The High Cost of Duplicative Energy – Watts Up With That?
From MasterResource By Bill Peacock “The data make it clear that the only possible rationale for renewable energy—making significant reductions of CO2 emissions—cannot be achieved. The costs of attempting to do this are already imposing heavy costs on economies across the world.” By the 1800s, wind and solar were both mature and successful technologies. Yet as […]
Teardrops at the National Science Foundation – Watts Up With That?
Guest “DOGE, baby, DOGE!” by David Middleton, I receive daily emails from the American Association of Science of America (News From Science), listing some of their latest headlines. I subject myself to this torture because it’s a great source of material for me to mock and ridicule in WUWT posts. This morning’s News From Science […]
The Vibe comes for Academic Publishing – Watts Up With That?
Opinion by Kip Hansen — 10 February 2025 — 1800 words There is a long list of things that have been singled out as needing fixing in our current system of academic scientific publishing. Among these are: Publication bias: The tendency to only publish positive results, leading to an incomplete picture of research findings and […]
Professor Stefan Rahmstorf and Thermodynamics – Watts Up With That?
From the NoTricksZone By P Gosselin By Frank BosseKlimnachrichten here(Translated, edited by P. Gosselin) The scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) is an oceanologist and studied physics before his specialist training. He is therefore familiar with thermodynamics and its 2nd law, which states that with every change of state, the “disorder” increases, […]
Green Britain has 400GW of Stalled Data Center Requests, 60 – 70% will “Never Happen” – Watts Up With That?
Essay by Eric Worrall How long until British data center entrepreneurs get fed up with waiting? London has 400 GW of grid requests holding up datacenter builds And up to 70% of stalled energy generation projects are unlikely to be approved, claims regulator Ofgem Dan Robinson Mon 10 Feb 2025 // 10:28 UTC While the UK government wants to turbocharge datacenter construction, […]
Most countries miss UN deadline for new climate targets – Watts Up With That?
From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT By Paul Homewood h/t Dennis Ambler From Reuters: BRUSSELS, Feb 10 (Reuters) – Many of the world’s biggest polluter nations have missed a U.N. deadline to set new climate targets as efforts to curb global warming come under pressure following U.S. President Donald Trump’s election. The nearly […]
Snow chances for parts of the area tonight into Tuesday morning | News
Wintry weather is set to make a return to parts of the area from late Monday night into Tuesday morning. Parts of Southeast Missouri, Southern Illinois, and a small section of Western Kentucky could see some snow, while the southern half of the area will just have to deal with cold rain. This system will […]