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Prepare For Energy Shortages, Cost Hikes And Rationing

Prepare For Energy Shortages, Cost Hikes And Rationing

By Larry Bell ~ Fully expect your future carbon footprints to be traced to a crime scene subject to “climate and energy justice” violations in the high tribunal of sustainability. The prospective charges? Such sins will include ownership and operation of an internal combustion vehicle, tampering with regulated upper or lower thermostat setting limits, and/or excessive electricity consumption…

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The Dark Side Of Renewable Electricity

The Dark Side Of Renewable Electricity

By Ronald Stein ~

The “Praise the Lord” (PTL) empire that preacher Jim Bakker built with wife Tammy crumbled thirty years ago. Today, it seems like we’re being mesmerized again in the press and social media with the rhetoric about dispensing with the thousands of products from petroleum derivatives so we can save the world from human destruction by switching to industrial wind and solar generated…

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“Renewables” Scams On The Ropes

“Renewables” Scams On The Ropes

By Craig Rucker ~

The device you’re reading now is likely powered by nuclear, gas, or coal-fired electricity.

There’s a smaller chance it may be powered by hydro-electricity or biomass (burning trees, as if that’s Green).

There’s little chance, despite billions spent, that it came from wind or solar.  The climate folks and “renewables” corporate interests don’t want you to know that, yet people’s…

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Wind And Solar Industries Crushed By COVID-19

Wind And Solar Industries Crushed By COVID-19

By Ronald Stein ~

The only good news about the COVID-19 social change impacts on our lifestyles is that the travel bans, and lockdowns have cleaned the globe, flushing the murk from Venice’s canals, and we have seen cleaner air worldwide.

Seeking to cash in on America’s response to the coronavirus crisis its wind and solar power outfits tried to snare $billions out of the Trump administration’s…

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Robert Bryce: Responding To The Terawatt Challenge

By Duggan Flanakin ~

“Electricity has become a human right.” – Robert Bryce

In chapter 16 of his seminal book, A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations, Austin-based futurist Robert Bryce speaks of “the Terawatt Challenge” – a term coined by the late Nobel laureate Richard Smalley.

Smalley posited that if we can provide sufficient electricity to all the peoples of the world, we…

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American Cities And Others Moving To Ban Natural Gas And Repeat Germany’s Climate Failures

American Cities And Others Moving To Ban Natural Gas And Repeat Germany’s Climate Failures

By Ronald Stein ~

American cities such as Berkeley, San Jose, San Francisco, Houston, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Albuquerque, and other U.S. cities are moving to ban natural gas as a step toward becoming carbon free in the next few decades. They’re about to take one giant step toward Germany’s failed climate goals which should be a wake-up call for governments everywhere, but it appears our…

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Renewable Power Australia – Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott: We Need A 'Jobs First' Energy Policy, Not A Clean Energy One

Renewable Power Australia – Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott: We Need A ‘Jobs First’ Energy Policy, Not A Clean Energy One

By Andrew Bolt ~ The former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott steps up his war on the “clean energy” obsession that’s destroyed our cheap and reliably supply of electricity for no gain to the planet: Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott But even a clean energy target that notionally permits new coal-fired power stations while still subsidising renewables is not going to get baseload…

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