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How the US could reach the New Climate Goal of the Biden A home At the (virtual) climate summit this morning, President Joe Biden pledged the United States to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 by 2005. , fairer and cleaner for the entire planet, “he said. The most optimistic goal set by the author Paris Climate Agreement global warming would be limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius from pre-industrial levels, an effort that would require the participation of all human civilizations. “We need to get in the way now for that, “Biden added.” If we do that, we will breathe more calmly,...

California hadn’t planned for enough capacity to be available in the net peak period to ride out a super heating event effectively. The head of the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) recently gave a revealing interview, in an obscure outlet he probably figured would not travel. It is “Yale Insights” published by the Yale School of Management. Elliot Mainzer, President and CEO of CAISO is a Yalie, so he gave something back. Actually he gave a lot out, if you read the poli-speak correctly. Serious problems lie ahead. Below are some interesting insights, with translation where...

Yes, Overreliance On Wind And Solar Helped Feed Texas’s Power Outages Share This storyline also claimed a lack of electricity from wind and solar had nothing to do with the disaster that claimed 111 lives. Instead, the blackouts were the failure of normally reliable thermal power—natural gas, coal, and nuclear—due to a reluctance to spend billions of dollars to winterize facilities throughout a state more known for persistently hot summers than for transient polar vortices. A variant of this liberal argument was posited by Pedro Gonzalez at American Greatness. The headline echoed the c...

April 12, 2021 This storyline also claimed a lack of electricity from wind and solar had nothing to do with the disaster that claimed almost 60 lives. Instead, the blackouts were the failure of normally reliable thermal power—natural gas, coal, and nuclear—due to a reluctance to spend billions of dollars to winterize facilities throughout a state more known for persistently hot summers than for transient polar vortices. A variant of this liberal argument was posited by Pedro Gonzalez at American Greatness. The headline echoed the corporate media’s main gloat over Texas’s misfortune: �...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Starting in late February, over 2.7 million Texas households were left without energy and over 100 people died as a severe winter storm caused a series of rolling blackouts across Texas, drawing national attention to the state’s energy grid. While some leaders blamed the state-wide outages on wind and solar, an emerging expert consensus suggests that multiple cascading factors—including non-winterized power plants and the state’s deregulated, independent grid system—culminated in the energy crisis. Now, several weeks out fro...