Despite the green revolution, and record energy use, the world still runs on...
Image by David Mark from Pixabay By Jo Nova We are a fossil fueled world. Solar & wind power make up just 7.5% 6% of our energy needs.* The world has set a new record for energy use in the last...
View Article5 Megawatt solar plant destroyed by hail
By Jo Nova Hail destroyed most of the three year old Scottsbluff community solar project in Nebraska this week. Solar energy might be free but collecting it requires vast acreages of fragile and...
View ArticleInflation be damned — Brown coal is still making electricity for 3c a...
By Jo Nova Don’t mention brown coal? Last quarter I reported that the Australian Energy Market Operators (AEMO) had strangely “forgotten” to list the brown coal prices in its quarterly report, despite...
View Article“Turbinegeddon”— Siemens loses €4.5 billion because collecting free energy is...
Siemens Gamesa By Jo Nova The end of the naive era of hope in Wind Power fairies Remember how they said wind energy would keep getting cheaper? Only a year ago academics were still writing papers about...
View ArticleAustralia can’t build one nuclear plant but fifty years ago France built 56...
Fifty years of the French Nuclear Industry By Jo Nova The dismal, destitution of our national energy debate You would think our former Chief Scientist would know how to do basic research before...
View ArticleExpert “Everyone knows Australia will miss” the NetZero target — only 4...
By Jo Nova The current state of the Renewable Crash Test Dummy Transition Everyone who can add up in Australia knows it can’t work, but the climate of fear stops them saying so. Last month a senior...
View Article90% of new car sales in Norway are EV’s — but fuel demand has only fallen 10%
By Jo Nova Yet another reason EV’s are a lousy way to “save the world” The point of all the subsidies, the charging sites, the $3,000 parking fines, the extra generation, interrupted journeys,...
View ArticlePanic now: The Australian national grid manager admits blackouts are coming
By Jo Nova We’re on the precipice of a radical experiment with a national electricity grid The AEMO (manager of the Australian grid) has finally released the major report on problems coming in the...
View Article‘Biggest clean energy disaster in years’ — UK government sells rights to the...
By Jo Nova The Year of Gloom continues for Wind Power Wind energy is so cheap and profitable that last week, investors abandoned the annual UK auction to build industrial wind plants in the oceans...
View ArticleClimate Change won’t get the chance to kill off the Tasmanian Wedge-tailed...
Wedge-tailed Eagle | Photo by “Fir0002/Flagstaffotos“ By Jo Nova Greens destroying nature again Some experts think there may be only 1,000 of these eagles left, our largest bird of prey, and yet in the...
View ArticleFailing underwater cables “pose global threat to offshore wind”
They’re not much use without a lot of cabling. | Image by Norbert Pietsch from Pixabay By Jo Nova Thanks to Oldbrew at Tallblokes Talkshop Who knew high voltage cables running for kilometers in a deep...
View ArticleSnowy 2.0, doomed from the start — after the sinkhole came the poison gas,...
ABC News By Jo Nova It’s just emblematic of your Clean Green Future Complexity and false hope is eating the crown of Australia’s Net Zero transition — the Snowy 2.0 Pumped Hydro scheme. Things have...
View ArticleSolar Stocks crashed in the last quarter too, down 40% so far this year...
Jo Nova It seems people only wanted renewable energy if they got cheap loans Just as the quarterly reporting season revealed crippling losses for wind power and EV’s, so it is with Solar energy. The...
View ArticleChina promised to strictly control coal then started 182 coal power plants...
By Jo Nova Two and a half years ago President Xi promised to “strictly control coal-fired power generation projects” in China. Before this solemn pledge the CCP had approved a blockbuster 54 gigawatts...
View ArticleMore coal burned on Earth in 2023 than ever before in human history
By Jo Nova The best kept secret in the world is that humans are using more coal than ever So much for the “stranded dead asset”. In 2022 the world set a new all-time record for coal use — reaching 8.4...
View ArticleFrance dumps Renewables Target, goes back to Nuclear instead, risking Global...
By Jo Nova In a radical move, the French government has quietly dropped their renewables targets from their draft energy bill, risking being seen as unfashionable losers in billionaire ski clubs. The...
View ArticleFormer Greens candidate now warns wind turbines are lunacy and a scam
A wind farm near Emerald, Queensland (ABC) By Jo Nova After all these years, finally, signs that more Greens are waking up to the awful truth Steve Nowakowski was a Greens candidate in Cairns in 2006....
View ArticleElectricity prices fall from ridiculous peak but it’s not due to renewables...
By Jo Nova This week the agitprop-media was full of contrived good news about electricity prices in Australia, associated suggestively, in the loosest, most meaningless way with the word “renewables”....
View ArticleBlackouts for 500,000: Time to talk about the transition to expensive,...
Paul Englher | ABC News By Jo Nova Just how wise is it to have a grid dependent on all this fragile infrastructure? Nature seems to be telling us something about adding another 10,000 kilometers of...
View ArticleGlut in Californian home-solar causes bubble to pop: sales down 75%
By Jo Nova California was the Land of Solar Panels at the top of the Magic Subsidy Tree but that boom went bust If solar panels were actually cheap and useful, everyone could have them, they’d pay for...
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