The Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving national, state, and local energy & environmental policies. Our basic position is that technical matters like these should be addressed by using Real Science. It’s all spelled out at WiseEnergy.org, which is a wealth of energy and environmental resources.
A key element of AWED’s efforts is public education. Towards that end, every 3 weeks we put together a newsletter to balance what is found in the mainstream media about energy and environmental matters. We appreciate MasterResource for their assistance in publishing this information.
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Greed Energy Economics:
Wind Energy: Only When the Wind Blows and the Subsidies Flow
Wind and Solar are Parasitic Power Producers
It’s Not Gridlock That is Blocking a Carbon Tax, It’s Science and Economics
Radio Interview: Massachusetts’ Cape Wind — Beginning of the End
Turbine Health Matters:
Vermont Suggests Fines, More Sound Monitoring For Wind Project
Wind industry ignores, makes up the facts
A good set of short Turbine health videos
A new invention to clean fossil fuel pollution
Sand Is The Latest Front In The War On Fracking
Turbine Wildlife:
Bird mortality: spilling the glass
Obama’s Climate Plan Would Kill Hundreds Of Millions Of Birds And Bats
Miscellaneous Energy:
How to win the wind energy war
A list of key materials needed in a typical 3 MW turbine
Parsing Through the Wind Energy Sector’s PR
Esther Wrightman – Eagles, Activism and NextEra
DOE Misdirection on Wind Energy
63 Ontario communities declare themselves to be unwilling turbine hosts
Renewable Energy: Not So Bright Lights
Ill Wind Blows for German Offshore Industry
Japan Extracts Gas from Methanes
A very short video about energy, steam and CO2
Europe Pulls the Plug on its Green Future
Wind farms creating an environmental divide
Federal appeals court rules against Vermont’s efforts to close nuclear plant
Court says Agency violating the law regarding Yucca Mountain
Yarmouth board denies solar panel permit
Is Greenpeace Deliberately Misleading Or Simply Deluded?
Mafia Involvement with Wind Energy
Europe: a Green Energy basket Case
What’s wrong with Energy in Ontario?
Conservatives for carbon tax campaign faltering
IPCC doubles down: 95% sure on AGW, but…
Green Energy is Part of the Past, not Fuel for the Future
Don’t believe claims about wind energy
Access to energy Not the Entire Story
Energy Strategy — Begin with Density
Manmade Global Warming Articles —
Scientists and Motivated Reasoning
Astronaut Walter Cunningham and Restoring Climate Science Integrity
Rise in Violence linked to Poor Statistics
Climate Realism and Social Realism
PR 101: Rebranding Global Warming
Mann Made Science (simply amazing)
Cutting soot and methane may not give hoped-for climate help
Warming Up To Warming? — a fascinating interview
Why Did Sea Level Drop in 2010?
“The Inconvenient Truth” Global Warming Revisited
It’s Time to Restore EPA’s Original Purpose
NASA Images Illustrate Sun as a Driver of Global Warming
Carbon dioxide: The “gas of life”
2013 is a record low year for U.S. tornadoes
Another Bizarre Form Of “The Science is Settled” Claim In The Climate Debate
What is Post Normal Science (PNS)?
Environmental Sciences Independent Peer Review Institute
Climate change violence study exposes ethical problems in science and the media
Limiting Scientific Debate at AGU
Other Articles of General Interest —
Smoking Them Out: The theft of the Environment
A Black Senator explains why he switched to be a Republican
Putting Bicycles Ahead Of People
Our proposed national energy slogan is “All of the Sensible” (in contrast to the absurd “All of the Above”). Once legislators have grasped that concept, the foolishness of the “leveling the playing field” idea also becomes apparent. (Should the 18-wheeler trucks and golf cart playing field be leveled?) Additionally we should be using the term “unreliables” when speaking of renewables. Please pass these on. [US citizens should make sure to get up-to-speed with what is on our PTCFacts.Info pages, as the PTC is still a political issue.]
Please pass this information on to other open-minded, science-oriented people. If you know anyone who would like to periodically like to get AWED emailings, please email me.
Thank you for your support.
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Prior issues of the AWED newsletter at MR:
Recent Energy And Environmental News – August 26th 2013…
By John Droz, Jr. ~ This is the latest newsletter from physicist John Droz. Greed Energy Economics: Wind Energy: Only When the Wind Blows and the Subsidies Flow Wind Energy Curtailment Wind and Solar are Parasitic Power Producers It’s Not Gridlock That is Block…