Rent-seekers have been telling us that wind and solar will soon not only displace, but entirely replace, our “ageing” coal-fired power plants, knock gas-fired plants out of the ballpark and crush nuclear power plants before they even enter the contest. Such was the hype, anyway.

Then came 2021.

Massive month-long wind droughts left wind power acolytes red-faced across Europe and forced both the German and British governments to go begging, cap in hand, to the owners and operators of those “ageing” coal-fired power plants if they would mind, ever so much, firing up their plants in order to prevent mass blackouts across Germany and the UK. Embarrassing, to be sure.

Then came Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, which exposed the fact he has a chokehold on wind and solar-obsessed Europe.

‘Green’ policies designed to wipe out reliable and affordable coal and nuclear power plants – on the pretext that…

Falmouth Massachusetts Wind Turbines Déjà Vu or Insanity

27th June 2022

By Frank Haggerty

Source: https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blog/show?id=4401701%3ABlogPost%3A243164

Falmouth, Massachusetts today is considering placing buried onshore wind turbine high voltage cables through residential neighborhoods up to 345,000 volts.

Studies showthat HVDE, high voltage dirty electricitycoulddisrupt important electrical processes withinthe humanbody.Long-term exposure to this type of electro-pollution has been associated with a wide variety of health problems such as cancer, asthma, sleep disturbances, fatigue, skin rashes, tingling sensations, allergy symptoms, headaches, muscle and joint pain, brain fog, memory loss, depression, and more.

In the United States, there are two types of high-voltage lines referred to as HVAC, high voltage alternating current, and HVDC, high voltage direct current. Alternating current is the type of power in every US household.

Studieswere donein the 1970s and 1980s. They studied various children in different locations in the United States and compared multipleriskfactorsincluding electric magnetic fields in high…

By Rachael Wolpert~

Are you hoping for a shiny gas range in your new home? How about a fireplace as the main attraction of your new living room?

If so, don’t move to Los Angeles, because the city is phasing out natural gas hookups in all new residential and commercial buildings effective Jan. 1, 2023. But LA isn’t alone. It’s California’s 57th locality to introduce commitments to phase out natural gas, and many cities across the country are following suit.

Misguided local governments are instituting gas bans across the country, ignoring how cheap, reliable, and relatively clean natural gas is for running homes and businesses. That means higher costs and fewer options for all of us. (Photo: evgenyatamanenko, iStock/Getty Images)

In a misguided effort to reduce emissions, localities that pass ordinances like these totally ignore just how vital natural gas is not only for our broader energy landscape, but…

By Ronald Stein ~

Shortages of the following may be leading to the new norm of shortages and inflation:

• Neon -the gas crucial to manufacturing electronic chips.

• Urea – the ingredient to make the EPA required Diesel Exhaust Fluid (DEF) additive for all diesel vehicles.

• Refineries – projections of 20 percent closures over the next 5 years of these aging infrastructures will result in less manufacturing to meet growing demands.

• Oil – The U.S. is following California to be totally dependent on foreign countries to meet the demands within its borders.

NEON

Neon is an important component in the lasers that etch semiconductors. Like krypton and xenon, it is a by-product of steel manufacturing. Steel producers separate air to control levels of oxygen and nitrogen delivered to the blast furnace. This involves the fractional distillation of liquid air.

Neon is important to the manufacture of semiconductor chips but is not present in the…

Renewable energy rent-seekers and politicos have been gripped by a sense of palpable panic: the mob won’t tolerate blackouts for very long, and repeated power rationing will have the same incendiary effect on public sentiment.

The destruction of reliable and affordable power supplies caused by chaotically intermittent and heavily subsidised wind and solar was perfectly predictable and it was perfectly avoidable.

Think of it as a malignant cancer that spreads and ultimately devours its host. Wrecking the profitability of conventional generators is integral to the model of punitive mandates and ludicrously generous subsidies, which advance the unreliables at the expense of everything else that works. A power pricing and supply calamity soon follows.

The cancer has already consumed California and is well on its way to devouring Texas, now it appears that great swathes of the US will soon experience the same kind of Dark Ages chaos that their…

By Larry Bell ~

Following up on Joe’s “as long as it takes,” response to a press reporter’s question at the June 28 NATO summit in Madrid regarding how long American drivers should be prepared to endure premium gasoline penalties, his top economic advisor highlighted the key reason this pump pain patience is so important.

When asked for comments later that day by CNN‘s Victor Blackwell “What do you say to the families that say ‘we can’t afford to pay $4.85 a gallon for months, if not years,’ this is not sustainable,” White House National Economic Council director Brian Deese affirmed:

“What you heard from the president today was a clear articulation of the stakes.”

Deese then clarified that “This is about the future of the liberal world order, and we have to stand firm.”

Brian Deese has a substantial White House history.

Prior to joining BlackRock as their…

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Renewable energy rent seekers keep telling us that our power bills will inevitably fall because wind and solar power are ‘free’ and getting cheaper all the time.

In the lead up to the Federal election in May, Labor’s Anthony Albanese promised that all Australian households would see a $275 cut to their power bills, as soon as he and his wind and solar obsessed Labor took the reins and put Australia’s ‘inevitable’ wind and solar transition, back on track.

Instead, households and businesses have just been whacked with an annual minimum increase in their power bills of between 18-20% on top of double-digit increases last year and the year before that, and the year before that, with much worse to come.

Australian households and businesses are now suffering power prices amongst the highest in the world; 20 years ago they enjoyed the cheapest prices on the planet. But, chaotically intermittent…