WASHINGTON—NASA announced on Monday it has picked a longtime solar scientist who heads its heliophysics division to become the U.S. space agency’s science chief. Nicola Fox, former top scientist on the Parker Solar Probe mission studying the sun, was named as NASA’s associate administrator for the agency’s Science Mission Directorate. A memo to agency employees…
Korean Firm Plans $2.5 Billion in New Solar Panel Plants in Georgia
ATLANTA—A South Korean solar panel maker said Wednesday that it will invest more than $2.5 billion to build factories in Georgia in what it says is the largest solar investment in American history. Qcells, a unit of Hanwha Solutions, projects it will supply about 30 percent of total U.S. solar panel demand by 2027, including…
Man Held in Vegas Solar-Array Attack to Get Competency Exams
LAS VEGAS—A man arrested in what authorities characterized as a terror attack last week on a solar power facility serving Las Vegas Strip casinos was removed from a courtroom Tuesday after becoming verbally disruptive, and his attorney asked a judge to schedule a competency evaluation before he faces multiple felony charges. Mohammed Reza Mesmarian, 34,…
Biden Admin’s Solar Funding Fuels China Human Rights Abuses: GOP Letter
December 6, 2022
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Top Republican lawmakers are warning the Biden administration that funding for green technologies in the Inflation Reduction Act will likely worsen human rights abuses in communist China. GOP lawmakers warned in a letter (pdf) that parts of the administration’s Inflation Reduction Act aimed at increasing dependence on green energy sources would drastically increase the import…
Is the Renewable Energy Transition to Wind and Solar Worth the Sacrifices?
Even with recent reports of a temporary gas surplus, Europeans, nevertheless, face a harsh winter as analysts warn that a lack of gas could rock the economy in the coming months. Further, even if Europe pulls through this winter relatively unscathed, predictions for next winter paint a bleak future. Warnings notwithstanding, on Oct. 24, the European Union…
Europe’s Green Future Is Cold and Dark
Commentary In the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, European Union (E.U.) nations are scrambling to source fossil fuels to run their factories and heat their homes this winter. They vigorously boycotted Russian natural gas and levied sanctions, you’ll recall, as a way of punishing Russia for its evil warring ways. The Thrill of…
California Companies Swindle Green Energy Consumers: Expert
October 24, 2022
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California utility companies are mixing coal- or gas-sourced energy with renewable energy, like solar-and wind-sourced, and packaging it to consumers as “green energy”—a process known as “green washing,” Jim Phelps, a 35-year veteran engineering contractor and utility rate analyst, said during an interview with Epoch TV’s “California Insider.” The first greenwashing method energy companies use…
GM Takes on Tesla in Home and Commercial Energy Storage, Management
DETROIT—General Motors Co. is expanding beyond car making, with plans to offer energy storage and management services to residential and commercial customers through its new GM Energy unit in a move that puts it in even greater competition with Tesla Inc. GM Energy will bundle the existing Ultium Charge 360 public charging service with two…
Cosmos: War of the Planets (1977)
October 9, 2022
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A strange signal arrives on Earth, disturbing all communications, while a UFO appears above the Antarctic sea. Captain Alex Hamilton is sent with his spaceship and crew to space outside the solar system to find the origin of that signal. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: epochoriginal.com Feature…
Energy Transition a ‘Dangerous Delusion’: Report
September 8, 2022
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An Aug. 30 report argues that the idea of totally transitioning from fossil fuels is a “dangerous delusion.” “The lessons of the recent decade make it clear that [solar, wind, and battery] SWB technologies cannot be surged in times of need, are neither inherently ‘clean’ nor even independent of hydrocarbons, and are not cheap,” it…
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