... … … The concept of a renewables reality is a foreign one to those wrapped in the ideology of the green new deal, but the problems with renewables cannot ignored. Mark Mills has a new report and an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal entitled “If You Want ‘Renewable Energy,’ Get Ready to Dig” that point out the physical
Read More...... … … Wind power has successfully exploded electricity prices in Germany, turned its neighbors into enemies and cost a fortune. Has it, at last, run its course? New onshore wind energy is in a steep decline in Germany. The expansion of onshore wind power in the first half of this year is at its
Read More...Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. . .. Michael Moore, the radical movie guy who has made millions attacking capitalism, has turned against renewables, realizing they’re mostly a hedge-fund scam. Michael Moore’s new documentary on renewable energy, Planet of the Humans, has put the alternative-energy lobby
Read More...... … … Offshore wind projects along the East Coast are being regularly challenged successfully on environmental impact grounds, especially by fishermen. In Massachusetts and New York, fisherman seem to be winning small victories against offshore wind farms. The Edgartown Conservation Commission in Massachusetts denied an underwater cable route off the town’s coastline, citing the potential
Read More...Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. . .. Milton Friedman was a great gift to those valuing freedom, liberty and economic common sense. He was a superb thinker and his insights on energy invaluable. We celebrated, on July 31st, the 107th anniversary of the birth
Read More...... … … If you live in New York State you can expect more power outages thanks to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s pandering attempts to curry favor with green energy scammers. New York’s Con Ed has had two major power outages within a two-week period—and the power outages probably will continue given the state’s new policies
Read More...Michael LynchPresident, Strategic Energy and Economic Researchand Master Resource Contributor … . .. John Michael Greer, like other modern-day Malthusian crackpots, is making a living scare-mongering but his facts don’t add up and his theories are nonsense. A review of John Michael Greer’s essay-collection book, Collapse Now and Avoid the Rush, provides a good summary of
Read More...... … … Zero emissions claims are popular these days but they seldom pan out, as is the case with electric vehicles in Germany. CNG vehicles make a lot more sense. A study by the IFO think tank in Munich found that electric vehicles in Germany emit 11 percent to 28 percent more carbon dioxide than their diesel counterparts.
Read More...Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. . .. Deep Green Resistance is too frequently dismissed as a fringe group not warranting our time but a close examination shows just the opposite. It’s dangerous. “When civilization ends, the living world will rejoice. We must be biophilic
Read More...Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy Research … . .. The global warming cause is being destroyed by the irresponsible use of political scare tactics in the hands of the immature and greedy who can’t face facts. Wise alecks on social media noted with amusement how Beto O’Rourke recently claimed humans had
Read More...... … … Pipelines remain the safest way to transport natural gas, but demands of consumers will force it to be delivered as LNG by rail if pipelines cannot be built. Natural gas pipelines are having a hard time getting built in the United States despite the advantages that natural gas provides to the public
Read More...... … … The Institute for Energy Research explains why nuke subsidies in Pennsylvania are a terrible idea and why we should just let the free market work. There are currently bills working their way through the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and Senate that would provide subsidies to help prop-up unprofitable nuclear power plants in the state. Senate
Read More...... … … Fractivism is anything but grassroots. Rather, it is funded and orchestrated Big Green, Inc. and the Institute for Energy Research is documenting it all. Last year, as readers might recall, IER launched Big Green, Inc. to began exposing the under-the-radar funders that underwrite the anti-American energy movement and its anti-fracking ballot measures,
Read More...... … … There’s no excuse for what Germany has done to itself. It is now boxed in, with but two alternatives; Russian gas or our LNG. They should choose wisely. The European Union (EU) has realized natural gas will have to complement intermittent renewable sources like solar and wind in order for European nations
Read More...... … … U.S. energy exports are growing in a big way and are already leading to U.S. energy dominance, a result thought impossible by many until the shale revolution. The International Energy Agency’s (IEA) five-year outlook expects that the United States will overtake Russia and potentially Saudi Arabia as an oil exporter by 2024. The U.S. shale
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