wind power
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If fossil fuel companies should disclose climate-related financial risks, so should renewables.
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Environment/Energy
It’s Time for California to Follow Mexico and Pull the Plug on Renewables
by Ronald Stein June 3, 2020The only things ‘inevitable’ about the ‘transition’ to wind and solar are rocketing electricity prices and unstable power grids.
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Endless subsides for intermittent electricity are no longer in Mexico’s budget.
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Environment/Energy
The Dangerous Winds of Trying to Prevent Climate Change
by Duggan Flanakin December 13, 2019Inconvenient facts show why wind energy is not renewable, sustainable or climate-friendly.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/Energy
Testimony Defends, Argues Justification of FERC Reliability Rule
by H. Sterling Burnett January 7, 2018In written testimony submitted in support of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) recent grid reliability and resilience pricing proposal, ratepayer Susan Fleetwood says those objecting to the rule ignore the fact renewable energy sources provide an inferior product at above market rates due to favorable government policies.
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Budgets/TaxesClimate ChangeEnvironment/Energy
Any Way You Slice It, Wind and Solar Cost More and Deliver Less than Traditional Electric Power Sources
by H. Sterling Burnett December 3, 2017Renewables receive much more support than fossil fuel-sourced electricity. Indeed, fossil fuels receive no direct subsidies or government support for the electric power they provide.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/EnergyFeatured
Tell a Big Lie and Keep Repeating It
by Norman Rogers November 17, 2017If you want to tell a big lie, a good vehicle is “science.”
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/EnergyFeaturedScience
Heartland Takes on Nat Geo’s Coal Science Fiction Show
by H. Sterling Burnett October 15, 2017A few months before the Trump administration announced an end to the federal government’s war on electricity generated by coal when it rescinded the Clean Power Plan, the National Geographic (Nat Geo) channel, supposedly a bastion of science journalism excellence, ran a biased, anti-coal propaganda piece, From the Ashes, falsely claiming coal is causing everything from health problems to climate change. A short “viewer’s guide” by James Rust and Edward Hudgins, released by The Heartland Institute, effectively falsifies many of the claims made in Nat Geo’s docuganda.
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Environment/Energy
Why Trump is Right About Wind Power and His Detractors Are Wrong
by Fred Palmer July 14, 2017What does anyone gain from subsidizing wind power?
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Environment/Energy
Wind Power’s Future in U.S. Could Be Thwarted by Grassroots Opposition
by Thomas Hemphill and Mark Perry June 30, 2017The luster is coming off wind power as an economically viable, environmentally friendly, community-friendly source of America’s energy future—and for some very good reasons.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Renewable Jobs Claims Based on Deception, False Comparisons
by James Taylor May 27, 2017Public policy officials, do not be duped. The next time somebody claims wind and solar power create more jobs than natural gas and other conventional energy sources, ask them for specific definitions and parameters of the job numbers cited.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/Energy
Europe Chooses Energy Reality Over Climate Hype
by H. Sterling Burnett February 26, 2017In the choice between reliable energy, economic progress and shivering in the dark or sweltering in the heat weather out of fear of climate changes 100 years from now, Europe is increasingly choosing to keep keep the lights on with coal.
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Environment/EnergyMedia
Wired’s Windy Lies About Silicon Valley’s ‘Green Energy’ Performance
by Jay Lehr January 26, 2017It is unconscionable to continue to mislead an untrained public with the idea that our tax dollars do God’s work by supplying free energy that can maintain the fine standard of living most of us enjoy.