[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', 'Y')ou're wasting your keyboard adam, windpower is dead, is being abandoned by governments and utilities all over the world.

[theluckycountry]

A good fanboi article about *renewable batteries* displacing Gas generated power during nightly peak usage times, they are getting cheaper too! Well of course, now the EV demand has collapsed there is a huge oversupply
Will they still be cheap in 3 or 5 years? Certainly not if they are made in America but likely not if they are made anywhere. You see they don't actually grow on trees like apples, but are made in power hungry factories.
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-Gene ... -2020.html

But it's the sort of article kub would post to "prove" rebuildables are going to rule the world.

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', 'A') good fanboi article about how gay neoNazis are taking over Australia and trying to direct forum readers to reddits to convert them to teh wonders of same sex loving.

[theluckycountry]

You miss kub don't you adam.

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', 'Y')ou miss kub don't you adam.

[theluckycountry]

As the world continues to install new airconditioners and ever bigger flat screen TV sets, the vaunted Wind power solution is going the way of the EV. Though it's demise will be a lot deeper since it doesn't have millions of hypnotized consumers still lining up to buy into it.

Norway's Equinor scales back climate ambitions as wind changes

If anyone can afford these Norway can, but they are rejecting them, because they are not cost effective.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '.')..The oil and gas producer in 2022 laid out short- and medium-term steps intended to achieve net zero emissions, including those from the use of its products, by 2050.
But in February, it scrapped a pledge to devote more than 50% of its gross capital expenditure to renewables and low-carbon solutions by 2030. "The energy transition has started, but the opportunity set for high-value growth is more limited than we had anticipated," Equinor CEO Anders Opedal said on Thursday.

He cited increased costs, supply chain challenges, and delays by authorities in setting the necessary framework conditions, as well as a shift in governments' priorities. "Due to the geopolitical tension, public spending on defence will increase, leaving less funding available for the energy transition,"

[theluckycountry]

Gone with the Wind: Is This the End for Wind Energy?
https://carboncredits.com/gone-with-the ... nd-energy/

Includes a section on China’s Offshore Wind Boom
The country’s state-owned enterprises benefit from low financing costs, subsidies, and locally produced components, enabling rapid deployment.

Ghost cities anyone? What happens in a centrally controlled communist dictatorship can't be applied to the world as a whole. Data out of China is meaningless, product out of China typically worthless.

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', '
')Norway's Equinor scales back climate ambitions as wind changes

[theluckycountry]

Denmark is now the poster child for wind after Germany finally proved it's uneconomic. All the stories about wind's success center around Denmark. Let's look at one pack of Lies.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')tretching for nearly 43,000 square kilometers across the Jutland Peninsula and several hundred islands, Denmark has made a name for itself as a leader in the energy transition. In fact, the country had the largest share of electricity generation from wind and solar sources worldwide in 2022, at more than 60 percent. With the majority of electricity generation now coming from renewable energy sources, the Nordic country is making good progress on its goals of achieving net-zero emissions by 2045 and phasing out fossil fuels by 2050.

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', ' ') Let's look at their consumption shall we.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')n February 2025, 3,175.303 GWh of electricity was available to the internal market, a decrease from 3,547.999 GWh in January 2025.

[theluckycountry]

Well that's enough blog posting for today, time for a ride in the hills, time to enjoy this lucky Country of ours. Keep safe everyone, and have some fun, even people in warzones take a little time off for pleasure.

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', 'W')ell that's enough blog posting for today, time for a ride in the hills, time to enjoy this lucky Country of ours.

[theluckycountry]

The Tale of Two Energy Transitions
https://substack.com/home/post/p-167504563

Another on point piece from The Honest Sorcerer
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')The 2025 issue of the Statistical Review of World Energy was released last week, complete with a treasure trove of data from 2014 to 2024. Since I’ve found the charts provided with the report extremely unhelpful to get the big picture, I set out to analyze the data myself… And boy, what a difference a wider boundary approach can make! Especially, when it comes to understanding decadal trends such as the elusive “energy transition” or the very real transition of power from the Western hemisphere to the East. If you thought that an 87% global share of fossil fuels was high, or that at least we were making progress, then I urge you to think again. On the other hand if you were wondering why things fall apart in the West, look no further for an answer.

Introduction
Let’s start by stating that in 2024 energy was still the economy. It always was and always will be. There is no economic activity without energy expenditure. From hair saloons using electricity to restaurants cooking with natural gas — or from agriculture, mining and transportation powered by diesel fuel to metallurgy and cement manufacturing enabled by coal — every monetary transaction in the economy generated a great deal of energy consumption. Without an exception. And while some could argue that western states moved past industrial scale energy use by transforming into “service economies”, these societies still consume steel, concrete, plastics, glass, microelectronics, paper, food etc. — all made by burning tons of fuel elsewhere. Viewed from a global perspective, globalization has just moved the location of factories and mines, but did not make any economy on the planet more sustainable, more energy efficient, more green or more advanced. In fact, I argue, all what we have achieved with this shuffling of production around the globe was an even faster draw-down of Earth’s one time resource inheritance.

So, how do we measure this vast energy expenditure when it comes to our one global economy?...

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', 'T')he Tale of Two Energy Transitions

[theluckycountry]

More from the article

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he Energy Transition That Never Was
According to the latest numbers compiled in the report, 87% of the energy used by humanity in 2024 came from fossil fuels. The remaining 13% was consumed in the form of electricity from nuclear, hydro and other “renewables”. Based on these numbers, however, we barely moved the needle in the past ten years, at least when it comes to the much taunted “energy transition”. Coal, oil and gas catered for just a little more than 89% of all energy supply a decade ago! At this rate of “decarbonization”, fossil fuels would be still responsible for almost 80% of our energy consumption in 2050. Heck, if I may venture a guess, we will run out of coal, oil and gas far faster than we could replace just a half of them with solar panels and wind turbines.

There is a mighty big caveat here, as even that 87% cited above is a gross underestimation of our reliance on fossil fuels. In a nutshell: if you thought that an 87% global share of fossil fuels was based on actual energy output, then hurry, because these folks at the Energy Institute have a mighty big bridge to sell you. In order to show progress (even as meager as we’ve seen above), and to make investors think that these “alternative” sources of energy are somehow a viable replacement to fossil fuels (which they’re demonstrably not), a statistical slight of hand had to be used. This meant that low-carbon energy sources were accounted for the amount of fossil heat they replaced, not for the actual electricity they provided to the system. Truth to be told, the authors of the report tell us as much, although in small print at the bottom of the page

“Energy from non-fossil fuel combustible electricity generation is accounted for on their input heat requirements and non-combustible renewables on the energy content of their gross electrical output.”
Our total energy consumption was thus artificially inflated to show low-carbon energy sources in a much better light, assigning them a much bigger share of world energy production than they actually represent. This is how we get figures for nuclear three times as large than in real life — accounting for the heat produced by uranium, not for the electricity provided to the grid. (3) So while hydro is represented more-or-less correctly (there is no heat to electricity conversion going on there), so called “renewables” receive a similar beauty treatment to nuclear

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', 'M')ore from the article

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he Energy Transition That Never Was
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXKP72NdxwA

[theluckycountry]

more bailout needed



$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'V')estas Wind Power CEO Urges EU To Sharpen Its "Fragmented" Energy Policy
“Wind is largely a European creation — born in our universities, tested on our sites,” Andersen told Bloomberg News. “If we don’t protect and support what we’ve built, companies like ours will eventually move out of Europe. It’s that simple.” Bloomberg writes that despite its leadership in wind technology, Europe’s fragmented regulatory landscape, high inflation, rising interest rates, and supply chain issues have created headwinds for companies like Vestas. Competition from Chinese turbine manufacturers — including recent deals in Germany — has added to the pressure, although some of these arrangements face scrutiny on national security grounds.

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', '[')b]more bailout needed says Polly

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'V')estas Wind Power CEO Urges EU To Sharpen Its "Fragmented" Energy Policy

[theluckycountry]

"Wind Power", it's a brand name, Like EV. Electric vehicle suggests the power is reliable and cheap, like your outlets on the wall, but of course they are not. Battcar tells it as it is, expensive to recharge (and replace the batteries) and prone to going flat just when you need it most.

People envisage wind power, or "Wind generators" as being magic towers that sit on hilltops far away but never in these discussions have I heard anyone discuss the costs of feeding that power into homes and industry far away. Well as it turns out, that's the Achilles Heel of these overpriced rebuildables.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'B')uilding a wind turbine requires significant amounts of steel, copper and aluminium, all of which doubled or tripled in price between 2020 and 2023. Turbine manufacturers have raised prices in an effort to recover recent losses. This affects the profitability forecasts of wind energy developers like Ørsted and the viability of each of their projects.

Impending national and international net zero targets also mean that developers globally are having to make earlier investments in transmission infrastructure. An exponential increase in demand for scarce high-voltage cabling has already led to high-profile cancellations of offshore wind farms in the US.

Developers need boats to build offshore wind farms. Here lies another strain ...
Rising costs mean that even one of the world’s biggest wind farms, Dogger Bank in the North Sea, will not be profitable for its developer, Equinor. As a prospect for generating financial returns, renewable energy still cannot compete with oil and gas.

[theluckycountry]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he recent collapse of two offshore wind-farm projects in Australia has raised questions about the viability of wind as a major source of clean energy. The "Gippsland Dawn" project off the Victorian coast is the latest project to be scrapped by developers. Industry figures are urging federal and state governments to sort out the issues plaguing the sector.