Tag: renewable energy
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Another Biden Administration Eco-Con
by Paul Driessen, ©2021 (Jul. 15, 2021) — Via yet another decree (Executive Order 14008), President Biden has instructed government agencies to “permanently protect” at least 30% of all US lands and waters by 2030. This “30 X 30 Plan” appears to presume that any areas not designated as park, refuge or wilderness are not…
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4 Promising Alternative Energy Solutions You Should Know About
by Contributor (Jun. 22, 2021) — Want to know the different alternative energy solutions? In power generation, fossil fuels have been the primary power source due to their lower cost. However, we can’t depend on non-renewable power sources like electricity or oil. Thus, we have seen a transformation in our renewable power globally in the…
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Materials Acquisition for Global Industrial Change (MAGIC)
by Paul Driessen, ©2021 (May 3, 2021) — Via executive orders, regulatory edicts and partisan Green New Deal legislation, President Biden intends to slash US carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions by 50% below their 2005 peak by 2030, and eliminate them (and fossil fuel use) by 2050. But as AOC’s former chief of…
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Africans Reject Demands to End Fossil Fuel Use
by Duggan Flanakin, ©2021 (Apr. 19, 2021) — As the merger of climate change and COVID panic materializes before us, “global leaders” have found developing world voices to join the crusade to “save the planet” from carbon (dioxide) “pollution.” But like their Chinese and Indian counterparts, many Africans, from heads of state to captains of…
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Publication Recommendation: “The Week That Was”
February 8, 2021 Dear Friends and Colleagues: I am a longtime subscriber and supporter of SEPP. You can sign up free of charge and decide whether or not you’d like to keep reading. Click on the URL and you get this week’s issue which is available first thing Monday morning. Here is the link: http://www.sepp.org/the-week-that-was.cfm…
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Two Nuclear Options
by Paul Driessen, ©2021 (Jan. 27, 2021) — We’ve heard about “nuclear options” since Harry was still Senator Reid. America now faces two major nuclear options: one involves political power, the other power to run an energy-dependent economy. In the political arena, President Biden and his allies are already going nuclear. With a resurgent Deep…
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Get Ready for Nationwide Blackouts under Biden
by Dr. Jay Lehr & Tom Harris, ©2020 (Nov. 27, 2020) — The power disaster unfolding in California will soon occur across the country if Joe Biden gets his way. Just as the former Vice-President plans for America as a whole, the Golden State is sweeping away the forms of energy that have been reliable for…
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Solar Panels Generate Mountains of Waste
THEY ALSO HEAT THE PLANET, BLANKET WILDLIFE HABITATS AND CAUSE OTHER ECOLOGICAL DAMAGE by Duggan Flanakin, ©2020 (Sep. 18, 2020) — The problem of solar panel waste is now becoming evident. As environmental journalist Emily Folk admits in Renewable Energy Magazine, “when talking about renewable energy, the topic of waste does not often appear.” She…
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Report Renewable Energy Risks, Too
IF FOSSIL FUEL COMPANIES SHOULD DISCLOSE CLIMATE-RELATED FINANCIAL RISKS, SO SHOULD RENEWABLES by Paul Driessen, ©2020 (Jul. 8, 2020) — Joe Biden has drifted far to the left and made it clear that, if elected president, he would restrict or ban fracking, pipelines, federal onshore and offshore drilling, and use of oil, coal, natural gas,…
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Assistance to Energy Companies Should be Temporary
“A LEADING CANDIDATE FOR CANCELLATION” by Dr. Jay Lehr & Tom Harris, ©2020 (Jun. 26, 2020) — Friends of the Earth (FOE) and other environmental groups have ramped up their opposition to subsidies for the fossil fuel industry during our recovery from COVID-19. In their June 24 news release, FOE attacked the SAVE Jobs Act…
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End Subsidies to ALL Energy Sources
“A COLOSSAL WASTE OF TAXPAYER MONIES” by Dr. Jay Lehr & Tom Harris, ©2020 (Jun. 12, 2020) — As governments struggle to recover from reduced revenue and increased costs caused by the coronavirus pandemic, they will be looking to eliminate non-essential expenditures. Energy subsidies that suck billions of dollars each year from the public purse…
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The Green New Deal Dress Rehearsal
THE COVID-19 LOCKDOWN AS A BLUEPRINT FOR A PERMANENT ECONOMIC SHUTDOWN TO ‘SAVE THE EARTH’ by Paul Driessen, ©2020 (Jun. 7, 2020) — More than 1.4 million cases of Wuhan Coronavirus and 106,000 deaths in the United States alone have accompanied stay-home lockdowns, businesses’ bankruptcies, over 40 million unemployed workers, plummeting tax revenues and unprecedented…
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Destroying the Environment to Save It
PSEUDO-GREEN ENERGY WILL WREAK DEVASTATION, PRETENDING TO PREVENT EXAGGERATED CLIMATE HARM by Paul Driessen, ©2020 (May 31, 2020) — “We had to destroy the village in order to save it.” The infamous Vietnam era quotation may or may not have been uttered by an anonymous US Army major. It may have been misquoted, revised, apocryphal…
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A Miraculous Turn of Events
MICHAEL MOORE AND DRIESSEN AGREE! WIND, SOLAR AND BIOFUEL ENERGY ARE DEVASTATING PLANET EARTH by Paul Driessen, ©2020 (May 7, 2020) — Never in my wildest dreams did I envision a day when I’d agree with anything filmmaker Michael Moore said – much less that he would agree with me. But mirabile dictu, his new…
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Meeting the Terawatt Challenge
ROBERT BRYCE’S LATEST BOOK LAYS OUT A POWERFUL CASE FOR TREATING ELECTRICITY AS A HUMAN RIGHT by Duggan Flanakin, ©2020 (Apr. 29, 2020) — In his latest seminal book, A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations, Austin, Texas-based energy analyst and futurist Robert Bryce declares that “electricity has become a human right.”…
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The Unholy Crusade against Gas Appliances
ECO DARLING NATURAL GAS GIVES WAY TO WIND, SOLAR AND BATTERY ELECTRICITY – AND SLAVE LABOR by Duggan Flanakin, ©2020 (Mar. 7, 2020) — When Berkeley, California last year became the first U.S. city to ban the installation of natural gas lines to new homes, Mayor Jesse Arreguín proudly stated, “We are committed to the Paris…
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Do ‘Green’ Buses Pass the Performance Test?
DO THEY EVEN PASS BASIC ENERGY, ENVIRONMENTAL, ECONOMIC AND HUMAN RIGHTS TESTS? by Duggan Flanakin, ©2020 (Feb. 15, 2020) — Should Americans follow China in a massive commitment to supposedly eco-friendly battery-electric buses (BEBs)? California has mandated a “carbon-free” bus system by 2040 and will buy only battery or fuel cell-powered buses after 2029. Other…
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Climate Alarmist Banks Go Carbon-Colonialist
AFRICA MUST MOVE FORWARD WITHOUT THEM, USING FOSSIL AND NUCLEAR ENERGY TO BUILD PROSPERITY by Paul Driessen and David Wojick, ©2019 (Dec. 28, 2019) — Africa has the world’s lowest electrification rate. Its power consumption per capita is just 613 kilowatt-hours per year, compared to 6,500 kWh in Europe and 13,000 in the United States,…
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The Dangerous Winds of Trying to Prevent Climate Change
INCONVENIENT FACTS SHOW WHY WIND ENERGY IS NOT RENEWABLE, SUSTAINABLE OR CLIMATE-FRIENDLY by Duggan Flanakin, ©2019 (Dec. 13, 2019) — Wind turbines continue to be the most controversial of so-called “renewable” energy sources worldwide. But, you say, wind is surely renewable. It blows intermittently, but it’s natural, free, renewable and climate-friendly. That’s certainly what we…
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More Buckets of Icy Cold Energy Reality
DEMOCRATS, GREEN NEW DEALERS AND UN GABFEST ATTENDEES NEED TO GET “WOKE” ON ECO-ENERGY by Paul Driessen, ©2019 (Sep. 23, 2019) — The full-court press is on for climate chaos disaster and renewable energy salvation. CNN recently hosted a seven-hour climate event for Democrat presidential aspirants. Every day brings more gloom-and-doom stories about absurd, often…