By David Middleton – Re-Blogged From WUWT
If this wasn’t funny enough…
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Renewables
The Costs and Fallibility of UK Weather Dependent Renewables
Global Solar Power Installations Will Crash 24% in 2018
By Eric Worrall – Re-Blogged From WUWT
h/t James Delingpole – This is a bad year for renewable energy.
Goldman Sachs Puts a Grim Number on Solar Slump for This Year
By Chris Martin
20 July 2018Anyone following clean energy knew this could be a tough year for solar. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. just put a grim number on how bad.
The pace of global installations will contract by 24 percent in 2018, Goldman analysts led by Brian Lee said in a research note late Wednesday. That’s far more dire than the 3 percent decline forecast by Bloomberg NEF in the bleakest of three scenarios outlined in a report earlier this month. Credit Suisse Group AG is forecasting a 17 percent contraction.
Coal Power Has the Same Energy Share it Had 20 Years Ago
By Anthony Watts – Re-Blogged From http://www.WattsUpWithThat.com
A couple of days ago, we noted that this year’s edition of BP’s annual Statistical Review of World Energy report on global energy use is out, and it contains one of the most telling charts about the failure of the climate crusade’s “war on coal” ever presented.
Most of the lamestream media coverage has focused on this particular chart from the BP report, which shows coal having a small uptick in 2017 after several years of decline. Doesn’t look like much, does it? Just a blip. Nothing for the enviro-faithful to worry about, the net trend is still down, right? They are blaming president Trump for it.
Prolonged Wind Drought Crushes British Turbine Output
By Eric Worrall – Re-Blogged From http://www.WattsUpWithThat.com
Britons are experiencing first hand why wind is utterly unsuitable for reliable electricity production.
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #317
Brought to You by www.SEPP.org The Science and Environmental Policy Project
By Ken Haapala, President
Hollow Models? The long writing career of British logician and philosopher Bertrand Russell covered a period of marked change in science. The term natural philosophy was giving way to the term physical science and extensive divisions were occurring into branches such as physics, chemistry, etc. Already, it had been shown that long-held beliefs needed continuing empirical verification. For example, European philosophers long held the view that knowledge can be logically deduced from generally held beliefs, or propositions, such as: all swans are white; if it is a swan, it is white. This logical view was broken when the premise was falsified with the discovery of black swans in Australia in 1697. The occurrence has been used to demonstrate that logic alone is not sufficient to demonstrate a proposition has meaning in the physical world (truth). [Stock market investor Nassim Nicholas Taleb developed an investment (speculation) strategy based on unlikely events, which has different meaning.]
Fund Managers Predict the Decline of Oil, But We’ve Heard This Before
By Steve Goreham – Re-Blogged From Washington Examiner
(AP Photo/Eric Gay)
