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Forcing a rapid fossil phase-out before we have engineered substitutes doesn’t eliminate these processes, it simply offshores them to countries with weaker labour, environmental and emissions standards.

For years, utility companies have pursued a reckless strategy of prematurely retiring their reliable, affordable coal plants while pretending that a combination of wind, solar, and storage could replace their dependable capacity.

...places like New York, California, Germany and the UK continue to plow forward as if wind/solar/storage electricity systems can work. It’s as if it’s not possible to learn from experience.

It took a decade for the fundamental economics of solar power in Australia to become obvious and make grid solar farms stranded assets.  It took less than a year for the Cheaper Home Batteries Program to ruin the business...

Bill McKibben is desperate. Instead of accepting reality, he continues his magical thinking of wind and solar dominance. But as James Hansen, the father of the alarm, stated:

Labour has launched a Net Zero scheme to transport hot water on barges on the River Thames to heat London homes instead of each home having a gas boiler...

The MTA committed nearly a decade ago to having its entire fleet of close to 6,000 buses be emissions-free by 2040, but officials on Thursday said the transportation authority is instead seeking proposals from manufacturers...

Turner said that for too long, climate has “served as a shield,” in which imputed good intentions can mask backscratching and failure.

Balsa wood is a key component of wind turbines, a near-perfect material for them.

WOW! Justin Rowlatt has seen the light! The post Renewables Are Costing Us A Fortune–Justin Rowlatt appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Paying one group to produce and another to consume does not guarantee usefulness. It guarantees activity.

Driving Australia’s current trajectory is the mythical claim that so-called renewables – are inherently cheap and that any short‑term pain will give way to lasting price declines.

Report 24 is highly critical of “climate fanatics” and “green ideology,” framing the event as proof that renewable energy infrastructure is too fragile and expensive for practical long-term use...

If that same capital had been spent on modern nuclear or advanced natural‑gas infrastructure, the outcome would have been transformative.

I have long been meaning to address the myth that renewables provide the cheapest electricity. This myth has achieved “everybody knows that” status which means that a rebuttal must have strong supporting arguments. ...