By Rich Kozlovich
I published this on Friday, November 24, 2011 calling it, This Week With Steve Milloy, saying:
My theme this week has been about alternative energy and what an abject failure it has been. All of which was perfectly predictable. We tried it during the Carter administration and it failed then. Did the technology get so much better that we would think it would work now? No! At least Carter had the excuse of ignorance…They just didn’t know then, although I have few doubts that those who worked with the engineering problems knew right from the beginning it was going to be a failure. However...this time we had some history... we knew this time it had to fail. There really is no fixing stupid. The articles linked here are a small part of what Steve and his staff link each week. I try to get the things that interested me the most. I you wish to see all of it go to Junkscience.com.
I have to point out this was 13 years ago and nothing has changed. We know the scientific fraud perpetrated to promote global warming initiatives, we know alternative energy is a bust, we know the EPA is corrupt to it's core, we know sustainability is a code word for the imposition of big government tyranny, and we knew it 13 years ago. So why are we still listening to these misfits promoting it. Nitwits like John Kerry who thinks the world would like Russia better if they were more concerned about emissions. How delusional is this man? However, we know two things for sure from that. Kerry is a blithering idiot, and we dodged a gigantic bullet when it wasn't elected President. We can thank the Swift Boaters for that, not Karl Rove.
Also, I would like to throw in this July 14, 2014 piece by Hank Campbell entitled, Sexist Weather And Hermaphroditic Frogs: The Problem Of Faux Peer Review, and the reason why is I'm working on a piece highlighting the Lysenkoist mentality that permeates modern science today. That politically motivated embrace of junk science has had a massively negative impact on humanity, whether its been about climate change, alternative energy, covid, or any number of junk science outrages they've embraced. This is just another example of it.
Anthropogenic Climate Change Fraud
Climategate 2.0 is here!
More devastating Climategate e-mails were released today. We’ve covered
juicy ones in the posts listed below. More on the way. Read ‘em all.
They validate EVERYTHING the skeptics have been saying. Viva les
sceptiques!
Green –Irrational, Corrupt and Misantropic
Lack of electricity, development, kills 1.5 million Nigerians annually
“Poverty is a death sentence” states whoever publicly released the
Climategate e-mails and they are so right -WHO Projects 1.5 Million
Cooking Stove Deaths In Nigeria — The World Health Organization (WHO)
has projected 1.5 million annual premature deaths in Nigeria because of
household air pollution from traditional cooking stoves, a Ministry of
Environment official says. Quoting from a WHO report, Bahijjatu
Abubakar, the National Co-ordinator of the Renewable Energy project of
the ministry, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) here Tuesday that
the projection could affect the world at large, especially sub-Saharan
Africa. Abubakar said the WHO data also predicted that the premature
death rate would be larger than that caused by malaria, tuberculosis and
HIV/AIDS.
Strassel: Stringing Up Gibson Guitar
Aren’t trees the ultimate renewable resource? Kim Strassel writes in the
Wall Street Journal: On a sweltering day in August, federal agents
raided the Tennessee factories of the storied Gibson Guitar Corp. The
suggestion was that Gibson had violated the Lacey Act—a federal law
designed to protect wildlife—by importing certain India ebony. The
company has vehemently denied that suggestion and has yet to be charged.
It is instead living in a state of harassed legal limbo. Which, let’s
be clear, is exactly what its persecutors had planned all along. The
untold story of Gibson is this: It was set up…
Is sustainability science really a science?
Past the fact that this is obviously a sad day for the once proud Los
Alamos National Laboratory, “sustainability” is a really stupid and
dangerous notion…..“Sustainability” is not a science; it’s an excuse not
to growth and develop. Thomas Malthus trial-ballooned sustainability in
the 18th century — and he was dead wrong. But at least he intended no
malice. The modern Malthusians cynically use sustainability to thwart
capitalism. We are aware of only one serious sustainability project that
was ever attempted — and the enviros killed it.
Horner: A Summary of James E. Hansen’s NASA Ethics File
NASA records released to resolve litigation filed by the American
Tradition Institute reveal that Dr. James E. Hansen, an astronomer,
received approximately $1.6 million in outside, direct cash income in
the past five years for work related to — and, according to his
benefactors, often expressly for — his public service as a global
warming activist within NASA.
Horner on EPA’s Jackson: Whoa! Which time are you lying?
Chris Horner points out the inconsistencies in Lisa Jackson’s rationale for EPA regulating greenhouse gases.
Alternative Energy
Allianz: ‘Green’ energy could trigger catastrophic blackouts
‘Unstable’ renewable energy sources increase the risk of
‘supra-regional’ electricity blackouts with multi-billion pound
consequences, insurance giant Allianz has warned. ‘Unstable’ renewable
energy sources increase the risk of ‘supra-regional’ electricity
blackouts with multi-billion pound consequences, insurance giant Allianz
has warned. Green energy could trigger ‘catastrophic’ blackouts – Solar
panels and wind turbines are a “volatile” source of power with
fluctuations in the electricity supply risking “grid instabilities” and
triggering wide-scale blackouts. Ageing infrastructure and increasingly
cross-border electricity networks have heightened the likelihood of a
devastating collapse of power supplies lasting months and covering
several continents, according to the joint report by Allianz and the
Chief Risk Officer Forum. In eastern Germany, turbines in strong wind
can produce more than all German coal and gas plants put together, while
the need to switch off turbines in high winds causes a drop-off in
electricity of 12GW – equal to two nuclear power plants. Outages are
likely if there is too little demand or storage capacity to accommodate
the jumps in supply.
Bill Frezza: Alternative Energy’s Alternate Reality
The “alternative energy” experiment is unraveling, having barely begun -
Alternative Energy’s Alternate Reality – Creating a “green energy”
economy may be the most daunting central planning task ever attempted.
It entails nothing less than the reengineering of our entire energy
infrastructure. And, like all central planning schemes, it is based on a
roadmap that eschews real-world experience and sound economics in favor
of utopian ideology driven by political connections. Now the experiment
is unraveling, having barely begun. As the parade of
government-subsidized failures like Solyndra, Stirling Energy,
SpectraWatt, Evergreen Solar, Beacon Power, and others mount, now is a
good time to look at how all the pieces of the alternative energy puzzle
are supposed to fit together—and what happens when they don’t.
Experts fear cost of California renewable energy goals
California’s increasing use of renewable power is going to hurt
consumers - California’s increasing use of renewable power will come at a
price, pushing up electricity bills across the state. And while it’s
impossible to tell how big the cost to consumers will be, some experts
fear the total cost of renewable energy in California will be in the
billions of dollars. In the next three years, many long-planned solar
plants and wind farms will come online, bringing California closer to
its goal of getting one-third of the state’s electricity from renewable
sources by 2020. As soon as they start delivering power to utility
companies, the utilities’ customers will start paying for that
electricity.
Of course it’s renewable energy – it just relies on fossil fuels
Although it sounds like an advertisement for ladies’ undergarments
“firmed and shaped” actually refers to intermittent “renewable energy”
made useful with fossil-fueled “spinning reserve” CleanPowerSF will
still rely on fossil fuels despite claims – City officials boast that
the proposed CleanPowerSF public power program will offer consumers 100
percent renewable energy, but for some that sounds a lot better than
what is really behind the green label.
Reformed Leftie/Greenie challenges energy statism
Robert Bryce is a reformed Leftie/greenie. The solar array he installed
on his roof was a bust, and he followed the logic of energy density to
conclude that wind, solar, water, crops, plants, and wood would not
allow energy to be mankind’s master resource.
Gas beats renewables: fund manager
As remarkable as it seems, energy-dense fuels are more value than dilute power sources
Royal Wind Slam Update: Duke ‘spot on’
“Former Chancellor Lord Lawson yesterday led the backing for Prince Philip after he branded wind farms ‘absolutely useless’.”
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