Ed. note: This post excerpts energy and climate material from the Media Balance Newsletter, a free fortnightly published by physicist John Droz Jr., founder of the Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions. The complete Newsletter for this post can be found here.
Greed Energy Economics:
*** Time to accept that wind turbine costs are not falling
*** Wind costs will remain high
*** Still Waiting for the Magical Future of Free Wind Power
Siemens Energy shares plunge more than 37% as wind turbine worries deepen
Renewable Corporate Welfare for Renewables Keeps On A-Coming
Unreliables (General):
*** Replacing Coal Power with Wind and Solar Increases Net CO2 Emissions
*** Why Big Oil loves the renewable energy industry
*** The Energy Transition Isn’t
How Co-ops are Impacted by Threats to Reliability
Alberta wind power production fell to 0.4% capacity at same time solar was zero
Aussie Farmers Reject Massive Wind & Solar Transmission Grid Rollout
Europe’s Crisis: Blame Green Energy Policy
Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** Is Dominion’s Offshore Wind Project ‘Arbitrary and Capricious’?…
“Rob, your question makes zero sense & and I don’t have the patience to deal with people like you. Please crawl back under the rock you emerged from or I’ll ban you from my substack. Seriously: your next comment that displeases me is your last, so make sure it’s a doozy.” (Andrew Dessler, below)
Climatologist Andrew Dessler, a leading figure on the alarmist side of the debate, is a piece of work–extremely smart and knowledgeable but biased and short-tempered. His personality is akin to that of Joe Romm of yesterday and Michael Mann today–arrogant, condescending, petty. Dessler is certain that he knows what is to be known about all things climate and energy. But, really, he does not know what he does not know. (Yes, climate science is highly uncertain, and climate models are a mess.)…
Continue Reading“The lesson from Europe is that reliance on wind, solar, and imported natural gas is expensive and risky energy policy. If you experience a low-wind year, a cold winter, an embargo, or a war, you can’t turn up the wind and solar.”
The year 2022 was an energy disaster for Europe. Citizens and businesses suffered from astronomical prices for natural gas and electricity, sky-high home energy bills, shuttered industrial plants, and bankrupt companies. Observers have blamed COVID-19 supply chain disruptions and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but Europe’s green energy policies was the elephant in the room.
For the last two decades, closures of traditional power plants and renewable energy policies made European countries highly dependent upon a combination of intermittent wind and solar sources and natural gas. More than 100 nuclear plants had closed or were scheduled to close, including 30 in Germany and 34 in the United Kingdom.…
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