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Daniel Wetzel in Die Welt (paid article) on a phenomenon: more and more plants are being put into operation, but the yield does not increase to the same extent.

So what is the point of solar panels? The post Claim: Climate Change Could Make Hailstorms Worse appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

I hope that the power of social media exemplified by Alexandra Fasulo can bring this to the attention of enough New Yorkers that the policies can be changed to protect the environment and interests of the local communities...

Britain needs an honest national conversation about what its energy future actually requires — one grounded not in what is fashionable or financially convenient, but in the austere realities of northern latitude, Atlantic...

What does it actually cost to keep the lights on, reliably, 24/7/365 year after year?

“The continued reliance on ‘clean’ energy tax credits is a political crutch…. Those who have introduced this legislation … should be working to phase out these subsidies more quickly, not doubling down on them.”...

In Episode 22 of ‪@cfact‬‘s Conservation Country video series, host ‪@GabriellaHoffman‬ travels to Eastern Oklahoma to learn about the region’s fight against wind industrialization...

Nobody in their right mind would have designed such a system. Unfortunately by the time of the next election, most of the damage will be irreversible.

“The record negative prices are the market’s loudest warning signal that we have an oversupply of unstable generation, but a dramatic lack of flexibility and storage capacity,” Klimanachrichten summarizes.

"... As coal and nuclear generation expand ... they may displace domestic renewable energy ..."

Freely chosen economic illiteracy, like other ideological afflictions, appears immune to correction by experience. The hangman’s noose may concentrate some minds, but in Westminster and Brussels, the noose is worn as a...

Someone forgot to build the grid capacity to support the gas replacement policy.

"Who’d have thought a fossil-fuel shill like Trump would be the one to spark a green revolution?"

Fifteen years after Merkel’s nuclear panic and decades after the Greens first infiltrated the corridors of power, reality is reasserting itself with the cold logic of physics and markets...

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