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- “No bias here” says Aust Energy Market chief while planning 100% for unnecessary, pointless renewables transition Thu, 2 Aug 18, 2:27pmPull the other one. No Bias — Audrey Zibelman,
- The Crash Test Dummy speeds up: our Renewable Target is 16% and rising, so are our electricity prices Sun, 29 Jul 18, 3:42pmThe Renewables Lobby subsidy and handouts are still growing. In 2018, Australia must get 16% of all our electricity from “renewables”, up from 14.2% last year.
- UK: smart meters are expected to save a whopping £11 annually Sun, 22 Jul 18, 1:12am… No one needed a smart meter when we had smart baseload. Beware Australians, despite the promises and threats, smart meters may or may not make UK customers a paltry saving. When all is said and done it’s not...
- Spent $1.5 billion on an interconnector to get a tiny cut in obscenely inflated electricity bills! Sat, 30 Jun 18, 4:46amWhat costs $1,500m, makes no electricity, but “saves money”? South Australia has used federal subsidies to build more wind power than it can use...
- Energy Crisis: NSW can’t keep coal plants, or aluminium smelters running, prices hit $14,000MW/hr Sat, 9 Jun 18, 4:47pmIt’s not even summer. NSW has been hit by clouds and a lack of reliable coal power. Prices are soaring. In NSW the awatt hooooo Aluminium Smelter consumes about 10% of the state’s electricity. It has been forced...
- Snowy Hydro goes activist, lobbies for renewables to boost profits, beat enemy “Coal” Thu, 24 May 18, 2:03amSpot the vested interest The biggest competitor for hydro in Australia is cheap old coal power. Surprise me, Snowy Hydro jumped into the national energy debate a few days ago on behalf of taxpayers themselves. With Turnbull...
- U.S. Set to Blow $2.8 Trillion by Sitting in Traffic Thu, 16 Oct 14, 11:00pmCongestion will cost the U.S. $2.8 trillion over the next 16 years. It's a boggling figure - but that's exactly what a new report by the Seattle-based INRIX and the Centre for Economics and Business Research(CEBR) has found....
- 5 Ways to Avoid Burning Dinosaurs This Summer Thu, 3 Jul 14, 2:00amIt's been a long winter, people, but Jack Frost went packing to the North Pole and the summer sun is back in the lifeguard seat. Summer's always been the best time to be outside for barbecues, nighttime guitar jamming...
- Cheaper EV Charging System Can Charge Electric Cars 4 Times Faster Wed, 8 May 13, 5:00amCharging time and cost are two of the biggest obstacles facing electric vehicle battery technology today. Fortunately, researchers at the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden just developed an integrated motor drive...
- New Study: Feds Underestimate Social Cost of Carbon Pollution by as Much as 12 Times Thu, 20 Sep 12, 5:20amIndustrial Emissions photo from Shutterstock A new study just published in the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences calculates that the U.S. government is using a faulty model for estimating the damages of carbon...
- Warming Climate And Ground Level Ozone Sat, 4 Jun 11, 12:00amOzone is the name scientists give to the molecule that is formed when three oxygen atoms get together. You have probably heard of the stuff because there is a “hole” in the ozone layer. High altitude ozone does...
- 2010 A Year Of Costly Disasters Wed, 5 Jan 11, 8:25amSeveral major catastrophes in 2010 resulted in substantial losses and an exceptionally high number of fatalities. The overall picture last year was dominated by an accumulation of severe earthquakes to an extent seldom experienced...
- Shale Gas—Abundance or Mirage? Why The Marcellus Shale Will Disappoint Expectations Fri, 29 Oct 10, 1:20amShale gas plays in the United States are commercial failures and shareholders in public exploration and production (E&P) companies are the losers. This conclusion falls out of a detailed evaluation of shale-dominated...
- Solar Power Is Cheaper Than Nuclear for the First Time Fri, 30 Jul 10, 3:30amHere’s bright spot in the news of the day: energy from new solar installations has, for the first time, become cheaper than energy from new nuclear plants, according to a new Duke University study...
- What is the Minimum EROI that a Sustainable Society Must Have? Part 2: The Economic Cost of Energy, EROI, and Surplus Energy Thu, 25 Mar 10, 1:03amThe following multi-part series is taken from a paper that my colleagues and I published last year in the free, on-line journal Energies. You may access the entire PDF here. All references can be found in the pdf. Part 1...