Power Hungry
Bryce deftly sets out to debunk the myths of the ever popular going green campaign and answers more specific technological difficulties and cost containment issues. “The hard truth is that we must make decisions about how to proceed on energy very carefully, because America simply cannot afford to waste any more money on programs that […]
WIND POWER WON’T COOL DOWN THE PLANET
The wind industry has achieved remarkable growth largely due to the claim that it will provide major reductions in carbon dioxide emissions. There’s just one problem: It’s not true.
ANTHONY CORDESMAN BUSTS THE MYTH OF ENERGY INDEPENDENCE
About two and a half years ago, I published my third book, Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of “Energy Independence,” which provided multiple arguments as to why the US cannot, and should not even attempt to, be independent of the world’s single biggest and most important marketplace: the global energy market.
BLOWN IN THE WIND
They like everything big in Texas, and wind energy is no exception. Texas has more wind generation capacity than any other state, about 9,700 megawatts.
WOOD TO COAL TO OIL TO NATURAL GAS AND NUCLEAR : THE SLOW PACE OF ENERGY TRANSITIONS
In the wake of the Macondo well blowout, we are hearing renewed claims that we must quit using oil, that we must win “the oil end game.”
DEATH OF A GENTLEMAN: MATTHEW SIMMONS DEAD AT 67
Over the past few years, whether the discussion was peak oil or peak natural gas, Matthew Simmons was almost always involved. No longer. Simmons, 67, died suddenly Sunday in Maine.
UNPLUGGED! WHY ELECTRIC CARS ARE THE NEXT BIG THING…AND THEY ALWAYS WILL BE
Imagine this scenario: Politicians at the state and federal levels begin handing out billions of dollars is subsidies so that over the next decade America’s wealthiest people – those with household incomes of $200,000 or more – will be encouraged to buy more vacation homes.
A Call for Energy Realism
…the promise of renewables has consistently been oversold by the political class. Solar and wind energy both suffer from major structural deficiencies. As Bryce observes, they are “incurably intermittent” and very difficult to store, and have low power density. Because of their low density, solar and wind “require huge swaths of land — which often […]