Energy
Another Way to Self Destruct
Everything else – Islam, migrants, trans pride, Ukrainian security – is more important than delivering basic safety and reasonable cost of living to British taxpayers. Go online to complain and you risk being thrown in jail. Are these people evil?
Odum’s Wisdom and Unplugging the Paris Accord
The systems that do nothing are the ones that fade. And we are not here to fade. We are here to outcompete. Preferably with the lights on.
How Much Dumber Can They Get?
Does anyone in Canberra have two brain cells to rub together?
Electricity Prices Are the New Inflation Flashpoint
As AI data centers, clean-energy mandates, and regulations collide, the power grid is becoming a battlefield.
Green Power Bills Finally Come Due
Trust the unsinkable politician fond of rebranding bombings as democracy to fix Britain’s energy woes.
Blair Tells Labour to Abandon Net Zero
With a former Labour heavyweight speaking up against Net Zero in the UK, and US Democrats recognizing that “climate change” turns off voters, the Australian conservatives could end up being the last people on Earth still endorsing Net Zero.
New Report Casts Light on the Effects on the Natural World
This new report casts fresh light on the cascading effects on the natural world of increasing numbers of giant wind turbines.
To Promote Our Mining and Geothermal Potential
Resources Minister Shane Jones has departed for the International Mining and Resources Conference (IMARC) in Sydney, where he will speak about the “resource renaissance” underway in New Zealand, marked by rising interest in gold and other minerals.
It Is Finally Shutting Down
Whatever its shortcomings in producing electricity, Ivanpah has been a super-efficient killer of birds. The light generated from the mirrors’ reflection of the sun can reach temperatures of 1,000 degrees.
Hmm, Let Me Think About That
In New Zealand, we have gone from a country that produced electricity with internationally competitive pricing, electricity that was available, affordable and was an attractive incentive to new businesses. Now we face unaffordable pricing that is causing business closures.
World Bank Reduces Emissions, Only
It is time for Secretary Bessent to reverse this policy and lead the World Bank back to its mission of poverty alleviation.
Energy Prices Now the Biggest Single Concern
Energy costs are rising so fast in Australia, it’s less expensive to dig up rocks, put them on ships, and send them 6,000 kilometers to China to smelt the steel with our own coal, and then ship the widgets right back to us.
Hipkins’ Hypocrisy Exposed in Energy Farce
Both sides talk a big game about working together for the good of New Zealand, but, when push comes to shove, it’s all about the gotcha moments and protecting their patch.
On Energy, Primum Non Nocere
If a doctor went about breaking the legs of patients on the basis that it might prevent people in other countries from being injured while crossing the road against the lights, it couldn’t be much more stupid. Hippocrates would be rolling in his grave.