“Your paper inspired me to re-review some of the congressional testimony of the renewable interests to see whether the litmus test of success was a cost target or more generally, competitiveness and market penetration. I think it is clearly the latter.”

“Imagine the coach of a football team justifying a perennial losing record by telling the administration that his players are getting bigger and faster …. Surely the administration would respond—’yes, we know the general trend and our participation in it. But we want real victories, not moral victories’.”

– Letter from Robert Bradley to Dallas Burtraw, January 1999.

It was arguably the very top intellectual research paper to justify past and continuing U.S. government support for renewable energies at the time of its publication (1999). I had a chance to rebut, working at Enron (as director, public policy analysis) that was a financial supporter of Resources for the Future (RFF), as well as a business leader in renewables.…

The Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving national, state, and local energy and environmental policies. Our premise is that technical matters like these should be addressed by using Real Science (please consult WiseEnergy.org for more information).

A key element of AWED’s efforts is public education. Towards that end, every three weeks we put together a newsletter to balance what is found in the mainstream media about energy and the environment. We appreciate MasterResource for their assistance in publishing this information.

Some of the more interesting articles in this issue are:

Extensive information on Wind Turbine Noise

How to Talk to Anyone about Energy

Thorcon: Cheap, Reliable, CO-2 Energy Now

Wind Energy PILOTS Should Have To Pass a Benefits Test

The specifics of two NC wind project lawsuits: here & here

NC Uses Unique Tactic Against EPA Energy Rule

Climate Change Solutions Must Prove Effectiveness

Why Renewables Will Not Play A Significant Role with Climate Change

Climate Change: Not Science and Not Settled

The Most Comprehensive Assault on “Global Warming” Ever

America We Have a Problem

Only 3% of all CO2 is due to human activities

Study: Are Claimed Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accurate?…

The Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving national, state, and local energy and environmental policies. Our premise is that technical matters like these should be addressed by using Real Science (please consult WiseEnergy.org for more information).

A key element of AWED’s efforts is public education. Towards that end, every three weeks we put together a newsletter to balance what is found in the mainstream media about energy and the environment. We appreciate MasterResource for their assistance in publishing this information.

—————————————

Special Note 1: All US Citizens should take one minute to formally object to a proposed extension of the wind PTC. (Please pass this email onto your lists.) [PTC Elimination Act now has 50 co-sponsors, Horse trading in Congress: Lifting oil ban for extending wind and solar tax credits, and 7 U.S.…

The Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving national, state, and local energy and environmental policies. Our premise is that technical matters like these should be addressed by using Real Science (please consult WiseEnergy.org for more information).

A key element of AWED’s efforts is public education. Towards that end, every three weeks we put together a newsletter to balance what is found in the mainstream media about energy and the environment. We appreciate MasterResource for their assistance in publishing this information.

—————————

Some of the more interesting articles in this issue are:

Report: Which States Lose the Most to Wind Welfare?

3% of wind developers earnings go to the community

Wind farm noise report ‘parallels VW scandal’

Negative Health Effects of Noise from Wind Turbines: Some Background

Research into Wind Turbine Infrasound

Wind Energy: Unreliable and Expensive

Iberdrola: “five instances of international fraud and corruption”

The Truth About One State’s Energy Policy (which applies to all)

Marxism and Ecology: Common Fonts of a Great Transition

Freeman Dyson on climate change, interstellar travel, fusion, and more

Study: Perspectives of Uncertainty in Climate Science

Prominent Scientists Declare Climate Claims to be “Irrational”

Climate Rationalization, Beliefs and Denialism

Climate Wars and the Damage to Science

Global Warming Despotism

French Science Society: The battle against global warming: an absurd, costly and pointless crusade

NASA Temperature Datasets “Massively Altered”

An Outbreak of Sanity (re Sea Level Rise)

Greed Energy Economics:

Report: Which States Lose the Most to Wind Welfare?…