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- China promised to strictly control coal then started 182 coal power plants instead Wed, 15 Nov 23, 7:25amBy Jo Nova Two and a half years ago President Xi promised to “strictly control coal-fired power generation projects” in China. Before this solemn pledge the CCP had approved a blockbuster 54 gigawatts of coal fired power...
- China promises to strictly control coal then started 182 coal power plants instead Wed, 15 Nov 23, 7:25amBy Jo Nova Two and a half years ago President Xi promised to “strictly control coal-fired power generation projects” in China. Before this solemn pledge the CCP had approved a blockbuster 54 gigawatts of coal fired power...
- Snowy 2.0, doomed from the start — after the sinkhole came the poison gas, “worst major project in history” Tue, 24 Oct 23, 4:06amABC News By Jo Nova It’s just emblematic of your Clean Green Future Complexity and false hope is eating the crown of Australia’s Net Zero transition — the Snowy 2.0 Pumped Hydro scheme. Things have gone...
- Panic now: The Australian national grid manager admits blackouts are coming Sat, 2 Sep 23, 5:16amBy Jo Nova We’re on the precipice of a radical experiment with a national electricity grid The AEMO (manager of the Australian grid) has finally released the major report on problems coming in the next ten years...
- Despite the green revolution, and record energy use, the world still runs on 82% fossil fuels Wed, 28 Jun 23, 5:38amImage by David Mark from Pixabay By Jo Nova We are a fossil fueled world. Solar & wind power make up just 7.5% 6% of our energy needs.* The world has set a new record for energy use in the last year. And even though renewables...
- 5 Megawatt solar plant destroyed by hail Fri, 30 Jun 23, 1:11amBy Jo Nova Hail destroyed most of the three year old Scottsbluff community solar project in Nebraska this week. Solar energy might be free but collecting it requires vast acreages of fragile and expensive infrastructure.
- Despite the green revolution, record energy use, the world still runs on 82% fossil fuels Wed, 28 Jun 23, 5:38amImage by David Mark from Pixabay By Jo Nova We are a fossil fueled world. Solar & wind power make up just 7.5% of our energy needs. The world has set a new record for energy use in the last year. And even though renewables...
- Sweden axes Renewable Energy Targets, shifts back to nuclear power Sat, 24 Jun 23, 5:43amBy Jo Nova …
- Green Australia: where Industry is on Edge, the grid “precarious” and electricity prices up 25% Wed, 7 Jun 23, 5:19amBy Jo Nova The land that is the Renewable Crash Test Dummy is holding its breath This time last year, the Australian energy market turned into a kind of Hunger Games spectacle with daily feeding-fest at dinner time where...
- Six gigawatts of total wind generation collapsed in 16 hours last week, and nobody cared Mon, 8 May 23, 8:57pmBy Jo Nova Just another day of Wind turbine failure — 6GW in 16 hours There was no cyclone, no storm, no national disaster, but our national infrastructure collapsed just the same...
- Skeptics are saving whales while Greens lobby for Industrial Plants in the wilderness Wed, 26 Apr 23, 4:51amBy Jo Nova Let it be known that the skeptics are, and always have been, the environment’s best friend. The Green’s, sadly are the wilderness wrecking, naive minions of the Establishment Powers who will sacrifice...
- Wind fantasy land: to cover 8 days of half-speed wind, UK needs 1,000 times the “biggest battery” on Earth Fri, 24 Mar 23, 7:25amBy 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.