Tag: solar panels
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Destroying Countrysides to Save Earth from a Climate Non-Crisis
by Paul Driessen, ©2025 (Dec. 24, 2025) — Energy analyst Robert Bryce maintains a database showing that, as of November 2025, local communities have rejected or restricted 595 wind, 475 solar and (more recently) 72 large-scale battery projects. Many don’t want the installations blanketing wildlife habitats, scenic vistas, croplands or their backyard viewsheds; especially when…
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UN, EU, ICJ, Climate Cabal Want to Keep World’s Poor Impoverished
by Paul Driessen, ©2025 (Sep. 30, 2025) — On the evening of September 30, 1882, Henry Rogers turned a switch and the Hearthstone Historic House living room in Appleton, Wisconsin (my mother’s hometown) was bathed in a soft amber glow. Hearthstone became the first home in the world lit by electricity. Today, few can imagine…
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National Suicide – a Rejection or Just a Reprieve for the USA?
by Paul Driessen, ©2025 (May 7, 2025) — “Poor Jud is dead. A candle lights his head! He’s looking oh so pretty and so nice. He looks like he’s asleep. It’s a shame that he won’t keep. But it’s summer and we’re running out of ice.” In Oklahoma! Curly McClain almost succeeds in convincing Jud…
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State Courts Should not be Writing US Climate Laws
by Paul Driessen, CFACT, ©2024 (Sep. 29, 2024) — Earth’s climate has changed numerous times over the past half-billion years. But activists claim any recent or future changes result from fossil fuel use and agricultural practices. Those activities raise still minuscule levels of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide (0.04, 0.0002 and 0.00003 percent of…
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The Dangerous Delusion of Biden and World Leaders of Transition to ‘Just Electricity’
by Ronald Stein and Tom DeWeese, American Policy Center, ©2024 (Jul. 18, 2024) — Since all hospitals, airports, communication systems, militaries, planes, trains, and vehicles are based on the products that did not exist before the 1800’s, that are now made from fossil fuels, today’s policymakers are incapable of sharing a plan to support a…
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Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: How Sustainable Rule Took Over Your City
by Tom DeWeese, American Policy Center, ©2024 (Jun. 2, 2024) — Solar and wind farms to eliminate gas and oil; 15 Minute Cities; eliminating single-family homes; eliminating gas-powered cars; stop eating beef; no more warm water showers; ban ice cubes and electric stoves; Sustainable! How did these radical ideas become official policies in our once…
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Farmland Lost is Farmland Lost Forever
by Tom DeWeese, American Policy Center, ©2023 (Jul. 11, 2023) — “Farmland lost is farmland lost forever.” That catchy phrase is a popular slogan distributed by the Virginia-based land trust called the Piedmont Environmental Council (PEC). While it’s an accurate statement, apparently, the PEC and its like-minded Green brethren are only concerned about losing vital…
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Old Reliable Coal
by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2022 (May 14, 2022) — For days now in SE Queensland, it has been cloudy, rainy and largely windless. No sun electrifies the solar panels, intermittent winds play with the prayer wheels, and backup batteries are going flat. For a while on some afternoons, wind and solar…
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Paving Virginia with Solar Slabs is Bad Law
by David Wojick, CFACT, ©2021 (Dec. 29, 2021) — The ill-conceived Virginia Clean Economy Act (VCEA) has created an enormous stampede of proposed solar projects. The lineup of “subsidy farms” in progress is breathtaking. It is also stupid. The numbers are incredible. Here are the ugly basics: 780 square miles of solar slabs so far…
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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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Not So Green
“POLITICALLY STRANDED ASSETS” by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2020 (Sep. 9, 2020) — To download this article with all illustrations click: https://saltbushclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/not-so-green.pdf Solar energy is very dilute, so solar collectors usually cover huge areas of flat arable land, stealing farmland, starving wild herbs and grasses of sunlight and creating “Solar Deserts”. Not…
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The Green Road to Blackouts
“THE SICKLY GREEN TWINS” by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2020 (Aug. 31, 2020) — To download this article with all illustrations click: https://saltbushclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/green-blackouts.pdf California leads the way to electricity blackouts, closely followed by South Australia. They both created this problem by taxing, banning, delaying or demolishing reliable coal, nuclear, gas or hydro…
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Why an Energy Efficient Home is Cheaper to Run
“SAVE FOR YEARS TO COME” by Contributor (Sep. 27, 2019) — We are all guilty of wasting energy in our homes every day, often without realizing. Some of the largest energy wasters in the home are TVs on standby or doors left open in winter, letting the heat escape throughout the house causing you to…
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Electricity in the Realm of the Lion King
SMALL MODULAR REACTORS, ESPECIALLY PEBBLE BED MODULAR REACTORS, ARE AFRICA’S BEST FUTURE by Dr. Kelvin Kemm, ©2019 (Sep. 21, 2019) — Hydro power is a good way to generate electricity. In most political circles, it is considered environment-friendly because it does not produce carbon dioxide, and it is not complicated. Norway has extensive hydro and…
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Battery Baloney
“CAUSED BY POLITICAL INTERFERENCE” by Viv Forbes, ©2017, carbon-sense.com (Mar. 30, 2017) — Every day some green energy promoter or a battery salesman tells us how green energy with battery backup will supply Australia’s future electricity needs. A battery stores energy. Energy can be stored using lead-acid, nickel/cadmium, lithium, molten salt, pumped hydro, hydrogen, flywheels,…
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The 3 Most Confusing IRS Tax Penalties
“NOW IS THE CRUCIAL TIME” by Chloe Anagnos, Tax Revolution Institute, ©2017 (Jan. 24, 2017) — The federal tax code is 187 times longer than it was a century ago, according to the accounting firm Wolters Kluwer, CCH, which has analyzed it since 1913. Since 1984, when the tax code was 26,300 pages, it has…
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The Green Mirage – and Con Job
MUSK, SCHMIDT, SIMONS AND BILLIONAIRE BUDDIES BUILD EMPIRE BASED ON CLIMATE AND ENERGY NONSENSE by Paul Driessen and Tom Tamarkin, ©2015 (Jun. 28, 2015) — Elon Musk and his fellow barons of Climate Crisis, Inc. recently got a huge boost from Pope Francis. Musk et al. say fossil fuels are causing unprecedented warming and weather disasters.…
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Back To The Future: The Obama Dynasty!
“PREDICTABLE, BUT PREVENTABLE” by Ron Ewart, ©2013 (Feb. 24, 2013) — “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.” — Benjamin Franklin Jeremy huddled in a corner of the old log cabin, out of the wind, even though it blew through the…
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Desperately Trying to Derail Canadian Oil Sands
RADICAL ACTIVISTS LAUNCH MORE ATTACKS ON OIL SANDS, KEYSTONE PIPELINE, JOBS AND REVENUES by Paul Driessen, ©2013 (Jan. 27, 2013) — Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman has approved his state’s portion of the Keystone XL pipeline, explaining that its revised route avoids areas that critics had earlier claimed were environmentally sensitive. The Alberta-to-Texas pipeline would create…
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Energy and Environment Issues for 2012
WHAT POLICIES WILL BEST STRENGTHEN AMERICA’S ENERGY AND ECONOMIC FUTURE? by Paul Driessen, ©2012 (Nov. 7, 2012) — America needs to pursue all its energy options. Oil, gas, coal, nuclear, hydroelectric, geothermal, wind, solar and biofuels should all be pursued – under free market conditions, without crony capitalist subsidies. We should open onshore and offshore…