Tag: solar energy
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Misplaced Green Energy
by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2025 (Mar. 4, 2025) — Why are we always putting green energy assets in all the wrong places? The main electricity demand comes from big cities and their industries, so the electricity generators should be nearby, thus reducing capital costs and transmission losses, and supporting local jobs.…
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“Cosmoclimatology” May Explain the Real Drivers of Climate Change
by Tom Harris, ©2024 (Mar. 8, 2024) — Changes in solar output, not humanity’s carbon dioxide emissions, is likely the primary driver of climate change over at least the past few centuries. Scientists have long observed a noticeable relationship between solar activity, as indicated by sunspot numbers, and so-called “global temperatures” for centuries. It was…
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The Cosmic Climate Mystery is Solved!
by Tom Harris, ©2024 (Mar. 2, 2024) — Scientists have known for a long time that solar activity correlates well with climatic conditions on Earth. This should surprise no one since our home star is an enormous source of energy, only a tiny fraction of which is intercepted by the Earth. Yet that is enough…
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Not Green at All
by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2022 (Nov. 14, 2022) — “Green” policies are destroying the natural environment and changing local weather. This is part of a futile UN scheme claiming to improve the climate of the world. All green energy degrades its environment. Take wind power. Wind turbines steal energy from the…
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Ottawa’s Suicidal Climate Plans a Cautionary Tale for Governments Everywhere
by Tom Harris and Dr. Jay Lehr, ©2022 (Apr. 14, 2022) — Politicians leading the City of Ottawa have fallen hook, line and sinker for climate alarmism and, as a consequence, Canada’s national capital is on the verge of a deadly self-induced crisis. This is being brought on by their obsession with “stopping climate change,”…
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The Stampede of the Green Lemmings
by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2022 (Feb. 24, 2021) — No country on Earth relies entirely on wind/solar energy, but Australian politicians aim to achieve this miracle. They are leaders in the Stampede of the Green Lemmings. See here:https://saltbushclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/green-lemmings.jpeg(Feel free to use this cartoon with no alterations.) Solar energy has a huge…
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Australia’s Giant Green Gamble on Solar Energy Toys
by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2022 (Feb. 1, 2022) — By the time solar energy reaches Earth’s surface it is spread very thin – even midday sunshine will not boil the billy or make toast. And solar collectors will only convert about 20% of that weak energy into electricity. Thus thousands of…
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PM Morrison Should Take Some Aussie Coal to Chilly Glasgow
by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2021 (Oct. 14, 2021) — The Saltbush Club, Australia’s defenders of coal, cattle and cars, says that PM Morrison should not attend COP26 unless he also takes some high-energy Australian black coal to show the energy-starved Europeans the best source of stored solar energy. (In 2017, Scott…
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Greens Promote Child Slave Labor and Ecological Destruction
WHY DON’T AFRICAN BLACK LIVES AND ECOLOGICAL VALUES MATTER? OR IMPACTS IN AND BEYOND VIRGINIA? by Paul Driessen, CFACT, ©2020 (Jun. 21, 2020) — The US Supreme Court recently ruled 7-2 to reverse a lower court ruling that had invalidated a permit for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, which will bring West Virginia natural gas to…
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Time to End the War on Coal
“CLEAN AND SAFE” by Dr. Jay Lehr & Tom Harris, ©2019 (May 3, 2019) — Several energy producers across America are taking advantage of the climate scare to try to force their customers to pay for unnecessary conversions away from dependable, inexpensive coal-fired electricity generation to unreliable and costly wind and solar power. The Wisconsin-based…
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Battery Trickery by U.S. Utilities
IS IT ALL ABOUT THE MONEY? by David Wojick, Ph.D., ©2019, CFACT (Mar. 7, 2019) — The use of big batteries to partially offset the intermittency of renewables is growing rapidly. Unfortunately some utilities have adopted a deceptive practice with the public, making these battery packs seem much more important then they are. It is…
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Platte River Power’s “Green” Folly
“HUGELY RISKY” by David Wojick, Ph.D., ©2019, CFACT (Jan. 2, 2019) — In the wacky game of power generating utilities going green, Colorado’s Platte River Power Authority is a true leader. Today they get 65 percent of their juice from coal, but their new green goal is to be “emissions free” by 2030. “Emissions free”…
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Does Starbucks Think Virtue Signaling Can “Save the Planet”?
WILL CORPORATE AND GOVERNMENT GREEN-WASHING SAVE EARTH FROM INFLATED OR PHONY ECO SCARES? by Paul Driessen, ©2018 (Dec. 3, 2018) — I’d just passed the local Starbucks in Chicago, when my cell phone buzzed to say the Washington, DC City Council had unanimously agreed “in a preliminary vote” to require that 100% of the District’s…
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Virginia Goes Don Quixote
STATES WILL DEFY TRUMP, DOUBLE DOWN ON RENEWABLES AND CO2 REDUCTIONS – AND HURT POOR FAMILIES by Paul Driessen, ©2017 (Nov. 18, 2017) — Democrat Ralph Northam had barely won the Virginia governor’s race when his party announced it would impose a price on greenhouse gases emissions, require a 3% per year reduction in GHG…
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Blackouts Stalk Green Energy Utopia
“RUNNING OUT OF JUICE” by Viv Forbes, carbon-sense.com, ©2017 (Aug. 7, 2017) — It is 7pm on a cold, still night in the city which boasts “100% Green Energy.” Thousands of electric cars are plugged into chargers; electric lights, heaters and TVs are running; electric stoves are cooking dinner, electric trains and lifts are moving…
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A Diesel in the Shed
IS ENERGY-PRODUCTION HEADED IN THE WRONG DIRECTION? by Viv Forbes, carbon-sense.com, ©2017 (Apr. 13, 2017) — You can have your solar panels and your turbines on the hills; You can use the warmth of sunshine to reduce your heating bills. You can dream you’re self-sufficient as you weed your veggie bed; As long as you…
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More Job-Killing Rules From EPA
SOCIAL COST OF METHANE REGULATIONS WILL FURTHER CONSTRAIN ENERGY PRODUCTION, FOR NO BENEFIT by Paul Driessen, ©2016 (Jun. 12, 2016) — Having already done yeoman’s work stifling economic growth and job creation, President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency is doubling down again. The United States created a paltry 38,000 new jobs in May: one for every 8,000…
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Take a Bow for the New Revolution
AMERICANS ARE LESS INCLINED TO BE FOOLED AGAIN, OR TO “SMILE AND GRIN AT THE CHANGE ALL AROUND” by Paul Driessen, ©2015 (Jul. 18, 2015) — From the outset, Obama directed his powerful government agencies and congressional allies to help him “fundamentally transform” the United States. Too many of them were eager to nationalize the nation’s…
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The Aral Sea and Green Energy; License to Kill
“WHAT WILL WE DO WHEN THEY ARE GONE?” by Steven Neill, ©2015 (Feb. 11, 2015) — “Wind power is devastating populations of rare birds and bats across the world, driving some to the point of extinction.” Clive Hambler (1) Laced with lies and fueled by delusional dreams of a return to Shangri-La, modern environmentalists and green…
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The Government, the Devil and the Cone of Uncertainty
“IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2014 (Jul. 13, 2014) — “As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.” Albert Einstein – – – – – – – – – – –…