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A Germany nuclear plant was damaged because its operators increased and decreased its output to respond to energy grid fluctuations. The incident supports the theory that nuclear and renewable energy generation are incompatible. EURACTIV’s partner Der Tagesspiegel reports. The Brokdorf nuclear power station, located in northern Germany, was taken offline in February after maintenance showed its reactor’s fuel rods had begun to unexpectedly oxidise. A regional nuclear supervisory body has now ruled that the plant can be booted back up but only in “safe mode”, according to Schleswig-Holstein’s energy transition minister. State Minister for Energy Robert Habeck (Greens) added that...

The proliferation of renewable energy will never please environmentalists. In fact, the more efficient and inexpensive energies like solar and wind become, the more environmentalists will fear and eventually hate them.Currently, arguments against renewable energy are based on the accurate claim they are too inefficient to become widespread. The technology behind solar and wind power are just not where they need to be to justify widespread use. In October 2014, data revealed the massive Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in the Mojave Desert fell well short of its anticipated output. During an eight-month period in 2013, the solar plant...

The Australian Government, the Labor Party, has recently decided to change Australian legislation to approve the sale of Australian mined Uranium to India for use in Nuclear power plants. That decision was based on the fact that India needs to lower its emissions of CO2. However, the more important decision, whether or not to use that same Uranium for Nuclear power plants here in Australia was not even discussed. The same reason, lowering emissions of CO2 should also apply here in Australia, if we have to lower our emissions by moving away from coal fired power generation. This analysis compares...

During the State of the Union address, the President called for Americans to have 80% of all electrical power being generated from Renewable sources by 2035. Despite being a physical impossibility to actually do this, the cost is astronomical, $6 Trillion. Renewables, at best might be able to supply power for 6 to 8 hours a day, and, right now, if 65% of all electrical power in the U.S. is required 24/7/365, then this 'Sputnik Moment' for the President becomes not just a dream, but a nightmare of truly disastrous proportions. This dream of his will have us all back...

Ever increasing numbers of Wind and Solar Power Plants are actually causing an increase in the emissions of CO2 from other power plants, most notably, natural gas fired power plants. The most current and almost real time data proves this conclusively. This is another part in the continuing monthly series that proves these two forms of renewable power most favored are not delivering power for when it is required, absolutely, 24/7/365. Because of that, those other plants are being tasked to take up the slack, and in fact to work harder. The increase in CO2 emissions from them is not...

While in Australia, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton got together with Prime Minister Julia Gillard and made a wonderful announcement about how they would be striving to get Solar Power plants to a level where they can compete with current conventional Power Plants. To make these Solar Photovoltaic plants competitive, all they need to do is pass legislation to make the Sun shine directly over these plants for the full 24 hours of every day.

A seemingly simple Load Curve for total power consumption is the most critical thing to look at when explaining why Wind Power and Solar Power cannot replace the power provided from large scale coal fired power plants. This most recent data also proves that when huge amounts of power are required, it comes from those traditional sources which increased their output, while wind and solar decreased the amount of power they supplied.

With the ramping up of rhetoric regarding the move to a Renewable Electricity Standard, just how effectively can Wind Power and Solar Power deliver a constant and regular supply of electrical power? This post uses the most current Government statistics to show conclusively that both these forms of Renewable Power fail, and that they fail comprehensively to deliver power, not only for when it is needed the most, but for all the time.

If you think Renewable Power can become a viable alternative for the future to replace coal fired power generation, then you need to see how it is performing right now. Even after huge amounts of public money have been diverted on the most current Wind and Solar technology, both these forms of power fail miserably to supply electrical power on the same basis that coal fired power is already providing, that being access to reliable power on a 24/7/365 basis. This analysis of current statistics shows exactly how Renewable power is failing to provide that electrical power, and no amount...

Renewable Power is being hyped as the direction for the future, and is even in Legislation the Democrats hope to pass. Real World statistics for Renewable Power show something entirely different. These stats are for the U.S. and for the month of April, and the accompanying commentary shows that Wind Power and Solar Power just cannot deliver the power required absolutely, and that they never will.

When President Obama used the Gulf oil spill to promote his legislation for a Clean Energy Future, it was blatant opportunism. Comparing the oil spill with renewable power is like comparing soccer to baseball. Both are sports, both use a ball, but they are completely different things. Recent statistics show how renewable power, especially Wind Power and Solar Power just cannot be used to supply the constant amounts of power required absolutely 24/7/365. Analysis of these statistics shows exactly how these two current flavour of the month renewable sources for electrical power fail so miserably at what they are touted...

When the President uses the Gulf oil spill disaster to push the barrow for Cap and Trade Legislation, be fully aware this is just a red herring, because the one bears no relation to the other. The Legislation's proposer Senator Kerry came out yesterday and said the Legislation would only cost less than a dollar a day to lower the temperature. Notice how they always use the lowest possible price, without telling you the larger figure of how much this legislation will rake in for the Government. That amount, easily calculated comes in at around $260 Billion, each and every...

President Obama said he would like to see the doubling of renewable power generation by the end of his first term, and you might think this was an easy ask, considering it is barely 3% of consumed power. However, this new legislation, The American Power Act makes provisions for renewable power that look great. However, the wrong assumptions mean that even by the hoped for date of 2030, that level of 'new' renewable power catered for in this Bill will still not have doubled that current total. There are also provisions for 'new' Nuclear power', and this post offers some...

Surely this couldn't happen? The American power Act Climate Change legislation is currently before the Senate. A supposedly 'independent' report basically backs up everything Senators Kerry and Lieberman wanted you to hear. The trouble is they used the wrong set of figures for electrical power, using the installed Nameplate Capacity totals for power and not the actual power supplied by them to the grids for consumers, and believe me, the difference is as wide as a gulf, and also misleading. because it's technical, the intent might be to hoodwink the public. However, with the real figures so easy to find...

This wonderful new proposal for Renewable Power is a rock solid dead set certainty to gain funding from this Administration in their blind rush to Renewable Power.

With greater calls for renewable power, it's worthwhile looking at the data for the Harsh Winter just gone. With a huge spike in electricity consumption, even larger than for the last two Winters, the coal fired sector showed a significant increase. In fact every sector bar one increased the power they supplied to the grids. The only sector that didn't was that renewable sector. The U.S. currently has the greatest amount of Wind Power on Earth, 38,000MW of Nameplate Capacity, the equivalent of 19 large scale coal fired plants. For those 90 days of Winter, every wind tower in America...

Legislation to implement standards for renewable power has been put on hold for now in the U.S. However, with a brutal Winter now behind the U.S. maybe those legislators need to look at some statistics on how the existing ‘flavour of the month’ renewable power plants performed at delivering power when it was needed most. Those statistics prove (again) that renewable power cannot supply power on the basis it is needed, and for when it is needed. This post explains those stats, what is behind them, and the ramifications. Not surprisingly, when it was needed the most, the power source...

Remember the failed Copenhagen Climate Change Conference in December, and how, at the finish, the vast U.S. contingent had to hurry home, as the North East got socked in by the first of the Winter snow storm events. Well, the power consumption data is out for that Month. Nearly every sector showed huge increases in power being supplied. Well, all except renewable power that is, especially wind and solar power. Even with the huge increase in wind tower numbers over the last year, wind power went backwards, and solar power virtually vanished completely, maybe understandable in Winter, but the U.S....

Billions of dollars are being spent constructing renewable power plants, in the main, wind towers. They just cannot supply the requisite power needed 24/7/365 that coal fired and nuclear power plants are already supplying. When the time finally arrives when someone has to explain to the people that these plants cannot fill the void left as those coal fired plants close, then by that time decades will have been lost, and those billions spent on what will become white elephants would have been better spent constructing new technology coal fired plants and nuclear plants. Then, more time will be needed...

Yesterday, President Obama announced loan funding approvals for $8 Billion to construct a new Nuclear Power Plant in Georgia, the first to be constructed in the U.S. for more than 30 years. That $8 Billion might seem a lot, and environmentalists are all venting the same old misinformation they always have, saying that money could be better spent on renewable plants. Do the three versions of renewable power stack up on a dollar for dollar basis when compared to Nuclear power? Here I actually do the comparison with links to actual data, and the result is actually no contest. Nuclear...