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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/2023-Year-in-Review
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12/26/23 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
The Administration war on fossil fuels continues, with reduced lease sales, lease cancellations, new emissions rules for electric powerplants and gasoline and diesel vehicles and electric vehicle mandates.
The Administration has less than ...
therightinsight.org/2024-The-Year-Ahead
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1/2/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
Altruism dies when it costs.
The promise of the transition from a fossil fuel energy economy to a renewable energy economy was and is lower energy prices and an improved environment. That promise is clearly broken irreparably. Energy ...
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/Climate-Model-Bias-Series
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3/28/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy
therightinsight.org/Climate-Narratives
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10/17/23 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
Several narratives have evolved around the issue of climate change. The narratives originate in the science, but focus on different aspects of the science and different interpretations of its meaning.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...
therightinsight.org/Costing-the-Green-Grid-Current-and-future-technology
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2/8/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy
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-Challenge
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11/28/23 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
The stated goal of the US Administration’s renewable energy transition is to replace all dispatchable fossil-fueled electricity generation and all direct fossil fuel usage with renewable electricity to reduce CO2 emissions. Logically,...
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/Electricity-Prices-Are-Soaring-Its-Time-to-Hold-the-Energy-Transition-Accountable
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1/18/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy
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-Transition-Goal
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1/30/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
The Administration’s stated goal for the energy transition is an energy system with “Net Zero” CO2 emissions after conversion of all energy end uses to all-electric systems. I often find, when trying to visualize a ...
therightinsight.org/Energy-User-Responsibility
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2/27/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
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/Fraudulent-Fantasy
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1/23/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy
- Ed Reid
The UN and numerous national governments are promoting the fantasy that the global energy economy can transition to a fossil-fuel-free, all-electric everything energy economy by 2050. In this fantasy, intermittent renewable generation ...
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 ...
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