Anti-Energy Grants Should Be in the DOGE Crosshairs
The Ford Motor Company’s electric vehicle division regularly loses as much per sale as most Americans are willing to pay for any type of vehicle. While Ford’s leadership should be…
Rocky Mountain Institute
Wind Turbines Produce Drama, Cash, and Some Electricity: Big Trouble at Biglow Canyon
The recently enacted Inflation Reduction Act is expected pay out $400 billion in carbon and climate policy pork, and much of it is crashing down on weather-restricted energy systems such…
Wind Turbines Produce Drama, Cash, and Some Electricity: “Unexpected”
By July 2023 ReNew Economy, "Unexpected and increasing wind turbine failure rates, largely in newer and bigger models, are savaging the profits of some of the world’s biggest manufacturers, as…
Wind Turbines Produce Drama, Cash, and Some Electricity: “Extraordinarily Rare”
Wind-industry spokesman typically characterize wind turbine failures as "very rare," "isolated," and even "extraordinarily rare." But wind turbine fires and other failures have happened often enough to raise serious questions…
Wind Turbines Produce Drama, Cash, and Some Electricity: Support for Anti-Nuclear Nonprofits
In 2011, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) announced it was partnering with the Vestas “WindMade” campaign. WWF is anything but a champion of nuclear power. Throughout 2020 and 2021 the…
Invenergy: Billionaire Michael Polsky’s Wind Power Colossus
In a 2021 corporate news release, Chicago-based Invenergy claimed to be “the largest privately held global developer, owner, and operator of sustainable energy solutions.” Under the guidance of its founder,…
Climate Alarmists Hoover Up Corporate Welfare:
The Rocky Mountain Institute
Goldman Sachs has triumphantly estimated that the so-called Inflation Reduction Act will give away $860 billion in climate alarmist corporate welfare. Huge winners will be firms in the business of…
Climate Alarmists Hoover Up Corporate Welfare:
Reuben Munger
Out of context, the hydrocarbon-hating RMI getting a minimum of $1.5 million in recent years from a big oil company is a weird look. But the image is clearer when…
Climate Alarmists Hoover Up Corporate Welfare:
“Clean Tech” Car Trouble
Some of the red ink from the Fisker fiasco spilled on billionaire venture capitalist John Doerr of the Kleiner Perkins investment firm. After a career of early and very lucrative…
Climate Alarmists Hoover Up Corporate Welfare:
Too Much Honesty
Speaking of this shady enterprise almost a decade ago, billionaire investor Warren Buffett committed too much honesty. “I will do anything that is basically covered by the law to reduce…