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 […]
Watch: New documentary on how wind & whale deaths: Wind industry’s ‘high-decibel sonar is separating whale mothers from their calves, sending them into harm’s way’
The wind industry says it isn't killing whales, but it is. New boat traffic is colliding with whales. And high-decibel sonar is separating whale mothers from their calves, sending them into harm's way. Our new documentary, which lays out the evidence, is now free to watch. pic.twitter.com/ELkfFUcM1K — Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) September 18, 2023
Report says the quiet part out loud: ‘Heavy industry’ (iron, steel, cement) will have to ‘adapt’ to intermittent solar/wind energy – ‘Will need to accommodate effects of weather conditions…time of day on wind & solar power generation’
“The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE), a nonprofit research organization, develops policies to reduce energy waste and combat climate change.”
Report: “With Planning, Heavy Industry Can Use Wind and Solar Power” – “The growth of renewable power is key to helping industrial companies decarbonize quickly and economically, but it will also require them to adapt. While many facilities operate 24/7, they will need to accommodate the effects of weather conditions, the season of the year, and the time of day on wind and solar power generation.“
‘Heavy industry’ includes energy-intensive industries, such as iron and steel, cement, bulk chemicals, refining, and food and beverage manufacturing.
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Thousands of Old Wind Turbine Blades Pile Up in West Texas – ‘Out-of-state company has made their town a dump’ for discarded wind turbine blades
‘Utter Rubish’ – Analysis: Biden Admin Misleads Public on Vast Expanses of Land Needed for ‘Net Zero’ – ‘Millions of acres’
Watch: Morano on OAN TV talks 1600 scientists declaring no ‘climate emergency’ & how wind power harms whales
OAN TV – Broadcast September 8, 2023
Green Fail: UK Government Offshore Wind Farm Auction Attracts Zero Bids
Zero. That was the sum total of new UK offshore wind projects bought by developers at a key government auction Thursday, as renewable energy groups shunned the sector as unviable even with heavy taxpayer subsidies.https://t.co/Mm62urvnzC — Wittgenstein (@backtolife_2023) September 8, 2023 https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/09/08/green-fail-government-offshore-wind-farm-auction-attracts-zero-bids/ by SIMON KENT Zero. That was the sum total of new UK offshore […]
Support for offshore wind sinks as costs soar
https://www.cfact.org/2023/09/06/support-for-offshore-wind-sinks-as-costs-soar/ By David Wojick Things are looking bad for offshore wind in America (which makes me happy). On one hand, opposition is growing. On the other, the cost crisis is driving prices way up. Whether the offshore US boom will bust remains to be seen, but it is certainly possible. Here’s hoping. Bad news for the […]