- Article Authors:
James Conca
- Article Countries:
USA
- Article Year:
2018
- Publisher:
Forbes
James Conca, scientist in the field of earth and environmental sciences. Contributor to Forbes: Most people have heard of something called externalities, costs not factored into the price. An energy’s deathprint is a rarely-discussed externality. The deathprint is the number of people killed per kWh produced. There is debate on the absolute numbers, but no one debates on the relative ranking from most dangerous to least. It is notable that in media and legislative discussions, the only time death is mentioned is for nuclear, ironic since it has the lowest deathprint of any source.
- Article Authors:
Mark Jacobson, James Conca, Thomas Hafera
- Article Countries:
USA
- Article Year:
2017
James Conca, science writer for Forbes on energy, Thomas Hafera, consulting engineer: Twenty-one prominent scientists issued a sharp critique to one of their own. Mark Jacobson of Stanford said America could easily become 100% renewable by mid-century, but refused to acknowledge sound scientific principles in his research and address major errors pointed out by the scientific community. Jacobson’s claim is at complete odds with serious analyses and assessments, including those performed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the International Energy Agency, and most of academia.
- Article Authors:
Michael Shellenberger
- Article Countries:
USA
- Article Year:
2020
Michael Shellenberger, Environmental Progress: If the Democrats’ $2 trillion climate proposal passes into law, a lot of very powerful people stand to make a lot of money, from winning tender for industrial projects such as building wind turbines and transmission lines all the way to the outright cash payments that we saw during Obama’s green stimulus. If the US keeps closing nuclear plants and fails to build new ones, we will cede our ability to compete with the Russians and Chinese in building new nuclear plants which will undermine national security, and good industrial jobs at home. The threat posed by America’s illiberal, nuclear-building rivals will, like the crisis facing renewables, continue to grow, regardless of whether Democrats succeed in shutting me up.
- Article Authors:
Reinhard Storz
- Article Countries:
Germany
- Article Year:
2021
Da in Deutschland der Ausstieg aus der Kernenergie beschlossen ist und auch von der Möglichkeit der CO2 – Abscheidung aus den Rauchgasen mit anschließender Verwendung als Rohstoff in der Chemie oder Speicherung im Untergrund, beispielsweise in erschöpften Erdgaslagern oder Ölfeldern kein Gebrauch gemacht werden soll, bleiben nur die Nutzung von Sonne und Wind zur Stromerzeugung um die durch zukünftigen Verzicht auf Kohle, Öl, Gas und Atom auftretenden Versorgungslücken beim Strom zu schließen. Denn Wasserkraft, Biogas etc. können keine nennenswerten zusätzlichen Strommengen liefern.
Da es sinnlos ist Strom zu produzieren, der wegen fehlender Leitungen nicht zum Verbraucher gelangt, müssen in einem 2. Schritt die Stromnetze im erforderlichen Maß ausgebaut werden. Erst wenn diese beiden Voraussetzungen erfüllt sind kann mit dem Ausbau der Solardächer und Windenergieanlagen sinnvoll fortgefahren werden. Diese grundlegenden Erkenntnisse sucht man in der gegenwärtigen öffentlichen Diskussion zur Zukunft der Stromversorgung leider vergeblich.
- Article Authors:
Paul Driessen
- Article Countries:
USA
- Article Year:
2020
- Publisher:
Town Hall - CFACT - stopthesethings.com
Climate cultists reckon the wholesale environmental destruction wreaked by the wind and solar industries is all for the good of planet. It’s an argument that holds all the logic of amputating an entire leg to prevent a septic toe from doing any further damage, when a dose of penicillin would do the trick. .. .. “We had to destroy the village in order to save it.” The infamous Vietnam era quotation may or may not have been uttered by an anonymous US Army major. It may have been misquoted, revised, apocryphal or invented. But it quickly morphed into an anti-war mantra that reflected the frustrations many felt.
- Article Authors:
Tim Ball
- Article Countries:
Canada
- Article Year:
2018
Tim Ball, environmental consultant and former professor of climatology at the University of Winnipeg: Ontario, a Province in Canada, a country with almost unlimited energy resources and the same population as California, has exorbitantly high electricity bills. So high, that people march in protest. How did this happen? It is hard to believe, but it is primarily the result of deliberate energy policies recommended by the UN to world leaders.
- Article Authors:
Norman Rogers
- Article Countries:
USA
- Article Year:
2018
- Publisher:
Powerline
Norman Rogers, Physicist. Contributor to Powerline, Board Member: CO2 Coalition, National Association of Scholars, Policy Advisor: Heartland Institute, Member: American Geophysical Union, American Meteorological Society: It is easy to tell when an energy source is “dumb”–i.e. inefficient, unreliable and expensive. Smart energy sources like coal, nuclear, hydroelectric and natural gas, exist because they satisfy a permanent demand for cheap and reliable energy. Dumb energy sources exist because government has put its thumb on the scale in the form of subsidies and mandates. Dumb energy will cause disastrous collapse of the modern world, even walk-in conquests by enemies.
- Article Authors:
Marita Noon
- Article Countries:
USA
- Article Year:
2016
Marita Noon, Advocate for sound energy policies and factual science, not computer models, based evaluation of CO2 from fossil fuels: On April 22, 2016 in a high-level celebration at the United Nations headquarters in New York, the Paris Climate Agreement of December, 2015 will officially be signed. Thirty days after its signing, the agreement will take effect—committing countries to establishing individual targets for emission reductions. Bureaucratically administered mandates, taxes, and special interest subsidies will drive family incomes down by thousands of dollars per year, drive up energy costs, and eliminate hundreds of thousands of jobs. All of these costs would be incurred to achieve only trivial and theoretical impacts on global warming.
- Article Authors:
Chris Manuell
- Article Countries:
UK
- Article Year:
2021
Before climate science became politicised, warm periods were referred to by scientists as “climate optima” because, for almost all species on Earth, warmer is better than colder. The most dramatic advances in civilization took place during the last four warm periods—including our own. The advancement of science, technology and the arts have been directly linked to warmer weather.
- Article Authors:
Michel Gay
- Article Countries:
France
- Article Year:
2017
Michel Gay: Les dommages collatéraux de l’intermittence des énergies renouvelables (éoliennes et panneaux photovoltaïques) dans le système électrique européen sont dénoncés par l’Académie des Sciences dans un rapport de janvier 2015. Cette institution souligne le manque de réalisme des objectifs de la loi de transition énergétique. Elle craint également que cette politique soit contre-productive.
- Article Authors:
Malddifassi
- Article Countries:
Chile
- Article Year:
2017
José Maldifassi Pohlhammer, Ph.D., máster en Ingenieria Nuclear del Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), profesor de la Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez en Viña del Mar, Chile: Este artículo analiza cuáles serían los efectos a nivel global de una política tendiente a desmantelar las centrales nucleares existentes y a prohibir la construcción de futuros reactores para generar electricidad.
- Article Authors:
Meredith Angwin, Robert Bryce
- Article Countries:
USA
- Article Year:
2020
- Publisher:
robertbryce.com
Meredith Angwin, Physical Chemist, Naturalist, Educator, Robert Bryce, author of “Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper,” and many other books and articles about energy : The modern world depends on a few essential networks: telephone, GPS, and of course, the World Wide Web. And all of those networks rely on the mother network: the electric grid. In Shorting the Grid, Meredith Angwin provides an enormously valuable, clear, and succinct explanation of our most important network. She shows how it works, why it’s vulnerable, and why we should be concerned about what she lyrically calls the "angelic miracle of the power grid.”
- Article Authors:
Miichael Shellenberger, Michel Gay
- Article Countries:
France
- Article Year:
2018
Michael Shellenberger, Environmental Progress: • En Allemagne, selon les Amis de la Terre (BUND), de nouvelles éoliennes offshore pourraient « conduire à l’extinction d’espèces individuelles », y compris le marsouin, rare et menacé. • En Amérique du Nord, les populations de chauves-souris migratrices pourraient disparaître, selon les scientifiques, si l’expansion de l’énergie éolienne se poursuit.
Une seule ferme solaire californienne, Ivanpah, a nécessité le massacre de centaines de tortues du désert, et tue chaque année 6 000 oiseaux en les brûlant en vol. Vous pensez peut-être que ces impacts sont minimes par rapport à d’autres menaces ? Après tout, les chats domestiques tuent entre un et quatre milliards d’oiseaux par an aux États-Unis.
- Article Authors:
Fritz Vahrenholt
- Article Countries:
Germany
- Article Year:
2017
- Publisher:
Kalte Sonne
Fritz Vahrenholt, PhD Chemistry: Is the program in Germany to stop using nuclear power and switch to wind and solar energy more important than nature itself? BaZ: Sie haben die deutsche Energiewende als «Desaster» bezeichnet. Wieso? Fritz Vahrenholt: Zunächst einmal hat die deutsche Regierung nach dem Tsunami in Japan innerhalb eines Wochenendes entschieden, auf die Kernenergie zu verzichten, die bis dahin die Grundlast für die deutsche Industrie erzeugt hat. Die Regierung will seither diese gesicherte Energie durch schwankenden Strom aus Sonne und Wind ersetzen. Dass das nicht vernünftig ist, weiss eigentlich jeder.
- Article Countries:
Germany
- Article Year:
2016
- Publisher:
The American Interest
The American Interest: Germany’s much-ballyhooed green energy transition—its energiewende—has run up quite a tab, and policymakers are having trouble figuring out who is actually going to pay for the policies. In an attempt to kick-start fledgling renewable energy sources like wind and solar power, Berlin guaranteed producers locked-in, long-term, above-market rates called feed-in tariffs. To their credit, this plan of pushing technologies of dubious merit at any cost worked, perhaps too well
- Article Authors:
Euans Mearns
- Article Countries:
UK
- Article Year:
2014
Link: http://euanmearns.com/about-euan-mearns/ Euan Mearns was born in India in October 1957 during the waning years of British colonialism. He returned to Scotland, earned a PhD in geology and owned a isotope geochemistry analysis and consulting business for the oil and gas industry. His real passion is to try to understand the various components of how The Earth energy system works and to educate politicians and the public on Energy Matters. He is an Honorary Research Fellow at The University of Aberdeen.
- Article Authors:
Euans Mearns
- Article Countries:
UK
- Article Year:
2014
Link: http://euanmearns.com/about-euan-mearns/ Euan Mearns was born in India in October 1957 during the waning years of British colonialism. He returned to Scotland, earned a PhD in geology and owned a isotope geochemistry analysis and consulting business for the oil and gas industry. His real passion is to try to understand the various components of how The Earth energy system works and to educate politicians and the public on Energy Matters. He is an Honorary Research Fellow at The University of Aberdeen.