Pool Chillers: Don’t Whine, Adapt! (and get those ‘cheap’ renewable rates)

Ed Note: Climate alarmists/forced energy transformationists are out in force during the current heat wave, wagging fingers at skeptics and pounding the chest about “low” rates for wind/solar electricity in Texas. With pool companies in the state advertising chillers, here is one adaptation opportunity.

“The most obvious reason for a pool chiller, of course, is comfort: A good chiller can help take your swimming pool water from too hot to just right.”

“While there’s no true ‘magic number’ when it comes to swimming pool water temperature, most pool professionals agree that the ideal temperature is between 78 and 84 degrees.”

Pool Chillers: The Best Way to Keep Your Swimming Pool Cool

When temperatures rise, there’s nothing quite like a dip in your cool, refreshing swimming pool to beat the heat.…

James Hansen on Fire

“Interestingly, none other than Michael Mann disagreed with Hansen’s climate acceleration hypothesis. Is it because Mann et al. know that doomerism is a political loser? Climate science is so political and PR-driven it is hard to know.

Recently in the Guardian, James Hansen unloaded on the complacent public for giving the world the current heat wave. How interesting, coming 35 years after he went alarmist to inspire exaggerated and falsified predictions of future temperature and sea-level-rise. And today, even alarmist scientists are pushing back on Hansen’s dire prediction of heating acceleration.

Here is another data point on the outlier Hansen. In 2006, he gave this ultimatum:

We have at most ten years—not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse emissions.

Renewable Tax Credits: Kiesling Ducks Again

“Are you sure you don’t want to just go ahead and say the PTC is bad policy? (It is.) … I’m asking why you’d leave it for another day when the downsides are so painfully clear.” – Fisher to Kiesling (below)

“Because I’m tired after two hard days of riding in advance of a gravel bike race next weekend and it’s a holiday weekend.” – Kiesling to Fisher (below)

And the great dodge continues where the coverup is worse than the crime. The ‘crime’ is pretending to be free market or classical liberal in electricity policy when you are not. Mandatory open access with all the trimmings (renewables favoritism in particularly) is an obvious regulatory, interventionist model. Period.

The cover-up is ‘woman of system‘ Lynne Kiesling (and Michael Giberson of R Street) refusing to define, much less advocate, a free market/classical liberalism policy program for electricity.…

Shell Knew? No (outlier climate prediction exaggerated)

Texas Wind Power: The Beginning (1993)

Tomlinson’s Narrative on the (Wounded) Texas Grid: More Misdirection from the Houston Chronicle

Woman of System? Lynne Kiesling as Electricity Planner

Free Market Electricity: End the Blackout (Kiesling bobs and weaves)

Peak Gas: A Forecasting Failure of Henry Groppe Jr.

Solar Farm Opposition: Rejoinder to Giberson (2)