Ed. Note: This post excerpts energy and climate material from the Media Balance Newsletter, a free fortnighly 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:
*** Wind industry confirms Great Green Lie
*** Collapse of projects shows again that wind power is not affordable
Profit At China’s Top Wind Firm Slumps 98%
Wind Unaffordable, Costs Common Sense

Unreliables (General):
*** Report: Green Energy and Economic Fabulist
*** Green Dreams Going Up in Smoke
*** Unplug the Green Boondoggle

Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** Beware the offshore wind oligarchy
*** Developer walks away from New Jersey offshore wind farms
Offshore wind farm proposal is ‘absolute madness’

Wind Energy — Other:
*** Taking the Wind Out of Climate Change (referencing 60± studies)
*** The Wind is Always Blowing Somewhere Fallacy
*** The case for wind power was built upon a myth

Nuclear Energy:
*** Clean energy breakthrough: eVinci nuclear microreactor from Westinghouse receives DOE contract
*** Nuclear Power Gains Momentum as Global Energy Concerns Resurface Amidst Geopolitical Tensions
The miraculous technology that could solve our energy problems and works now

Fossil Fuel Energy:
*** Five years later, evidence of fracking’s safety is stronger than ever
Anti-oil, but Definitely Pro-Products from Oil
Why ‘dirty’ coal is vital to a ‘clean’ green future
China continues to build large numbers of coal plants
What if we went back to a fossil-free society like the 1800’s?…

Nixing the Mandates in Kansas: Representative Carrie Barth (R-Dist 5) and former House Energy and Environment Chair, Dennis Hedke, reach astounding consensus on Energy Resolution: 180 to 1. There will be no energy “victims” in this state.

I don’t believe I am the typical politician. I don’t care about a political career or political threats. I care about doing the right thing. I care about people. Period! (- Rep Carrie Barth in an email, October 9 2023)

Carrie Barth (R-Kansas, District 5) and Dennis Hedke, unapologetic supporter of the U.S. Constitution, acclaimed author of The Audacity of Freedom (2011), geophysicist, and former member Kansas House of Representatives (former Chair of the House Energy Committee), have drafted a clean and accurate Resolution for the Republican Party. This passed with overwhelming support. It appears to acknowledge that wind is not a good corporate citizen.…

In October 1993, I published a pamphlet in Studies in Market-Based Energy Policy (#3) with the above title. On its thirtieth anniversary, I excerpt its major parts. So how does it read today–and compare to other writings of its time that were critical of fossil fuels? I report: you decide.

“From today’s [1993] vantage point, the energy-policy lesson has been half-learned. It is widely known that major command-and-control regulations do not work. The lessons of the 1970s energy crises have not been forgotten, and another energy crisis cannot be expected without price and allocations regulations.”

Executive Summary (pp. 1–2)

This primer on energy choices and market decision making has direct implications for energy policy. If voluntary choices in a free-market setting result in efficient outcomes, many current energy policies based on taxation, subsidies, and regulation can be critically questioned.…

“Why is a conservative pro-development governor pushing for policies that are counterproductive to natural resource development?”

“The Alaska Energy Security Task Force report does not mention maximizing the use of the abundant energy sources we have in our state today, such as coal, in-state refining, or the incentivization of production in the Cook Inlet where, according to the USGS, we are not in a natural gas shortage situation.”

Alaska grift is reaching new levels to comport with the Inflation Reduction Act (aka Green New Deal). Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy, all-in with Green Globalism, has appointed a energy security task force of cronies who lack real experience in or affinity with the state’s oil and gas sector. Instead of inciting investment in Alaska’s prolific resource base, Biden’s obstruction and subsidy bribery will risk making the state a federal enclave, with its top import being federal dollars.…