Energy & Environmental Review: August 5, 2024

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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:
The UN’s Green Agenda Will Spark Famine

Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** Taking the Wind Out of Climate Change (referencing 60± studies)
*** Fight Against Wind Turbines in Lake Erie Continues
*** As more turbine trash washes up on Nantucket, town considers suing
*** Breaking Wind
Virginia’s risk of offshore wind turbine blade failure is serious
Offshore wind whale deaths indicated by statistical analysis
California Rushes In Where Angels Fear to Tread

Solar Energy:
*** Solar industry sees first projects put on ice as nuclear proposal sows doubt among investors

Nuclear Energy:
*** Nuclear Power is the way to go
Nuclear micro-reactors may be deployed at Niagara Falls data center
Tell the World Bank to scrap it’s ban on carbon-free Nuclear Energy

Fossil Fuel Energy:
Natural Gas Industry’s Smear of Coal Is False and Self-Defeating
UK may need new gas-fired power stations to decarbonize grid
Kamala Harris reverses earlier anti-fracking stance and no longer supports a ban

Electric Vehicles (EVs):
*** Report: EVs for all (Part 1)
Ford’s EV Bloodbath Continues
Power Outages Bring Hurricane of EV Buyers’ Remorse
*** Alex Epstein: Energy Sound Bites on Fossil Fuels, Part 2
Global Power Demand Is Soaring, IEA Expects 4% Growth in ’24 & ‘25

Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:
*** New Peer-Reviewed Study: CO2 Has Zero Impact on Climate Change
*** Polar Bears, Dead Coral and Other Climate Fictions
*** Japanese Scientist Concludes IPCC Is Using “Erroneous” Parameters And Climate Sensitivities
*** Inconvenient Truth: 32 Climate Predictions Proven False

Manmade Global Warming — Miscellaneous
*** Biden Admin Demands $78 Trillion to Fund ‘Net Zero’
*** The Economic Folly of a Carbon Tax
*** New Zealand changing course on climate emissions
Why the ‘Green Economy’ Is Suddenly in Retreat—in EU, US, and on Wall Street
Video: Volcanic Eruptions and Extreme Weather

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Energy & Environmental Review: July 22, 2024

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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.

Unreliables (General):
*** Big Batteries Bring Big Problems!
Alberta’s wind and solar output plunge to near zero…again

Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** The Offshore Wind Energy Scandal is Even Worse Than You Think
*** Shattered wind turbine closes Nantucket beaches feds suspend Vineyard Wind
*** Why Are Massive Amounts of the World’s Most Potent Greenhouse Gas Being Ferried Out into the Ocean off the Eastern Seaboard?
Offshore Wind Turbines Wrecking Marine Radar Signals
The Titanic scale of floating wind turbines quantified

Wind Energy — Other:
*** Taking the Wind Out of Climate Change (referencing 60± studies)
*** Short video: The Most Confusing Part of the Power Grid
*** Nine July Days Clearly Demonstrate Industrial Wind Turbines Intermittent Uselessness
Turbines were Missing in Action for High Peak Demand Days
Green Hypocrisy
German wind power sector in crisis.

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Energy & Environmental Review: July 8, 2024

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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.

Wind Energy:
Feds say “damn the whales” in the Gulf of Maine
*** Taking the Wind Out of Climate Change (referencing 60± studies)
*** Cooking the Books 2: Lazard’s Levelized Cost of Energy Estimates for Wind
*** Short video: Green Madness – The Waste and Destruction of One Industrial Wind Turbine Project
Video: The Problem with Wind Energy

Solar Energy:
NY Community Bans Solar Projects
Another NY Community Reconsiders Solar Projects
Solar Projects are Taking US Back to the Dark Ages

Nuclear Energy:
*** Nuclear Power 101: Safe, Reliable & Affordable Power Generation In-a-Nutshell
*** The stage is being set for an American nuclear power revolution

Fossil Fuel Energy:
225 Ways President Biden and the Democrats Have Made it Harder to Produce Oil & Gas

Electric Vehicles (EVs):
*** China Is The Big Winner Of North American EV Policies
*** Should Electric Vehicles be Illegal?

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Energy & Environmental Review: June 24, 2024

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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 energy subsidies undermine our economy

Unreliables (General):
*** The big renewable energy lie
*** EPA Regulations & the Future of Grid Reliability
*** Good Observations re Battery Systems
*** Stop Energy Sprawl
Net Zero Energy Storage Presents a Battery of Problems
Local opposition to renewable energy projects ‘widespread and growing’: Columbia University report

Wind Energy — Offshore:
Offshore wind energy will come at a high cost to Northeast taxpayers
Floating wind madness in Maine
Highway funds illegally used for floating wind factories

Wind Energy — Other:
*** Taking the Wind Out of Climate Change (referencing 60± studies)
*** Risch Goes Beast Mode on Tracy Stone-Manning re Idaho Wind Project
*** Lessons from Germany’s Wind Power Disaster – A Decade Later
*** Study: The role of rare earth elements in wind energy and electric mobility
Windless nights make net zero impossible
Good pix of the base of a typical modern wind turbine
Industrial Wind Turbines and their Wimpy Ways
Iowa farmer regrets signing wind turbine lease after both turbines on her land burned to the ground 

Solar Energy:
Lazard’s Low-End LCOE Estimates for Solar Are Still Too Optimistic
Solar Company Collapses, Customers Furious as Dems’ Favorite Power Source Leaves Homeowners High and Dry

Nuclear Energy:
*** In Wyoming, Bill Gates moves ahead with nuclear project aimed at revolutionizing power generation
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Energy & Environmental Review: June 10, 2024

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Wind Turbine-related Radiation

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Alaska Energy Future Needs Informed Voters (gas, hydro under political assault)

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Energy & Environmental Review: April 29, 2024

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