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- By Jo Nova Wade Allison has done a short but devastating analysis for the GWPF. The take home message is that the energy contained in the wind is diabolically more erratic than most people realize. It’s just basic physics...
- Who knew Scottish wind turbines are kept warm with diesel power… Tue, 7 Feb 23, 5:57pmBy Jo Nova Arecleoch Wind Farm | Mary and Angus Hogg.
- Even in battery fantasy dreams the costs don’t make sense Thu, 5 Jan 23, 6:50amBy Jo Nova The amount of storage America needs for a grid run on erratic wind and solar power is so galactically vast the numbers don’t matter. Because every which way they are calculated, every estimate, the highest...
- Italy may “Build Back Nuclear” — not quite the Great Reset the Greens or Financial Houses had in mind? Mon, 2 Jan 23, 6:53amBy Jo Nova The government of Italy is planning to build new nuclear power plants. And if it happens, it marks an astonishing turnaround.
- Blackouts will last for days says Austrian Defence Minister — stock up now Sat, 31 Dec 22, 2:30amBy Jo Nova It’s one big backside-covering Psy-Op trying to bury the bad news Minister Klaudia Tanner, back in 2020 when she looked decidedly more chirpy.
- That’ll hurt: Environmental investors lost 22% in a year when Energy investors made 54% gains Fri, 30 Dec 22, 7:10amBy Jo Nova Hands up who wants to lose money? These numbers that Rupert Darwall has put together in Real Clear Energy are extraordinary:
- UK close to nation wide blackout, while 12% of entire Germany GDP paying for energy crisis Sat, 17 Dec 22, 5:51amBy Jo Nova Green Europe is running out of electrons Last Monday in Great Britain the entire steel industry shut down because the wind stopped and wholesale prices reached £2,586 a megawatt-hour...
- NetZero impossibility point? Europe’s renewable wonderland now can’t make solar, wind, batteries or EV’s Sat, 3 Dec 22, 3:07amBy Jo Nova The impossible conundrum: Going Netzero cancels your ability to get to Netzero
- Wild West voltage spikes in South Australia and a billion watts of wasted solar Fri, 18 Nov 22, 6:04amBy Jo Nova South Australia survived the big scary sunny day yesterday, but had to shut off solar power and throw all those sacred green electrons into a thousand open circuits.
- Renewable South Australia Islanded, flying by the seat of their pants, afraid of a solar surge on a sunny day Wed, 16 Nov 22, 7:11amBy Jo Nova The biggest blackout has hit South Australia since the statewide crash of 2016. It’s due to a weather calamity, but the renewables state is struggling to keep the frequency stable for a whole week without...
- Soviet electricity: UK faces blackouts, blistering costs and still has to pay wind farms £1b to do nothing Sat, 12 Nov 22, 6:22amBy Jo Nova Imagine an energy system so broken that the government forced The People to buy generators that only work (randomly) 30% of the time and told them they would still have to pay the generators even when their product...
- Now they tell us: Wind power giant says it was a mistake to say renewables would only get cheaper Wed, 9 Nov 22, 6:26amby Jo Nova For years they told us that the green transition would deliver cheap energy, and that if we just subsidized them enough, prices would keep falling...
- Renewable records tumble? How the ABC turns a grid headache into a glorious solar achievement Thu, 3 Nov 22, 8:03amby Jo Nova With all the calm language of a paid ad agency, the ABC is breathless because an esoteric measure called “minimum operational demand” has hit a record or two...
- “There’s no such thing as a zero emissions vehicle” Wed, 19 Oct 22, 7:34am“With an EV, you don’t eliminate emissions, you just export them. You have to dig up about 500,000 lbs of material to make a single 1000lb battery It takes 100 to 300 barrels of oil to manufacture a battery that...
- Global demand for Gigawatts is insatiable: To make one smartphone takes almost as much energy as a fridge Wed, 12 Oct 22, 6:56amBy Jo Nova A report by Mark Mills called the The “Energy Transition” Delusion came out in August with some killer statistics. Despite the rampant glorious uptake of sparkling renewables, wind and solar provide less than...