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Some (quite a few!) standout articles in this issue are:
NC House Passes Major Bill to Freeze its RPS
Wind Turbines are Less Effective than Assumed and CO2 Abatement Cost is Higher
Association Between Wind Turbines and Human Distress
Carbon Capture (and the hypocrisy of environmental groups)
Wind and Solar Transmission Planning
The Global Thirst for Low-Cost Electricity Continues Driving Coal Demand
Wind Energy Impact on Grid Stability and Operation
Let’s Run the Numbers: Nuclear vs Wind and Solar
Dominion: Offshore Wind is Too Expensive
Ten Reasons to Eliminate the Wind PTC
Climate Advisers Must Maintain Integrity
Earth Day: 22 Ways to Think about the Climate-Change Debate
See also two special sections this time, which include several reports on:
1) Climate data integrity, and the the accuracy of climate computer models
2) the Catholic Church and climate change…
Continue Reading“Far exceeding the legal authority that Congress has delegated to the EPA, this power plan would set the U.S. on an even more aggressive path to reduce CO2 than has been taken by some European countries where electric prices are two to three times higher than the average U.S. rate.”
– Kathleen Hartnett White, Texas Public Policy Foundation (May 7, 2015)
Congratulations to the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) for congratulating Texas political leaders for standing firm–and mighty tall–against climate alarmism mandated from Washington, DC. Obama might be high in the saddle right now, and the spin-science-Left might be tossing climate anger at realistic science, but the voting public isn’t buying it. Abbott, Cornyn, and Cruz are playing a winning intellectual and political hand alongside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.…
Continue ReadingIndustrial wind is a net loser, economically, environmentally, technically and civilly. Let’s examine how.
• Economically:
New York State has some of the highest electricity rates in the U.S., a whopping 53 percent above the national average, in large part due to throwing billions of taxpayer and ratepayer dollars into the wind. High electricity costs drive people and businesses out and ultimately hurt the poor the most.
Why destroy entire towns, when just one 450 megawatt gas-fired combined cycle generating unit located at New York City (where the power is needed in New York state) operating at only 60 percent of capacity, would provide more electricity than all of the wind factories in the state combined — at about a quarter of the capital costs, and without all the negative civil, economic, environmental, human health and property value impacts of industrial wind factories, or all the additional transmission lines to New York City.…
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