Ed. Note: 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:
*** Americans’ hearts sink as electric bills nearly double, ‘green nightmare’ blamed
*** Billions paid to wind companies to stop generating electricity is scandalous waste of money
Unreliables (General):
*** Better batteries won’t save the energy grid
*** Tangled Comparisons: Renewables Versus Fossil Fuels
Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** Floating Offshore Wind – An Environmental Catastrophe
*** Looming ‘clean’ energy disasters off our coasts
*** Offshore Trojan Horses
Bad Streak for GE Vernova as Another Offshore Blade Fails
New National Offshore-wind Opposition Alliance
Maine’s mysterious floating wind research
Wind Energy — Other:
*** Taking the Wind Out of Climate Change (referencing 60± studies)
How a small Minnesota town was left with a giant pile of wind turbine blades
Solar Energy:
Why Maine businesses are facing crippling solar fees
Nuclear Energy:
*** Nuclear Symposium 2024 (NYC)
*** Trump vows to make electricity cheap with ‘hundreds of new power plants’ and modular nuclear reactors
*** Artificial Intelligence Goes Nuclear
Study Quantifies Germany’s Disastrous Switch Away from Nuclear Power
China prepares to change world with introduction of revolutionary nuclear power station: ‘This design significantly reduces the chances of meltdowns’
Can a Closed Nuclear Power Plant From the ’70s be Brought Back to Life?
Fossil Fuel Energy:
Summer Talking Points: Warm Temperatures (Alex Epstein)
Harris -Walz are oblivious that the U.S. economy can NOT exist without crude oil
India Accentuates Coal Reliance in its New Economic Policy Brief
Electric Vehicles (EVs):
Carmakers Should Have Unplugged from EVs Long Ago
Dozens of EVs Go Up in Massive Ball of Fire at Illinois Manufacturing Plant
Miscellaneous Energy News:
*** Americans deserve to know how Harris’s energy plan stacks up against Trump’s
*** Debate: Is A Net Zero Demonstration Project Really Necessary?
*** The Coming America Power Supply Crisis
On the Importance of Energy Education
Yet More Reasons Why Green Hydrogen Is Going Nowhere
Frustrated wannabe authoritarians
What’s Good For Generac Is Bad For America. We Bought One Anyway
Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:
*** Tony Heller: Climate Change Indicators: Wildfires
*** So About Those Oceans That Were Just About to Boil Away…
No One Should Mistake It As Science’: NOAA Improving Key Climate Data’s Transparency After Correction Request
PBS and the False Narrative of “Slowly Dying” Coral Reefs
Royal Society understates cost of Net Zero by half a trillion pounds
Manmade Global Warming — Miscellaneous:
*** CO2 Has Been Indicted by Consensus, Not Real Science or Critical Thinking
*** Report: Most climate policies do little to prevent climate change
*** The Atmospheric Chicken-or-Egg Question
*** The Unfolding 2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season
*** Net Zero is a Zero
David Siegel: A framework for understanding climate
The Solar Control of Climate: A ReviewIowa Farmers Threatened by Climate “Solutions”