climate leadership and community protection act, Tag

I am convinced that implementation of the New York Climate Leadership & Community Protection Act (Climate Act) net-zero mandates will do more harm than good if the electric system transition relies on wind, solar, and...

Even the 45% figure cited there is a fantasy, and consists mostly of a power plant at Niagara Falls that pre-existed all of this energy transition claptrap.

There was this herd mentality … and I think it was unworkable from day one; I said so as much internally

In the atmosphere where it counts methane is not nearly as potent.

The fatal flaw is that New York City requires dedicated resources to replace existing generation when it is needed to keep the lights on. 

The proposed wholesale shift to unwanted technology without proper accounting of costs will be under intense scrutiny this year. 

In New York and elsewhere climate justice considerations are making their way into legislation

A zero-risk standard sets a high hurdle for permitting a new facility or keeping an existing source in operation.  

The feasibility analysis performed by Jacobson et al. (2013) is incomplete and scientifically questionable from both the technical and economic perspectives, and it implicitly assumes, without sufficient justification, that...

I also predict that if the ideologues continue control the implementation process then  costs will sky rocket, that there will be a catastrophic blackout that causes death and destruction, and that blanketing the state with...

It’s official: the world is committed to rapidly reducing CO2 emissions

One last point.  In another outstanding example of cluelessness, the underlying argument that the primary reason fuel prices have gone up is because the evil oil companies are making windfall profits. 

Three speakers addressed the question: How do we deliver what’s needed and how soon can we get there?

Despite their best efforts to game their numbers to claim that the cost of inaction exceeds the cost of action for the Climate Act New York State has to rely on obviously incorrect guidance. 

The large number of wind turbines and solar panels will also create massive amounts of waste when they are retired.  Furthermore, the cumulative environmental impacts of thousands of wind turbines and square miles of solar...