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- Failed State: Since 2021, 10% of the population left Cuba, and now the country has fuel shortages and blackouts Tue, 29 Oct 24, 7:15amPhoto by Ansalmo Juvaga By Jo Nova Seen on X Spare a thought for the people of Cuba The situation went from awful to something much worse. They ran out of working electrical plants ten days ago, and endured blackouts lasting...
- Google, Amazon, give up on national grid, ignore renewables, and buy their own nuclear plants Fri, 18 Oct 24, 8:01amBy Jo Nova Soon every tech billionaire will have their own nuclear power plant Two weeks ago it was Microsoft reviving Three Mile Island’s nuclear plant...
- Let’s burn money Ed: Flywheels could power the UK for half a second at a million dollars a megawatt hour Tue, 8 Oct 24, 6:31amBy Jo Nova Thanks to Paul Homewood at NotAlotofPeopleKnowThat for finding this gem of a video.
- Transition hell: Solar plants sit idle for 4 years in NT because of fears they’d make the grid too unstable Fri, 23 Aug 24, 7:07amENI Katherine Solar Farm By Jo Nova The Northern Territory is a test case for renewable energy and it’s a bonfire In 2016, the new Labor Government waved a magic wand and commanded they would be 50% renewable by 2030...
- Cold, windless Victoria may run out of gas before the end of winter Mon, 24 Jun 24, 2:35pmBy Jo Nova It wasn’t supposed to be this cold and windless in Australia For some reason that no climate model can explain, Australia has run out of wind power three months in a row, which means we had to use more gas...
- Despite spending $1.8 Trillion on “clean energy” last year, the world is still 81% fossil fueled — burning more than ever! Fri, 21 Jun 24, 7:42amBy Jo Nova Global fossil fuel use hits a new record level in 2023 We spent $1.77 Trillion dollars on the clean energy transition last year, yet our fossil fuel use is still rising and our emissions are still increasing.
- On fire! Australian opposition throws down the nuclear gauntlet in the Energy Wars: “No more large scale renewables” Wed, 19 Jun 24, 6:13amBy Jo Nova The Renewable Crash Test Dummy hits a fork in the road Finally the Australian opposition is bravely popping the sacred cow of the Energy Wars...
- On a bad day $20 billion in wind power across Australia can only guarantee as much power as two diesel generators Sat, 15 Jun 24, 7:05amBy Jo Nova How much back-up do we need for our 11.5 gigawatt wind system? About 11.4 gigawatts. Wind energy failed on Thursday at what must be close to a record low — with barely 88MW of production from 11,500MW of...
- Offshore Wind Turbines Could Mess With Ships’ Radar Signals Wed, 29 May 24, 7:17amby Lieven By Jo Nova But who needs radar right? We found out last year that offshore wind turbines scramble Air Force Radars. RAF pilots already use the turbines in training exercises to help them hide. But ships also use...
- Wind turbines could steal as much as 38% of the power off turbines downwind and even from ones 50 kilometers away Thu, 9 May 24, 6:38amBy Jo Nova The more wind turbines we have the more useless they are There goes those plans to cover the continental shelf with talismen to the Wind Gods.
- German solar industry collapsing: unable to make solar panels from solar power Wed, 1 May 24, 5:52am… By Jo Nova About 90% of solar panels installed in Germany come from China, and earlier this year one of the last solar panel manufacturers closed in Germany...
- Alinta chief admits the transition has “soaring costs”, and has stalled because of the rooftop solar glut Thu, 25 Apr 24, 6:30amSolar panels eat the profits at lunchtime By Jo Nova The system is reaching a crisis point and April is turning out to be the month of confessions His speech was the sound of an industry being tortured...
- The most expensive electricity on Earth is in countries with “cheapest sources of electricity” Tue, 23 Apr 24, 5:42amBy Jo Nova In the Bermuda Triangle of electricity bills, the more cheap generators you add, the higher your electricity bills grow
- Another day on the road to Green Energy Ruin, and the posterchild of Green Manufacturing collapsess Sat, 20 Apr 24, 7:17amBy Jo Nova It’s just another signpost on the way to the Great Green Economy Downunder We’re watching the renewable bubble pop around us. Tritium was the wonder-child Australian technology business that built fast...
- Glut in Californian home-solar causes bubble to pop: sales down 75% Tue, 16 Apr 24, 6:46amBy Jo Nova California was the Land of Solar Panels at the top of the Magic Subsidy Tree but that boom went bust If solar panels were actually cheap and useful, everyone could have them, they’d pay for themselves, and...