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Europe: AI Development or Net Zero?

By Steve Goreham -- September 10, 2025

This year, European nations announced plans to pursue artificial intelligence. National leaders announced AI spending goals totaling hundreds of billions of euros in efforts to catch up to the United States. But AI requires huge amounts of electrical power, conflicting with Europe’s commitment to achieve a Net Zero power grid.

Since ChatGPT released their AI chatbot in November of 2022, artificial intelligence has exploded. In only two years, the AI revolution became the driving force in the US high-tech industry. Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and other firms will spend over $100 billion this year building and upgrading data centers to run AI. Nvidia, the dominant supplier of AI graphics processor units (GPUs), became the most valuable company in the world, its market capitalization soaring from $300 billion to $4.3 trillion in less than three years.…

Steeper Road for Zero-Emissions Vehicles

By Steve Goreham -- July 23, 2025

“A recent survey by the American Automobile Association (AAA) found that only 16% of potential buyers were either “likely” or “very likely” to buy a fully electric vehicle as their next car, … down from 25% in 2022 and was the lowest level of EV interest recorded by AAA surveys since 2019.”

The road to adoption of Zero Emissions Vehicles (ZEVs) is growing steeper. For over two decades, states used incentives and mandates to try to force a transition from gasoline vehicles to ZEVs. But softening market demand, shifting federal policies, and poor economics threaten to halt the ZEV revolution in the United States.

Zero Emissions Vehicles are cars and trucks that produce no tailpipe emissions. These are either electric vehicles (EVs) or hydrogen vehicles. California is the only state with a significant number of hydrogen cars, but its hydrogen car population is declining, so ZEVs mean EVs in practice.…

‘Net Zero’ Is Collapsing in U.S. States

By Steve Goreham -- June 16, 2025

From New York to California, state renewable electrical power dreams are collapsing. Power demands soar, while the federal government cuts funding and support for wind, solar, and grid batteries. Renewables cannot provide enough power to support the artificial intelligence revolution. The Net Zero electricity transition is failing in the United States.

For the last two decades, state governments have embraced policies aimed at replacing coal and natural gas power plants with renewable sources. Twenty-three states enacted laws or executive orders to move to 100% Net Zero electricity by 2050. Onshore and offshore wind, utility-scale and rooftop solar, and grid-scale batteries were heavily promoted by states and most federal administrations.

The New York State Climate Action Scoping Plan of 2022 called for 70% renewable electricity by 2030 and 100% by 2040. But 49.7% of the state’s electricity came from gas in 2024, up from 47.7% in 2023.…

Time to Defund Climate Models?

By Steve Goreham -- April 29, 2025

US Military Exits Climate Change After Wasteful Decade

By Steve Goreham -- April 2, 2025

Trump Truth Bombs ‘Green’ Energy (Five EOs)

By Steve Goreham -- January 27, 2025

Wind and Solar Are Fragile

By Steve Goreham -- December 2, 2024

Scientists Haven’t ‘Saved’ the Ozone Layer

By Steve Goreham -- November 13, 2024

No Gov. Inslee, Repeal of Washington State’s Climate Law Won’t Hurt the Climate

By Steve Goreham -- July 31, 2024

New US-EU Methane Rules Won’t Affect Temperatures

By Steve Goreham -- July 9, 2024