Slate Mag: ‘The Renewable Energy Revolution Is Unstoppable — Yes, even under Donald Trump’
https://slate.com/technology/2024/11/trump-climate-change-renewable-energy-solar-hope.html By Eric Holthaus There’s no question that the forthcoming return of Donald Trump and his willful disregard for science, truth, and basic empathy is a massive step backward in the struggle toward a world built on justice, equity, and a stable climate. Trump has promised to re-exit the Paris Climate Accord, all but ending any […]
The so-called ‘green movement’ increases the world’s demand for crude oil – ‘Everything that NEEDS electricity is made with petrochemicals manufactured from crude oil, coal, or natural gas’
Ronald Stein P.E.: Our energy “leaders” are oblivious that everything that NEEDS electricity is made with petrochemicals manufactured from crude oil, coal, or natural gas, from the light bulb to the iPhone, defibrillator, computers, telecommunications, spacecraft, and medications. Without the products made from fossil fuels there would be nothing that needs electricity.
Electricity CANNOT exist without crude oil. All the parts and components for wind turbines, solar panels, nuclear, hydro, and the mining equipment used to extract the metals and minerals to build clean “electricity” are made with oil derivatives manufactured from crude oil!
Our so-called “energy leaders” do not comprehend that electricity was developed AFTER the discovery of crude oil. Without the parts and components to be able to generate electricity such as insulation, copper wiring, computers, control panels, and air conditioning, there would be no electricity from any of the six methods used to generate electricity such as coal, natural gas, nuclear, hydro, wind, and solar.
Al Gore tells Cop29 ‘we are winning’ in clean energy race
https://www.thenationalnews.com/climate/2024/11/15/al-gore-tells-cop29-we-are-winning-in-clean-energy-race/ Former US vice president Al Gore mixed doom-laden warnings about the climate with a note of optimism on Friday, as he told the Cop29 summit that “we are winning” in the push to produce more clean energy. He used an impassioned speech to tell countries taking part in the UN talks in Baku, Azerbaijan, that the world had […]
Impact of Trump’s win: There’s light on the horizon for American energy & our allies in Europe
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/nov/11/light-horizon-american-energy-allies-europe/ By Linnea Lueken – Monday, November 11, 2024 President-elect Donald Trump’s resounding victory may spell doom for the anti-freedom, anti-prosperity international movement that is the push for net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. It is difficult to put into words the bullet we dodged regarding a Kamala Harris presidency and the energy policy that would likely have come […]
A Looming Political Earthquake: Inflation Reduction Act’s unprecedented climate spending—much of it uninvestigated—may soon lead to unprecedented scandals
https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-inflation-reduction-act-a-looming-political-earthquake By Mark P. Mills If it weren’t for the election season swamping news coverage, odds are more people would be talking about the revelation that, to quote a Bloomberg headline, “The World Bank Somehow Lost Track of at Least $24 Billion.” In fact, that may understate the reality: the World Bank’s “accounting gap” could be as […]
Watch: JD Vance on Joe Rogan podcast on whales & wind turbines: ‘It’s a very real problem…I think wind is the biggest scam out there; it’s total bull sh*t’
WATCH: JD Vance and Joe Rogan on the damage to whales from wind turbines: “It’s a very real problem…I think wind is the biggest scam out there; it’s total bull sh*t.” pic.twitter.com/EC1DbdbWT8 — Conservative War Machine (@WarMachineRR) October 31, 2024
New Report Suggests ‘Whale Psychiatrist’ Trump May be Right About Wind Farms & Whales
New Report Suggests “Whale Psychiatrist” Trump May be Right About Wind Farms and Whales From Legal Insurrection US Bureau of Ocean Management report says whales, dolphins, birds and bats can all be injured by wind turbine construction, and offshore fishing harmed. Posted by Leslie Eastman Joe Rogan’s interview with President Donald Trump certainly covered a wide-range […]
Listen: Morano on Joe Piscopo Show talking Trump as the whale whisperer, Harris & fracking & the upcoming UN climate summit in Azerbaijan
| @ClimateDepot gave @JrzyJoePiscopo a look at the climate policy of Trump and Kamala and the upcoming climate summit Full Interview: https://t.co/VTheI9AVYt pic.twitter.com/HOStG4MMOi — The Joe Piscopo Show (@JoePiscopoShow) October 30, 2024
Watch: Trump on Joe Rogan’s podcast rails on windmills & threats to birds & whales – ‘You want to see a bird cemetery? Go under a windmill someday’
“Green” mandates are designed to reduce consumer choice, in order to force people into compliance with Progressive Lifestyle Choices™. President Trump explains to Joe Rogan how the slew of “green” mandates from the Biden-Harris Administration slow progress: pic.twitter.com/gDcx4yuurJ — Alliance For Consumers (@for_consumers) October 26, 2024 TRUMP: “I think windmills are really disruptive. You […]
Analysis: ‘Why wind & solar are the energy past, not future’ – ‘Fossil fuels are the energy present, & nuclear power is likely the energy future’
Via Energy Bad Boys – By Isaac Orr and Mitch Rolling: It might come as a shock to lawmakers like Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, but nearly all the energy used by humans until a few hundred years ago was renewable, and life was not a utopian heaven on Earth. The graph nearby shows the amount of energy used by humans from 1800 through the present. In 1800, humanity used 452 times less energy than humans in 2019, and nearly all of it came from biomass. The “Low Energy” world humans lived in was no paradise. Average life expectancies were less than 40 years. In Germany, every second child died. People’s statures were shorter because poor nutrition and illness limited human growth. Life was indeed nasty, brutish, and short, and it remained this way until humans began using coal at scale in the 1800s.
Wind as an energy source had first been used for sailboats in Mesopotamia. Until the first windmills were invented by the Persians to grind grain and pump water between 500 and 900 A.D., wind energy was primarily used for transportation. Windmills became widespread in Europe in the 17th century, and approximately 200,000 windmills operated at the peak of the technology. Of course, the disadvantages of wind we experience today were still present back then. Because wind power cannot be stored, it was used primarily to mill grain into flour, pump water into livestock tanks, and saw lumber into boards.
In fact, because wind energy was dependent on the weather and wasn’t reliable, horses were used as “backup” sources of power for milling grain during calm stretches in Europe, similar to how natural gas power plants “back up” wind turbines for generating electricity when the wind isn’t blowing on modern electricity grids. …
While each of the “renewable” energy sources above increased the human standard of living, they also had limited availability and reliability. It was the discovery and widespread use of coal that enabled humans to access vast supplies of reliable energy on demand and perform more work than ever before dreamed. This energy powered the industrial revolution.
The widespread use of oil for lighting was short-lived, however, because, in 1882, Thomas Edison built his first commercial electricity plant, ushering in the era of electricity. When it comes to energy, nothing is as powerful, versatile, safe, easy to use, or clean as electricity. …
Unlike other forms of energy, electricity is not a primary source of energy by itself. Instead, electricity is a secondary source of energy that must be generated by converting primary energy sources (such as coal, natural gas, oil, uranium, water, solar, or wind energy) into electric power.
Wind and solar don’t produce much power because they are unreliable and the exact opposite of energy-dense, requiring vast buildouts to produce only a small amount of electricity. As a result, they have an exceedingly low energy return on investment (EROI). …
In fact, if all the electricity you used for 70 years was generated at nuclear facilities, the amount of uranium used would fit inside a soda can. The high energy density of uranium is why nuclear power has the potential to someday generate electricity at a lower cost than fossil fuels and is why it is most likely the future of electricity generation. Unlike wind and solar, it produces carbon-dioxide-free electricity around the clock, so a grid powered by nuclear power won’t experience California-style blackouts.