Joe Biden is recycling the same green energy scam from fifteen years ago, only this time it is six times as expensive.
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May 6, 2023 at 08:23AM
Month: May 2023
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Climate alarmism with an end date is asking for trouble, to say the least. Gems such as this from 2008 — Prince Charles: Eighteen months to stop climate change disaster — spring to mind.
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This Saturday’s coronation of King Charles III marks a significant moment in Britain’s history, says Rupert Darwall.
No previous constitutional monarch has expressed his political views so openly.
Unlike his mother and grandfather, whose opinions, if they had any, remained unknown to the general public, the king’s record-setting seventy years as heir apparent to the British throne saw him define himself as a deeply committed environmentalist.
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Father and son clashed on wind farms. In 2011, a wind farm developer reported that Prince Philip had told him that wind farms were “useless, completely reliant on subsidies, and an absolute disgrace.”
In his movie “Harmony—A new way of looking at the world,” Charles speaks of wind energy “working with nature’s freely-given forms” and the need to “end our dependence on fossil fuels.”
In the film’s opening sequence, showing a wind turbine in a meadow, Charles intones, “Time is running out.”
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A 2021 paper on extreme climate forecasts tabulates 79 predictions of climate-caused catastrophe dating back to the first Earth Day in 1970.
Charles has the distinction of being the only individual to be featured three times, with separate predictions of climate apocalypse.
As the paper’s co-author David Rode of Carnegie Mellon University comments, alongside Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich, Prince Charles has “warned repeatedly of ‘irretrievable ecosystem collapse’ if actions were not taken, repeated the prediction with a new definitive end date.
Their predictions have repeatedly been apocalyptic and highly certain . . . and so far, they’ve also been wrong.”
Here’s hoping that the reign of King Charles will be a happier affair than his failed forecasts of climate doom. Long live the King.
Full article here.
via Tallbloke’s Talkshop
May 6, 2023 at 07:17AM
By Robert Bradley Jr. — May 5, 2023
“The supply-side reliability fix offered by the Texas Senate is a direct response to the February 2021 carnage created by, yes, wind and solar taking over a once reliable grid. It is a hard-wired governmental solution to a soft-wired governmental problem. But there is an alternative. Free markets, anyone?”
The big guns of climate alarmism and forced energy transformation are out to prevent Texas from shoring up its grid from the cancer of wind and solar. Out of the blue, the Texas Energy and Power Newsletter (Substack) appears, with the message that renewables are not the problem but the solution, complemented by, in Doug Lewin’s words, “Fast-acting reciprocating engines, batteries, geothermal power, and demand response [to] help with both resource adequacy and operational flexibility.”
In denial about the wounded supply side–where the obvious solution is to demote (government-enabled) intermittent resources–the answer is “smart meters” in the home so Big Brother can oversee demand. “In fact,” states Lewin,
there are 1 million smart thermostats on Texans’ walls right now that are not being used at all! Creating incentives for Texas families to reduce their power use when supplies get tight would create a massive dispatchable resource that could help this summer.
For students of political economy, this is the process of regulation (the Mises interventionist thesis) whereby the problems of intervention lead to more intervention. And in the case of Texas (and California and other states), a wounded supply side raises the call for ever-greater demand-side intervention–all from a centrally planned wholesale market (such as the Electric Reliability Council of Texas).
Texas’s cancer is continuing to grow with wind and solar being added to the system, thanks to 1) extended government incentives in the so-called Inflation Reduction Act and 2) take rules by ERCOT based on marginal cost (wind and solar have higher total costs and very low marginal costs). And the worsening reliability of the grid from expanding intermittency is leading to (first voluntary, then mandatory) “conservation orders,” such as summer temperatures in the home or business of, say, 76 degrees.
The amount of money available to the Energy Statists is overwhelming, and the sudden entry of the Texas Energy and Power Newsletter is part that. They want central planning to reach a total government power market rather than 1) stop and reverse the cancer of spreading wind/solar and 2) work toward abolishing a centrally planned wholesale market.
The supply-side reliability fix offered by the Texas Senate is a direct response to the February 2021 carnage created by, yes, wind and solar taking over a once strong grid. It is a hard-wired governmental solution to a soft-wired governmental problem. But there is an alternative that is obvious and necessary.
Free markets anyone?
via Watts Up With That?
May 6, 2023 at 04:55AM
Here’s hoping that the reign of King Charles will be a happier affair than his failed forecasts of climate doom.
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May 6, 2023 at 04:16AM
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