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Solar Power Plant: Scorching Birds and One Billion Dollars

by Skip

It wasn’t bad enough that the solar thermal plant, Ivanpah, which cost $2.2 Billion to scorch birds, got the environmentalists all in uproars about desert flora and fauna, it scorched a lot of money as well.

Could Your Solar-Powered Neighbors Increase the Odds of a Power Outage?

by Steve MacDonald

National Geographic suggests that your solar powered neighbors could increase the likelihood of power outages when you need power the most. In an age when more homeowners are using solar panels to generate their own electricity, bad weather usually limits the output of these devices and increases the amount of energy the utility must supply, … Read more

Nuclear Power Is Looking Good

by John Klar

Occasionally, divorced couples reconsider their decision to split up and remarry. The Western world, once enamored of atomic techno-wizardry and promises of cheap, limitless energy, embarked on a lengthy, passionate honeymoon with nuclear power plants. But frightening glimpses of calamities – such as Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Fukushima – led to a widespread disavowal … Read more

What It Could Take to Jumpstart Nuclear Power

by Rupert Darwall

This article is adapted from an interview that energy expert Rupert Darwall conducted with Hon. Spencer Abraham. Secretary Abraham, you are one of the rarest people on the planet—an energy secretary who actually understands the vital strategic and economic role of coal, oil, and natural gas. You served as the nation’s 10th Energy Secretary from … Read more

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Night Cap: Solar Panels Are Getting Exponentially Less Green By Leaps and Bounds

by Steve MacDonald

Solar was never green. The lifecycle footprint from manufacture to transportation, installation, and end of life is top-heavy, with materials and processes that produce a lot of pollution. That was true before China captured most of the market.

Solar Energy Management for Residential Properties: Best Practices for Homeowners

by Guest Contributor

As the world moves towards a more sustainable future, residential solar energy systems have become increasingly popular among homeowners.

Nuclear Power Is Back?

by John Klar

Until recently, it appeared that nuclear power was simply off the energy table for climate activists and environmentalists — but they are now embracing its possibilities.

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Elon Musk’s Solar Panel Paradox

by John Klar

In a recent interview with Joe Rogan, Elon Musk claimed the United States could be supplied with electricity by a 10,000-square-mile solar array. Mr. Rogan did not critically press the iconic X-owner as to the logistical or environmental problems such an installation would present.

If China Can Build 8-10 Nuclear Power Plants a Year Why Can’t We?

by Steve MacDonald

You’d be hard-pressed to find a proper progressive who dislikes how China gets things done. Xi commands it, and everyone else, including the pretend legislature, lines up to make it happen. Failure could mean death and good fortune to someone needing an organ replacement.

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As EV Makers Discover There is No There There Solar Stocks are Crashing

by Steve MacDonald

The parallel media has been reporting on several instances where adopters of the all-electric future appear to have swallowed a red pill. Net Zero is not so much an emissions goal as a result for investors, so they are talking their green elsewhere.

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Is Residential Solar Bad for the Environment?

by Steve MacDonald

One of my favorite Dalrymple quotes is (paraphrased) that misery will always rise to meet the government subsidies created to alleviate it. And so it is with residential solar. The number of installs near my home has exploded, as has another interesting habit.

Net Metering with Solar Panels: a Closer Look

by John Klar

For years, the state of Vermont has subsidized solar panels, especially through its vaunted net metering program, in which electricity customers pay increased electricity rates to support the installation of rooftop solar panel arrays. The panels collect energy from the sun to serve residences.

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If Biden Bans Gas Powered Generators How Will they Rescue Stranded EVs?

by Steve MacDonald

Not one to sit on their hands, the Dems – when in control – reach for everything and anything they can grasp, and with climate policy a priority, they’ve attempted to regulate everything they can’t ban outright, and now they are coming for your gas-powered generators.

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These Wind Turbines Need Diesel Generators and Often Draw Power Instead of Generating It…

by Steve MacDonald

Aside from the hundreds of billions in misguided government support, wind power doesn’t have much going for it. It is not clean or green. It kills bats, birds, and now whales. And in Scotland, they’ve had to admit that without diesel generators to warm and back up the turbines, they might work at all.

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Is Solar Panel Installation Right for My Home?

by Guest Contributor

Do you want to take control of your energy bills? Do you feel empowered by the idea of going solar all on your own? It’s a great idea you have. Solar panel installation can save you thousands of dollars over the next two decades. Not to mention, you’re helping the environment by choosing to use … Read more

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California Decides Rooftop Solar Customers Aren’t Paying Their Fair Share

by Steve MacDonald

One of the burning questions that follow the Left’s love affair with so-called green* innovation is, what about their love affair with taxes? EVs pay no gas taxes, and while they’ll get dinged with utility taxes, how do they replace the lost gas tax revenue?

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Switzerland’s Power Shortage Plan Looks Like COVID Lockdowns Without TV or Internet

by Steve MacDonald

Switzerland imports most of its energy from European neighbors. If you’ve been paying attention, the “neighbors” are preparing for shortages and blackouts, so there’s little or nothing left for Switzerland to buy. So, what to do? The Swiss have a plan—COVID-like lockdowns without the internet or television.

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Trying to Replace Fossil Fuels With Solar Will Require Burning a Sh!tload of Coal

by Steve MacDonald

You may have heard me say this a time or two. Neither Wind nor Solar is clean or green. They can’t even scratch the surface of our power needs now. Forget adding more demand from EVs or whatever. It’s all a lie and a very dirty lie.

Gov Gavin Newsom Looking down on you

Gov. Nuisance Signs Bill to Ban Most Gas Powered Lawn Equipment and Portable Back Up Generators

by Steve MacDonald

Instead of finding a way to pressure China to stop polluting, Gov. Gavin Nuisance just signed a law making it out on Californians. I’m not saying they didn’t get what they deserved, but most of the people affected probably didn’t vote for these idiots, and now they’ve got two years to comply or undo it.

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Too “Green” California Has to Build Five Natural Gas Power Plants to Prevent Blackouts…

by Steve MacDonald

It’s been a strange year for California. They had to admit that cleaning up the forests might cut down on Forest fires or thier severity. And now they are building gas-fired power plants to prevent the blackouts that result from relying on too much of that Green* energy.