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:
*** Dispelling the Cult Claim—”Wind and Solar are Lower Cost Generation than Natural Gas”
Two wind facilities share $100± million to turn off
Unreliables (General):
*** Time to retire the term ‘renewable energy’ from serious discussion and energy policy directives
*** The State of Reliability in PJM and Nine Slides from My Testimony in Ohio Explaining Why Costs are Rising and Reliability is Faltering
Wind Energy — Offshore:
Danish Clean Energy Giant Sucking Wind
Study Provides Guidance on Detecting North Atlantic Right Whales in Wind Energy Areas
Wind Energy — Other:
*** Taking the Wind Out of Climate Change (referencing 60± studies)
Industrial Wind Turbines demonstrate their Unreliable and Intermittent Nature Generating 1.8% of their Capacity than jumping to 80.4% only a few days later
Solar Energy:
*** Stealing with Solar: The Great Net-Metering Heist
*** Steal from the Poor, Give to the Rich
Nuclear Energy:
*** After scrapping nuclear reactors, Germany to spend billions on new gas power plants
Fossil Fuel Energy:
*** Coal’s Life-Saving Role Ignored by Climate-Obsessed Media
House delivers blow to Biden’s climate agenda, votes against natural gas moratorium
Biden to Export Ideology Instead of Natural Gas
Climate Cultists at The Guardian: This Time, It’s Evil Propane
Electric Vehicles (EVs):
*** Ford Lost $4.7B On EVs Last Year, Or About $64,731 For Every EV It Sold
Car Dealers Slash Prices Of EVs As Demand Craters
Experts warn electric vehicle weight threatens road safety and infrastructure
Heavier EV’s tearing up the roadways but paying nothing for road maintenance
Miscellaneous Energy News:
*** A landmark Energy Freedom Resolution from the RNC
*** Introducing: AlexAI (energy questions answered by Alex Epstein’s AI)
*** The Deindustrialization of Europe in Five Charts
Congress and courts enable energy and climate fantasy and tyranny
Energy regulator’s exit may flummox Biden’s green plans
Can the government create a green hydrogen fuel industry?…
“The hope for some semblance of sanity is that the judge in this case will overturn the jury’s verdict, based on the fact that it was in stark contrast to the evidence presented.”
As readers know, I recently posted a detailed discussion of the Mann v Steyn lawsuit, and asserted that ALL of our rights were being debated. The jury’s verdict was rendered yesterday — and it was disturbing.
I’m not an attorney, but the two fundamental issues appeared to be: 1) Does a person have the right to publicly express their opinion (right or wrong) about a national matter? and 2) Does a person have the right to publicly express an opinion that is based on reasonable scientific evidence, but differs from what is currently politically correct? Apparently no to both!…
Ed. Note: This post excerpts energy and climate material from the Media Balance Newsletter, a free fortnighly 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:
*** Report 1: The High Cost of 100% Renewable Electricity by 2040
*** Report 2: The High Cost of 100 Percent Electric Home Heating
*** Report 3: The High Cost of 100 Percent Electric Vehicles
*** New study warns of soaring energy bills
How Renewables Obligation Certificates (ROCs) Rip Us Off
Unreliables (General):
*** Renewables: an expensive nightmare to nowhere
*** JUICE (Episode 1) – Texas Blackout
*** Michael Bloomberg’s $1 Billion Assault on the Electric Grid
*** Green Crime: An Electric Car, Wind and Solar Crime Wave
Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** Orsted announces withdrawal of plans to build wind turbines off MD coast
*** Comments requested on draft law to promote offshore wind
Energy developer delivers major blow to Maryland’s climate agenda by canceling offshore wind contracts
Groups Investigating Death Of Critically Endangered Whale Take Wind Industry Money
Dominion wind project gets final 2 permits
Wind Energy — Other:
*** Taking the Wind Out of Climate Change (referencing 60± studies)
*** The Death of a Wind Project (Minnesota)
Solar Energy:
Killing fields fear solar will destroy locals’ livelihoods
Europe’s solar panel manufacturers ask EU for emergency support
Nuclear Energy:
Lessons to be learned from Fukushima
The U.S.…