THE VOICE of energy realism


Mark Mills explains why the green energy transition is not happening. 5 min

On the limits of wind and solar power. 5 min

Nigel Ballantyne

On the beauty  of nuclear power. 4 min

What sea-level rises? 2 min

Welcome to COP 27 1 min

RC The tragic tale of peaks and troughs in windpower 8 min

RC The German trifecta of failure 6 min


5 responses to “THE VOICE of energy realism”

  1. Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare Avatar
    Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare

    Thanks, Rafe. Some good reading here. I’ll open whatever I can cruising here on the sea of the Caribbean, where the internet is very limited (company policy to cope with the traffic) and doesn’t much like linkies. They will save for later though. Keep up the good work.

  2. Jock Avatar
    Jock

    Rafe. I note that the aemo now includes ” renewable penetrative” on the data dashboard. They crap on about 100% continually while ignoring the times when little is available.

  3. duncanm Avatar
    duncanm

    Ah yes, sea level rise
    https://sealevel.info/You_Zai-Jin_et_al_2009.pdf

    somewhere around 5mm/decade since before records started.

    The shift around 1950 is still not understood.

  4. Rafe Champion Avatar
    Rafe Champion

    Thanks Jock, we have to keep reminding people that the green transition is not determined by the penetration of RE on good days, it depends on lifting the RE input on windless nights to meet more of the demand, more than next to nothing, towards most or all of the demand.
    In the absence of feasible and affordable storage at grid-scale that will never happen.

  5. Johnny Rotten Avatar

    Brilliant videos. Please forward them onto Elbow and Turtle Head Bowen for their perusal.

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