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By John Droz, Jr. -- February 11, 2019 2 CommentsThe 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 important articles in this issue are:
Bill Gates about the foolishness of renewables
Short Anti-wind video by Ohio citizens
Study: The $2.5 trillion reason we can’t rely on batteries to clean up the grid
Evolution of Electricity Rates
New Huge Study: Wind Turbines Devalue nearby Homes
Abstracts for upcoming 8th International Meeting on Wind Turbine Noise
PhD Letter re Turbine Health Impacts
German citizen anti-wind effort results in installations slump
Electoral Platitudes = Energy Trauma for Citizens
Goodbye to a misguided war on coal
Hot Day in Australia results in massive blackouts
Study: Grid Scale Electricity Storage Can’t Save Renewables
The 10 Most Insane Requirements Of The Green New Deal
The Green New Deal is a leftist politician’s worst enemy
Green New Deal: The Devil Is in the Details
Green New Deal: Looks Like A Dem Parody Bill
The Green New Deal is a Prescription for Poverty
Greenhouse-warming theory does not appear to even be physically possible
Physicist: Don’t fall for the argument about ‘settled science’
Revised: Deficiencies In the IPCC’s SR15 Special Report
Why the Left Loves and Hates Science
Greed Energy Economics:
Bill Gates about the foolishness of renewables
Study: The $2.5 trillion reason we can’t rely on batteries to clean up the grid
Evolution of Electricity Rates
New Huge Study: Wind Turbines Devalue nearby Homes
The Three Major Problems with a Carbon Tax
Study: Tax Abatements and the Texas Wind Industry
Short video: Texas town has $30M burden after going “100% renewable”
Green Energy Being Abandoned As Economics Go Red
The foolishness of Canadians paying a Carbon Tax
The Myth of the Revenue-Neutral Carbon Tax
Carbon Taxes Aren’t Working Any More
Wyoming takes its yearly look at raising a tax on wind energy
PG&E may shed $40± billion worth of renewable contracts
Could PTC rush jeopardize U.S.…
Continue ReadingEnergy, Economic Upheaval to Address “Climate Change” (626-group letter exposes much)
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- February 4, 2019 6 Comments“[Our groups] look forward to working with you to address the gravest environmental crisis humanity has ever faced, to protect all present and future generations around the world, while centering the rights of those communities and workers most impacted.”
Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute called it the “Back to the Dark Ages Manifesto.” It is so drastic and far-reaching that major environmental groups do not dare to touch it, much less sign on. (The smart Statists know not to reach too far too fast, instead taking gains incrementally and preparing for the next run up the Hill.)
Too much, too soon (as in a carbon tax) loses in a democracy where voters are energy users, and fossil-fuel scares in a distant future compete with here-and-now problems.
But the January 10, 2019, letter from 626 Left groups is a remarkable “coming out” moment for the fringe, anti-energy, anti-industrial, anti-freedom cabal.…
Continue ReadingCEI: Energy/Environmental Policy for the New Congress
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- January 23, 2019 3 Comments“Increasing the affordability of both U.S. and global energy is an important economic and humanitarian objective. Policy makers heeding the time-honored healer’s maxim, ‘First, do no harm,’ should reject policies to tax and regulate away mankind’s access to affordable energy.”
It is titled Free to Prosper: Energy and Environment: A Pro-Growth Agenda for the 116th Congress. It is the work of the energy and environmental stalwarts at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the organization long led by Fred L. Smith Jr. and now directed by Kent Lassman. And as always, it is reliable scholarship to inform both sides of the political aisle.
The energy White Paper is part of a broader book, Free to Prosper. The eight areas other than Energy and Environment are Regulatory Reform and Agency Oversight; Trade; Banking and Finance; Private and Public Lands; Technology and Telecommunications; Labor and Employment; Food, Drugs, and Consumer Freedom; and Transportation That’s a lot of the federal matrix of public policy.…
Continue ReadingSamuel Insull and Rural Electrification (it did not start with FDR’s New Deal )
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- January 16, 2019 2 Comments“I am not claiming any great originality for the Lake County Experiment [on rural electrification in 1910]. If I had not hit upon it somebody else would have, but it is rather an interesting sidelight that even the opponents of private ownership, such as the Tennessee Valley Authority, by their work have put the stamp of approval on such matters….”
– Samuel Insull, The Memoirs of Samuel Insull (1934), p. 97.
[Ed. note: This post is taken from the author’s Edison to Enron (2011), chapter 3, pp. 105–108]
“The way Insull’s utility managed Chicago’s power load,” noted one technological historian, “is comparable to the historic managerial contributions made by railway men in the nineteenth century and is as interesting as the widely publicized managerial concepts and policies of John D. Rockefeller and Henry Ford.”…
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