Category: Alternative Subsidy

We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars

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The only reason why some people can use electric cars, is because everyone else doesn’t. If all car and truck drivers were forced to use electric vehicles, the problem of recharging them would become completely unmanageable.

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Related: The Removal Of Tesla’s Dutch Treat

Tesla sales typically follow a pattern that exudes “stuffing” at the end of any quarter, and there was clearly some pull-ahead in sales into December in Holland because of the tax law change.
 
But, no statistical or seasonal anomalies could have possibly prepared me for this morning’s BOVAG figure for Tesla sales in January in the Netherlands.
 
Tesla sold 165 cars in the Netherlands in January.
 
That’s right, and that’s a 99% sequential decrease in sales. That figure was composed of 153 Model 3s, 5 Model S and 8 Model X. Seriously. For an entire month. To be fair that is a 150% increase over January 2019’s sales figure of 63 units, but, again, Tesla’s December 2020 sales in the Netherlands are, by my estimation, going to be massively lower than December 2019’s.

To be continued…

We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Mirrors

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Via WUWT – Crescent Dunes, the world largest concentrated solar power plant featuring 10 hours of molten salt thermal energy storage, just went bust.

The Department of Energy called the vast and expensive solar project a “success story” and “milestone for the country’s energy future.”
 
But you can’t trust what the government says. Crescent Dunes is a flop and taxpayers are set to lose $737 million on it, according to a new Bloomberg report. That is even more than the $535 million taxpayers lost on the corruption‐​soaked Solyndra solar project.
 
With 10,000 mirrors arrayed in the Nevada desert, Crescent Dunes does look cool. But with the much lower costs of solar photovoltaic and natural gas projects, the government’s gamble on this alternative technology was folly. Politicians never apologize for their mistakes, and the main politician responsible for this one, former Senator Harry Reid, has retired and won’t face any tough questions about wasting our money.

h/t Lance

Y2Kyoto: An Interesting Thing Happened In Alberta Over This Very Cold Week

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Lance Neilson (Facebook);

Starting with the NDP, and continuing under the UCP, coal fired power generation is being converted to natural gas. The coal mining operation next to the power plants are down to skeleton crews. Battle River power generation station is who I am going to talk about specifically.
 
Battle River and Sheerness are on the same natural gas pipeline. When something happens to the supply of natural gas both power generation stations go down. For example a compressor on the line going down in the -47 weather takes out both power plants. During last week Battle River received a call from the pipeline operator saying that they had to curtail the amount of natural gas in the pipeline. It is -47. The coal mining equipment has not been running. The coal handling facility at the power plant is all froze down. The electric dragline for uncovering coal cannot be started. Remember last week when level 1 and 2 emergencies were issued for the power grid? This is why. We have now made our power grid far more vulnerable to faults. Whereas coal fired, from coal mined next door at each plant, takes away that risk.
 
Wind and solar were non existent when we needed them most. We needed coal and it has been shuttered to the point were we couldn’t get it running quickly or at full capacity. This was only one week of a cold snap. We have made our lives far more vulnerable.
 
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Addition #2: last week the cost of electricity was $900-$1000/mwh. The cost to the Alberta consumer was around $35. The spread of around $950/mwh was paid for from Tax dollars. I’m guessing here, but I think last week cost us over a half a billion dollars. That was added to the deficit. We have the capacity to produce the power, and up to 2016 we did. Our hands are tied with the large emitters carbon tax, so we can’t ramp up production when needed. Alberta pays. Montana benefits and makes a fortune off us.

All as the obscenity that is the massive wind farm at Pincher Creek continues to grow. This is how conservative governments fail, Mr. Kenney.

h/t CFH

We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans

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Germany, the poster child for renewable energy, sourcing close to half of its electricity from renewable sources, plans to close all of its nuclear power plants by 2022. Its coal-fired plants, meanwhile, will be operating until 2038. According to a study from the U.S. non-profit National Bureau of Economic Research, Germany is paying dearly for this nuclear phase-out–with human lives.

The deaths attributed to “pollution from coal power generation” are also agenda-driven statistical extrapolation bullshit.

We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Mirrors

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Tesla Is Hiding Its “Solar Test House” With Even More Tents To Prevent “Prying Eyes”

Meanwhile, it has now been more than three years since October 2016, when Musk first “revealed” the tiles in an event that many skeptics say was purely for show and to move Tesla’s bailout merger of SolarCity along. A solar panel expert recently debunked Tesla’s 2016 presentation in a podcast and explained why he used it as the basis for forming his skeptical opinion on the company.
 
Musk has yet to disclose how many people have paid $100 to pre-order the Solarglass Roof, despite touting the company’s pre-order numbers for its Cybertruck. Is it possible that both products still don’t exist, we wonder?

Related: Tesla, Apple, Google, Microsoft and Glencore did not immediately respond for comment.

We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars

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CNBC;

A Tesla Supercharger station located at a Wawa convenience store ignited in Parsippany, New Jersey, CNBC confirmed after images of the fire were shared on social media.
 
According to a Wawa spokesperson, “Tesla had an issue with their cabinet and the power has been shut off while they are investigating. Our store was unaffected as it is on a completely separate power line.”
 
Tesla did not return multiple requests for comment.

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