Watch Alex Epstein: ‘If solar & wind could actually replace fossil fuels, China wouldn’t have 300 planned new coal plants—more than the total we have in the U.S.’
If solar and wind could actually replace fossil fuels, China wouldn’t have 300 planned new coal plants—more than the total we have in the United States—each designed to last 40 or more years. pic.twitter.com/D3YsmnTlih — Alex Epstein (@AlexEpstein) October 18, 2023
Reality Bites: Why Wind, Solar, And Electric Car Advocates Must Also Love Fossil Fuels – ‘Blocking fossil fuel development increases
cost for renewables’
https://www.forbes.com/sites/judeclemente/2023/10/15/reality-bites-why-wind-solar-and-electric-car-advocates-must-also-love-fossil-fuels/ By Jude Clemente Let’s start with the basics: fossil fuels supply 80% of the world’s energy and about 80% of the energy consumed in the U.S. Energy is the driving force of modern life, so fossil fuels are thus the inherent inputs to just about everything that we do, make, and consume. One could […]
Wind power imploding: The wheels are coming off New York’s insane alternate-energy plans
https://nypost.com/2023/10/15/the-wheels-are-coming-off-new-yorks-insane-alternate-energy-plans/ By Post Editorial Board New York state’s insane renewable-energy plan is starting to implode, and the sooner Gov. Kathy Hochul and other leaders admit the truth, the better. On Thursday, the state Public Service Commission nixed a request for vastly greater subsidies — about $12 billion worth — for 90 alternate-power projects that are […]
Analysis: Offshore Wind is an Economic & Environmental Catastrophe
Wind power FAIL: ‘After 30 years of talk, the number of actual functioning wind turbines out in the Atlantic Ocean off the U.S. coast is now exactly seven’
After 30 years of talk, the number of actual functioning wind turbines out in the Atlantic Ocean off the U.S. coast is now exactly seven: five off Block Island (part of Rhode Island), and two off Virginia. Those provide some tiny fraction of 1% of the electricity for the mid-Atlantic states and New England.”
Watch: Conservation Nation EP15: Save the Whales from Ocean Industrialization
Conservation Nation EP15: Save the Whales from Ocean Industrialization Oct 2, 2023 In Episode 15 of “Conservation Nation, host @GabriellaHoffman travels to New England and the Jersey Shore to find out if ocean industrialization – namely offshore wind energy development – is imperiling marine life including endangered North Atlantic right whales.
The six ways renewables increase electricity bills
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2023/09/28/the-six-ways-renewables-increase-electricity-bills/ By Paul Homewood London, 28 September – A new paper from the Net Zero Watch demonstrates conclusively renewables increase electricity bills — indeed, it is almost impossible that adding a new windfarm to the grid would ever reduce consumer prices. The author of the paper, Net Zero Watch director Andrew Montford, outlines a series […]
Offshore wind is systematically violating the Marine Mammal Protection Act
https://www.cfact.org/2023/09/28/offshore-wind-is-systematically-violating-the-marine-mammal-protection-act/ By David Wojick New evidence says that offshore wind sonar surveys may have committed hundreds of thousands of violations of the MMPA, each potentially subject to tens of thousands of dollars in fines. The potential penalty total is in the billions. Moreover these incredible violations appear to be deliberate. These astonishingly bad findings flow from […]
Solar Energy Is Getting 200 Times More In Federal Subsidies Than Nuclear & 191 Times More in Subsidies Than Oil, Gas & Coal – Solar handouts could total $900 billion by 2060
Robert Bryce: “Thanks to climate corporatism, some of America’s biggest corporations, including NextEra Energy and MidAmerica Energy, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, are collecting billions of dollars in tax credits and they stand to collect untold billions more in the coming years thanks to the IRA.” …
“The subsidy picture for the landscape-blighting, bird-bat-and-whale-killing wind industry is only slightly less depressing. According to the the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT), the wind sector collected about $2.2 billion in federal tax subsidies in 2022. Last year, the domestic wind sector produced 4.1 EJ of energy. That means the wind sector got roughly $537 million per EJ, or about 41 times more than what was given to the nuclear sector.” …
“What about hydrocarbons? The JCT figures show that federal tax incentives for the hydrocarbon sector totaled about $1.1 billion last year. According to the Statistical Review of World Energy, domestic hydrocarbon production last year totaled about 79 EJ. Thus, the hydrocarbon sector got only slightly more federal tax love than the nuclear sector: about $13.9 million per EJ. That means that solar energy got about 191 times more per EJ produced than what was given to hydrocarbon producers in 2022.” …
“Our grid should be weather resilient, not weather dependent. That means we should be developing low-carbon energy sources that are resilient, scalable, affordable, and ready for deployment. That means N2N: natural gas to nuclear.”
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Update: Robert Bryce: Actually, Solar Is Getting 302 Times More In Federal Subsidies Than Nuclear – An August EIA report shows my prior calculations were too low by half
Brazil’s Big Cats Under Threat From Wind Farms: ‘Jaguars & pumas face extinction in Brazil’s northeast as the fast-growing wind power industry frightens them off their land’
https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/brazils-big-cats-under-threat-from-wind-farms-1e7494f3 By Luciana MagalhaesFollow and Samantha PearsonFollow | Photographs by Dado Galdieri for The Wall Street Journal Sept. 17, 2023 10:00 am ET JUAZEIRO, Brazil—Weighing more than 100 pounds, big cats have long reigned over this hot and semi-arid region of Brazil, developing tougher paws for the scorched earth and reaching speeds of 50 miles […]