If you have followed my commentaries over the last six years, you are well aware of the climate scam. But most Americans are not. True, they seem to realize that “Global Warming” has little basis in fact. Only one percent believe that we are facing a climate catastrophe, while only three percent of the young […]
Renewable energy proponents boast of the reduction in costs for windmills, solar panels and storage batteries. However, for all three the 10-fold decrease in cost faces the “law of diminishing return,” where every incremental gain yields less progress than in the past. A typical wind turbine requires 900 tons of steel, 2500 tons of concrete […]
In a world awash with very serious problems, Oregonians seem trapped in an alternate reality. Our senior U.S. Senator Ron Wyden is most concerned about collusion with Russia, when a fat, belligerent, and very erratic tyrant in another far off land is fast acquiring nuclear weapons that will soon be able to strike the United […]
Contrary to popular belief, electric power is not like ice cream. You cannot have any flavor you want whenever you want it. Because power generation equipment is expensive, the only way to keep rates reasonable is to amortize capital costs over generations, meaning that the equipment needs to be utilized and actually last that long. […]