Ed. note: This post excerpts energy and climate material from the Media Balance Newsletter, a fortnightly published by physicist John Droz Jr., founder of the Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions. The complete MBN for this post can be found here.
Greed Energy Economics
*** The green agenda’s role in global inflation
*** Biden’s Most Preposterous Lie Is Too Much Even For The Washington Post
*** The great renewables ripoff
Ohio County Veto of Wind Project Shows It’s Time to End Federal Wind Subsidies
NY Governor Blames Utilities for Costs of State Climate Policies
Renewables (General)
*** Report: Deadly Summer Blackouts Inevitable As Renewables Struggle To Replace Reliable Energy
*** Beware: 100% green energy could destroy the planet
*** Short video: How Solar Cells And Wind Turbines Are Made
Wind and Solar Face Increasing Opposition Everywhere They Go!
‘An Incredible Transition’: Biden Suggests Soaring Gas Prices Are Part Of Green Agenda
Wind Energy:
*** Windfall profits for offshore wind
NY Community Blocks Plan for Wind Turbines
Massachusetts Offshore Ocean Wind Cables — Another Boondoggle
Solar Energy:
An Alarmed Solar Industry Says a U.S. Trade Probe of China Will Totally Fry It. Then Why Is the Business Sunny Side Up?
NY County IDA votes 6-month solar moratorium
Nuclear Energy — California and Michigan:
*** We Saved Diablo Canyon!
California, long leery of nuclear power, joins bid to save it
Another nuclear plant closes: Get ready for electricity shortages
In blow to Biden climate goals, Entergy shuts nuclear power plant
Nuclear Energy — Other:
*** The Case for Nuclear Power
*** Climate worries galvanize a new pro-nuclear movement in the U.S.
*** Electricity markets with high shares of Wind and Solar will need Nuclear
*** The Real Three Mile Island Story
Finland’s Green Party endorses nuclear power
Rolls-Royce’s SMR Needs 10,000 Times Less Land Than Wind Energy — Proving ‘Iron Law Of Power Density’
Fossil Fuel Energy:
*** Oklahoma enacts law to counter ESG policies targeting fossil fuels
*** JP Morgan Report: 2022 Annual Energy Paper
Life Without Oil is Not as Simple as you may Think
India to reopen coal mines as demand for energy soars
Energy — Electric Vehicles:
*** The Big EV Lie. Why They Won’t Save the Planet & All About Dirty Electricity
*** Short video: If You’re Worried About Rising Gas Prices, Don’t Buy an EV
IEA: Current Energy Crisis Is “Much Bigger” Than 1970s Oil Crunch
Environmental Justice Policy Needs to Be Turned On Its Head!
Miscellaneous Energy News:
*** 41 Inconvenient Truths on the “New Energy Economy”
*** Full Cost of Electricity ‘FCOE’ and Energy Returns ‘eROI’
Ethanol: a dumb idea or a crime — or both?
Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:
*** How the big banks fell to climate panic
*** Report: Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Climate Models
*** Woke Health: Biden Admin establishes Office of Environmental Justice
*** The “Net Zero” Agenda Has Devastating Consequences… Here’s What You Need To Know
*** Sea Level Acceleration – That Other Big Lie
The NYS Climate Action Council’s $260 Billion Mistake
Climate sceptic thinktank reported to charity commission over fossil fuel interest funding
Inconvenient truth for alarmists: Arctic ice at 30-year high
Democrats Don’t Want You To Know What’s Really Happening With Arctic Sea Ice
Worthwhile climate site and video
Manmade Global Warming — Miscellaneous:
*** Short video: Looking At The Sun
*** A Financier Tells Some Climate Truths
ESG’s power grows as banker is canceled for talking sense on climate change
A climate change class action lawsuit: is it viable?
Net-Zero Looking like a No-Go by 2050
Report: Sea-level change in Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbor
Denali’s Snowiest Winter in 99 Years of Record Keeping