By P Gosselin on 3. November 2019
Sales of so-called environmentally friendly electric cars have been slumping, despite all the Friday protests and loud cries for cleaner mobility. Citing a report released by PricewaterhouseCoopers, German news portal t-online.de here reports how “suddenly demand is in the basement: even in China – the world’s largest market for e-cars – sales figures are collapsing”. […]
Posted in Alarmism, Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 30. October 2019
What follows is an example of how German decisionmakers go about protecting the environment: chop down hundreds of acres of forests and pour thousands of tons on concrete reinforced with hundreds of tons of steel on huge beds of gravel, all hauled in by hundreds of truck loads. Then install skyscraper tall industrial bird-killing monstrosities. […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 22. October 2019
German online weekly FOCUS writes Germany is turning into “Europe’s economic sick man” – due in large part to high energy prices and fierce environmental radicalism. The German weekly reports how German industrial production has been falling, citing figures from the automotive, chemicals and pharmaceutical industries, all of which need large quantities of energy. German […]
Posted in Activism, Agriculture, Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 18. October 2019
Usually shunned by the German mainstream media, today moderate, rational voices on the issue of climate change are beginning to be heard on the air waves once again. This may be temporary. We’ll just have to wait and see. Leading German climate science critic Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt. Image: Die kalte Sonne For example, just days […]
Posted in Alarmism, Alternative Energy, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 9. October 2019
More pain for consumers. Electricity prices in Germany climb to a new high, reaching 30.85 cents (euro) per kilowatt hour. Experts warn transition to green energies may lead to shortages, higher prices. German online national daily Die Welt here reports on how electricity prices in the country have reached “a new high” and that natural […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 25. September 2019
Business soon could be getting awfully rough for electric (battery) car technology manufacturers. For example, German online news weekly FOCUS here reports how the Singapore government “does not want electric cars” and even “is blocking electric cars”. E-cars dirtier than claimed According to Minister Masago Zulkifli bin Masagos Mohamad, who is responsible for the environment […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By Kenneth Richard on 19. September 2019
A growing proportion of Sweden’s energy is derived from burning biomass (wood), which increases CO2 emissions 65% and 285% more than coal and natural gas energy generation, respectively. And yet because governmental policy – not science – has (wrongly) declared biomass burning “renewable” and “carbon neutral”, Greta Thunberg’s Sweden is falsely credited with reducing its […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 15. September 2019
The “Green New Deal” is a multi-trillion-dollar plan proposed by Ocasio-Cortez in February of 2019 and backed by almost one hundred members of Congress, including most of the Democratic presidential hopefuls. Among a slew of other sacrifices, the program would force our prosperous society to replace diesel and gasoline-powered vehicles with electric vehicles and meat […]
Posted in Activism, Alarmism, Alternative Energy, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 11. September 2019
Tenders for new wind energy projects in Germany “have fallen to a new, all-time low”, the online IWR reports here. After the installation of thousands of megawatts of German wind power capacity led to instability in the power grid, exploding electricity prices and the destruction of natural landscapes and biotopes, protests against wind projects ratcheted […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 6. September 2019
In and interview with flagship German business daily Handelsblatt here, Danish economist Björn Lomborg warned of the “inefficiency in climate protection” and says Germany is a “deterrent example” in this respect. “Gigantic costs” He told the Handelsblatt that the once highly praised “Energiewende” was “poorly implemented” and that the costs will be “gigantic”. Image: Twitter. […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 28. August 2019
Some fresh new scientific papers are confirming that renewable energies, particularly wind and solar power, are not delivering what was promised – not by a long shot. They likely will become far more of a burden than a benefit. “Virtually doubled the price of electricity” For example, Pereira et al., 2019 writes that “growth in […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 11. August 2019
NoTricksZone contributor Kirye provides us with a unique look at climate and energy developments in Japan. =============================================== World may get another climate realist leader By Kirye As the working class struggles economically, signs of profound anti-establishment shifts are emerging in Japan, spurred on by a new political leader who is a climate and energy realist. […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
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