Hydrocarbon-friendly Trump a match for energy-hungry India

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With 1.4 billion energy-hungry citizens, India stands at the epicenter of the geopolitics of energy and climate policy. As the world’s third-largest energy consumer and projected to have the fastest growth in demand over the next two decades, the subcontinent’s choices reverberate far beyond its borders. The International Energy Agency (IEA) forecasts that India will […]

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Trump energy choices saving America from economic disaster

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Having discerned the Green New Deal as fraudulent, President Trump’s shift to maximize proven energy technologies may very well be America’s salvation from an economic disaster that climate policies were sure to deliver. The forced “transition” to alternative energy – relentlessly evangelized by policymakers, environmentalists, and corporate titans – promised to save humanity from purported

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U.S. Energy Secretary Offers Africa Freedom from Climate Imperialism

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U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright has signaled a change that could mean the difference between life and death for millions in Africa. Speaking at the “Powering Africa Summit” in Washington, D.C., Wright told leaders of a continent of 1.5 billion people that the Trump administration “has no desire to tell you what to do with

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Towns and States Don’t Want Green Energy

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Trump Administration actions to scale back renewable energy capture headlines, but citizens are also pushing back. Efforts to deploy wind and solar systems face a rising tide of opposition in towns, counties, and states. Mandates for electric vehicles and electric home appliances are being challenged. The combination of rising local opposition and Trump funding cuts

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False Pretense of Energy Transition: Long on Facts, Short on Truth

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While listing many of the barriers to abandoning fossil fuels for “green” energy, three writers in Foreign Affairs magazine skip over an important truth: The once ballyhooed but now moribund “energy transition” was and remains unnecessary and undesirable. Instead, the article’s title, “The Troubled Energy Transition: How to Find a Pragmatic Path Forward,” suggests (1)

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The Future of Clean Energy Looks Increasingly Nuclear

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When New York Governor Kathy Hochul, whose state has banned natural gas pipelines because “climate change,” goes all in for nuclear energy, you know the revolution is under way. For decades, the anti-nuclear movement moved from protesting nuclear weapons to oppose nuclear energy as well. But not today. Gov. Hochul, in an adjunct to her

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Bloom Energy: Time To Go

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Bloom Energy’s founder, K.R. Sridhar, recently appeared on Maria Bartiromo’s show on Fox Business.  He touted Bloom Energy as a viable solution to President Trump’s declaration of a national energy emergency.  But as we approach the thirteenth anniversary of Delaware’s investment in Bloom Energy, it is time for the Meyer Administration to pull the plug

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Europe’s Energy Debacle Is a Warning for U.S.

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Europe—light and dark. What happens if the grid fails for lack of sufficient generation?(Illustration by OpenAI.) When it comes to global energy policy, few narratives are as instructive – and as cautionary – as Europe’s ill-fated experiment with wind and solar energy. The continent’s self-inflicted woes contain lessons that should be taken to heart by

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Los Angeles Burns and Governor Newsom and Mayor Bass Fiddle

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A half century of disastrous wildfires and flawed land-management policies bring disaster home to Angelenos. Seems only yesterday, doesn’t it, the massive Camp fire (2018) killed 80 Californians and laid waste to some 150,000 acres of northern California. Closer to LA, the 2017 Woolsey fire burned over much of the same areas back in 2017, another big

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