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By Jo Nova Hail destroyed most of the three year old Scottsbluff community solar project in Nebraska this week. Solar energy might be free but collecting it requires vast acreages of fragile and expensive infrastructure. Imagine if a three year old coal plant was “destroyed by hail?” Scottscliffe was a 5.2MW plant with 14,000 panels that started operating in the Spring of 2020. In theory it was going to reduce the “carbon footprint and stabilize city costs for the next 25 years”. Instead it will increase the toxic metal in landfill. There were tornadoes in the area at the time, but there doesn’t appear to be damage to the fences, trees or poles surrounding the plant. About a quarter of the panels may have survived, or at least don’t have damage visible from 100 meters away… We hope they had insurance. Baseball-sized hail took out a 5.2-megawatt solar farm in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, on Friday Kevin Killough, Cowboy State Daily [Don Day, Cowboy State Daily meteorologist] said that the region around southeast Wyoming has some of the highest frequencies of hailstorms in the country. “It’s ground zero,” Day said. The average […] June 30th, 2023 | Tags: Solar Energy (PV) | Category: Global Warming, Renewable, Solar Power, USA |  Print This Post | | 9.1 out of 10 based on 23 ratings By Jo Nova Wrecking the roads to save the nation from 0.01 degree C? Electric cars may cause twice as much damage to roads as normal petrol driven cars. EV’s are heavier, and heavier cars may break bridges and car parks, they wear out tyres 50% faster, increasing pollution, they will cause more road deaths (of other people in smaller cars), and now, they probably wear out roads faster too. Did anyone think about the carbon emissions of new asphalt and new road surfaces? Major roads are built to take heavier trucks, but suburban streets were only designed to cope with the occasional truck — not the truck that lives next door. When every car has 300 kilograms more “luggage” there will be consequences. And remember underlying all this, no one even knows if EV’s will reduce carbon dioxide. An e-Golf has to be driven 100,000 kilometers just to break even with a diesel equivalent. With all these extra lifetime costs, if carbon dioxide mattered at all, EV’s might end up raising global temperatures. But who cares about that eh? It’s not about carbon, and it’s not about the environment. It’s about control. Thanks to Tallbloke Pothole damage from […] Oops. Yes. Where did Tuesday go?
9.9 out of 10 based on 15 ratings Image by David Mark from Pixabay By Jo Nova We are a fossil fueled world. Solar & wind power make up just 7.5% 6% of our energy needs.* The world has set a new record for energy use in the last year. And even though renewables are being installed at the fastest rate they ever have been, it isn’t enough to keep up with the growing demand for energy let alone to “convert” the world to Net Zero. Overall, despite our best efforts to wean ourselves off fossil fuels, the world remains “stuck” getting 82% of its energy from them. The Energy Institute has released the Statistical Review of World Energy, and it shows global energy use has not only recovered from the pandemic, it is now 3% higher than it was pre-Covid in 2019. The relentless human desire for energy continues. In 2022, humans used 1% more energy than they did the year before and 70% of that growth was from China. To put the historic size of the “Renewable Energy Transition” into focus, here’s the last century of energy transformation. The Energy Institute did not seem to want to highlight the insignificance of renewable energy, so […] June 28th, 2023 | Tags: Coal, Fossil Fuel, Gas, Renewable Energy | Category: Energy, Fossil Fuels, Nuclear Power, Renewable | Print This Post | | Image by Gerd Altmann By Jo Nova Matt Taibbi talked in London about what he and Michael Shellenberger found in the Twitter files. He realized the free speech battle has evolved into something new — where reality is altered and people are coached into forgetting what they saw, and censoring themselves. A kind of mass digital brainwashing. In the Twitter Files there was a sinister pattern of “deamplifying” people’s true stories, their experiences, and then deamplifying the person themselves. Running parallel with this was a program to reduce our language, our world into a polarized one-nil, good-bad, us-them division where all shades of complexity were extinguished — so people who had vaccines but didn’t like mandates were anti-vaxxers, and people who had some vaccines, the injured, the unvaccinated — were all “anti-vaxxers”. This was a dystopia George Orwell predicted — the binary existence where there are no shades of gray. There is no safe middle ground. There is only rightthink and wrongthink. The Elite War on Free Thought Matt Taibbi, Racket News Michael and I are here to tell a horror story that […] June 27th, 2023 | Tags: Big-Brother, Free Speech | Category: Australia, Europe, Free Speech, UK, USA | Print This Post | | The new onshore models have rotors 170 meters long | Siemens Gamesa By Jo Nova It’s a bloodbath in the wind industry. Despite the wind being free, collecting it appears to cost a fortune. Siemens Energy lost a third of its stock price on Friday. Just like that, seven billion dollars in market value disappeared. Only a month ago they were expecting to break even, as the Wall Street Journal reports, the executives appear to have been blindsided by the rapidly escalating maintenance costs. The problem is so bad, and perhaps fundamental, that shareholders in other turbine manufacturers are selling out. Vestas Wind fell 7% Friday. Siemens Energy Share Price, Yahoo Finance The promise was that wind turbines would keep getting cheaper as they got bigger and better. Instead, issues are appearing now even in new installations, and people are starting to wonder if they’ve made the turbines too big too fast. The bearings and blades are wearing out, and the costs to fix them are crippling. Clean Energy’s Latest Problem Is Creaky Wind Turbines Carol Ryan, Wall Street Journal Shares in Siemens Energy plunged by a third after it said turbine […] 8 out of 10 based on 21 ratings 8.8 out of 10 based on 22 ratings By Jo Nova … Sweden has thrown away the sacred renewables talisman and opened the escape valve from the Temple of WindySolar-Inc. They’ve done the obvious thing anyone who was worried about CO2 would have done in 1992 — aimed for nuclear. They have switched their 100% “renewables” target by 2045 to a 100% fossil-free target. It’s still a pagan antipathy of the sixth element of the periodic table. But at least it’s a more pragmatic version. Sweden topped the EU list for renewables share of energy in the last tally — albeit with mostly biomass and hydropower. It was a star of the renewables set — number 1 on the Climate Council list of the “11 countries leading the way“. Yet here they are effectively giving up on the unreliable generators. Surely this must hurt? The team at NetZeroWatch applaud the Swedish shift, and suggest the UK follow. Sweden adopts new fossil-free target, making way for nuclear Florence Jones, Power Technology Sweden’s parliament adopted a change to its energy targets on Tuesday, which will see it become 100% fossil fuel-free by 2045. The change means that nuclear generation can count towards […] 9 out of 10 based on 19 ratings By Jo Nova Despite the dreaded “polar amplification” and 1,000 new coal fired plants in China, apparently the fragile Antarctic ice shelves have barely changed in the last 40 years. Indeed, instead of fragmenting, they are melting slightly slower now than they were in 1980. Naturally, the researchers *know*, as only high priests can, that things will change any day now. The tipping point is just around the corner, hiding, ready to pounce. Mankind has emitted fully 65% of our total carbon emissions since the year 1980 — and yet it has not done much at all to the melt-rate of the ice shelves of Antarctica. In fact, if anything, climate change is slowing the ice melting. That’s 1.1 Trillion tonnes of man-made CO2, and no catastrophe to show for it. The new study by Banwell et al used satellite microwave data and modeling of meltwater. GRL Note that the “small but significant decrease” in melting gets headlined as “a minor change”. Since when where significant warming trends reported as just a “minor change” of indeterminate direction? Antarctic ice shelves experienced only minor changes in surface melt since 1980, study finds The results show Antarctic ice […] 8.4 out of 10 based on 16 ratings By Jo Nova James O’Keefe formerly the soul of Project Veritas is back — he’s set up O’Keefe Media Group (OMG News). One of his insiders filmed Serge Valay, A recruiter at BlackRock, bragging about how they work. “It’s not who the President is, it’s who controlling the wallet of the President.” “Who’s that?” she asks. “The Hedge Funds, BlackRock, the banks. These guys run the world.” ..you take a big f– ton of money and then you can start to buy people. Obviously we have this system in place. First, there’s the senators. These guys are f***ing cheap. You got ten grand? You can buy a senator. BlackRock don’t want people to notice them: “BlackRock don’t want to be in the news. They don’t want people to talk about them. They don’t want to be anywhere on the radar.” “Why not?” she asks. “I don’t know … I suspect because it’s easier to do things when people aren’t thinking about it.” What kind of things are easier to do in the dark? Things other people won’t like. News – he says, is propaganda. If you hear […] June 22nd, 2023 | Tags: Bankers, BlackRock | Category: Bankers, Big-Government, USA | Print This Post | | 9.4 out of 10 based on 12 ratings By Jo Nova After thirty years of propaganda the people aren’t buying the crisis. The UK Sun polled 2,000 people and found that 60% think the government should be *prioritizing* a reduction in their bills rather than worrying about reaching Net Zero. Barely 20% thought Net Zero was more important — and they were presumably the only ones who could still afford to pay their bills. The bigger problem is that it’s not democracy. The UniParty just don’t seem interested in winning votes. They’re not fighting “over the centre”, they’re fighting over the most extreme left 20%. And ponder that these dismal results come despite 65 per cent of people thinking Net Zero is somehow a useful idea. Imagine what the polls would be like when people find out that carbon dioxide feeds the world and the Sun controls the climate? Hat tip to NetZeroWatch Sun poll shows clueless MPs have NO idea of the pain policies like Net Zero inflict on ordinary Brit families by Harry Cole, A massive 62 per cent told a YouGov poll for The Sun that getting prices down is more important than achieving carbon neutral status by […] 9.5 out of 10 based on 11 ratings By Jo Nova Betelgeuse is the red giant at the top of Orion. Image by yoshitaka2 from Pixabay Astronomers are very excited. A new paper suggests Betelgeuse — the red giant in Orion — might be only a decade or two (or maybe a century) away from going supernova. It’s the sort of thing that only happens once in a thousand years. Whenever it does go boom, it will shine brighter than the moon, and dominate the sky for a few months to a year. It’s 600 light years away, so if it is going to go supernova in the next twenty years, then, of course, it must have already happened and the light is on the way. Before anyone cracks the champers, the new paper by Saio is based on models trying to figure out what’s happening on a pulsating ball of fire 5,600 trillion kilometers away. Charlie Martin, PJ Media: Will We See a Supernova in Our Lifetimes? There hasn’t been a supernova in our neighborhood since July 4, 1054, when Chinese astronomers observed a supernova, now labeled SN1054, that remained visible for almost two years. The remnants of that supernova are […] 8.9 out of 10 based on 17 ratings |
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