Wind and solar focus threaten America’s and South Africa’s economy

ENB Pub Note: This article is from America Outloud, and Ronald Stein, P.E., and Dr. Lars Schernikau have been on the Energy News Beat podcast! They are fantastic, and we recommend reading America Outloud.    An extensive economic review of South Africa’s Integrated Resource Plan 2025 (IRP 2025), approved by Cabinet in October 2025 has been conducted by the authors, and the report concludes […]

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Tensions in the Strait of Hormuz force us to reconsider material benefits of fossil fuels

ENB Pub Note: This article was originally posted on America Outloud by Ronald Stein and Yoshihiro Muronaka, and we highly recommend signing up and reading their material.  ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Recent calls for a more realistic shift from “decarbonization” to “low carbon” suggest that discomfort with ideology-driven climate policy is finally beginning to surface in public debate. […]

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California Gov Newsom is oblivious that electricity came about after oil

The State of California sent a large delegation to the Conference of the Parties (COP) in Belém, Brazil, including California Governor Gavin Newsom and top officials from the California Natural Resources Agency, Department of Food and Agriculture, Air Resources Board, Public Utilities Commission, and Governor’s Office of Tribal Affairs. Interestingly, the leaders of the world’s […]

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Governor Newsom has no solutions how to run California’s economy without crude oil

California Governor Newsom remains oblivious to the economy’s demands for a supply chain of products and transportation fuels currently derived from fossil fuels. He seems unaware that so-called renewables like wind and solar CANNOT make any products or fuels for society, as they can ONLY generate electricity under favorable weather conditions. Supply chain of PRODUCTS […]

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Why Sanctions Don\’t Work?

With President Trump giving President Putin 50 days to come to the negotiation table, there are some real problems with his 100% tariff threats on countries buying Russian oil. And that is, Sanctions don\’t work as intended, as stated by Irina Slav, an International energy writer and friend of the Energy News Beat Podcast. Secondly, […]

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