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. The complete Newsletter for this post can be found here.
Greed Energy Economics:
*** Biden Gives $27 Billion for Clean-Energy Deals in Final Days
*** Economic Health Watch: Affordability of Necessities
Why do wind projects get the gas price?
Unreliables (General):
*** Big Wind & Big Solar are Trying to Sue Rural America into Submission
*** Green Fantasies Have Adverse Consequences
Germans’ Pushback on Green Energy Topples Gov’t Leadership
Trump’s energy policies are a game changer for renewables
Deconstructing a continuing green scheme
Wind Energy — Offshore:
NOAA’s “no evidence” that wind kills whales violates the Information Quality Act
NOAA Withdraws Critical Right Whale Protection Rule Changes
Wind Energy — Other:
*** Trump Says He Wants No Wind Turbines Built During Administration
How Much Oil Is Required to Run a Wind Turbine?
Nuclear Energy:
*** A Lawless NRC Obstructs Safe Nuclear Power
Fossil Fuel Energy:
*** How Trump Can Unlock America’s Energy Options
Biden issues sweeping offshore oil, gas drilling ban in 625M acres of federal waters
Biden’s last-minute oil drilling ban can be undone by Congress
Electric Vehicles (EVs):
*** Massive Fire Burns at World’s Largest Lithium Battery Plant near Monterey, CA
*** Billions of Taxpayer Dollars for Electrification of Transport Looks Like Money “Down the Drain”
And Suddenly, Gavin Newsom’s Electric Car Mandate Looks Pretty Dumb to LA Fire Victims
Miscellaneous Energy News:
*** Key takeaways from Trump’s energy secretary pick’s confirmation hearing
*** How to Solve All of America’s Energy Problems (Epstein & Peterson)
*** American Energy 101 (AEI)
*** The Energy Freedom Plan: an overview
The Energy Freedom Plan: 112 specific actions the new admin can take to unleash American energy (Epstein)
Grid battery cost issue storm looms in Massachusetts
Energy Affairs in 2024 and Beyond: Hopeful Signs for the New Trump Administration
California’s Energy War on the Poor
Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:
*** The Saturation effect questions the prevailing narrative on CO2
*** Michael Mann Ordered to Pay National Review $531,000
*** Pay Up, Mr. Mann
*** The New York State Super-Folly Act
15 questions that will put an end to the ‘climate scare’ once-and-for-all
Wildfires, Fried Smelt, and the Hoary Hoax of a Burning Planet
Manmade Global Warming — The Science:
*** The Saturation effect questions the prevailing narrative on CO2
Scientific Societies Err on ‘Climate Change’
Manmade Global Warming — Miscellaneous:
*** Rethinking Carbon Dioxide – Wyoming’s Bold Move
*** Top 10 Climate and Energy Action Items for President Trump in His Second Term
Big Banks’ Retreat from Climate Alliance is Encouraging Step in Dismantling the ESG Agenda/Woke Corporate Capitalism
Social Benefits of Carbon
The Changing of the Guard