Lomborg: ‘The global evidence is clear: Not a single country that relies heavily on wind & solar power has low average electricity costs’
https://financialpost.com/opinion/solar-wind-power-expensive By Bjorn Lomborg, Special to Financial Post Excerpt: Global evidence is clear: Adding more solar and wind to the energy supply pushes up the price of electricity. Ontario families and businesses already know this — from bitter experience. Beginning in 2005, Ontario began phasing out coal and dove headlong into subsidizing wind and solar generation. […]
Think EVs are ‘green’?! ‘Typical Tesla EV battery weighs 1,000 pounds & includes 26lbs of lithium, 10lbs of cobalt, 110lbs of nickel, 9lbs of manganese, 55lbs of copper, 44lbs of aluminum, 154lbs of graphite, plus, steel, plastic, & other metals’
Today, a typical EV battery for a Tesla sedan weighs 1,000 pounds and includes these minerals and metals:
- 26 pounds of lithium
- 10 pounds of cobalt
- 110 pounds of nickel
- 9 pounds of manganese
- 55 pounds of copper
- 44 pounds of aluminum
- 154 pounds of graphite
- Plus, steel, plastic, and other metals for the battery casing.
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To manufacture each EV auto battery, you must process 25,000 pounds of brine for lithium, 30,000 pounds of ore for cobalt, 6,000 pounds of ore for nickel, and 25,000 pounds of ore for copper. All told, just one Tesla EV battery requires the processing of more than 500,000 pounds of materials somewhere on the planet.
Analysis: ‘Every Dollar Spent on Solar Energy is Wasted’ – ‘Intermittent…very expensive’ & needs ‘subsidies’
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/03/every_dollar_spent_on_solar_energy_is_wasted.html By Norman Rogers Solar electricity has big problems. Solar is intermittent. It stops working if clouds obscure the sun. It does not work at night. Solar works much better in the summer than in the winter. Solar is peaky. Electricity delivery peaks in the middle of the day and is weaker in the early morning […]
Watch: Morano testifies to Oregon Legislature in support of bill that stops climate-inspired shutdowns of reliable energy sources unless they can be replaced with equally reliable energy (Hint: Solar & wind come up short)
Submitted Testimony: Marc Morano’s Oregon testimony – March 6, 2025 – HB 3247 – Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Measures/Overview/HB3247 Morano’s full submitted testimony: https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Measures/Testimony/HB3247 Summary of HB 3247: Makes a power company have a new power source that meets certain standards before the company can close a power plant. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Requires […]
CFACT tells Maine lawmakers to protect the public from dangerous wind and solar PFAS pollution
https://www.cfact.org/2025/03/11/cfact-tells-maine-lawmakers-to-protect-the-public-from-dangerous-wind-and-solar-pfas-pollution/ CFACT Senior Policy Analyst Dr. Bonner Cohen told a packed hearing room in the Maine State Capitol Building March 6 that wind and solar projects should be subject to strict monitoring and rigorous testing to safeguard the public against toxic chemical contaminations. Wind turbines and solar panels contain troubling levels of toxic Perfluoroalkyl and […]
The High Costs of Climate Scams: Assessing the Green Giveaways in the Inflation Reduction Act
The High Costs of Climate Scams: Assessing the Green Giveaways in the Inflation Reduction Act The High Costs of Climate Scams: Assessing the Green Giveaways in the Inflation Reduction Act By Tim Benson The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden on August 16, 2022, but the […]
Solar Company That Received $3 Billion Biden Loan Warns It Might Go Bankrupt – Sunnova Energy received largest federal loan to a solar company in history
Solar Company That Received $3 Billion Biden Loan Warns It Might Go Bankrupt By Alana Goodman A politically connected solar company says it has “substantial doubt” it can stay in business, a little over a year after obtaining a $3 billion loan from the Biden administration. Sunnova Energy said on Monday that its current finances […]
Analysis: Yes, coal & natural gas remain much cheaper than wind & solar
https://www.thecentersquare.com/opinion/article_a0cb4eb4-f842-11ef-9d07-2f744ee948c8.html By James Taylor | The Heartland Institute Renewable power advocates often claim wind and solar are less expensive energy sources than coal, natural gas and nuclear power. Such a claim begs the question of why the heavily subsidized Ivanpah solar power facility is going out of business, following a long line of other renewable […]
Oil and gas companies are wise to reject net zero and money-losing renewables
Despite Media Mewling, Energy Giants Smartly Shift From Renewables To Lucrative Oil And Gas Despite Media Mewling, Energy Giants Smartly Shift From Renewables To Lucrative Oil And Gas by Linnea Lueken Rigzone and The Telegraph, among other outlets, are reporting that many major energy companies are tempering net-zero pledges they made in recent years, turning away from renewables […]
Econocide: Green subsidies are hastening our energy demise
https://amoran.substack.com/p/econocide-green-subsidies-are-hastening Originally published in Spectator Australia, February 2025 By Alan Moran In addition to bringing reduced emissions of supposed planetary warming CO2, government plans for wind and solar to dominate electricity supply assumed these technologies would become cheaper than the coal and gas they were to replace. Wind and solar were to be nurtured by […]