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Bill Gates helps break the moral monopoly against fossil fuels
Bill Gates’s humanist challenge to the anti-fossil-fuel climate establishment was only possible because the “moral monopoly” against fossil fuels has…
Nov 4
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October 2025
Why Bill Gates is finally rejecting climate catastrophism
My conversation with Will Cain
Oct 30
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Talking points roundup: cold vs. heat deaths, pro-fossil-fuel policies in developing countries, solar/wind buildout in the Netherlands, and…
Also: the prevalence of climate-related disasters, the consequences of forced electrification, the death rate from typhoons, and the UK backing off from…
Oct 27
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How fossil fuels make Earth more livable than it’s ever been
A summary of Fossil Future Chapter 4, part 1 of 3
Oct 24
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Tesla loves EV subsidies
Elon, through Tesla, has been one of America’s biggest advocates of direct and indirect EV subsidies—and of punishments for Tesla’s competitors.
Oct 21
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The root cause of our leading institutions' bias against fossil fuels
The operating “anti-impact framework” causes our leading institutions to view fossil fuels, which are inherently high impact, as intrinsically immoral…
Oct 14
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Talking points roundup: America’s gas turbine shortage, Europe's record wind curtailment, Germany’s destructive energy policy, and more
Also: “Net zero” policies and AI growth, on “renewables overtaking coal,” a court’s dismissal of a Sierra Club lawsuit, the Ambler Road project, and the…
Oct 13
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Why Mid-Atlantic electricity prices are rising so fast
Blame the people who created a shortage of reliable electricity via anti-fossil-fuel policies, fix the situation by reversing those policies.
Oct 10
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How our "knowledge system" catastrophizes the side-effects of fossil fuels
A summary of Fossil Future, Chapter 2
Oct 9
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Talking points roundup: ammonia fertilizer and natural gas, the disastrous consequences of "net zero," the Palisades nuclear plant, and more
Also: Rooftop solar, so-called "nuclear-grade" components, and "synthesis" gone wrong.
Oct 6
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AlexAI on blackouts, electricity demand from data centers, coastal insurance pricing, and Alaska oil and gas
5 answers AlexAI gave to user questions this week.
Oct 3
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The "Levelized Cost of Energy" scam
LCOE—the "Levelized Cost of Energy"—explicitly ignores "reliability-related considerations" and is therefore a garbage metric for comparing the cost of…
Oct 2
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