On the Threshold of Renewable Energy Chaos

Here is significant pushback against renewables.
Net Zero Carbon? BOTH Major Aussie Parties Back Gas
Eric Worrall
Both parties support gas? In yet another blow for Biden’s global climate ambitions, voter and union pressure on the opposition Australian Labor Party to support well paid mining jobs appears…

 

More chaos on the horizon.
Hawaii Five-Oy!
Charles Rotter
It’s not a matter of “if,” however. The reality is there’s not enough wind, solar, or battery storage to replace the AES plant. Hawaiian Electric has made this quite clear…

 

Renewables will lose to reality.

Don't Get Discouraged About The Preposterous Plans To Eliminate Fossil Fuels
June 05, 2021/ Francis Menton

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  It’s easy to get discouraged about the “climate” scare, otherwise known as the socialist takeover of everything under the cover story of a faux moral crusade to “save the planet.” Sometimes it seems that all you can hear are preening politicians and academics and journalists and “scientists” shouting about the immediate “existential crisis” that requires the prompt end of fossil fuels and that your energy use (but not theirs) must be severely restricted.
  
  
• Just today, UN Secretary-General António Guterres issued a statement warning that the next ten years are our “final chance” to avert a “climate catastrophe”:
  
  
• We are rapidly reaching the point of no return for the planet. We face a triple environmental emergency — biodiversity loss, climate disruption and escalating pollution. . . . Science tells us these next 10 years are our final chance to avert a climate catastrophe. . . .
  
  
• The few people pushing back get shouted down and drowned out. How could this possibly end well?

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". . . . When I discuss this subject with my climate skeptic friends, most are amazed that I remain an optimist. But good reasons are on my side. While we realists may not have the megaphone at the moment, I am very confident that energy realism will ultimately win out, and much sooner than you might think. The reasons are simple: the magical “renewables” don’t work and are ridiculously expensive. And when the people figure this out, as they inevitably will, the anti-fossil-fuel jihad can quickly turn toxic for the left. . . . "

 

Renewable energy is the subject of magical thinking.
The Future Of Energy: One Of These Things Is Not Real
June 07, 2021/ Francis Menton

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  As we all know, making predictions can be difficult, especially about the future. On the other hand, sometimes it’s just a question of distinguishing reality on the ground from pure self-delusion.
  
  
• At the moment, we have two visions competing to be the reigning official prediction of the future of energy. One of those visions, foreseeing the rapid demise of fossil fuels, is on full display even as we speak in a virtual summit put on by the American Clean Power Association.
  
  
• The summit began today and is running for four days, through Thursday June 10. The speakers are a who’s who of “clean energy” glitterati, starting with essentially all the leading U.S. Democratic pols. OK, President Biden is not speaking; but then, he doesn’t get out much these days in his dotage. But the speaker list includes both Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, as well as all the leading Biden admin “climate” officials (Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, Climate Envoy John Kerry, White House Climate Czar Gina McCarthy} and plenty of representatives of “woke” corporate America (e.g., Andrew Steer of the Bezos Earth Fund, Anne Finucane of Bank of America). And on and on.
  
  
• You get the idea. These people are our betters, and to the extent they are not actually the “experts” themselves, we can be sure that they are tightly tied in to the true experts by direct brain connections.
  
  
• The other vision of the future of energy can be called the “reality on the ground.”
  

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Climate change activism is merging into eco-terrorism.

Energy Infrastructure Terrorism Taking Root in Germany, Europe As Radical Activists Carry Out Attacks
By P Gosselin on 9. June 2021

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Blackout News here reports on how radical activists are attempting to paralyze the power supply in Germany.

It’s already bad enough that the European power grid is already highly unstable and could collapse due to just minor disturbances, this in large part due to the shutdowns of unwanted nuclear and coal-fired power plants and the feeding in of unsteady wind and solar energies.

But now the unstable supply situation is being exacerbated by radical activists sabotaging power supply infrastructure. Blackout News reports: “For example, radical activists tried to paralyze the power supply for the Tesla plant in Grünheide. There, the Vulkan group claims to have set a cable fire in order to paralyze the power supply.”. . . .

 

This kind of "fossil fuel intervention" will likely be repeated many times before the renewables fever breaks.
Climate Activist Europe Firing Up Coal Plants as Gas Shortage Bites
Eric Worrall
As Europe emerges from a harsh winter with depleted gas reserves, desperate European governments are increasingly firing up old coal plants to bridge the energy supply gap. . . .

 

The developed West has boxed themselves in.

COP26 heading for the rocks?
Charles Rotter
Unsurprisingly, the reluctance of Western governments to deliver its pledge of an annual $100 billion transfer fund to more than 100 developing countries is threatening to unravel COP26.

 

Stupidity rules the day.
The Looming Oil Shock
David Middleton
Guest “You get what you pay for” by David Middleton Hat tip to Jan from the Netherlands… It’s Too Late To Avoid A Major Oil Supply CrisisBy David Messler –…

 

Renewable energy is promoted via a scam.
Texas Starts Waking Up To The Issue Of The Full Costs Of "Renewables"
June 20, 2021/ Francis Menton

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  The promoters of the climate scam have a variety of deceptions to get the gullible to accede to their socialist plans. Those deceptions range from the quite sophisticated to the completely preposterous.
  
  
• At the sophisticated end of the scale we have what I have called The Greatest Scientific Fraud Of All Time — the deception by which 50 and 100 year old temperature records are altered (reduced) by impenetrable computer algorithms to make it seem like global warming has been much greater than the reality.
  
  
• At the preposterous end of the scale we have the claim that the fashionable “renewable” sources of electric power, wind and solar, are actually cheaper than fossil fuels to generate electricity.
  
  
• I call this claim preposterous because the fundamental deception is so obvious that you would think that no one of any intelligence could possibly fall for it.
  

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We can expect poor performance from solar energy.
Two New Reports Detail the Unreliability of Solar Power
ENERGY SECURITY JUNE 20, 2021

 

Laughably tiny achievement:
Nothing shows how pathetic solar and battery power are like the pitiful celebrations
Strap yourself in: Solar Power and batteries made a whole town 100% renewable (for 80 minutes).

It’s an Australian first! Put out a press release. No seriously, they did:

Solar and battery microgrid takes WA town to 100% renewables in Australian first
Western Australia has again demonstrated its remote renewable energy generation chops, after successfully powering the Pilbara town of Onslow entirely on a combination of large and small-scale solar and battery storage for a total of 80 minutes.

Only 520,000 minutes short of a whole year. . . .

 

Hawaii has been lying about their renewable energy progress.
Hawaii Renewable Electricity Claims Unsupported by EIA Data, Emissions Unchanged
Guest Blogger
The political leadership and people of Hawaii understandably want to address the huge dependency of the state on high-cost petroleum for its electricity. But instead of focusing their efforts on…