Batteries are often touted as a magical technology that will suddenly make unreliable wind and solar, reliable. The idea is just the latest round of wishful thinking on behalf of…
Almost without fail, the loudest preachers of the climate doom are also the ones who are least likely to walk the walk. Michael Shellenberger nails it in this article, which…
It seems climate change activists are always advocating for policies whose costs will exceed the benefits. Minnesota is unique in that it is one of only a few states that…
American Experiment has been warning the public about the short useable lifetimes of industrial wind turbines for some time now, but one thing we haven’t really touched on yet is…
There may never have been a more apropos metaphor in the history of mankind for the policies proposed by Bernie Sanders than this video of him punching a speed bag.…
While liberal environmental groups continue to file lawsuits to obstruct the permitting process for non-ferrous mining in Minnesota, Canada has permitted another mine. The latest mine permitted will develop gold…
The environmental left lost their minds when President Trump announced that the United States would be leaving the Paris Climate Agreement. While renewable energy boosters hurl barbs at President Trump,…
Today I wanted to share this graphic I found on a pro-nuclear Facebook page that really hammers home the point: we simply require far too much energy for wind, solar,…
It is becoming increasingly apparent that world “leaders” such as Emanuel Macron of France have no idea what they are talking about when it comes to environmental issues, which is…
Elected officials and planners in the city of Minneapolis are lamenting the fact that carbon dioxide emissions from natural gas increased in 2018, and that the city is not on…
We all know that AOC’s Green New Deal is a really dumb idea, but that hasn’t stopped a Republican Congressman from Florida from proposing his own legislation that closely resembles…
American Experiment has been a leader in exposing the fact that wind turbines only last for twenty years, and after that time the turbines must be torn down as part…
You know its bad when Bloomberg, which almost always treats renewables with kid gloves, comes out with a piece that is one of the most devastating critiques of the unreliable nature of…
Elizabeth Warren visited Minnesota last week to hold a campaign rally in her bid to become the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee. At the rally, Warren waded into two highly controversial…
This summer, a delegation of Minnesota lawmakers, including Lt. Governor Flanagan and Senator Dave Senjem, traveled to Germany (emitting a lot of CO2 in the process) to learn about the…
This morning we kicked off our “Morning in Minnesota” breakfast series in Willmar, MN with a conversation about renewable energy standards in Minnesota. Rep. Tim Miller, Rep. Dave Baker, and…
Last week the Minnesota Supreme Court delivered a major blow to anti-mining groups by declining an appeal to its unanimous May decision that an additional environmental review of the contentious…
Wind and solar are often touted as “clean” sources of energy, but the evidence showing that this simply isn’t true is mounting. From large landfills used to dispose of the…
Renewable energy advocates in Minnesota will probably celebrate the fact that wind power produced more electricity than coal-fired power plants in April of this year (if they haven’t already). This…
I’m at the opening day of the state fair today, so I’m posting this great article from Matt Ridley that was originally published in The Telegraph on August 11, 2019.…
Alliant Energy, the electric company in Iowa that wants to increase electricity costs for its consumers by $240 per year to add more wind to their grid, now wants to…
A new report finds that wind developers rely heavily on traveling workers, often from other states, and solar developers also often use out-of-state workers for construction.
This is huge news. I was looking through some data from the Energy Information Administration’s website and I stumbled upon this interesting graph which shows that electricity generation from wind…
Most people in Minnesota probably don’t realize that our air is incredibly clean. According to Minnesota Pollution Control Agency data, our air meets all federal air quality standards, which are…