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- wind power generators, are they right for you? Tue, 16 Nov 10, 11:07pmWind power generation sounds like a possible way to offset rising power bills, we look at the issues involved and if it is practical for you.
- German Electricity Imports Hit New Record, Rise 43.3 Percent in First Half Of 2020! Fri, 18 Sep 20, 7:00amYou would think that with all the added wind and solar energy in Germany, along with all the conventional power plants on standby, all totaling up to huge unneeded capacity, there would be no need to import any power at all...
- Scottish green hydrogen scheme gears up to fuel ferries, buses and trains Wed, 16 Sep 20, 4:00pmWind and solar farms will produce the gas alongside Scottish Power, ITM Power and BOC
- Schizophrenic German Wind Power Output In August, Plagued By Wild Volatility Sun, 13 Sep 20, 7:00pmHere’s another example illustrating just how volatile and unreliable wind energy really is.
- BP takes $1.1bn stake in offshore wind farms as it agrees Equinor deal Thu, 10 Sep 20, 7:08pmStrategic partnership will seek to develop more wind farms off the coast of the US
- California offshore winds show promise as power source Wed, 9 Sep 20, 7:00pmOffshore wind peaks in the evening when power demands are greatest and other renewable energy sources are less available
- Power to the people: why clean energy must give more Australians a slice of the pie Sun, 30 Aug 20, 6:00amAustralians are far more welcoming of change than we expect, and are furious at having been shut out of being direct participants
- Forbes: “Blackouts Expose Perils And Costs Of California’s ‘Electrify Everything’ Push” Sun, 23 Aug 20, 3:00amEven Forbes, whose deep green editors recently censored Michael Shellenberger for criticising the climate movement, has sharply criticised California's headlong rush into a new dark age of unreliable electricity.
- Crown Estate grants leases for floating windfarm off Wales Thu, 20 Aug 20, 5:02amErebus project in Celtic Sea adds to Queen’s multi-million windfall through expected auction of offshore leases
- Green California Has the Nation’s Worst Power Grid Wed, 19 Aug 20, 7:00amWhen high temperatures caused customer demand to exceed the power available, California electrical utilities used rotating outages to force a reduction in demand...
- The excess costs of Weather Dependent Renewable power generation in the USA Tue, 18 Aug 20, 3:00pm“roughly how much would it cost to generate the same amount of power as is produced by the 2016 fleet of United States Weather Dependent Renewables, using conventional generation technologies, (Gas-firing or Nuclear) ?...
- False Alarm by Bjorn Lomborg; Apocalypse Never by Michael Shellenberger – review Sun, 9 Aug 20, 4:00pmTwo prominent ‘lukewarmers’ take climate science denial to another level, offering tepid manifestos at best
- Weatherwatch: floating wind farms – the power source of the future Sat, 8 Aug 20, 6:30amGiant turbines operating from anchored rafts can harness strong offshore winds
- A brief tale of wind and steam Thu, 6 Aug 20, 7:00pmAbout a year ago I read in a Dutch national newspaper an article which elaborately and somewhat aggressively argued that if you had the choice between, say, a 1000MW gas-fired power plant and a few thousands windmill generators...
- Windfarms threaten peat bogs and turn them into carbon emitters Thu, 6 Aug 20, 4:33amMore ironies. One fifth of all soil carbon is stored in peat bogs. Unfortunately when industrial wind turbines are built on them, the damage turns them from carbon sinks to carbon sources thus neutralizing the point of...
- China poised to power huge growth in global offshore wind energy Wed, 5 Aug 20, 3:01pmReport finds the offshore industry could create 900,000 jobs globally over next decade