By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ Two recent blog articles are worth flagging because they bear directly on FERC’s proposal to write rules that constrain the grid-threatening spread of renewables. Written by an experienced power engineer, these articles explain the deep technical problems with increasing renewables while maintaining grid reliability. It is these problems that must […]
December 1, 2022 by PA Pundits - International
By Jack Spencer ~ Is the Nuclear Renaissance real this time around? Of course, that question is impossible to answer, but reports from the United Kingdom at least show that there is an opportunity. The Times in the U.K. just reported that Rolls-Royce is in early talks with the global industrial firm Ineos to provide […]
January 18, 2022 by PA Pundits - International
By Dr. Jay Lehr and Robert Lyman ~ As we will most certainly convince the reader in this series of essays, we need not ever worry that coal will be eliminated as a major energy source in the US and the world. We simultaneously want to convince you that we are not talking about your grandfather’s […]
May 19, 2020 by PA Pundits - International
By Ronald Stein ~ The “Praise the Lord” (PTL) empire that preacher Jim Bakker built with wife Tammy crumbled thirty years ago. Today, it seems like we’re being mesmerized again in the press and social media with the rhetoric about dispensing with the thousands of products from petroleum derivatives so we can save the world from human destruction […]
April 18, 2020 by PA Pundits - International
By Duggan Flanakin ~ “Electricity has become a human right.” – Robert Bryce In chapter 16 of his seminal book, A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations, Austin-based futurist Robert Bryce speaks of “the Terawatt Challenge” – a term coined by the late Nobel laureate Richard Smalley. Smalley posited that if we can […]
January 26, 2019 by PA Pundits - International
By Andrew Bolt ~ Lily D’Ambrosio, Victoria’s warmist Minister for Energy, in 2017 claimed Labor was helping to “deliver affordable, sustainable and renewable energy”. All three promises were broken yesterday. Affordable? Victoria actually had wholesale power prices hit $14,500 per megawatt hour – when prices used to average less than $40. Sustainable? Wind power generators […]
September 20, 2017 by PA Pundits - International
By Andrew Bolt ~ The former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott steps up his war on the “clean energy” obsession that’s destroyed our cheap and reliably supply of electricity for no gain to the planet: But even a clean energy target that notionally permits new coal-fired power stations while still subsidising renewables is not going […]
September 14, 2017 by PA Pundits - International
By Andrew Bolt ~ David Uren spells it out – with the Australian Labor Party offering only the “certainty” of a Third World electricity system, the Liberal/National Coalition Government (Conservatives) have little option but a partial renationalisation: Other countries are wrestling with the same problems as climate change policies force greater adoption of intermittent renewable […]
September 7, 2017 by PA Pundits - International
By Andrew Bolt ~ It takes world-class idiots to give Australia not just world-record electricity prices, but blackouts, too. Your bills have doubled in a decade and the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) on Wednesday warned of summer shortages. You think “idiot” is too strong? Then how could a country with huge resources of coal, gas […]
July 1, 2017 by PA Pundits - International
By Fred Lucas ~ Energy Secretary Rick Perry said the upcoming Department of Energy study on power grid’s reliability is needed to address the facts after the Obama administration placed a premium on politics—but green energy is reportedly ready to push back. The study, set to be released in the coming weeks, will look at […]
April 1, 2017 by TonyfromOz
By Anton Lang ~ How often have you heard that Wind power is intermittent, but has anyone ever explained that to you, or shown just how it actually is intermittent, and what it means. What if you need a dedicated amount of power all the time? Can wind power be relied on to generate that […]
October 23, 2016 by PA Pundits - International
By Andrew Bolt ~ A new letter shows how South Australia’s Labor government, maddened by its global warming religion, refused a deal to save its last coal-fired power station. Result: electricity bills shot up and the whole state lost its power. Rebecca Puddy: The Weatherill Labor government has released a letter detailing negotiations with the […]
September 23, 2016 by PA Pundits - International
Affordable energy brings jobs, improved living standards and pursuit of happiness By Paul Driessen ~ For 16 years, in a scene out of pre-industrial America, Thabo Molubi and his partner made furniture in South Africa’s outback, known locally as the “veld.” Lacking even a stream to turn a water wheel and machinery, they depended solely […]
August 9, 2016 by PA Pundits - International
By Nicolas Loris ~ “Keep it in the ground.” That mantra of the Greens encapsulates the restrictive energy policies imposed by the Obama administration. But there’s a better approach: one that relies on the ingenuity of free enterprise to produce abundant, reliable, and affordable energy for all. That approach, rather than the restrictive, bureaucratically directed […]
January 20, 2023 by PA Pundits - International
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