The Lie of Cheap Renewable Energy

You didn’t do more research did you?

 

And how do you propose getting normal people to completely go against their natural instincts?

The only programs on the table to do that is to use the government to force them into it at the business end of a gun.

 

There's no way to force it. Therefore, the only option remains: it is necessary to reduce the population.

 

Oh, governments have plenty of ways to force things.

We're in the age of repaganizing. Pray for the children.

https://www.firstthings.com/article/2023/10/we-are-repaganizing

 

Beloyarsk NPP will load one of the reactors with 100% MOSK fuel. It consists of waste that remains after the operation of classical nuclear power plants and enrichment plants, the press service of the enterprise reported. The nuclear power plant in the Sverdlovsk region will be the first in the world to completely switch to fuel from plutonium-239 oxide and uranium-238 oxide. This will increase the supply of food in the nuclear power industry tenfold. At the same time, the formation of nuclear waste will decrease. The use of MOX fuel will be one of the steps towards a closed nuclear cycle.

 

ERCOT Readies ‘Retired’ Gas Generation for the 2023/24 Winter Peak
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From MasterResource By Ed Ireland

“Much of the generation named by ERCOT as qualified under their latest RFP is generation units that were recently retired, many because they could not compete with the artificially low prices that heavily subsidized wind and solar can offer, so they are still operational.”

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the planning agency for 90% of the state’s grid, has a wind/solar tiger by the tail. As the agency does not exchange power with its out-of-state neighbors to avoid federal (FERC) jurisdiction, it is looking at home for able, firm generation that wind and solar unfairly (via government intervention) put out of operation. . . . .

 

China living the lie

 

China just met its 50% renewable energy target early

Posted on June 20, 2023 Author

With 51% renewable energy, China’s 50% renewable target for 2025 has been just met in 2023

https://www.solarpaces.org/chinas-51-renewable-energy-target-was-achieved-early/

 

China To Double Coal-Fired Power Plant Capacity…Aims to Avoid European, US Blunders
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By the end of 2023, China plans to build new coal-fired power plants with a capacity of at least 165 gigawatts – which is equivalent to more than double of…

 

I know you're desperate when you post a blog.

Graph finishes at 2020. Old article.

Poor Jack.

 

the lie of cheap American oil, American oil sets the price to the highest price they can, and if someone out of country will pay more.... they sell it to them

it's about energy diversity, which translates to energy security

 

Ye Gods! Catholic QANON! But then zealots have always embraced conspiracies

 

Authoring an article under “guest blogger” is almost a guarantee that it is astroturf spam

 

you mean like forcing rape victim to have their rapists babies, I agree, some States are worse then others

 

agree, used to be a good thing, but in the age of planned obsolescence, consumption is much higher of earths resources

how do we fight "planned obsolescence" though

 

And we all know this is true....

 

So, I see you do not dispute the facts.

 

Four NY offshore projects ask for almost 50% price rise
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Do we need any further proof that offshore wind is not as cheap as made out?

 

So you have no response. I'll take it that you agree that reducing the surplus population to meet climate change goals is what's needed.

 

So you have no response to what I actually said. I'll take that as agreement that forced population control is a key component of fighting "climate change".

 

Today I showered and washed my hair, made breakfast using the toaster oven, ran the dishwasher, did a load of washing and drying, baked some bread and put supper in the slow cooker...

...the fridge and freezer were running, the TV was on to catch the morning news and my laptop and phone were charging...

...ALL using Solar power and solar charged batteries.

The system is PAYING for itself in SAVINGS alone!

Another 4 or 5 years and ALL of my energy will be FREE for a DECADE or two.

My SAVINGS will be at least FOUR times what it originally cost to install.

I am BETTER off now because I switched over to Cheap Renewable Energy.

So is everyone else who does the same thing.

 

Good for you.

I wonder how that would scale up to do, say, industrial aluminum smelting?

 

Good question, apparently it is in progress,

https://www.miningreview.com/base-metals/energy-intensive-aluminium-smelter-goes-fully-renewable/

 

I agreed with you, did you change your mind since your last post?

 

Bad Policy: Germany Keeps Making Its Energy Increasingly Expensive, Fueling Inflation
By P Gosselin on 10. October 2023

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Germany’s government energy policies will keep heating up inflation…the country’s promise of cheap, clean energies was a phony bill of goods.

Inflation will remain high

The worst of inflation is behind us, and it all Russia’s fault to begin with, Germany’s socialist/green government likes to claim. But nothing could be further from the truth.





Don’t expect Germany’s inflation to return back to 2020 levels. The CO2 tax increase and highway truck toll fees will soon be enacted. Image: Destatis here.

The message they want to tell us is that inflation will soon ease back down to more normal levels, and everything will go back to being rosy again. But as is the case with all denialist socialist regimes, don’t count on it. The recent inflation has little to do with Russia’s conflict with Ukraine, and almost all to do with its radical policy of eradicating fossil fuel and nuclear power.

And that policy will continue well into the future, unless there’s a regime change in Germany.

CO2 tax to double in 2024.

The first reason Germans should not expect inflation to ease is the coming CO2 tax increase, slated for the start of 2024.

The CO2 price will increase every year. According to finanztip.de, “The price is to rise again on January 1, 2024. According to a draft bill from the German government, an increase to 40 euros per ton of emitted CO2 is planned for 2024. In 2025, the CO2 price is to be 50 euros per ton.”

It could reach 65 euros a ton by 2027.

This will make energy far more expensive for all Germans, and in every aspect of life. It also will also continue to drive energy-intensive industry out of the country.

Exploding highway toll fees for trucks

Not only will the CO2 tax increase make transportation more expensive, but so will the highway toll fees for heavy trucks, which will rise 83% at the start of 2024.

According to Blackout News, (citing Welt): “The fee for heavy trucks will rise sharply at the turn of the year, by 83 percent. This endangers smaller transport companies. There is also unrest in the trade sector about the massive increase in the truck toll. Both sectors know who will ultimately have to bear the additional costs, namely the consumer.”

Retailers are protesting loudly. According to trade experts, “Companies could pay up to an additional 40,000 euros per truck as a result of the toll.”

Germany’s exploding prices have little to do with economic cycles. The inflationary spiral is being driven by short-sighted, misguided government energy policies based on junk climate science.