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- Solar panels eat the profits at lunchtime By Jo Nova The system is reaching a crisis point and April is turning out to be the month of confessions His speech was the sound of an industry being tortured...
- The most expensive electricity on Earth is in countries with “cheapest sources of electricity” Tue, 23 Apr 24, 5:42amBy Jo Nova In the Bermuda Triangle of electricity bills, the more cheap generators you add, the higher your electricity bills grow
- Another day on the road to Green Energy Ruin, and the posterchild of Green Manufacturing collapsess Sat, 20 Apr 24, 7:17amBy Jo Nova It’s just another signpost on the way to the Great Green Economy Downunder We’re watching the renewable bubble pop around us. Tritium was the wonder-child Australian technology business that built fast...
- Glut in Californian home-solar causes bubble to pop: sales down 75% Tue, 16 Apr 24, 6:46amBy Jo Nova California was the Land of Solar Panels at the top of the Magic Subsidy Tree but that boom went bust If solar panels were actually cheap and useful, everyone could have them, they’d pay for themselves, and...
- Glut in Home-solar causes Californian bubble to pop: sales down 75% Tue, 16 Apr 24, 6:46amBy Jo Nova California was the Land of Solar Panels at the top of the Magic Subsidy Tree then the boom went bust If solar panels were actually cheap and useful, everyone could have them, they’d pay for themselves, and...
- Electricity prices fall from ridiculous peak but it’s not due to renewables and it’s still not cheap Fri, 26 Jan 24, 5:42amBy Jo Nova This week the agitprop-media was full of contrived good news about electricity prices in Australia, associated suggestively, in the loosest, most meaningless way with the word “renewables”...
- Former Greens candidate now warns wind turbines are lunacy and a scam Wed, 17 Jan 24, 6:37amA wind farm near Emerald, Queensland (ABC) By Jo Nova After all these years, finally, signs that more Greens are waking up to the awful truth Steve Nowakowski was a Greens candidate in Cairns in 2006...
- France dumps Renewables Target, goes back to Nuclear instead, risking Global Pariah Status Wed, 10 Jan 24, 6:52amBy Jo Nova In a radical move, the French government has quietly dropped their renewables targets from their draft energy bill, risking being seen as unfashionable losers in billionaire ski clubs...
- 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...