Tag: Renewable Energy

Climate Policy Is a Money-Making Opportunity for the Elite

Commentary “The climate transition presents a historic investment opportunity,” says BlackRock CEO Larry Fink. “What the financiers, the big banks, the asset managers, private investors, venture capital are all discovering is: There’s a lot of money to be made in the creation of these new [green] jobs,” chimes in presidential climate envoy John Kerry. Fink concedes that the economy…


Building Back Better Means Blackouts and Fragile Grids

Commentary South Australia in 2016; California last year; now, Texas. The recent blackout is a terrible ordeal for Texans but a political disaster for the Biden administration. The president had just signed an executive order making climate change the organizing principle of his administration. All coal and natural gas power stations are to be taken off the…


Texas Blackout Shows Vulnerabilities of Renewable Energy

The widespread blackouts across Texas serve as an early warning sign as to the kind of destabilizations which might occur if the country tries moving away from fossil fuels, according to a legal scholar. The more the country tries to make wind and solar a primary power source, the more likely it is for mishaps…


Texas Blackout Shows Vulnerabilities of Renewable Energy: Scholar

The widespread blackouts across Texas serve as an early warning sign as to the kind of destabilizations which might occur if the country tries moving away from fossil fuels, according to a legal scholar. The more the country tries to make wind and solar a primary power source, the more likely it is for mishaps…


Texas Blackout Shows Vulnerabilities of Renewable Energy, Scholar Says

The widespread blackouts across Texas serve as an early warning sign about the kind of destabilization that might occur if the country tries to move away from fossil fuels, according to a legal scholar. The more the country tries to make wind and solar a primary power source, the more likely it is for mishaps…


The Renewable Energy Disaster Far More Deadly Than Chernobyl

Commentary Decades ago, a single energy disaster left three million acres of land uninhabitable to humans and killed between 85,600 and 240,000 people. A casual student of history might assume these shocking statistics refer to the Chernobyl nuclear accident, but that would be incorrect. No, this catastrophic specter was the fault of the Banqiao Dam collapse in…


Texas Power Crisis Puts Keystone XL Cancelation in Perspective

Rolling blackouts in Texas have put the importance of oil pipelines into perspective, according to business executives. Ryan Palazzo, a former chief operating officer of a pipeline construction company and a resident of Houston, Texas, received text messages on Feb. 15 about rolling blackouts to protect the electricity grid which was strained by record low temperatures….


Texas Power Crisis Puts Keystone XL Cancellation in Perspective

Rolling blackouts in Texas have put the importance of oil pipelines into perspective, business executives say. Ryan Palazzo, a former chief operating officer of a pipeline construction company and a resident of Houston, received text messages on Feb. 15 about rolling blackouts to protect the state’s electricity grid, which was strained by a massive winter storm…


Texas Winter Storm Power Outages Prompt Bitter Fight Between Fossil Fuel, Clean Energy Advocates

When Old Man Winter hit Texas with a rare week of snow, ice, and sub-freezing temperatures, the state’s energy industry reeled as power sources of all kinds froze, leaving millions of Texans shivering. Such a crisis isn’t supposed to happen in Texas, the oil and gas capital of the United States, where so much fossil…


Renewable ‘Blowhole’ Energy to Power Tasmanian Island

Wave technology that creates energy by simulating a blowhole will soon provide power for a remote island off the coast of Tasmania in Australia’s south. Wave Swell Energy (WSE) has deployed its wave energy power generator at King Island, Tasmania. The boat-like structure will generate power from three renewable sources simultaneously—wave, wind, and solar. It will…