This is not a good time to abandon energy security by transitioning away from reliable carbon fuels to intermittent solar and wind power requiring expensive backup facilities. Northwest Europe may be facing several decades of colder winters ahead.
It’s already happening in Queensland. It’s only supposed to be a few days a year but, last summer, grid officials reached into homes and turned off air conditioners six times in two months.
Private enterprise nukes Australian government’s Luddism.
When electricity was cheap, and no one had to hide behind the blinds or cook dinner after 9pm, the coal-fired grid had a 21 per cent reserve plant margin. Australia is transitioning to third-world status.
The first mildly hot day of summer and NSW is on the brink.
The government’s nuclear stance is embarrassing.
At the DOE, Mr Wright can help make way for more oil and gas pipelines. These and other steps can reestablish Mr Trump’s vision of American energy dominance.
The world faces an epidemic of lithium battery fires. If government leaders continue to push lithium batteries and the green energy transition, battery fires will soon be coming to a location near you.
Adding huge wind turbine blades and solar panels to generate electricity occasionally is the ‘green’ scam of the century, as ‘renewables’ are increasing fossil fuel demands, but those so-called renewables CANNOT make any products that are the basis of our materialistic world.
On average, the windmills output less than one-third of their capacity. In other words, ‘wind droughts’ are a near-constant.
Associate Energy Minister Shane Jones is seeking feedback on increasing diesel reserves to 28 days and plans to introduce regulations mandating jet fuel companies to hold adequate stocks near Auckland Airport.
It is no surprise that technology companies are at the forefront of adoption.
Big Tech drops the wind and solar purity and launches into nuclear.
The growing threat of grid scale battery fires is a very serious issue calling for equally serious action.
