Energy Realism this past week blew holes in fake and highly expensive energy solutions: “alternative energy” is really just supplemental at best. This is all about physics, and naturally higher costs for renewables are only getting worse as demand mounts. Nikki Martin gets us started this week: we all want a cleaner environment and enough energy to affordably power modern life. Greens must know, however, that the obvious path forward is not endless regulations and/or picking winners and losers with policy, but to embrace always advancing technologies. Contrary to what greens love to lecture you, the oil and gas industry continues to deploy better reporting methods to lower emissions in their operations, all as they produce the invaluable fuels that supply over 70% of America’s energy. But we all know that energy prices are too high. Ku’uhaku Park believes that Jones Act waivers will do very little to help shortages or lower costs for consumers, particularly for the vital diesel fuel that the Northeast uses in heating. Back in September, however, we must remember that we had an op-ed from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that disagreed with what Ku’uhaku claims. But regardless, greens continually forget (err, seek to confuse Americans) that more wind and solar (only compete in the power sector) do about zero to displace oil (dominates in the transportation sector). As commodity input prices continue to soar, Duggan Flanakin explains why President Biden’s offshore wind dreams are already starting to crack, incredibly problematic for greens since we are so early in the game. And as Robert Bryce points out once again, the harsh reality of “renewables are less reliable but more expensive” is simply pushing the still developing countries back to coal, still easily the world’s most vital source of electricity. To illustrate how backwards greens have it, Vijay Jayaraj sees greens appearing to celebrate Russia-Ukraine because they think that the war will end the West’s “addiction” to fossil fuels. Not quite, since it is a physics problem for them: “usually unavailable” does not displace “almost always available.” In the News Patrice Douglas, RealClearEnergy William Happer, RealClearEnergy Bjorn Lomborg, Forbes Marlo Lewis Jr., CEI Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner Robert Hargraves, Grid Brief Wester Van Gaal, EU Observer Lindsay Kornick, Fox News Julianne Geiger, Oil Price Rumbi Chakamba, Devex Anya Litvak, PPG Alex Kimani, Oil Price Andy Puzder, National Review Phil Rosen, BI National Post Sky News Australia The Australian's National Editor Dennis Shanahan says it is “absurd” to suggest one part of the world should pay another because of “global climate change.” “China isn’t looking at g... Kite & Key Media Wind power. Solar power. Electric cars. That’s the future envisioned by many advocates of getting the U.S. to net zero carbon emissions. Translating this vision into a reality depend... Sky News Australia Copenhagen Consensus Centre President Bjorn Lomborg says the reality is we are being “misled” on climate change because they want to “scare us” into spending “trillions of dollars.” ABC News Days out from this year's United Nations climate summit in Egypt, activist Greta Thunberg has called for more ambitious cuts to global emissions, while expressing scepticism that the... TRT World Now Mozambique has joined the world's liquefied natural gas exporters with its first shipment to Europe. It's also scaling up renewable power projects to manage a regional power deficit.... ABC News President Joe Biden outlined the United States' progress on climate change as well as measures to accelerate transitions to clean energy in developing countries. |