The French want the United States to pay for their green energy dreams
Macron eyes shipping for new tax, including China operators
OECD minimum tax rules show global work possible, Macron says
The whole purpose of wind turbines is to extract energy from the wind. I don’t know if wind farms have reach critical mass to start having a distinct effect yet, but aren’t lower wind speeds inevitable once you start removing the energy powering the wind?
As inevitable as the sun emitting less energy if we start harvesting more of it 
The wind is basically created due to the difference in temperature between different areas, like the desert and the ocean, or the equator and the poles, plus its patterns are impacted by the planet’s rotation. I don’t think we humans could slow it down by harvesting some of it (because it’d probably be very little), but on the other hand I also don’t want to sound like the people who don’t think we can emit enough dirty gas to screw up the planet 
, so sure, why not.
Well that’s a dumb comparison 
. Are you really trying to say that the sun monitors our energy usage and cranks itself up to produce and send us more as we start to use more?
“X” of the sun’s energy enters our atmosphere, no matter how much we are harvesting. As we pull energy from the environment, it will leave less energy (in the form of heat/sunlight) to keep the planet warm. Just like the wind, energy, regardless of the source, is not an unlimited resource. It needs to come from somewhere, and extracting it leaves the world with less.
I suppose if everything was constant in a closed system, I would agree. But that “X” amount that enters the atmosphere isn’t the amount that remains. Ice caps and glaciers reflect some of it back out to space. Less energy bounces as these reflectors are disappearing. Greenhouse gases also prevent some heat from escaping. We couldn’t absorb the difference quickly enough to slow down this process.
Maybe the hail storm was caused by global warning? “Traditional” = fossil fuel?
A recent major hail storm in western Nebraska took an entire solar farm out of commission, forcing the local community to turn back to traditional power sources, local officials said.
Way to jump on the least likely cause. I’m sure CNN and PMSNBC have already uncovered the truth - President Donald Trump declassified docs that revealed how to create hail storms and “BIG OIL” used them to destroy this “friendly and peaceful” protest against global warming. 
Hey, don’t you recall “Traditional” = Republican (mainly Conservative Republican)?
https://www.axios.com/2023/07/10/unsold-electric-cars-are-piling-up-on-dealer-lots
The auto industry is beginning to crank out more electric vehicles (EVs) to challenge Tesla, but there’s one big problem: not enough buyers.
The nationwide supply of EVs in stock has swelled nearly 350% this year, to more than 92,000 units.
- That’s a 92-day supply — roughly three months’ worth of EVs, and nearly twice the industry average.
This will not end well
Good news on nuclear energy from Canada of all places.
From 3 months ago
Recent news
The article states that there is no way to recycle the blades now and it will cause a huge environmental problem. But they have high hopes. Of course, they will never stop the rush to install the wind energy systems until they have a proven solution.
Which the (self-proclaimed) fine journalists at CNN have reported on … uh, uh, a total of zero times. Well zero times before someone promises a solution.
This sounds akin to big government announcing solutions, and the accompanying $billions in spending, to problems which were unknown.
Another company sees the light so to speak
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/shells-renewables-boss-leave-after-ceo-strategy-shift-2023-06-30/
Chief Executive Sawan, who took office in January, announced on June 14 a shift back to oil and gas production while paring back investments in renewables following investor pressure to focus on the most profitable businesses.
More on the (bad) economics of electric vehicles
Thanks to the staggering amounts of money that’s being doled out under the Inflation Reduction Act to incentivize the production of electric vehicles, America’s biggest automakers — General Motors and Ford Motor Company — are building battery factories. Those new factories, one in Spring Hill, Tennessee (GM) and the other in Marshall, Michigan (Ford), will create a total of about 4,200 new jobs. But creating those jobs will cost federal and state taxpayers nearly $22 billion. Thus, each new “green” job at the GM plant (which the company is developing with Korea’s LG) will cost taxpayers $7.7 million. Each job at the Ford plant will cost some $3.4 million.
Even more on the bad economics of EVs
Behind a pay wall, but the headline tells the story
I wouldn’t say it’s “bad economics”, neither does the article:
Note that it does not say “making EVs requires economies of scale”, it says “making cars requires economies of scale.”
Like the saying goes, they are going to lose on each one, but they’re going to make it up in volume.
But more seriously, the drop in their stock price indicates the stock market does not think they are going to reach whatever conditions are required to be profitable from electric vehicles. Outside of a few leftist enclaves like coastal California, EVs are a hard sell.
Edit.
This is a real disaster. One of the crewmen was killed. The number of electric cars on the ship is disputed but definitely not zero
K Line, the company that chartered the ship, said on Friday that it was carrying far more electric vehicles than initially reported by the coastguard.
Company spokesman Pat Adamson said the ship was carrying a total of 3,783 new vehicles, including 498 electric vehicles.
The coastguard, citing an early freight list, had said it was carrying 2,857 cars, including 25 electric cars.
But not as bad as if they were all combustible engines. That would have been a real loss. :-]
Of course, it’s also not bad because we know that electric cars are so green. In fact, it may improve fishing in the area.