By Samuele Furfari If a self-described leader finds that nobody is following, is leadership present? Perhaps. The next question might be, where is the leader headed? These queries could well be put to the European Union’s makers of energy policy, who fancy themselves as groundbreakers for a supposed transition away from fossil fuels in favor… Continue Reading
By Vijay Jayaraj Those claiming that wind and solar energy are cheaper than fossil fuels should be writing scripts for science fiction dramas. Yet global organizations such as investment firm Lazard and the International Renewable Energy Agency expect this bogus claim to be taken seriously as a basis for investing many billions into essentially useless… Continue Reading
The Great Energy Non-Transition By Bruce Everett, Ph.D. One of the troubling characteristics of today’s civic discourse is the tendency to confuse predictions with reality. Nowhere is this problem more severe than in the debate over climate and its associated issues. The last hundred years have seen increasing emissions of carbon dioxide – a benign… Continue Reading
This month, the Pennsylvania Game Commission (PGC) voted unanimously to ban wind turbines on the 1.5 million acres it controls. Fully five percent of the Commonwealth’s land is managed by the PGC, yet no commercial wind project had ever been approved. There has been no development in spite of the fact that the land’s many… Continue Reading