Climate Change? What Climate Change?

  Moore: 100% Green Energy Could Destroy the Planet Stephen Moore June 7, 2022 The untold story about “green energy” is that it can’t possibly be scaled up to provide anywhere near the energy to replace fossil fuels. (Unless we are headed back to the stone ages, which is what some of the “de-growth” advocates favor). Right now, the United States gets about 70% of its energy from fossil fuels. To go to zero over the next 20 years would be economically catastrophic and cost tens of millions of jobs. With gas prices at nearly double their price back from when Donald Trump left office and inflation up from 1.5% to 8% in just 15 months, we are already experiencing the economic damage from the green energy crusaders. But we also have to ask whether green energy is even good for the environment. Some environmentalists are p...

The electric vehicle bad dream By Duggan Flanakin | June 1st, 2022 | Energy | 195 Comments While some are certain of the inevitability of the impending demise of the internal combustion engine (ICE), others are far less certain. Cristian Agapie points to market pressures due to increased demand for electric vehicles have raised prices and operating costs as well. Another writer calls out electric vehicles, even Tesla’s, as just boring to drive. One thing for certain: hardly anyone will be able to enjoy the camaraderie and thrill of working on these vehicles. Meanwhile, even General Motors , which like most other automobile manufacturers, has pledged to end its production of ICE vehicles, has also patented what it calls “multilink cranktrains with combined eccentric shaft and camshaft drive system for internal combustion engines.” This innovative design is likely similar to Nissan’s variable compression engin...

  Is it ethical to purchase a lithium battery powered EV? By Ronald Stein | June 7th, 2022 With numerous State Governor’s having issued executive orders to phase out the purchasing of gasoline driven cars within the next decade or so, and the automobile manufacturers efforts to phase into only manufacturing EV’s here’s some food for thought about the lack of transparency about “ Clean Energy Exploitations ”. The top image is an oil well, where 100 percent organic material is pumped out of the ground, taking up around 500 to 1000 square feet. Then it flows in pipelines safely transporting the oil to refineries to be manufactured into usable oil derivatives that are the basis of more than 6,000 products for society, and into transportation fuels needed by the world’s heavy-weight and long-range infrastructures of aviation, merchant ships, cruise ships, and militaries. The lower image is just one lithium ...

  South America’s Polar Chill Reaches The Tropics; Freezing Lows Sweep Southern Africa; UK Suffers Coldest May Temperatures In Over 20 Years; + Quiet Sun May 31, 2022 Cap Allon South America’s Polar Chill Reaches The Tropics South America’s recent cold spell is showing no signs of abating… The continent’s intense cold spell is gaining ground and has even extending northwards, reaching the tropics. As a result, widespread record low temperatures are being busted both West and East of the Andes. Rare May frosts were also noted in Uruguay on Monday, as they were in Santo Domingo (33S), Valparaiso, Chile — highly unusual for the month of May. As recently reported by @MetoNacho on Twitter (translated): “[a] powerful irruption of polar air enters our country [Argentina], and due to its persistence it can become the first “Polar Wave” of the season. To the coats because the low temperatures are going to be felt all wee...

  Fact check: EV transition does not require every gas station in the U.S. to go electric Kate S. Petersen USA TODAY The claim: Replacing all U.S. gas stations with equal capacity EV charging stations would require significant resources The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law includes more than $7 billion to support the continued development of an electric vehicle charging infrastructure across the U.S. Recently, some social media users began posting criticism of a hypothetical scenario in which all U.S. gas stations would be replaced with equal capacity EV charging stations. "Fun EV fact,” reads a Jan. 16 Facebook post . “To match the 2,000 cars that a typical filling station can service in 12 hours, an EV charging station requires 600 50-kW chargers at an estimated cost of $24 million and a supply of 30 megawatts of power from the grid. For. Each. Filling. Station. In. America.” The post received over 1,000 interactions in five days. A Jan. 16 version of this claim on Tw...

Rolls-Royce’s SMR Needs 10,000 Times Less Land Than Wind Energy Last month, Rolls-Royce said that it expects to receive regulatory approval from the British government by 2024 for its 470-megawatt small modular reactor (SMR)  and that it will begin producing power on Britain’s electric grid by 2029 . Will that happen? Time will tell. Many nuclear projects and startups have blown past their projected in-service dates. But Rolls-Royce’s announcement is important for two reasons. [bold, links added] First, it adds more credence to the notion that a global nuclear renaissance is, in fact, underway. Second, Rolls-Royce’s new 470-megawatt reactor design shows that due to its unsurpassed power density , nuclear energy is the only way we can produce electricity at scale while preserving the natural environment and reducing greenhouse gas emissions . Why? The power density of the nuclear plants that Rolls-Royce plans to build will need ...