Robert Bryce

Robert Bryce writes on energy. His six books include Power Hungry: The Myths of “Green” Energy, and the Real Fuels of the Future (2010); Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper: How Innovation Keeps Proving the Catastrophists Wrong (2014); and A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations (2020). His documentary, Juice: How Electricity Explains the World (2020) is available on numerous streaming platforms. He blogs at RobertBryce.com.

Ford Lost $4.7B On EVs Last Year, Or About $64,731 For Every EV It Sold

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How bad is the EV business? Ford Motor Company just reported that the operating loss it incurred on its EV business in 2023 exceeded its total profit for the year. That shocking fact comes directly from the company’s earnings report, which carried the headline, “Ford+ Delivers Solid 2023…” The Dearborn-based auto giant had an operating loss (also […]

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Michael Bloomberg’s $1 Billion Assault on The Electric Grid

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Climate-related philanthropy in America has been hijacked by a radical agenda that will hurt the affordability, reliability, and resilience of the U.S. electric grid. More proof of that hijacking came when mega-billionaire Michael Bloomberg announced that Bloomberg Philanthropies would give $500 million to the Beyond Carbon campaign. The goal of the effort is to shutter

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Let Them Eat Solar Panels

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Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash Recently, during a speech at a high-dollar fundraiser for the League of Conservation Voters in Washington, D.C., President Joe Biden exulted about a solar project in Angola. According to a transcript of his speech that can be found on the White House’s website, Biden said: “We have plans to build a

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The “Energy Transition” Isn’t All It Claims To Be

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We are inundated with claims about the “energy transition.” In February, E&E News, reporting on the State of the Union speech, said,  “President Joe Biden laid out his vision for the energy transition Tuesday night.” In March, a reporter for Politico declared, “The U.S. energy transition is well underway.” Also in March, during a speech at the

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The Iron Law Of Electricity Strikes Again: Germany Re-Opens Five Lignite-Fired Power Plants

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Last week, numerous media outlets reported that Germany will extend the lives of three of its nuclear power plants. The move to keep the reactors online, which was opposed by the country’s Green Party, showed that German politicians are recognizing the need to keep reliable generation plants online to assure the country has enough electricity

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In Pandering to the Green Left, Biden Is Underwriting China’s Genocide of Uyghurs

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Last June, the Biden administration was so concerned about China’s use of Uyghur Muslim slave labor to produce the polysilicon needed for solar panels that it imposed bans on imports of that product from some Chinese manufacturers. But that was last year before the domestic solar industry went into free fall due to a Commerce Department

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Rolls-Royce’s SMR Needs 10,000 Times Less Land Than Wind Energy, Proves ‘Iron Law Of Power Density’

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Last month, Rolls-Royce said that it expects to receive regulatory approval from the British government by 2024 for its 470-megawatt small modular reactor and that it will begin producing power on Britain’s electric grid by 2029. Will that happen? Time will tell. Many nuclear projects and startups have blown past their projected in-service dates. But Rolls-Royce’s

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Washington Post and NPR Ignore the Rural Backlash Against Renewables

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During my three decades as a reporter, I’ve seen plenty of hype and poor news coverage about renewable energy. But two recent pieces—in the Washington Post and National Public Radio, respectively—are particularly egregious. These reports demonstrate, yet again, that some of the biggest media entities in the world have no clue about—and apparently no sympathy for—the rural

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As coal use surges, America finds it’s hard to unplug from carbon

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So much for the myriad claims about going “beyond coal.” According to a new report from the Rhodium Group, U.S. coal consumption jumped by 17 percent last year compared to 2020 levels. That’s a huge increase, which Rhodium says was “largely driven by a run-up in natural gas prices.” Rather than burn gas, which averaged about $4.93

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