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- World Bank Reduces Emissions, Not Poverty one day agoThe World Bank and other Western institutions retreat from fossil fuel finance has created a significant geopolitical opportunity for China. China is willing to finance fossil fuel projects in Africa and the developing world...
- RGGI Investment Proceeds Report Implications 2 days agoThese results support my conclusion that RGGI can only claim to raise money effectively. Claims that RGGI is a successful emission reduction program are inconsistent with the following observations. The investment costs...
- Utility-Scale Solar: The Grim News Begins (Blue Ridge “Wind-Down’) Fri, 10 Oct 25, 4:00pmSolar as grid electricity is a government-created industry. It would not exist without the large tax credits that began with the 10 percent ITC in 1978, which was extended six times (1980, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991)....
- The Doughnut Delusion: A Case Study in How to Turn Data into Ideology Fri, 10 Oct 25, 4:00amAfter nearly two decades of “Doughnut” development, the grand insight remains: we must stop growing, stop consuming, and start obeying the moral geometry of academics who draw circles in PowerPoint...
- Time: When will Companies Notice the Cost of Climate Change? Mon, 6 Oct 25, 12:00amTime author Justin Worland is distressed that companies don't understand alarmist predictions of future climate harms.
- Net Zero Business? Energy Prices Now Aussie Business’ Number One Concern Sun, 5 Oct 25, 6:00amInflation was the number 2 concern. Both inflation and high energy prices are being caused by Net Zero Expenditure.
- Australia’s Big Battery Snowy 2 Pumped Hydro Scheme Suffers Another Cost Blowout Sat, 4 Oct 25, 11:00amA billion here, a billion there, soon you're talking about real money.
- New York Draft Energy Plan Health Impacts Analysis Scientific Travesty Thu, 2 Oct 25, 11:00pmMy comments should precipitate, at a minimum, a revision to NY-CHAPPA to include 16 wind directions and a valid verification analysis of the modeling. I don’t expect NYSERDA to respond. Instead, I expect that my comments...
- Place Your Bet on the Future of Energy: U.S. Or China Wed, 1 Oct 25, 11:00amSo how are you going to bet? Here’s my bet: The entire idea of an energy system based on wind, solar and batteries will not work and will fail, probably over the course of the next ten years or so, if not sooner...
- Two Takes on the Progress Of New York’s Energy Transformation Mon, 29 Sep 25, 8:00amIt’s time to start over, with some people in charge who know what they are doing.
- Aussie AI Industry Demands Subsidies for Unspecified Reasons Mon, 29 Sep 25, 5:00am... The tech industry has been pushing the government to ... subsidise AI processing power through multi-billion dollar deals ...
- Study: “… high costs and risks …” Collapsed the Net Zero Banking Alliance Fri, 26 Sep 25, 3:00pmApparently it wasn't just the Trump effect, banks were worried about the commercial viability of Net Zero.
- Governor Healey’s Energy Crisis: Outrage Theater for the Freeze-and-Pay Crowd Tue, 23 Sep 25, 11:00pmSo now we head into winter with a state full of furious voters, a governor trying desperately to memory-hole her pipeline-killing past, and utility bills that could double as ransom notes...
- Claim: We Can Survive the Climate Apocalypse if Capitalists Don’t Get in the Way Sun, 14 Sep 25, 11:00am"... One of the main barriers is the rise of anti-intellectualism and populist politics. Often aligned with unregulated capitalism ..."
- Green Jobs Make Us Poorer Mon, 25 Aug 25, 11:00pmIt is crystal clear that all talk of a “green revolution” is simply a pipe dream. These green jobs are only a façade, Potemkin jobs to give politicians and policymakers a good sound bite and make them feel good about...