This post excerpts energy and climate material from the Media Balance Newsletter, a free fortnightly published by physicist John Droz Jr., founder of the Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions. Droz is also the author of the popular Substack Critically Thinking About Select Societal Issues.
Greed Energy Economics:
NYS Electricity bills are out of control because of Cuomo and ‘green’ madness
Unreliables (General):
*** Report: Utility Scale Lithium Based Energy Storage System Issues
*** Report: The Best Battery Chemistry Types for Energy Storage: A Guide to Safety and Efficiency
*** Study: A critical discussion of the current availability of lithium and zinc for use in batteries
Study: Comparative Analysis of Lithium, Sodium, and Zinc Batteries for Power Grid Applications
Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** America First Legal Seems To Stump States Suing Trump Administration Over Offshore Wind
Offshore wind lawsuit confusion abounds
How China Sold America the Wind Turbine Scam
Nuclear Energy:
*** German Nuclear Power Phase Out a “Huge Mistake”- Chancellor Merz
Fossil Fuel Energy:
Efforts to Kill PA Gas Industry Disguised as Environmental Protection
US ramps up pressure on UK to abandon net zero
Miscellaneous Energy News:
*** New Report: Electrification – can the grid cope?…
“[The Paris agreement] is a fraud really, a fake. It’s just bullshit for them to say: ‘We’ll have a 2C warming target and then try to do a little better every five years.’ It’s just worthless words…. As long as fossil fuels appear to be the cheapest fuels out there, they will be continued to be burned.” (James Hansen, The Guardian, December 12, 2015)
Jean Boissinot is one disagreeable French fellow. My exchanges with him on social media (see here and here) are less than polite on his side, mixing sarcasm and insults (I might have dementia, he says) amid his (debatable) points. But when he argues success in the face of failure (as predicted by the father of climate alarmism above), perhaps it is time to rest my case.…
Continue Reading“Thanks to President Trump, the U.S. has officially escaped from the Paris Climate Agreement which undermined American values and priorities, wasted hard-earned taxpayer dollars, and stifled economic growth. This is another commonsense America First victory for the American people!” ( – Taylor Rogers, White House spokesperson. Quoted in Politico, below)
Effective yesterday, the United States is removed from the signatories of the Paris Climate Agreement, dated November 4, 2016. [1] Read about it: “So long, Paris: US officially leaves landmark climate pact” (Politico: January 27, 2026).
Even better, Trump II has started the withdrawal process for the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992) that was responsible for the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement.
Trump Statement
The rationale for the U.S. withdrawal was given by Trump in his first administration.…
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