clearly do not’ project acceleration of sea-level
"All data from tide gauges in areas where land is not rising or sinking show instead a steady linear and unchanging sea level rate of rise near 4 inches/century, with variations due to gravitational factors. It is true that where the land is sinking as it is in the Tidewater area of Virginia and the Mississippi Delta region, sea levels will appear to rise faster but no changes in CO2 emissions would change that."
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WHO’s pandemic treaty is ‘a ratification and approval of everything the world has experienced over the past two years’
The real significance of the Pandemic Treaty is that its passage is a ratification and approval of everything the world has experienced over the past two years during COVID-19. ... Terrified by this surge of deaths and the psychological terror campaigns deployed by governments on their own people, populations across the western world proceeded to impose an ever-darker swathe of illiberal mandates including forced masking and digital vaccine passes for everyday activities. Young children, who were at virtually no risk from the virus, lost years of primary education, and many were forced to wear masks for hours each day.
By signing onto the Pandemic Treaty, our leaders are signaling their approval for all this—and more—to be done again.