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therightinsight.org/in-Dependence-Day-2022
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7/1/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
Energy independence has been an aspirational goal of the US for decades. However, the US actually achieved that goal in the period from 2017-2020 as the result of the application of US ingenuity and the encouragement of a supportive federal...
therightinsight.org/in-Dependence-Day-2023
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7/4/23 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
The United States energy independence achieved in 2020 has been sacrificed on the altar of climate change, terminated with malice as part of an effort to “end fossil fuels”. This effort would ultimately make the entire US energy...
therightinsight.org/100-Ways-Biden-and-the-Democrats-Have-Made-it-Harder-to-Produce-Oil-and-Gas
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9/22/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
therightinsight.org/150-Ways-the-Biden-Administration-and-Democrats-Have-Made-it-Harder-to-Produce-Oil-and-Gas
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6/8/23 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
therightinsight.org/A-Mostly-Wind-and-Solar-Powered-US-Economy-Is-a-Dangerous-Fantasy
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5/12/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
therightinsight.org/A-New-Paradigm
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1/31/23 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
Electric grids have demonstrated the ability to adapt to some fraction of intermittent renewable generation, as long as there is sufficient dispatchable generation available to meet contemporaneous grid demand when the intermittent ...
therightinsight.org/A-Plan-B-for-addressing-climate-change-and-the-energy-transition
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3/31/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
therightinsight.org/Abandon-Fossil-Fuels-Empower-China
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8/24/23 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
therightinsight.org/Achieving-Net-Zero-A-report-from-a-putative-delivery-agency
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3/17/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
therightinsight.org/Alternative-Approaches
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8/23/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
There are fundamentally two approaches to the adoption of new technology. The more common approach has been to introduce and market the product, process, or service embodying the new technology and allow the market to adopt the new ...
therightinsight.org/Are-fossil-fuel-CO2-emissions-good-or-bad
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9/8/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
therightinsight.org/Baseload-Replacement
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7/19/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
Baseload powerplants operate continuously at, or close to, their rated capacity to meet the continuous demand on the electric grid. Nuclear power plants are typically operated as baseload plants. Some coal power plants are also operated as ...
therightinsight.org/Capacity-Factors
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5/2/23 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
The US Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration chart below is arguably accurate but inarguably misleading.

The capacity factors shown for both wind and solar, while they are the actual percentage...
therightinsight.org/Chinas-Long-Game
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9/6/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
China is aggressively pursuing economic development, including construction of numerous coal generating stations, steelmaking facilities and cement kilns. These actions, while inconsistent with the goal of the Paris Accords, are consistent ...
therightinsight.org/Climate-Change-Extremes
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2/7/23 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
They're rioting in Africa
There's strife in Iran
What nature doesn't do to us
Will be done by our fellow man.
The Merry Minuet, Sheldon Harnick
Mother Nature has been providing the earth with numerous types of severe weather ...
therightinsight.org/Climate-Change-Fascism
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11/29/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
Fascism
1: a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe ...
therightinsight.org/Climate-Change-Playbook
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7/12/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
It appears that the White House and at least two of the Executive Branch Agencies are not on the same page of the climate change “playbook”. The Administration has clearly enunciated goals of eliminating coal use by 2030, ...
therightinsight.org/Curiouser-and-Curiouser
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8/31/21 at 3:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
Strange decisions are being made by numerous global governments which have committed under the Paris Accords to reduce CO2 emissions in an effort to limit the increase in the global average temperature anomaly to 1.5°C.
China is ...
therightinsight.org/CVOW-and-Storage
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11/8/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
Dominion Energy has proposed to build Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) a 176 wind turbine farm off the Virginia coast. The Virginia Legislature had predetermined that such a project was in the public interest. The Virginia State ...
therightinsight.org/Demonstration-Reporting
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4/5/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
This commentary suggests a reporting format for the renewable plus storage demonstration discussed in the prior two commentaries.
Pre-demonstration electricity generation ... |
therightinsight.org/Dispatchable-Wind-and-Solar
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4/11/23 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
Electricity demand fluctuates continuously, over a range of 2.5-3 to one. Electric utility operators control the output of numerous generation resources over their acceptable range of operation to match the contemporaneous demand of the ...
therightinsight.org/Does-Wind-Intermittance-Over-Short-Hourly-Periods-Gives-a-Clearer-Picture
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8/3/23 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
therightinsight.org/Electric-Energy-Storage
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8/3/21 at 3:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
The operation of the electric grid requires continuous balance between supply and demand. Electric demand fluctuates throughout the day and these fluctuations are significantly different between weekdays and weekend days. Electric ...
therightinsight.org/Electric-Transition
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2/15/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
The US EIA graph below summarizes the sources and uses of energy in the US economy. The Administration has established a series of progressive goals to eliminate fossil fuel consumption in the energy economy and achieve Net Zero ...
therightinsight.org/Energy-Efficiency-as-a-Climate-Change-Reform-Strategy-Are-we-just-throwing-money-at-the-problem
(For an introduction to this E3 blog series click here)
Put to one side for a moment whether we need to do anything about climate change. Assume it is real and we need to do “something.” There are a wide variety ...
therightinsight.org/Energy-Inflation-Was-by-Design
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10/27/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
therightinsight.org/Energy-Policy-and-the-Presidential-Election
therightinsight.org/The-Consensus-on-Climate-Change-Facts-and-Myths
"No challenge--no challenge--poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change. 2014 was the planet’s warmest year on record. Now, one year doesn’t make a trend, but this does: 14 of the 15... |
therightinsight.org/Energy-Security-is-National-Security
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4/27/23 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
therightinsight.org/Energy-War-Similarities
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I...
therightinsight.org/Epstein-on-Energy-Fossil_Future-on-Deck
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3/5/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
therightinsight.org/Estimates-and-Averages
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10/3/23 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
Developers of renewable energy generation installations frequently focus their marketing efforts on estimates of the number of homes the installations would serve. The developers’ estimates are not based on consistent assumptions and ...
therightinsight.org/EV-Precautions
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11/15/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
Precautionary Principle: An expression of a need by decision-makers to anticipate harm before it occurs. Within this element lies an implicit reversal of the onus of proof: under the precautionary principle it is the responsibility of an ...
therightinsight.org/Existential-Threat
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8/9/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
The United Nations and several national governments have begun referring to climate change as an existential threat, meaning a threat to the future existence of life on earth. This is a political position intended to draw attention to the ...
therightinsight.org/Exploiters-Versus-Experts
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12/8/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
From: Climate Etc.
By: Planning Engineer (Russell Schussler)
Date: November 28, 2022
Exploiters Versus Experts
The unfolding saga around FTX, the cryptocurrency exchange currently in bankruptcy, appears to share ...
therightinsight.org/Fauci-Fear-Balance-and-the-Grid
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5/25/23 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
therightinsight.org/Feasibility-for-achieving-a-net-zero-economy-for-the-US-by-2050
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3/23/23 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
therightinsight.org/Fossil-and-Non-Fossil-Fuels
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8/10/23 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
From: Watts Up With That
By: Willis Eschenbach
Date: July 7, 2023
Fossil and Non-Fossil Fuels
In my previous post, The Myth Of Replacing Fossil Fuels, I looked at the new BP global use of fossil and non-fossil fuels. In this ...
therightinsight.org/Full-Disclosure-Solar
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6/21/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
Solar is intermittent. Therefore, solar generation is intermittent. Solar is unreliably available during the day and reliably unavailable at night. Solar conditions vary geographically and seasonally. Therefore, solar generation potential ...
therightinsight.org/Full-Disclosure-Storage
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6/28/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
Wind and solar are intermittent resources, so both wind and solar generation are intermittent and require backup. This backup is currently provided by conventional generation. However, with the evolution of a fossil-free grid, storage ...
therightinsight.org/Full-Disclosure-System
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7/5/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
The fossil-free, all-electric everything grid envisioned to avoid catastrophic anthropogenic climate change would be a very different grid from that which serves the US today. The fossil-free grid would still include the non-fossil ...
therightinsight.org/Full-Disclosure-Wind
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6/14/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
Wind is intermittent. Therefore, wind generation is intermittent. Wind is unreliably available around the clock. Wind conditions vary geographically and seasonally. Therefore, wind generation potential varies geographically and seasonally. ...
therightinsight.org/Future-Grid
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1/24/23 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
"The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots." Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny
It currently appears that the Administration’s vision of the future US electric grid, supplied ...
therightinsight.org/Future-World-How-Many-Windmills-Would-We-Need
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6/6/17 at 8:51 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
The US currently consumes approximately 97 quadrillion British Thermal Units (BTU) of energy in all forms each year (97 Quads). Since this quantity of energy and the forms of energy which constitute it vary over time, this analysis will use...
therightinsight.org/Gas-Appliance-Phaseout
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2/8/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
Achieving Net Zero GHG emissions by 2050 would require a complete phaseout of residential and commercial gas appliances, including furnaces and boilers, water heaters, ranges and ovens, laundry dryers, grills, and standby generators.
US ...
therightinsight.org/Gas-Generation-Phaseout
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1/18/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
The US currently generates more than 500,000,000 Megawatt-hours, or approximately 25% of electric utility annual electricity production, in coal-fueled generating stations, which the Administration has said will all cease operation by 2030....
therightinsight.org/Goals-and-Plans
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5/30/23 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”, Antoine de St.Exupery
“I love it when a plan comes together.”, John (Hannibal) Smith
The Biden Administration has announced a series of goals, leading to an overall goal of ...
therightinsight.org/Goals-Without-Plans
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6/8/21 at 3:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”, Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Biden Administration has produced a new US INDC (Intended Nationally Determined Contributions) after rejoining the Paris Accords. The new INDC roughly ...
therightinsight.org/Grid-Balancing
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4/12/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
The electric utility grid requires instantaneous balancing of demand and supply. Historically, most fluctuations on the grid were the result of changes in customer demand. However, as intermittent renewable sources of generation are added ...
therightinsight.org/Grid-Reliability
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9/20/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
The reliability of the electric utility grid depends upon the availability of generation output equal to grid demand at all times. Historically, this has been accomplished by operating numerous generators at somewhat below full capacity, so...
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