“Will HEATED end its bias and vehemence against critics of climate exaggeration and forced energy transformation? Will Emily Atkin consider the welfare of energy consumers and taxpayers? The harms of wind, solar, and batteries? The Big Money and Big Power agenda of the Climate Industrial Complex?”

The announcement came the week before Christmas. In “A Note on the Future: Taking a Short Break, and Changing Course,” Emily Atkin of HEATED (“A newsletter for people who are pissed off about the climate crisis”) announced:

In 2024, the fifth year of HEATED, we continued our mission of producing original, impactful, reader-powered journalism that holds polluters to account…. But our paid subscriber community did not grow in tandem with our free community this year. In fact, we have fewer paying subscribers now than we did at this time last year….

This letter of December 4, 2024, to Jigar Shah (Director, Loan Programs Office, U.S. Department of Energy) was from Cathy McMorris Rodgers: Chair, Committee on Energy and Commerce; Jeff Duncan: Chair, Subcommittee on Energy, Climate, and Grid Security; and H. Morgan Griffith: Chair, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. A similar plea to Shah by solar executive David Bergeron is here.

Dear Director Shah,

We write to you concerning the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Loan Programs Office (LPO) and its push to rush out loans and loan guarantees in the closing days of the current administration.

Reportedly, the LPO is scrambling to close the $25 billion in pending loans under that program before President Biden leaves office. [1] The LPO has closed on eight loans in just over two months.…

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.…