Electrified Compressors and the Great Texas Blackout (a threat to grid reliability everywhere) — Watts Up With That?

But gradually, compressors were electrified so slowly that, to follow the parable, they, like the frog, didn’t notice what was about to happen.

Electrified Compressors and the Great Texas Blackout (a threat to grid reliability everywhere) — Watts Up With That?

Grand Delusion: Why Battery Storage Can’t Fix Wind & Solar’s Intermittency Problem — STOP THESE THINGS

Claims that mega-batteries will fix wind and solar’s natural intermittency problem turn out to be mega-myths. First, lithium-ion batteries of the kind pitched by Tesla (see above) – like every kind of battery – do not generate a single watt of power and are net consumers of electricity during their charge/discharge phase. Second, they are […]

Grand Delusion: Why Battery Storage Can’t Fix Wind & Solar’s Intermittency Problem — STOP THESE THINGS

Passion & Power: Clever Communities Hate Industrial Wind Power And They Fight Back — STOP THESE THINGS

Rural communities are fighting back hard against the great wind power fraud, wherever the wind industry seeks to ply its subsidy-soaked trade. Wherever wind farms have appeared – or have been threatened – big numbers of locals take a set against the monsters being speared into their previously peaceful – and often idyllic – rural […]

Passion & Power: Clever Communities Hate Industrial Wind Power And They Fight Back — STOP THESE THINGS

Policy No Brainer: New Finnish Government Backs Grand Nuclear Power Expansion — STOP THESE THINGS

Safe, ever-reliable and always affordable nuclear power is a no-brainer. Especially for those worked up about carbon dioxide gas, nuclear being the only stand-alone generation source that does not generate CO2 in the process. Finland gets it, and has done for decades. Nuclear power is the largest source of energy in Finland, with a current […]

Policy No Brainer: New Finnish Government Backs Grand Nuclear Power Expansion — STOP THESE THINGS

The Saga of the Mountain Valley Pipeline Continues — IER

The Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) water permit of the 303-mile Mountain Valley natural gas pipeline (MVP), supposedly finding multiple defects in its review of the project. Just prior to this ruling, the court had upheld the sufficiency of Virginia’s environmental review, allowing it to…

The Saga of the Mountain Valley Pipeline Continues — IER

Bill Ponton’s “Reality Check” On UK Wind Power: The Issue of Energy Storage — Watts Up With That?

The only question is how disastrous the crash will be when it all falls apart.

Bill Ponton’s “Reality Check” On UK Wind Power: The Issue of Energy Storage — Watts Up With That?

Wholesale Environmental & Economic Disaster: Why Wind Power Fails on Every Count — STOP THESE THINGS

On any reckoning, wind power is an abject failure. Dilute and diffuse, chaotically intermittent, insanely costly (when backup costs are included) and a wholesale environmental disaster, wiping out millions of birds, bats and beneficial bugs, and wrecking the livability the rural communities, nothing stacks up apart from the massive and endless subsidies upon which the […]

Wholesale Environmental & Economic Disaster: Why Wind Power Fails on Every Count — STOP THESE THINGS

Mark Mills: The energy transition delusion: inescapable mineral realities — Watts Up With That?

Energy expert Mark Mills speaks at SKAGEN Funds New Years Conference 2023 The post Mark Mills: The energy transition delusion: inescapable mineral realities first appeared on Watts Up With That?.

Mark Mills: The energy transition delusion: inescapable mineral realities — Watts Up With That?