A recent review from New Atlas had some tough pills to swallow for the Ford Lighting, Ford’s first foray in the all-electric truck market, calling the vehicle a “glorified sedan”…
Most Americans know that the Biden administration is pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into subsidizing wind turbines, solar panels, and electric vehicles via the so-called Inflation Reduction Act. However,…
Wind turbines require a lot of copper. A recent study from the International Energy Agency (IEA) found that the average onshore wind turbine requires about three metric tons of copper for each…
On October 23, 2022, the Colorado Sun published an interesting story titled “The wind turbines on this Colorado farm are 20 years old. Who’s going to take them down?” The story begins in 2000, when…
In August 2022, President Biden signed the so-called “Inflation Reduction Act,” a $370 billion spending package that will do little to reduce inflation, but it will do a lot to…
In 1968, the biologist Paul Ehrlich wrote: In the April 1970 issue of The Progressive, Ehrlich forecast the existence in 1999 of a ‘United States of North America’ with a population…
If you have a Spotify subscription, I would highly recommend you listen to the Siddarth Kara episode of The Joe Rogan Experience. Kara is an author, researcher, and activist on…
Many residents of the eastern United States received an unwelcome Christmas gift this year: rolling blackouts during cold weather. I received this email on Christmas Eve from Appalachian Power Company,…
Wind turbines are often sold to rural local governments as a means of bolstering their budgets and allowing them to offer additional services for their residents or offset other taxes.…
The quantity of metal required to make just one generation of renewable tech units to replace fossil fuels is much larger than first thought. Current mining production of these metals…
Wind and solar advocates often claim that the buildout of these energy sources will create quality jobs and strengthen the state’s economy, but the ongoing energy crisis in Germany, a…
The government in the Netherlands is planning to conduct forced buyouts of 3,000 Dutch farms with the intention of closing them down to cut nitrogen emissions in half to meet…
A new study from National Grid has concluded that electrifying transportation, especially medium and heavy-duty transportation, will require an enormous increase in charging capabilities. According to Bloomberg: Researchers found that by 2030, electrifying a…
Bloomberg recently reported that the biggest mistake made by the renewable energy industry was the promise that wind and solar would always get cheaper. This claim has turned out to be untrue,…
Kite and Key media provides an excellent explainer on the enormous challenge of storing electricity in batteries.
On November 17, 2022, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) issued its 2022-2023 Winter Reliability Assessment, a document that identifies risks to the electric grid for all of North America.…