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:
*** Renewable Power’s Big Mistake Was a Promise to Always Get Cheaper
Michigan, New York and Quebec Ratepayers Should Thank Ontario Ratepayers and Taxpayers for their Early Christmas Present

Renewable Energy: Health and Ecosystem Consequences:
*** Report: Millions of bats are slaughtered annually by onshore wind turbines
Bat species native to Great Lakes on brink of extinction
Mega wind facility approved that can’t operate half the year

Renewables (General):
*** “All-the-Above” is No Energy Policy — It’s Merely Politics
*** When Accurate Data Are ‘Bad PR’
*** Report: The Dark Side of “Renewable” Energy
‘Turbocharged’ Renewables: The IEA Hawking Its Wares Again
Wind and Solar Disappoint in Asian Energy Haven

Wind Energy:
*** Economic Realities Dash Biden’s Offshore Wind Plans
*** Wind Power Opposition: It’s a Conspiracy!…

“Natural gas shortages and reliability concerns in New England are neither short-term, nor unanticipated…. ISO-New England and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission have for many months called attention to the very real reliability issues likely to face the region in the coming winter months due to insufficient supply of natural gas.”

“New England power plants generated an estimated 4.18 million metric tons of CO2 in January 2022, up from 2.77 million metric tons in January 2021, with the region’s heavier reliance on oil accounting for most of the difference.” (INGAA, below)

Government intervention creates emergencies and shortages unlike self-interested transactions within a true free market. This was true a century ago with World War I planning; and it remains true today.

The 1970s oil and gas shortages should have taught politicians that price and allocation controls do not work.…

[Ed. note: On August 27, 1997, the Cato Institute published Policy Analysis #280, which criticized the government push to subsidize politically correct renewable energies. This review by Jon Boone, published ten years ago, is reprinted below.

“The policy implication of [a thorough examination of renewable technologies] is, stop throwing good money after bad. All renewable energy subsidies from all levels of government should cease.”

Such is the conclusion voiced today by a rising chorus of energy experts, economists, even politicians, after many years of failed renewables projects and more expensive utility bills in the growing shadow of a $16 trillion national debt ($140,000 per taxpayer). But, remarkably, fifteen years have passed since Rob Bradley crafted this statement for the Cato Institute as the bottom line of his comprehensive six-part policy alarum, Renewable Energy: Not Cheap, Not ‘Green’

An Opening Shot

Few knew about or shared Bradley’s concerns at the time.…

Ed. note: This post excerpts energy and climate material from the Media Balance Newsletter, a fortnightly published by physicist John Droz Jr., founder of the Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions. The complete MBN for this post can be found here.

Greed Energy Economics:
Subsidized Wind & Solar Root Cause of Every Power Pricing & Supply Crisis

Renewables (General):
*** Report: No Emission Reduction Gained from Increasing Wind & Solar
*** Breakthrough in U.S. grid storage estimating
All Electricity Sources Pollute

Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** Maryland’s Offshore Wind is a $4 Billion Boondoggle
*** BOEM Comments re proposed Maryland Offshore Wind Project
*** Hurricane risk is real for offshore wind
*** SCC Asked to Put Offshore Wind Failure Risk on Dominion, Not Customers
Wind developer, environmentalists agree on ways to protect whales
Fears fishing grounds will be lost to fleet

Wind Energy — Other:
*** Wind turbines bound for landfill because of hefty recycling expenses
*** A No Wind Solution
*** Southern Idaho Ranches Threatened by Potential Wind Project Development
The Lava Ridge Wind Turbine Project
Report: Leading edge erosion and pollution from wind turbine blades
A land rush for renewable energy is transforming Eastern Colorado

Solar Energy:
In Pandering to the Green Left, Biden Is Underwriting China’s Genocide of Uyghurs

Nuclear Energy:
A More Reliable and Responsible Climate Plan for NY (and elsewhere)

Fossil Fuel Energy:
*** Study: “Climate Impacts“ of Fossil Fuels in Today’s Energy Systems
*** Diesel oil and engine oil is going from scarcity to non-existent
*** Yes, You CAN Blame Biden For High Energy Prices
Is The Global Climate Agenda Dead?…