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Energy and Environmental Review: October 9, 2023

By -- October 9, 2023

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:
*** Report: Six Ways Renewables Increase Electricity Bills
Solar Is Getting 302 Times More In Federal Subsidies Than Nuclear

Unreliables (General):
*** The Energy Transition is Social Vandalism
*** The electric grid needs good failure mode analysis
Kansas Republican Party Resolves to Protect Kansans from Unreliable and Foreign-Sourced ‘Renewable’ Wind and Solar Energy

Wind Energy — Offshore:
Environmentalists Seek to Save the Whales from Offshore Wind Energy
Desperate governors beg for offshore wind cost relief
Four NY offshore projects ask for almost 50% price rise

Wind Energy — Other:
*** Taking the Wind Out of Climate Change (referencing 60± studies)
*** Wind Blows
*** Windbaggery: The wind energy sector’s days are numbered
Too cute by half
Turbine graveyards’ sprawled across Texas

Nuclear Energy:
Russia and China Dominating the Race for Nuclear Electricity Generation
Are Small Nuclear Reactors The Answer To Big-Tech’s Energy Crisis?

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Government over U.S. Oil and Gas: A Summary

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 6, 2023

The Library of Congress’s Oil and Gas Industry: A Research Guide lists

  • Federal agencies pertaining to oil and gas in addition to the U.S. Department of Energy, which back in 1977 consolidated dozens of energy functions spread throughout Washington, DC.
  • Major state regulatory agencies
  • U.S. Congressional Committees

It is reprinted below as a quick look at Energy Leviathan. Needless to say, in a free market, with the separation of government and energy, with the military functions transferred to the U.S. Department of Defense, this alphabet soup would not exist.

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U.S. Regulatory Agencies

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is the primary body that regulates oil and gas companies, although a number of other federal offices oversee specific components of the oil and gas industry.

BLM regulates federal onshore lands.…

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CO2 Greening: Getting Back to the Basics

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 5, 2023

“Preference for warmer regions has been a key determinant of internal population shifts in the United States and other industrialized countries in the post-World War II era.  Internal migrations toward the Sunbelt have been eased by science and technology developments that, for example, cooled torrid summer air and controlled malaria in the South, and along the Gulf coast.” (National Academy of Sciences, below)

The mainstream media war against the green greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide (CO2), cannot negate the most settled part of the climate change debate. Into the 1990s, it was accepted practice to present the scientific consensus of the beneficial qualities of CO2 on the planet. Given its relevance for today’s debate, it is worth revisiting the National Academy of Sciences, et al., Policy Implications of Greenhouse Warming (Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 1992).…

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ERCOT Readies ‘Retired’ Gas Generation for the 2023/24 Winter Peak

By Ed Ireland -- October 4, 2023
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Horwitz vs. Kiesling on Climate (social science matters too)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 3, 2023
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Julian Simon Memorial Award 2023: Comments of David Simon

By David Simon -- October 2, 2023
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Climate Alarmism Demoted in One Chart

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- September 28, 2023
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UK Climate Alarmists Debate Violence (hitting bottom?)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- September 27, 2023
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Alaska Energy vs. Woke Government

By -- September 26, 2023
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Energy and Environmental Review: September 25, 2023

By -- September 25, 2023
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