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Wind Energy is Like a Railroad With Missing Tracks Imagine building a railway… with 3-mile gaps every 10 miles. Still cheap? Sure. Still useful? Not at all. That’s wind power without a reliable backup. This thread unpacks four eye-opening clips from Professor Ross McKitrick, an economist at the University...

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2/4 Storage Systems Are a Fantasy You need a way to store some of the excess electricity. Build a lake in the sky? Batteries the size of a country? No one can even conceive of it. McKitrick on why energy storage is the fantasy holding up green dreams. The storage systems aren’t there. They’re so expensive that fossil fuels are still the cheapest and most reliable.

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Watch the full interview here:

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3/4 CO2 Is Not the Villain Most of what you hear in the media is ridiculous. The normal, sensible work never makes the papers. McKitrick flips the narrative: Extra CO2 isn’t like sulfur or ozone—it’s good for plants. It’s caused global greening, improved crop yields, even turned deserts green. Yet this upside of CO2 rarely makes headlines.

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4/4 When Politics Takes Over Science The political makeup of universities is so overwhelmingly on the left… Some researchers want their work to benefit left-wing politicians. He warns this skews not just hiring, but research itself: They might shape their publications with that in mind. The cost? Scientific independence.

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@Martin_Durkin

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@TimHoustonNS no more wind for Nova Scotia please

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