Michael Mann Disgrace Update 3-13-2025

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Michael Mann & Mark Jacobson tried to use the courts to intimidate or silence their critics. Instead, the two academics (@UPenn & @Stanford) must now pay their critic’s legal bills ($500k+). Their… pic.twitter.com/2RfD8Rgp1n

— Robert Bryce (@pwrhungry) March 13, 2025

Read: Michael Bloomberg’s $1 Billion Assault on The Electric Grid

By Robert Bryce

Michael Bloomberg’s $1 Billion Assault on The Electric Grid
The media mogul wants to shutter all coal- and half of gas-fired generation by 2030. That’s 40% of U.S. electricity production.

Read: Wind Blows by Robert Bryce

By Robert Bryce

Wind Blows
Excellent news for ratepayers, birds, bats, landscapes, and whales as offshore and onshore wind projects get scuttled

The only thing dumber than onshore wind energy is offshore wind energy. The good news for ratepayers, taxpayers, birds, bats, landscapes, viewsheds, and the critically endangered North Atlantic Right Whale, is that both sectors are getting hammered by market forces that make their projects uneconomic.

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A final note: Ford Motor Company has big problems in its EV business. This week, the company canceled stock orders for its Lightning EV pickup due to the need to perform “additional quality checks.” The company had planned to make the EV trucks at an annualized run rate of 150,000 units. That won’t happen. The company will report its third-quarter EV sales in the next few days. Expect more huge losses.

Good Read: The Power Of Power Density

By Robert Bruce

The Power Of Power Density
Paul Krugman hypes renewables in the New York Times, but the Iron Law of Power Density won’t be repealed

Good Read: “Green” Jobs At Ford And GM Will Cost Taxpayers

By Robert Bryce

“Green” Jobs At Ford And GM Will Cost Taxpayers As Much As $7.7 Million Each

The automakers are getting billions under the Inflation Reduction Act to build EVs. The UAW is not amused.

Good Read: Carbon Myopia by Robert Bryce

Carbon Myopia

On a planet where more than 3 billion people are living in energy poverty, America’s CO2 emissions are fading in importance
By Robert Bryce

Good Reads: June 23, 2023

By Robert Bryce
Let Them Eat Solar Panels
Ex-Im’s $900 million loan for a solar project in Angola is green colonialism

By Chris Martz

Fire Frenzy: Setting the Record Straight on the Canadian Fires

Good Read: No U by Robert Bryce

By Robert Bryce

No U
The nuclear renaissance needs dozens of tons of nuclear fuel. We don’t have it.