New York’s state legislature has just directed the state’s public power provider to build renewable energy projects. The law instructing the New York Power Authority includes language about “environmental justice” and labor that socialists would love—in fact, socialists do love it. The Democratic Socialists of America lobbied for the law and the group is gearing…
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Something Is “Dreadfully Wrong” with the Electricity Grid
“The near failure of the Texas power grid, coming just 4 minutes and 37 seconds from a complete collapse on February 14, 2021, was the first alarm bell that something was dreadfully wrong with US power grids,” writes Ed Ireland on Master Resource. Another alarm bell has rung in the form of a new report…
How Visible Are Off-Shore Wind Turbines?
The governor of North Carolina has adopted the Biden administration’s push toward renewables. He is requiring the state to aim at supplying 8.0 gigawatts of electricity from offshore wind by 2040. Those turbines will be near Brunswick County and Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and thus near some of the state’s most appealing tourist spots. That…
Are There Profits in Landfill Gas? One Big Waste Firm Says Yes
Waste Management, the nation’s largest waste hauler, has a big idea: Invest heavily in extracting natural gas from landfills. Natural gas has a lower “carbon footprint” than other fossil fuels, and Waste Management (WM) has a lot of landfills. Landfills emit methane, a greenhouse gas. But it can be captured and used or sold as…
Trade-Offs: Biden’s Push for Bio-energy from Agriculture Worries Environmentalists
The “Inflation Reduction Act” will provide $140 billion in agricultural “tax incentives, loans and grants” to promote energy. Environmentalists are not happy. Keith Schneider of the New York Times: “Despite pushback from environmental groups concerned about increased pollution from farm waste, developers across the country see opportunities to build ambitious renewable energy projects to convert…
Friday Highlights
- Will offshore wind energy overwhelm the electric grid? Here’s why it might.
- Adviser to multi-million-dollar climate change group is an official of the Chinese Communist Party.
- Iowa legislature is considering strict limits on solar facilities (such as requiring a 1250-foot setback from a residence or livestock facility).
- ‘The Environmentalist Assault on Civilization.”
- Is nuclear power about to make a comeback? Here’s why it might not.
- Are lawsuits against oil companies for “greenwashing” just efforts to suppress free speech? Yes.
- Al Gore gave us “pork and propaganda.”