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Energy and Environmental Review: October 23, 2023

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#john-droz">John Droz, Jr.</a> -- October 23, 2023

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.

Unreliables (General):
*** Michael Bloomberg’s $1 Billion Assault on The Electric Grid
Solar, wind developers rebuffed in NY
The myth of affordable green energy is over

Wind Energy — Offshore:
Offshore Wind is an Economic and Environmental Catastrophe
How’s That Offshore Project Going, Man
NY delivers crippling blow to green energy development, jeopardizing Biden’s climate goals
Biden admin hit with lawsuit over offshore wind plans as locals rise up

Wind Energy — Other:
*** Taking the Wind Out of Climate Change (referencing 60± studies)

Solar Energy:
‘Europe isn’t profitable’ – Solar industry warns of hurdles to EU’s green tech drive

Fossil Fuel Energy:
*** The Nations that Dominate the Global Economy
*** AAF on US Drained Petroleum Reserve
*** Drill, Baby, Drill
*** EIA: Global fossil fuel use and CO2 emissions to rise through 2050 
Imagine No Jets, Ships, Defense, or Space Program

Electric Vehicles (EVs):
*** China’s graphite curbs send green warning shot
*** EV Battery Factory Will Require So Much Energy It Needs a Coal Plant to Power It
Electric cars risk becoming uninsurable

Miscellaneous Energy:
*** Powering The Unplugged
*** How the Inflation Reduction Act Bankrolls EPA Overreach
The heat-pump nightmare is far from over
Green Hydrogen Needs Vast Subsidies 
Critics Assail Biden’s ‘War on American Energy’ on National Energy Appreciation Day 

Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:
*** No Way, Norway
Era of ‘Unquestioned and Unchallenged’ Climate Change Claims Is Over
How Groupthink, Misinformation, and Lack of Self-Correction Undermined Climate Science
Is New York Times Senior Writer David Leonhardt Lying, Lazy, or Just Stupid?

Energy and Environmental Review: October 9, 2023

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#john-droz">John Droz, Jr.</a> -- October 9, 2023

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: Six Ways Renewables Increase Electricity Bills
Solar Is Getting 302 Times More In Federal Subsidies Than Nuclear

Unreliables (General):
*** The Energy Transition is Social Vandalism
*** The electric grid needs good failure mode analysis
Kansas Republican Party Resolves to Protect Kansans from Unreliable and Foreign-Sourced ‘Renewable’ Wind and Solar Energy

Wind Energy — Offshore:
Environmentalists Seek to Save the Whales from Offshore Wind Energy
Desperate governors beg for offshore wind cost relief
Four NY offshore projects ask for almost 50% price rise

Wind Energy — Other:
*** Taking the Wind Out of Climate Change (referencing 60± studies)
*** Wind Blows
*** Windbaggery: The wind energy sector’s days are numbered
Too cute by half
Turbine graveyards’ sprawled across Texas

Nuclear Energy:
Russia and China Dominating the Race for Nuclear Electricity Generation
Are Small Nuclear Reactors The Answer To Big-Tech’s Energy Crisis?

Energy and Environmental Review: September 25, 2023

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#john-droz">John Droz, Jr.</a> -- September 25, 2023

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:
*** The “cheap wind power” myth is blown away
Traders in CO2 Credits Saddled With Vast Stranded-Asset Pile
Economic Suicide: Germany Passes Green Heating Law Mandating 65% Renewable Energy

Unreliables (General):
*** Giant utility rejects net zero power, big fight follows
*** ACEEE says heavy industry should become intermittent
*** Growing Maze of State and Local Laws Challenging Biden’s Energy Push
In the Wonderland of Wind and Solar, Down Can Be Up
Devastating risks of transitioning to ‘green’ energy

Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** Endangered Whales Unprotected with Wind Industry in Violation of Sonar Limits, New Research Finds
*** Why won’t Greenpeace admit that wind turbines may be killing whales?

Energy and Environmental Review: September 11, 2023

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#john-droz">John Droz, Jr.</a> -- September 11, 2023

Energy and Environmental Review: August 28, 2023

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#john-droz">John Droz, Jr.</a> -- August 28, 2023

Energy and Environmental Review: August 14, 2023

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#john-droz">John Droz, Jr.</a> -- August 14, 2023

Energy and Environmental Review: July 31, 2023

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#john-droz">John Droz, Jr.</a> -- July 31, 2023

Energy and Environmental Review: July 17, 2023

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#john-droz">John Droz, Jr.</a> -- July 17, 2023

Energy and Environmental Review: July 3, 2023

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#john-droz">John Droz, Jr.</a> -- July 3, 2023

Energy and Environmental Review: June 19, 2023

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#john-droz">John Droz, Jr.</a> -- June 19, 2023