The government’s enthusiasm for a hydrogen economy, including for fuelling lorries, buses and trains, will either generate huge quantities of carbon dioxide or come at huge expense, a critic has said.  Writing in The Spectator, Andrew Montford, deputy director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation think tank, said the attractions of hydrogen were “mostly a […]

Yesterday, I wrote about the financial travails of the Kincardine Floating Windfarm and the eye watering bill that is going to have to be paid for its construction. The cost of floating offshore wind power is, it seems, going to be high. I thought it might be interesting to look at Hywind, the UK’s first […]

A megawatt of gas-fired power station comes with a capital cost of perhaps £0.6 million. You can run such a power station flat out – upwards of 90% of the time – giving you very cheap electricity. But of course that’s not what the political establishment has done. Instead, successive governments have promoted renewables. Onshore […]

Green is not perfect. Green is not a cure all. Green is not even “green,” and until its proponents are mature enough to get their head out of the world of ideas and plant their feet in the world of reality, green technology will continue to collide with reality: dead birds, land grabs, and in […]

In his new book, The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations, Daniel Yergin, vice chairman of IHS Markit and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, describes how an environmental entrepreneur drove the rise of fracking technology which changed America’s position in the world.  If you want to get to the beginning of the shale revolution, pick […]

The demand by UN Secretary General António Guterres for a renewable transition in India do not reflect the reality where cheap fossil fuels have been prioritised by the government. UN secretary general António Guterres has asked India to abandon coal and embrace renewables. His clarion call re-affirmed the UN climate agenda, which aims to make […]

Swiss meteorologist Jörg Kachelmann calls it “the dumbest energy and environmental policy ever”. Now, finally, after years of being warned, Germany’s mainstream media are finally showing signs of waking up to it. Germany’s flagship ARD public broadcasting recently presented a report earlier today about how “CO2 neutral” wood burning is leading to widespread deforestation across northern Europe – a rather […]

In the 5 year period to 2019, developing countries accounted for three quarters of global oil demand growth and the Asian developing countries accounted for over 70%.  Climate change activists have long lobbied for divestment from fossil fuel-producing companies. They have largely failed in this quest. This year, the steep falls in the value of the large […]