Category: Energy, Politics and Economic Prosperity
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Facing the Hard Truths of Energy, Part 2: Some Facts on the Reality of Replacing Conventional Forms of Energy
I was recently invited to a local civic club and my host asked that I focus on the limitations of minerals and difficulty of replacing conventional fuels with wind and solar. Here are some of the slides and my explanation which I used to attempt to drive the point home: The U.S. does not have…
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The End of the Era of Reliable, Abundant and Affordable Energy and Electricity, Part II
The Democrat “Green New Deal” policies to attempt to achieve Net-Zero Carbon will likely create energy and electricity shortages this coming winter and worse yet, contribute to the continuing decline of our country. Energy: Pre-requisite for Economic Prosperity In part 1 I discussed the path to prosperity of the U.S. during the last 80 years.…
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Wake Up America! Your Energy and Electricity Generation Reliability are being Sabotaged from Within
This post will be shorter than previous posts. At the end is a compendium of a long list of references, news articles, documents, reports and facts that the reader can use to gain further understanding and judge for yourself. Purpose My main concern with the so-called transition to reduced carbon generation is, that it is…
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Green Energy Crisis, Part 4, How to Solve it: Improve the Perception of Coal and All Conventional Fuels!
America has the largest coal reserves in the world, about 22% of the world’s coal. America also has all the uranium needed to fuel our nuclear plants and enough oil and gas to provide the primary energy America needs for decades. So, why have we allowed a minority of people and leaders to smear and…
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Green Energy Crisis, Part 3, Public Energy Education is Needed! Each person in the U.S. uses about 315 Million Btus of Primary Energy/Year. This is NOT Practical or even Possible to Replace with wind and solar alone
Introduction In parts 1 and 2 of this Green Energy Series, the Green Energy Crisis and which people and organizations caused it. (part 1 here and part 2 here) The purpose of this post is to attempt to explain the impossibility of replacing conventional forms of Primary energy with wind and solar. America consumes right…
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Green Energy Crisis- Part #2: Meet The Policy Makers That Caused It
Here is a summary of the people & organizations That have led to the destructive Climate Policies our country is now enduring. The “Climate Policies” are against the best interests of America and are not about saving the planet or protecting the environment. There is no planned transition to renewables (25, 60) and our country…
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Back to Basics: The U.S. Needs 100 Quadrillion Btus/year of Primary Energy
Each citizen needs about 315 million Btus of energy to sustain our freedom of travel and way of life Introduction Yesterday I was a guest speaker at the “Money Talks Club” gathering in Sun City. I presented my views of Net Zero Carbon and was impressed with the interest and understanding of energy and electricity…
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IRP Comments to My Local Electricity Provider as a Stakeholder
Santee-Cooper Integrated Resource Plan Letter Introduction: I live in Hilton Head, SC and our local electricity provider is Palmetto Electric Cooperative. Palmetto Electric obtains most, if not all of their Bulk Power from the SC Public Service Authority, known as Santee-Cooper. Santee-Cooper has a long history of providing reliable, reasonable cost power to the low…
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What Would it Take for Net-Zero Electricity Generation by 2050?
The impossibility of achieving Net Zero Carbon by 2050 This is a follow up to my last post: “Influencers of American Energy Policy” The purpose of the January 4th post was to outline “who” influenced the current American Energy Policy and how the “War on Carbon” advanced to reckless, un-American government policies to reach the…
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Influencers of American Energy Policy
America has foolish Decarbonization policies, now codified by our government. The U.S. Energy Policy amounts to No Energy Policy at all. It is absurd and unbelievable that such a great country as ours could enact such harmful policies. But, the U.S. Congress did. It is fair to ask, how could this come to be? The…
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