Showing posts with label Renewables. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Renewables. Show all posts

October 22, 2026

Forget EVs, Hydrogen-Based Synthetic Fuels Are the Answer

In 2025, Japanese car manufacturers partnered with ENEOS to provide cars that run on 100% renewable liquid fuel. This is the right thinking. 

EVs are useless and offer very little utility. They're expensive, and the batteries require minerals that are very scarce. When it comes to electricity, the power grid does not exist to recharge a large fleet of cars, and even if it did, there is no installed generation capacity to supply the electricity. The whole notion is a pipe dream and extreme foolishness. 

I predict that within 10 years, many top car brands will simply disappear. They'll be talked about the way people mention Studebaker or DeSoto today. And those dinosaurs will be companies that headed down the EV cul-de-sac.

https://global.toyota/en/newsroom/corporate/42597288.html

With support from the Green Innovation Fund of the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), ENEOS will provide synthetic fuel produced at a demonstration plant completed in September 2024 within its Central Technical Research Laboratory. This fuel will be supplied to vehicles for transporting guests provided by Toyota and Mazda, as well as vehicles for transporting related parties provided by Suzuki, Subaru, and Daihatsu. The synthetic fuel to be used has been confirmed in advance by Suzuki, Subaru, Daihatsu, Toyota, and Mazda to be able to operate similarly to gasoline.

June 19, 2026

Clever Renewable Energy Idea

The movement of the seas provides a useful source of energy that is fairly consistent. It wouldn't be everything to all men, but this thinking is a start. An obvious problem is that when swells are too large, the energy flow would shut down, much the same way wind farms do. 

September 05, 2025

Sustainable and Renewable Energy

New Zealand talks about wind and solar energy all the time. It's a complete nonsense, they're both useless. However, NZ does have two kinds of renewable energy that is abundant and forever - geothermal and tidal. So, why don't we ever hear much about either?

Oh wait, would that be because Big Green capital isn't invested in it, would that be it? 

C'mon NZ, the country has abundant geothermal energy, and the strongest tides in the world. NZ's tides are that big, waterways such as Cook Strait are dangerous, famous for its shipwrecks. However, when it comes to using tidal energy, I'm not aware of anyone in the country designing something feasible to harness that power. As long as we have the moon, we have the tides, the tides are free and consistent. 

It isn't rocket science.

https://www.pnnl.gov/explainer-articles/tidal-energy#:~:text=Tidal%20energy%20is%20a%20form,the%20sun%2C%20and%20the%20moon.

Tidal energy is a clean, renewable, sustainable resource that is underutilized and represents significant opportunity to meet growing global energy needs, both now and in the future. Water is hundreds of times denser than air, which makes tidal energy more powerful than wind. It is more efficient than wind or solar energy due to its relative density and produces no greenhouse gases or other waste, making it an attractive renewable energy source to pursue.

January 16, 2025

Renewables Lead to Blackouts

Please take the time to digest the embedded video from UnHerd's, Freddie Sayers. Last week the UK came close to an electrical system collapse. Basically, when the power is required, happens to be the times when solar is not available and wind is variable all the time anyway. Continuing to rely on fancy feelgood methods of electricity generation will result in seriously negative consequences:

August 08, 2023

New Zealand Sold to BlackRock

Things just keep getting worse. Now New Zealand has sold the country to BlackRock, the investment firm that owns a piece of just about everything. 

Make no mistake, if NZ attempts to go 100% renewable, that's it, failed state. 

www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/495339/pm-hipkins-hails-2b-blackrock-climate-investment-fund-for-renewable-energy

Prime Minister Chris Hipkins made the announcement in Auckland this morning, saying the government is partnering with investment company BlackRock to launch the fund with the goal of making New Zealand the first country in the world to reach 100 percent renewable electricity.

"It will be BlackRock's largest single-nation decarbonisation investment to date," he said.

"I am absolutely stoked that we've been able to secure this world-leading investment in New Zealand businesses and it's proof of our ambitious climate targets having the world's attention.