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.
Unreliables: Energy Health and Ecosystem Consequences:
The Feds are hiding the eagle death data
Court orders temporary shutdown of wind project (due to bird deaths)
Unreliables (General):
Report: clean energy group admits that going green may mean power grid chaos
Land-Use Conflicts Are Derailing Albany’s Alt-Energy Fantasies
Wind Energy — Offshore:
Will Trump stand by as mega-offshore wind projects resume construction?
Offshore Wind Developers Risk Trouble With Trump
Solar Energy:
The Solar Fund Standoff: Following the Money at Latest Target for Funding Cuts
Nuclear Energy:
Demand in US electricity elevates risk of wind/solar & highlights need for nuclear
The advantages and challenges of nuclear-powered data centers
Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:
*** Ten Environmentalist Myths
*** Trump Takes Aim at the Heart of the Climate Industrial Complex
Over 30 items here: Evidence that the climate scam is collapsing
Climate Change Driving California’s Golden Road to Decline
Book: Climate and Energy Lies: Expensive, Dangerous & Destructive
Manmade Global Warming — The Science:
*** Mann’s DC Trick
|*** Capping Carbon Admissions: The Biden Administration is Accused of Burying Conflicting Climate Change Report
Manmade Global Warming — Miscellaneous:
US Supreme Court Declines Appeal in Youth-Led Climate Change Case
Trump’s Climate Policy Shift Could Save American Farmers from Disaster
US Military Exits Climate Change After a Decade of Waste
New NASA Chief Will Wind Down Climate Alarm Shop…
Black & Veatch executive Phil Fischer wrote this piece late last year making a case for natural gas for power generation, whether for the entire data center or for backup. In a free market, natural gas combined cycle, cogeneration, and peaking turbines have proven to be technologies of choice. With wind, solar, and battery subsidies on the chopping block, a new era for gas-fired electrical generation could be ahead.
“Companies developing data centers are in a new era in which the scope of project planning must expand far beyond the data center itself and into the supporting physical infrastructure – power generation, water delivery and water treatment,” Phil Fisher begins. “Delays in this physical infrastructure have led to new ideas that open the window for options that previously had not been on the table.”…
Continue Reading“If you are so sure that your views are correct, why not have a robust climate debate at Harvard. You know and I know that such an event would not come off well for the alarmists/forced energy transformationists.”
Jody Freeman, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, posted on LinkedIn [she blocked me–maybe you can open her links]:
Sobering assessment of our climate risk trajectory and how rising temperatures could overtake insurance markets, and lead to a credit crunch, among a cascade of other financial consequences. Watch the insurance industry. It is serious about climate change. And the canary in the coal mine.
Her link was to Joe Romm’s report of a Guardian article, “Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer,” subtitled “Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure.”…
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