By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~

The only technologically feasible way to make renewables reliable at in the foreseeable future is with massive amounts of grid scale batteries. Whether this is even remotely feasible depends on the cost and here things get truly strange.

On the one hand we have real utility reports of the capital cost of these big battery arrays. Battery systems that have actually been built. On the other hand we have projected capital costs, which are being used to defend the growth of unreliable renewables.

The real costs and the projected costs are wildly different. So different that the projected costs have the aspect of fantasy.

Let’s start with the reality. The EIA collected annual utility data on the cost of grid scale battery arrays. Their most recent report is “Battery Storage in the United States: An Update on Market Trends — August 2021”.

From 2013 to…

By Lora Ries ~

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas issued the sixth National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin of the 17-month-old Biden administration on June 7. With a new bulletin every three months, Americans should ask: Are the threats facing America changing that rapidly, or is the administration using the bulletin as a tool for some other purpose?

Timing is everything in life and especially in Washington, D.C. To help answer this question about why so many Biden administration advisory bulletins coming out of the Department of Homeland Security, one need only look at what else has been happening the past few weeks as we begin the summer, when the left needs voters energized to vote in the November midterms.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, speaking here in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on May 16, issued the sixth National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin of the 17-month-old…

By Douglas Blair ~

Latinx is the word that just won’t die.

The word reentered the national consciousness Monday when Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., attempted to boost the word, and accused people of starting drama over it.

In a video posted on her Instagram, Ocasio-Cortez said, “I want to have a note on gender inclusivity in Spanish language. People sometimes like to make a lot of drama over the term Latinx.”

Democrats like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez continue to use the phrase Latinx long after it’s been shown Latinos hate it. Pictured: Ocasio-Cortez conducts a news conference in the Capitol Visitor Center on April 7. (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc/Getty Images)

“Gender is fluid, language is fluid,” she said before concluding, “Don’t have to make drama.”

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Ocasio-Cortez is not just wildly out of step with the American people, but Latinos as well.

A Gallup poll from last August shows just…

By Clay Waters ~

The front page of Monday’s New York Times acknowledged the obvious: The crime issue is hurting Democrats badly on the ground: “Debate on Crime Splits San Francisco Democrats.” The report from Tim Arango and Thomas Fuller spotlighted San Francisco’s controversial District Attorney Chesa Boudin, who may prove too far left for…San Francisco?

Boudin’s has impeccable leftist family ties. His parents, Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, were Weather Underground members, convicted of murder for driving the getaway car in the Brink’s armed car robbery in 1981 in which two police officers and a security guard were killed. He was then raised by Weather Underground member and future Obama comrade Bill Ayers.

As the former chair of the San Francisco Democratic Party, Mary Jung has a long list of liberal bona fides, including her early days in politics volunteering in Ohio for the presidential campaign of George McGovern…

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