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.

Unreliables (General):
*** The True Cost of Industrial Wind Energy
*** Dem Lawmakers Hinder Federal Investigation Into Biden Admin’s $400 Billion Green Energy Loans
Norway Wants to Scrap EU Power Links amid Surging Prices
Former NY Utility Regulator Warns State Lawmakers They’re on the Naughty List

Wind Energy — Offshore:
Floating Offshore Wind Systems in the Impoverished State of Maine

Wind Energy — Other:
*** Osage Tribe Wins Again, Federal Judge Orders Removal of 84 Wind Turbines by Next December
Wind Power Has Hit Its Limits In Europe

Fossil Fuel Energy:
Exxon To Build Large Off-Grid Natural Gas Plants To Exclusively Sell Electricity… AI Data Centers?…

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:
*** Biden-Harris Admin Races To Dish Out $25 Billion for Green Energy Before Trump Takes Office, Sparking Fraud Fears
High Energy Costs Continue to Plague European Industry

Unreliables (General):
*** The Green Energy Apocalypse
*** Energy Transition Security
*** NERC: 2024–2025 Winter Reliability Assessment

Wind Energy — Offshore:
The California offshore wind environmental impact statement is full of holes

Nuclear Energy:
*** Nuclear SMR welding breakthrough: A year’s work now takes a day
Seven Reasons To Be Skeptical About SMRs

Fossil Fuel Energy:
*** By burning fossil fuels we are saving the planet
*** Giving Thanks for Fossil Fuels

Electric Vehicles (EVs):
Beijing Biden’s REAL Reason for Pushing Electric Vehicles So Much
|‘EV-obsessed’ Germany – ‘killing the car industry’
A Cautionary Tale from Europe
EV Death Pool Update: Rivian

Miscellaneous  Energy:
*** Visualized: U.S.…

“So all you are left with days later is people remembering what a shocking and senseless thing somebody did who is associated with the climate movement…. this is a terrible messaging strategy.” (- Joe Romm, below)

Yesterday’s post highlighted the civil war within the climate activist camp on the usefulness of civil disobedience in revving up the public into climate action. Michael Mann warned, “the damage done by deeply misguided individuals who in principle would seem to be on the side of climate action but are instead dividing the community and playing right into the agenda of the forces of inaction.”

Joseph Romm, the perennially errant climate intellectual, similarly warned.

JUST STOP ALREADY! Why, why, why is our side so … senseless???

In case it wasn’t obvious, this tactic is self-defeating and senseless.…

“Both climate exaggeration and extremism are out of favor, and the public will pounce at any social disruption from the Church of Climate.”

Michael Mezzatesta, self-described “economics & climate educator … sharing ideas for a better future,” urges the fractured, losing climate movement to regroup and up the ante.

“A silver lining of this election result: US progressive resistance movements are about to get a big boost,” he posted on social media. “I predict that it will be a huge four years for progressive organizing and the labor movement, and I think it will be a MASSIVE four years for the climate movement.”

I seriously doubt it. But wishful thinking about rescuing a false, futile, wasteful cause (real problems come first to the electorate) pervades. He continues:

By the next election, I believe the climate movement will be a major political force in US politics, as the Trump administration’s anti-climate policies galvanize millions more people to the climate cause.