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Jul 26 2019

Battery Storage—An Infinitesimal Part of Electrical Power

By Steve Goreham / July 26, 2019

Large-scale storage of electricity is the latest proposed solution to boost the deployment of renewables. Renewable energy advocates, businesses, and state governments plan to use batteries to store electricity to solve the problem of intermittent wind and solar output. But large-scale storage is only an insignificant part of the electrical power industry and doomed to […]

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May 9 2019

How the Wind Industry Gains by Losing

By E. Calvin Beisner / May 9, 2019

So you want to make a profit by selling what you produce. What do you do? Sell it for more than it costs you. But that’s so old fashioned! Nowadays, you just get into the wind industry. You find state or local policymakers eager to virtue signal by supporting your renewable-, zero-carbon energy tech. And

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Oct 22 2018

Are Wind Factories a Clear Case of Environmental Injustice?

By E. Calvin Beisner / October 22, 2018

Not many people can combine downright poetic writing with clear arguments about justice and economics. Radio broadcaster Bob Lonsberry did it today on his blog, “To the Metal Beasts on the Hilltop.” Here’s the start: Why do you think wind and solar projects in New York invariably end up in the poorest, most rural and

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Jul 10 2017

What Do “Green Jobs” Produce?

By E. Calvin Beisner / July 10, 2017

Cornwall Alliance advisory board member H. Sterling Burnett published a good piece in the Washington Times recently that rebuts claims about “Green jobs” in two ways. Burnett points out that in response to President Donald Trump’s saying one reason to withdraw from the Paris climate accord was that staying in would drive energy prices higher, causing

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Jul 10 2017

Can We Get There from Here?

By E. Calvin Beisner / July 10, 2017

A tourist asks an Irish old-timer, “How do I get to Dublin?” The old-timer responds, “Well, you can’t get there from here.” That’s what came to my mind when I read Michael Kelly’s brief paper “A Challenge for Renewable Energies,” at the Global Warming Policy Forum. The gist: “In recent years the energy sector has accounted

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Dec 22 2016

I’d Rather Have ROTHR: National Security vs. Wind Energy

By E. Calvin Beisner / December 22, 2016

Physicist and Cornwall Alliance friend John Droz, Jr., reveals a fascinating story of how the Obama Administration and North Carolina politicians sold out national security for the chance to look Green. The Obama-directed military and North Carolina regulators, aided by the governor and attorney general, approved an extensive industrial wind facility located where it would

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Oct 12 2015

India Dances toward Paris

By E. Calvin Beisner / October 12, 2015

India last week announced its “climate action plan” in preparation for December’s climate summit in Paris, and the featured points grabbed the world’s attention: 40% increase of “clean [i.e., CO2-free] energy” by 2030; reduced CO2 “emission intensity” by 33% from 2005 levels by 2030; calling for wealth countries of the West to help it meet

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Apr 17 2015

For Three Billion People, Coal Looks Pretty Good

By Cornwall Alliance / April 17, 2015

Ask a typical college student about “environmentally friendly” energy sources, and the student will usually respond with comments on wind energy, solar energy, or at least “renewable fuels.” Coal would never make the list. But as an economist, I’m always teaching students about trade-offs. There is no energy source that is costless, either financially or

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