Save the Earthlings from Earth Day
In the spring of 1970, the editors of Ramparts, a now-defunct New Left publication, predicted that the inaugural Earth Day would become “the first step in a con game that…
solar energy
Low-Quality Energy for the LIDACs and $21.8 Billion in Waste from the EPA
Trimming the fat from federal spending, regulations (and maybe even babble-speak acronyms) is the work of President-elect Donald Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). It’ll be a tough job…
InfluenceWatch Friday
The information compiled in InfluenceWatch gives news outlets and other interested parties to use this research in future reporting on significant topics that are often overlooked by the American public.
The California Teachers Association and the $2.5 Billion Crusade Against Nuclear Power
Bad advice drives bad policy, and one of the Golden State’s great destroyers has been the California Teachers Association (CTA). For example, the CTA cosigned an April 2021 joint letter…
Film Review of Juice: The Reliability Error
In his latest docuseries energy journalist Robert Bryce examines the dangerous destabilization of the American electricity grid due to flawed policy choices, such as an overreliance on unreliable, weather-dependent wind…
Film Review of Juice: The Commodity Error
Electricity is our most important infrastructure, analogous to roads and bridges, but even more critical to survival. To take just one example, water treatment plants and water pumps need power,…
Film Review of Juice: The Anti-Human League
The fatal myth driving these errors was that electricity customers wanted to be in a market where the objective was to purchase kilowatts. We didn’t. What we really have always…
Film Review of Juice: Victory?
While not unequivocally declaring victory, Juice concluded on a high note, ticking off several important and recent wins for pro-nuclear advocates. Dr. Keefer and his allies recently persuaded the right-leaning…
Congress Approves of Nuclear Energy, but There’s Still a $2.3 Billion Annual Opposition
The traditional enemies of America’s largest source of carbon-free electricity show no signs of growing weaker. American nonprofits with a known opposition to nuclear power have a combined annual revenue…
Wind Power Doesn’t Make Sense: Berkshire Hathaway
Myths are an ever-present ingredient in promises made by the wind and solar energy industry. The magic can turn to farce when gullible media tries to make sense of it.