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- The Opposition’s nuclear plan saves $260 billion, but it’s still 53% renewable Fri, 13 Dec 24, 9:18am… By Jo Nova Here in crazy Australia, we have too many renewables, but both sides of politics still want more Here in the Renewable Crash Test Dummy Land, both sides of politics think we should use our national grid...
- Denmark offers largest offshore wind area for auction, but no one bids anything Wed, 11 Dec 24, 7:34amPhoto by Kim Hansen. Postprocessing by Richard Bartz and Kim Hansen. | Wikimedia By Jo Nova ““The green transition in Denmark has stalled right now” Denmark was the posterchild for the wind industry. It has...
- Grid not-fit-for-purpose: On a warm day, Crazy Australia paid $3.5m to industry to *stop* working Sat, 7 Dec 24, 6:55amBy Jo Nova The Australian electricity grid is not-fit-for-purpose. And failure is being normalized. Last Wednesday during the near-miss of a blackout in Sydney the AEMO spent $3,558,000 on “demand reduction” which...
- Failed State: Since 2021, 10% of the population left Cuba, and now the country has fuel shortages and blackouts Tue, 29 Oct 24, 7:15amPhoto by Ansalmo Juvaga By Jo Nova Seen on X Spare a thought for the people of Cuba The situation went from awful to something much worse. They ran out of working electrical plants ten days ago, and endured blackouts lasting...
- Google, Amazon, give up on national grid, ignore renewables, and buy their own nuclear plants Fri, 18 Oct 24, 8:01amBy Jo Nova Soon every tech billionaire will have their own nuclear power plant Two weeks ago it was Microsoft reviving Three Mile Island’s nuclear plant...
- Let’s burn money Ed: Flywheels could power the UK for half a second at a million dollars a megawatt hour Tue, 8 Oct 24, 6:31amBy Jo Nova Thanks to Paul Homewood at NotAlotofPeopleKnowThat for finding this gem of a video.
- Transition hell: Solar plants sit idle for 4 years in NT because of fears they’d make the grid too unstable Fri, 23 Aug 24, 7:07amENI Katherine Solar Farm By Jo Nova The Northern Territory is a test case for renewable energy and it’s a bonfire In 2016, the new Labor Government waved a magic wand and commanded they would be 50% renewable by 2030...
- Cold, windless Victoria may run out of gas before the end of winter Mon, 24 Jun 24, 2:35pmBy Jo Nova It wasn’t supposed to be this cold and windless in Australia For some reason that no climate model can explain, Australia has run out of wind power three months in a row, which means we had to use more gas...
- Despite spending $1.8 Trillion on “clean energy” last year, the world is still 81% fossil fueled — burning more than ever! Fri, 21 Jun 24, 7:42amBy Jo Nova Global fossil fuel use hits a new record level in 2023 We spent $1.77 Trillion dollars on the clean energy transition last year, yet our fossil fuel use is still rising and our emissions are still increasing.
- On fire! Australian opposition throws down the nuclear gauntlet in the Energy Wars: “No more large scale renewables” Wed, 19 Jun 24, 6:13amBy Jo Nova The Renewable Crash Test Dummy hits a fork in the road Finally the Australian opposition is bravely popping the sacred cow of the Energy Wars...
- On a bad day $20 billion in wind power across Australia can only guarantee as much power as two diesel generators Sat, 15 Jun 24, 7:05amBy Jo Nova How much back-up do we need for our 11.5 gigawatt wind system? About 11.4 gigawatts. Wind energy failed on Thursday at what must be close to a record low — with barely 88MW of production from 11,500MW of...
- Offshore Wind Turbines Could Mess With Ships’ Radar Signals Wed, 29 May 24, 7:17amby Lieven By Jo Nova But who needs radar right? We found out last year that offshore wind turbines scramble Air Force Radars. RAF pilots already use the turbines in training exercises to help them hide. But ships also use...
- Wind turbines could steal as much as 38% of the power off turbines downwind and even from ones 50 kilometers away Thu, 9 May 24, 6:38amBy Jo Nova The more wind turbines we have the more useless they are There goes those plans to cover the continental shelf with talismen to the Wind Gods.
- German solar industry collapsing: unable to make solar panels from solar power Wed, 1 May 24, 5:52am… By Jo Nova About 90% of solar panels installed in Germany come from China, and earlier this year one of the last solar panel manufacturers closed in Germany...
- Alinta chief admits the transition has “soaring costs”, and has stalled because of the rooftop solar glut Thu, 25 Apr 24, 6:30amSolar panels eat the profits at lunchtime By Jo Nova The system is reaching a crisis point and April is turning out to be the month of confessions His speech was the sound of an industry being tortured...