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Energy Clarity: Health & safety standards Alex Epstein

Health & safety…
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Added by Dan McKay on September 11, 2022 at 8:07am — No Comments

Alex Epstein, Energy Talking Points

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Added by Dan McKay on September 8, 2022 at 5:26pm — 3 Comments

Wind power 101 Posted by Dan McKay on December 22, 2009

WIND POWER 101



What will wind power do to the electric industry and your cost of electricity ? The electric industry relies on instantaneous supply to match instantaneous demand for perfect efficient operation. Unlike other commodities, electricity can not be inventoried to satisfy demand in the future.

Wind powered electricity is created only when the wind blows at the spot of the turbine and this is not a 24/7 event. Wind turbines, such as…

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Added by Dan McKay on September 7, 2022 at 5:41am — 4 Comments

The Scams Just keep Coming

The Student Loan Giveaway is Much Bigger Than You Think

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Added by Dan McKay on September 6, 2022 at 5:30am — 2 Comments

Overthrow Grid-Scale Renewables, Plentiful Energy is Under Our Feet

CPUC ‘Emergency Load Reduction Program’: Energy Statism hits the Californian Home

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- September 6, 2022

Ed. Note: The California Independent System Operator (CAISO) has issued statewide “flex alerts” (blackout alerts) for six days running. Today’s post describes the in-place demand reduction program. Part…

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Added by Dan McKay on September 6, 2022 at 5:22am — 3 Comments

Europe On The Brink

"Europe On The Brink:" 70,000 Czech Protesters Flood Prague Over Energy Crisis



Tyler Durden's Photo
BY TYLER DURDEN
SATURDAY, SEP 03, 2022 - 02:00 PM


More than 70,000…

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Added by Dan McKay on September 4, 2022 at 6:08am — 1 Comment

LNG, Weaponizing the Grid

ISO-NE’s CEO stresses energy adequacy in letter to US energy secretary

ISO New England President and CEO Gordon van Welie this week wrote to U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm to underscore the importance of maintaining the region’s supply of liquefied natural gas (LNG) as it transitions to cleaner energy sources.

“Even with the successful development of extensive offshore and onshore wind as well as solar generation in New…

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Added by Dan McKay on September 2, 2022 at 5:48am — 3 Comments

Energy Clarity: Freedom from endangerment

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Added by Dan McKay on August 28, 2022 at 8:04am — 1 Comment

Most US 'Green Energy' Subsidies - Go to Communist China

by Seton Motley

on August 23, 2022

One of the very many inflation-increasing aspects of the woefully misnamed “Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)” - is the approximately $100 billion thrown at allegedly “green energy.”

Let us set aside the fact that government spending $100 billion on anything - is antithetical to reducing inflation. 

Let us also set aside the fact that the entirety of the “green energy” industry - isn’t actually an…

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Added by Dan McKay on August 28, 2022 at 7:45am — 3 Comments

The Project Requires a Re-Vote

    Last year's vote on the Canadian/Maine/Massachusetts shared powerline project was a case of an aroused fraction versus trust in a system dedicated by law to uphold the interests of the electric customers, the protection of the environment and the cooperation of States and Countries to improve business standings. 



    30% of registered Maine voters cast their wishes for this project. 60% of this 30% voted to reject the project. This results was a mere 18% of Maine voters…

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Added by Dan McKay on August 27, 2022 at 7:30am — 1 Comment

Federal Government Imposes First-of-Its-Kind Fee on Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Hidden deep within the over 700 pages of the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is a brand-new provision intended to give the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) power to…

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Added by Dan McKay on August 24, 2022 at 7:18pm — 3 Comments

COMMISSION INITIATED INVESTIGATION INTO TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION UTILITY RATE DESIGN TO PROMOTE STATE POLICIES

     I am just going to offer a big "What the Hell is This All About" and leave it at that until I have a chance to wade through this PUC mess.

Added by Dan McKay on August 24, 2022 at 6:42pm — 1 Comment

Natural gas-powered electricity generation in the US spiked to an all-time high last month despite soaring prices

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  • Electricity generated from natural gas hit an all-time high in the US last month despite soaring prices.
  • High usage is expected to exacerbate energy shortages, as natural gas inventories run low.
  • The EU has been particularly impacted, and plans on cutting its…
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Added by Dan McKay on August 24, 2022 at 5:30am — 5 Comments

‘There is No Climate Emergency’

‘There is No Climate Emergency’ (1,107 signatories and counting)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 24, 2022

“… there is ample evidence that CO2 mitigation measures are as damaging as they are costly. Climate policy must respect scientific and economic realities. There is no climate emergency.”

There are a lot of very smart people in the world. And most do not work at…

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Added by Dan McKay on August 24, 2022 at 5:13am — 2 Comments

Energy Clarity: Energy policy Alex Epstein

In the next few emails, we're going to be talking about energy policy.



In previous emails, we concluded that fossil fuels are a moral form of energy that should be expanded, not restricted. But, there's one qualifier. We can say there are moral forms of energy, but it’s only moral to use them if they are being used the right way.



Minimizing misuse



Like any technology, fossil fuels can be misused. Part of ensuring the proper use of fossil…

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Added by Dan McKay on August 21, 2022 at 8:28am — 1 Comment

Our Government Assaults Our Integrity

      Productivity starts with energy. In Olden Days, the Greeks used manual labor to produce. It was effective, the elites drove the slaves to perform. When the rulers wanted more production, they created a larger work force or demanded more laborious activity from the masses of workers.
     Today, due to the discovery of objective mass/energy physics, our productivity is still related to the energy…
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Added by Dan McKay on August 21, 2022 at 7:56am — No Comments

New England's Winter of Reckoning

 Ships that pass in the night. Now that President Biden has promised Europe that American natural gas is on its way, could we see American ships heading for Germany passing Russian ships headed for New England next winter?

     At least one New England natural gas-fired plant fueled by liquefied natural gas has received Russian fuel when pipeline constraints paralyzed their operation. That was during the winter of 2018, "Massachusetts Limits Gas Pipelines,…
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Added by Dan McKay on August 20, 2022 at 6:00am — 2 Comments

Energy Clarity: Fossil fuels make us safer from climate Alex Epstein

Fossil fuels make us safer from…
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Added by Dan McKay on August 14, 2022 at 9:26am — 1 Comment

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Maine as Third World Country:

CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power

 

Click here to read how the Maine ratepayer has been sold down the river by the Angus King cabal.

Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT

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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/

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Sign up today and lend your voice and presence to the steadily rising tide that will soon sweep the scourge of useless and wretched turbines from our beloved Maine countryside. For many of us, our little pieces of paradise have been hard won. Did the carpetbaggers think they could simply steal them from us?

We have the facts on our side. We have the truth on our side. All we need now is YOU.

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”

 -- Mahatma Gandhi

"It's not whether you get knocked down: it's whether you get up."
Vince Lombardi 

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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law

Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future

"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."

https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/

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