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By John Droz, Jr. -- August 29, 2019 4 CommentsThe Alliance for Wise
Energy Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and
organizations interested in improving national, state, and local
energy and environmental policies. Our premise is that technical matters
like these should be addressed by using Real Science
(please consult WiseEnergy.org for more information).
A key element of AWED’s efforts is public education. Towards that end,
every three weeks we put together a newsletter to balance what is
found in the mainstream media about energy and the environment. We
appreciate MasterResource for their assistance in
publishing this information.
Some of the more important articles in this issue are:
China has slashed
clean energy funding by 39%, leading a global decline
China switches $1B in
‘green’ finance to coal projects in first half of the year
The Misanthropic
Bankers Behind the Green New Deal
How Elon Musk Fooled
Investors, Bilked Taxpayers, etc.
General Electric
shares tank following accusation of ‘bigger fraud than Enron’
NY Offshore Wind bids
rigged for unions
Wind Turbines Can Cause
Sickness, Say Public Health Officials
Wind Turbines and
Adverse Health Effects: A Cardiologist’s View
Duke Energy study
points finger at solar for increased pollution
The Environmental
Disaster of Solar Energy
The Dark Side of
China’s Solar Boom
Explaining Wind
Turbine Lethality
Utility Studies delay
both Wind and Solar Projects in the US Northeast
Renewable Energy Hits
the Wall
Why Wind and Solar
Aren’t Enough
Big Wind’s Big
Headwinds
Wind Project is
Trespassing
Physics Professor:
Turbines could compromise radar signals
Short Video: The Green Real Deal
China and India Will
Watch the West Destroy Itself
The Latest Travesty in
“Consensus” Enforcement
Re-evaluating the
manufacture of the climate consensus
Dr Roy Spencer: How the Media Help to
Destroy Rational Climate Debate
Superior Video: Global Warming — Fact or Fiction
Dr.…
Energy & Environmental Newsletter: July 29, 2019
By John Droz, Jr. -- July 29, 2019 3 CommentsThe Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving national, state, and local energy and environmental policies. Our premise is that technical matters like these should be addressed by using Real Science (please consult WiseEnergy.org for more information).
A key element of AWED’s efforts is public education. Towards that end, every three weeks we put together a newsletter to balance what is found in the mainstream media about energy and the environment. We appreciate MasterResource for their assistance in publishing this information.
Some of the more important articles in this issue are:
- Climate trillions frittered in the wind
- Study: The Social Cost of Carbon and Carbon Taxes
- Wind Farm Back-of-the-Envelope Economic Analysis
- The Confusions of the ‘Conservative’ Carbon Tax
- Inconvenient Energy Realities
- Infrasound noise guidelines: Antiquated and irrelevant for protecting populations
- Archive: Big Wind’s Dirty Little Secret — Radioactive Waste
- Study: The Impact of Wind Energy on Wildlife and the Environment
- Study: Green Killing Machines, the impact of renewable energy on wildlife and nature
- Fact-Check: Fearmongers Over Nevada’s Yucca Mountain
- Tucker Carlson TV segment: the Green New Deal is a Power Play
- 100% Renewable Is 100% Unachievable, Even If You’re An Optimist
- Sustainability and Global Warming Give Birth to Renewable Energy
- Prepare for green blackouts: That’s what’s in store for New York
- Balloon Tests to Simulate Turbine Height
- Battery Storage—An Infinitesimal Part of Electrical Power
- Excellent short video: Climate Apartheid?
James E. Rogers (1947-2018): Political Capitalist
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- July 18, 2019 5 CommentsAt 41, [James Rogers] was named CEO of PSI Energy Inc., a small, financially troubled Indiana utility. Breaking ranks with others in the electric-power industry, he supported legislation putting caps on sulfur-dioxide emissions. “Some of my guys thought I was drinking the environmental Kool-Aid,” he said later. “But I said, ‘Let’s shape this, let’s make some money.’”
– James Hagerty, “Jim Rogers, Head of a Coal-Burning Utility, Crusaded Against Global Warming.” Wall Street Journal, December 20, 2018.
“I made money on sulfur [dioxide], and I’ll make money on carbon [dioxide].”
– James Rogers. Quoted in Eric Pooley, “The Smooth-Talking King of Coal–and Climate Change.” Bloomberg Businessweek, June 3, 2010.
James Eugene “Jim” Rogers Jr. (1947–2018) was a notable political capitalist (rent seeker) of the late 20th/early 21st century electricity market.…
Continue ReadingFDR’s New Deal with Energy: Part V (Rural Electrification)
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- January 15, 2019 1 Comment“The private sector’s push for rural electrification would be forgotten as electrifying the countryside became a political issue during the New Deal, specifically with the creation of the Rural Electrification Administration in 1935.”
– Robert Bradley, Edison to Enron: Energy Markets and Political Strategies (2011), p. 165.
“Next to their ability to pump water mechanistically, small wind turbines are best known for their ability to generate power at remote homesteads…. During the 1930s, when only 10% of U.S. farms were served by central-station power, literally hundreds of thousands of [“home light plants”] were in use on the Great Plains…. [This industry] collapsed quickly after the introduction of electricity by the Rural Electrification Administration during the 1930s.”
– Paul Gipe. Wind Energy Comes of Age (1995), pp. 125, 131.
The New Deal’s policies toward oil and coal in the 1933–39 era were hardly succeeded from anyone’s perspective.…
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