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.
Unreliables (General):
*** NY State’s energy policies absurd, costly (this applies to many other states)
Empire Center Warns of Sharp Increase in New York Electricity Prices
Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** Offshore wind turbines steal each other’s wind: yields greatly overestimated
*** Scotland’s Biggest Offshore Wind Farm Wasting Three Quarters of its Energy
Dominion loses early court battle on CVOW
A speculation on military risk with offshore wind — AI submarines
Fossil Fuel Energy:
*** Why Fossil Fuels Remain Essential to America’s Economic Engine in 2026
Trump’s first year back in office sees major oil and gas permit surge
Electric Vehicles (EVs):
*** The Dirty Truth About Lithium Ion Batteries
Cyclotech’s Revolutionary Blackbird eVTOL
Misellaneousc Energy News:
*** Energy wisdom is lacking among public officials
*** Activist Groups Sabotaging American Energy Oppose America Itself
*** Attacking global electricity poverty
*** What is Technology
A Tribute to Robert Bryce: More Than Three Decades of Energy Humanism
Supreme Court Weighs Big Case Involving Major American Energy Companies
The essential guide to Micron’s chip project in Upstate NY: the largest private development project in NYS history
Affordability Crisis: Gavin Newsom and the California Energy Disaster
Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:
*** UN to Censor All Criticism of the Climate Agenda as Whistleblower Exposes it as a Total Scam
*** New Yorkers Organize Big-Time to Fight Back Against Empire State Climate Insanity and for Safe and Reliable Energy
*** President Trump And The Doomsday Glacier
*** Twenty Years Later, ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ Has Been Thoroughly Debunked
3 Cheers For CO₂!…
“… the outcome of doing nothing to combat climate change [is] simply horrific. That is why I find your phrase – We are winning the debate intellectual and politically for good reasons – somewhat alarming.” (- Martin Palmer, below)
All I have wanted in the climate policy arena is open debate. And on social media, LinkedIn has provided that to me. I now have nearly 13,000 followers who seem to enjoy my posts and ‘counterpunches’ against the omnipresent alarmists and apologists for wind, solar, and battery industrialization.
From time to time, I repost exchanges I have with the other side for the historical record. The future will be interested in what is to us the present. To this end, here is an exchange with an adversary, Martin Palmer, self-described as
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“Consumer Regulated Electric Utilities can act just like regulated utilities, but they cannot sell or supply power to residential consumers and they must be islanded from, or not connected to, regulated electric systems.”
The new year brings new opportunities to build upon the free market reforms of 2025 by scaling back statism. This is particularly important in the area of U.S. electricity policy, where the work of Travis Fisher and Glen Lyons (Advocates for Consumer Regulated Electricity) is particularly important. [1]
Draft legislation by the American Legislative Exchange Council–“America’s largest nonpartisan, voluntary membership organization of state legislators dedicated to the principles of limited government, free markets and federalism”–must be favorably voted on by ALEC’s board of directors before becoming model policy for state legislatures.
The draft Act to Allow for Consumer Regulated Electric Utilities, voted out of ALEC’s Task Force on Energy, Environment, and Agriculture (SNPA 2025), follows.…
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