Peter Clack (@PeterDClack) recently put the central contradiction of the Western Net Zero project in plain terms: the green transition is now almost entirely dependent on hardware manufactured by the same industrial giant the West hoped to displace or outcompete. In a post that cuts to the heart of energy density, industrial policy, and geopolitical […]
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ENB Pub Note: This article is from Peter Clack’s great X account. @PeterDClack. We highly recommend following him, as he has a wealth of great insights, and we are trying to get him on the podcast. When you add in intentional migration and population and cultural replacement, you can see the total intentional destruction of […]
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ENB Pub note: This article first appeared on the Energy News Beat Substack, and we reached out to Peter Clack about appearing on the Energy Realities or Energy News Beat Podcast. If you want to leave a comment, subscribe to the Energy News Beat Substack. The world is running out of easily accessible high-grade ores, […]
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The wind industry is approaching a structural inflection point. Early fleets in Europe and the United Kingdom are aging faster than advertised, composite blade waste is outrunning recycling capacity, and decommissioning liabilities are coming due just as subsidy structures change. Two recent posts by Peter Clack capture the twin problems: rapid performance decay well short […]
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For two decades, governments, corporations, and activists have poured trillions into wind, solar, batteries, and hydrogen as the path to a “clean” energy future. The result? According to U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright, the world has spent roughly $10 trillion—yet wind and solar deliver only about 3% of global primary energy consumption. And nobody is […]
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