Monhegan Island Offshore Wind: New DOE Should Decline $40 Million Subsidy

By Jim Lutz -- March 14, 2017 4 Comments

“A consortium of grant seekers, organized under the name ‘Aqua Ventus,’ vies for $40 million in Department of Energy grants to build a demonstration wind project within three miles of Monhegan Island. They do so under the higher moral purpose of saving the planet, but that is simply to camouflage what is but a callous quest for ‘free’ government money, taxpayers and ratepayers be damned.”

Will the new, improved US Department of Energy (DOE) just-say-no to a massively uneconomic proposed wind project offshore?

I call your attention to a situation in Maine which I believe is a poster child for how the forgotten American is being robbed and disrespected by the renewable-energy special interests and their coterie of shills. The issue is this: DOE is presently considering grants of $40 million for a project which would never exist absent tax-and-spend government largesse to this point.…

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Energy & Environmental Newsletter: February 27, 2017

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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 important articles in this issue are:

Is Global Warming Just a Fraud?

Many meteorologists question climate change science

Climate Orthodoxy — The Limits of Professional Judgment

Major Study about the limitations of climate models

Study: A Host of Problems Associated with CMIP3 and 5 Climate Models

Cabinet Science-Denial or Scientific Skepticism?

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Nuclear’s Latest: Project, Company, Consumer Troubles

By Kennedy Maize -- February 20, 2017 No Comments

“Toshiba’s nuclear business has been hemorrhaging money at its U.S. construction projects in Georgia and South Carolina…. The four units are in states with regulated markets and provisions for nuclear projects to receive a return on their capital investments during construction, through consumer electric rate increases.”

The social value of nuclear power may provoke wide debate. But as a business proposition, in countries with market-based economies, nuclear is failing. New construction is particularly disappointing: a new generation of technology widely expected to get costs and construction times down simply has not done so.

Problems at Toshiba

The latest evidence comes Toshiba, a giant Japanese conglomerate and parent of the U.S. nuclear reactor designer and vendor, Westinghouse Electric. Westinghouse’s ruinous investment in nuclear construction behemoth CB&I Stone & Webster has crippled Toshiba’s finances.…

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Energy & Environmental Newsletter: February 6, 2017

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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 important articles in this issue are:

How world leaders were duped into investing billions over manipulated global warming data

The “Wind and Solar Will Save Us” Delusion

Proposed Wyoming Bill Outlaws Wind Energy

Wind Energy – A Runaway Failure for Nearly 4 Decades

Coal Plants Shutdown Raised Electricity Rates, & Fails to Reduce Pollution

“Green Champion” China is Building New European Coal Plants

Japan plans to build 45 new coal power plants in next decade

Wind farms killing more bats than expected

Solar project annually uses 1.4 Billion cu ft of gas

Excellent Comments at local wind energy meeting in NY

The Environmental Left and Keystone XL

How world leaders were duped into investing billions over manipulated global warming data

Climate change is being used as political hobgoblin

Excellent Three Part Essay: How Climate Works

NOAA Doubles Down On Extreme SLR Prediction (8+ feet)!

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‘The Last Days of Night’ (book review)

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Energy & Environmental Newsletter: January 16, 2017

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Exxon Mobil and the Carbon Tax: ‘Upon Further Review’

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- January 10, 2017 2 Comments Continue Reading

Cornwell Alliance Petition for EPA Administrator Nominee (real environmentalism, not dogma)

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Energy & Environmental Newsletter: January 2, 2017

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Vanishing Vacationland (wind turbines roil the wild)

By Jim Lutz -- December 5, 2016 7 Comments Continue Reading