The apparent exemption of the battery industry from regulations that would apply to every other industry is now presenting major complications for the people of NY State. How much environmental damage must be done before government officials start doing their job of protecting their constituents, instead of trying to put band-aids on the wounds caused by their energy system mismanagement?
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“From a public safety standpoint, if you’ve decommissioned three nuclear reactors, why would you want to install a BESS facility in populated areas that is far less safe?”
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Excitement is good; delusion isn’t. Let’s demand proof, not promises. Reliable, affordable energy isn’t a luxury—it’s the foundation of modern life—time to get serious about what energy technologies actually scales.”
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The case of Bielefeld’s idle garbage truck fleet is an example of bureaucracy’s rank inability to operate a society, serving as a reminder that “green” technology is a costly folly.
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Turner said that for too long, climate has “served as a shield,” in which imputed good intentions can mask backscratching and failure.
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Paying one group to produce and another to consume does not guarantee usefulness. It guarantees activity.
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Driving Australia’s current trajectory is the mythical claim that so-called renewables – are inherently cheap and that any short‑term pain will give way to lasting price declines.
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Report 24 is highly critical of “climate fanatics” and “green ideology,” framing the event as proof that renewable energy infrastructure is too fragile and expensive for practical long-term use. But Germany’s leaders refuse to acknowledge this reality, insisting that green energies are plentiful, cheap, reliable and that the real problem is that not enough has been invested in them.
If that same capital had been spent on modern nuclear or advanced natural‑gas infrastructure, the outcome would have been transformative.
I have long been meaning to address the myth that renewables provide the cheapest electricity. This myth has achieved “everybody knows that” status which means that a rebuttal must have strong supporting arguments. A series of articles at the Science of Doom blog by Steve Carson explains why this myth is not true. He sums it up: “We built a lot of cheap intermittent energy, and now the…
We are moving into a world of make-believe. At this point, nothing about the supposed green energy transition is real, except for the ongoing costs getting stuck to the taxpayers and ratepayers. The people in charge in New York — Kathy Hochul and all of her bureaucratic underlings — have no idea what they are doing, so they are closing their eyes and hoping the whole thing goes away.
The process is described as “voluntary“. The practical outcome is that, once existing meters reach the end of their life, all households will move onto smart metering whether they ever actively chose to or not.
Over half a million balsa hardwood trees are being illegally logged in the Amazon rainforest every year to feed the massive demand for wind turbines in many parts of the world. Balsa is a lightweight but strong wood that is commonly used in the core of giant turbine blades. It can make up around 7% of the blade and each set of three can use up to 40 trees.
According to Grok, these plug in solar panels start at £600. Does the moron really think people have got that sort of money in their pockets to waste on his green nonsense? Potential annual savings for users are in the tens of pounds.
Heat pumps are efficient machines, sure, but whether they actually contribute to an efficient, secure, and sustainable energy system depends on too many elements around them. One thing is for sure, heat pumps cannot make oil and gas boilers go extinct… and anyone telling you otherwise is disingenuous.