"Living off-grid has shown me that anyone who thinks modern society can function on a power grid that runs on just solar and wind power without 100% backup capacity for cloudy, still days is totally deluded."
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Politicians repeatedly reassure the public that wind power is cheaper than gas, but these misleading claims ignore the true costs of trying to run a modern electricity grid on the back of unreliable weather.
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Further devastating evidence of the toll that onshore wind turbines take on local eagle populations has emerged in Tasmania, writes Chris Morrison.
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No new offshore wind project contracts have been bought by developers at a key Government auction, dealing a blow to the U.K.'s renewable power strategy that critics said "may represent a landmark moment".
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The electric car debacle shows the top-down economics of Net Zero don’t add up as the fundamentals of supply and demand are ignored by the ‘cart before the horse’ approach, says Ben Marlow.
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The wind industry has written to the Government threatening to abandon the U.K. unless subsidies are hugely ramped up, in a move that gives the lie to years of propaganda claiming falling costs.
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Kit Knightly Buried behind the news of the supposed “attempted coup” in Russia this weekend, was the Swedish government’s announcement, last Wednesday, that they will be stepping back from their plans to go 100% renewable energy. According to finance minister Elisabeth Svantesson, wind and solar power are simply not efficient or reliable enough to be …
The Swedish Government has ditched its targets for “100% renewable energy” amid a shift back to nuclear power in the latest blow for the unreliable and inefficient technology.
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World Economic Forum Wants to Make You a Serf by James Bovard The January meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, should have set off alarms among freedom lovers around the globe. The annual confab of billionaires, political weasels, and deranged activists laid out plans to further repress humanity. But at least […]
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During this US Election season we’re hearing a lot of toggling back and forth over the a policy being touted by Democrats as a “Green New Deal” – a radical plan to empty trillions of dollars from pension funds to spend on ‘investing in green technology.’ We’re told it will stop climate change, and somehow save humanity from mass-extinction. But is it really that simple? And who will pay for it?
