Category: Solar power

Tackling Taboos: Vaccine Creator on Safety; Pandemic Top-Down Decision-Making; Solar’s Dark Future

The drive to vaccinate the nation has been going strong for over six months, but there’s still a lot we don’t know—and may never know. That’s because key safety data is not being rigorously collected, says a man who should know: Dr. Robert Malone, the inventor of mRNA technology. In America Q&A, we ask Californians…


Australia to Construct World-First ‘Solar Hydro’ Power Plant

The Australian government has announced funding to construct a $27 million (US$21 million) “solar hydro” power plant in north-western Victoria able to generate, store, and deliver electricity on demand. The power plant will demonstrate RayGen’s patented solar-plus-storage technology which uses a photovoltaic (PV) module 4,000 times more powerful than standard solar panels. This module is…


German Power Grids Brace for Thursday’s Solar Eclipse

FRANKFURT—Electrical transmission networks in Germany are preparing for a solar eclipse this week that could trigger a sudden fall of around 1 gigawatt in solar power output, grid firm Amprion said on Monday. The event will take place between 09:20 GMT and 11:40 GMT on Thursday in northern Europe, an Amprion background paper said. Although…


Solar Energy Is Being Wasted

Commentary California this year has wasted enough renewable energy not connected to the grid to power more than 325,000 households—enough to provide all the household electricity needs for Anaheim, Irvine and Riverside combined. Otherwise put, it equates to about 90 percent of the number of San Francisco households. Totally wasted. Rooftops and fields throughout California…


Solar Energy Is Being Wasted in California

Commentary California this year has wasted enough renewable energy not connected to the grid to power more than 325,000 households—enough to provide all the household electricity needs for Anaheim, Irvine and Riverside combined. Otherwise put, it equates to about 90 percent of the number of San Francisco households. Totally wasted. Rooftops and fields throughout California…


Get Ready for More Obama-Era Green Energy Scams

Commentary With Democrats about to control all the levers of power in Washington, the biggest winners might be the wind and solar companies. These firms’ stocks continue to surge mostly because President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to invest several hundred billion dollars in green energy through a pipeline of taxpayer-funded grants, loans, tax credits, and…