More Renewables Equals More Expensive Electricity
The solar daytime glut, negative prices, and community hatred of high-voltage lines is spoiling the market for developers. And not a day too soon...
Climate Change
Air NZ Admits It Was All Bullshit
Corporate wokesters admit that their “climate action” is virtue-signalling bullshit.
The Stuff of Energy Nightmares
Harris is a product of the one-party state of California, who supported destructive policies on climate change, energy, crime and welfare that helped spark in California high fuel costs, declining living standards and a population exodus.
Biden and Newsom’s Energy Foolishness
Mandating EVs and electricity generation from wind turbines and solar panels is mandating MORE USAGE of crude oil.
Aussies about to Be Zapped Even Harder
If we think power prices are crazy now, wait for offshore wind to strike.
The Vanishing Islands That Just Won’t
The NYT is almost palpably disappointed to find the Maldives are still there – and growing.
The Economic Folly of a Carbon Tax
Placing high costs on consumers based on unsettled science and unpredictable economic impacts is not a prudent policy approach.
First Aid for Flicker Power
Viv Forbes Degree in Applied Science Geology, Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and executive director at the Saltbush Club. Wind and solar energy have a fatal flaw – intermittency. Solar generators won’t run on moon-beams – they fade out as the sun goes down and stop
EV Boosters Cannot Do Maths
Duggan Flanakin Duggan Flanakin is a Senior Policy Analyst with the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow. According to Electrly, the electric vehicle charging manufacturer, it takes an average of 90 kilowatt-hours of electricity to fully charge a Tesla Model Y long-range all-wheel-drive vehicle, 83 kWh for
Why We Should Stop Calling Them ‘Renewables’
Too many bad ideas are allowed to fester unchallenged because, as George Orwell wrote, “the average human being never bothers to examine catchwords”. We see the truth of Orwell’s observation all around us these days. Whether it’s the media throwing around slurs like ‘far right’, or activists shouting
India Is Going Gangbusters Building Coal
Joanne Nova A prize-winning science graduate in molecular biology. She has given keynotes about the medical revolution, gene technology and aging at conferences. The need for energy in India is so dire the Modi government just leaned on the power companies to get their act together. Instead of adding
‘EVS Are a Bit Shite’, #36
The good thing about most fads is that it’s pretty easy to move on. For those of us who lived before the age of social media, most of our faddish past stays mercifully buried in old photo albums and the long memories of our friends. Some fads, though, are
Battery, Hydrogen and Green Fairy Tales
Viv Forbes Saltbush Club How low Australia has fallen – our once-great BHP now has a “Vice President for Climate”, the number of Australian students choosing physics at high school is collapsing and our government opposes nuclear energy while pretending we can build and operate nuclear submarines. Our Green politicians
What a Load of Gas
It used to be said, of something pointless, that it was like “sending coal to Newcastle”. Thanks to green lawfare, Australia may soon be doing just that, only with gas. Australia is one of the largest exporters of liquified natural gas in the world, yet its suffering such an acute
Mining the Planet for ‘Renewable’ Energy
Paul Driessen Paul Driessen is senior policy analyst for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (www.CFACT.org) and author of books and articles on energy, environment, climate and human rights issues. This election year, several critical issues dominate voter concerns. Illegal immigration across unsecured borders by migrants, criminals, sex
Why Can’t the Media Be Honest About Nuclear?
Nuclear energy is set to be – no pun intended – the hot-button issue of the next Australian election. After more than a decade in which voters have become increasingly frustrated with what they see as uniparty rule – the so-called “Laborals” – on climate change especially, Coalition leader Peter Dutton has