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:
New York’s climate law hits the wall
Unreliables Energy Health and Ecosystem Consequences:
*** RFKJr directs CDC to study alleged harms of offshore wind farms
*** Shocking New Report Lays Out the Full Scale of Environmental Damage Caused by Onshore Wind Turbines
Unreliables (General):
*** Wind & Solar: Too Good to Be True
*** The Environmental Disaster of Wind and Solar
Wind Energy — Offshore:
US’s first offshore wind installation vessel ‘fails to deliver’ as launch delayed
Nuclear Energy:
*** Why Does the World Ignore Nuclear Power?…
“Bill Gates has been rightly slammed for his anti-scientific memo calling for shifting our focus away from ‘near-term’ emissions cuts. Tragically, that shift could cause the very doomsday scenario he dismisses.” (Joe Romm, below)
Doomism is alive and well at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media, despite Michael Mann’s advice to the contrary. It exists in the person of Joe Romm, Mann’s colleague. Maybe the two need to meet to figure out how to alarm but not be alarming….
“Gates is wrong,” Joe Romm reports. “Global warming could well ‘decimate civilization’, but his ‘strategic pivot’ would make catastrophic warming far more likely.” Doomster Romm continues:
… Continue ReadingBill Gates has been rightly slammed for his anti-scientific memo calling for shifting our focus away from “near-term” emissions cuts.
“The siren song of inexpensive nuclear power continues into its seventh decade. Taxpayer and ratepayers beware.”
Commercial nuclear power has turned into the welfare energy de jure. It is politically correct despite many decades of failure to compete against other forms of thermal energy. Uranium might be the ultimate energy density-wise, but nuclear fission (and more so nuclear fusion) is the most complicated, expensive, fraught way to boil water.
Commercial nuclear power was government-created in the 1950s and remains government dependent today. (Stay tuned: my primer on the history of this energy source is forthcoming. [1]). Regarding the present, consider this example from Jamie Smyth, editor of US Energy, who wrote:
… Continue ReadingNuclear technology company Oklo has no revenues, no licence to operate reactors and no binding contracts to supply power.