It’s tough news for anyone with an electricity bill. But you can also be on the other side of it and make money from this trend. When supply and demand is so fundamentally unbalanced, the companies that produce these scarce resources tend to perform extremely well.
Nuclear waste is better handled than any other waste in the world. This is a positive spin-off legacy from all the exaggerated scare stories which have been generated by the anti-nuke lobby. Nuclear people worldwide are very proud of what they do, and how they do it, and they do it well.
The world’s largest renewable energy proposal was planned for the best place on Earth (for renewables) but it still can’t make any numbers add up.
The world is changing, at least in many states and countries. It’s about time. But there is still much left to be done – beginning with electing American, European, Asian, and African leaders who understand and champion these realities.
China is building ultra-supercritical coal-fired power plants in just three years.
The Unity Nuclear Battery is a small reactor not “a battery” but it has the convenience of working like one, except that instead of being a two-, four- or eight-hour battery, it’s a five year one.
With India out and emitter number one China playing the world on climate the entire time, it certainly underscores how ridiculously futile painful climate policies in Europe, America, Australia, or Japan continue to be.
Buying into the notion of “extreme event attribution” is a slippery slope leading to quicksand.
The water and energy demand of coming AI data centres in New Zealand is presently getting considerable attention. The supply of cooling water for the centres is actually a distraction because it is just a matter of having suitable locations. […] The real issue is about energy. The already-consented Datagrid
At the end of the day, excuse the pun, it is the consumer who pays for all the mismatches.
We vote for it. And we pay for it. Over and over.
The time has come to stop treating climate policy as a religion and start treating it as every sensible tradesman would treat any major project. With scepticism. With humility. With evidence. And above all else, with a tape measure in hand.
