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:
*** Don’t believe the renewables myth: Wind and Solar are not cheap
Chinese manufacturers dominate wind power, taking 60% of global market

Unreliables: Energy Health and Ecosystem Consequences:
*** Video: Assoc Prof Simon Michaux – The quantity of metals required to manufacture just one generation of renewables
*** Carnage of Child Labor and Ecological Destruction Elsewhere acceptable to Wealthy Countries

Unreliables (General):
*** Residents vs Town Council re Solar and Wind Facilities
*** Green Breakdown—The Coming Renewable Energy Failure
*** The Grid as an Energy Weapon — Massive Lithium Storage Centers Spread
*** The Prophet of Power Density
*** There is no green ‘transition’ to renewable energy.…

The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) has been a consistent voice for classical liberalism in energy and climate for several decades. CEI stays scholarly on the intellectual front (thank Marlo Lewis et al.) and activist on the policy front. The latest from the lean, pound-for-pound, heavy hitting think tank (letter of August 16, 2023) follows:

Dear Members of Congress:

On the first anniversary of enactment of the so-called Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the undersigned organizations strongly urge you to ensure that the IRA’s Green New Deal-type policies quickly come to an end.

We recognize that in the next year complete repeal of the IRA’s harmful energy and environmental provisions is unlikely. However, clear and tangible legislative changes that make genuine progress towards that goal are realistic and expected.

IRA proponents will today be celebrating the bill’s passage.…

“The historic trends contradict the conventional view that fossil generation has been declining, while renewables are gaining. According to the data, ‘The share of low carbon fuels (nuclear, hydro, wind & solar) peaked at 36% in 1995, coinciding with COP1 [the first UN conference of parties].'”

In the worldwide battle for electric generation, coal isn’t down and out. It isn’t even on the ropes. According to World Energy Data (formerly BP’s data collection report), coal is still the champ.

In 2022, coal accounted for 35.4% of global electric generation, followed by natural gas (22.7%), hydro (14.9%), nuclear (9.2%), wind (7.2%), solar (4.5%), geothermal, biomass, and other renewables (3.6%).

The historic trends contradict the conventional view that fossil generation has been declining, while renewables are gaining. According to the data, “The share of low carbon fuels (nuclear, hydro, wind & solar) peaked at 36% in 1995, coinciding with COP1 [the first UN conference of parties].”…

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:
*** There Is A Financial Crisis Brewing In Offshore Wind Energy
Dominion hides huge offshore wind cost risk
Unlikely Pair Tries to Blow Open Secret NY Wind Deal 

Unreliables: Energy Health and Ecosystem Consequences:
*** One Simple Energy Question Devastates ‘Net-Zero’ Pipe Dreams
Human Rights Being Sacrificed to Promote Green Energy Scams

Unreliables (General):
*** The Big Green Lie Almost Everyone Claims to Believe
*** Massive Riots, Renewable Resentments
*** The Problem with Overbuilding Wind and Solar
*** The Power Of Power Density
Think megawatt hours of gasoline

Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** Offshore Wind Lulls Threaten NY Energy Reliability
*** Fishermen question the data behind offshore wind siting process
*** Why Offshore Wind Jobs May Just Be a Lot of Hot Air
*** Save the Whales, Again
BP and Equinor Could Cancel US Offshore Wind Projects
Offshore Wind Opponents need a Mass Protest in DC

Wind Energy — Other:
*** Taking the Wind Out of Climate Change (referencing 60± studies)
*** State Senator introduces bill requiring wind turbine installations in NYC
Siemens Faces $5 Billion Loss On Faulty Wind Turbines
Massachusetts 50 Years of Wind Turbine Failures

Solar Energy:
*** Solar Realities (updated)
New analysis tears down lies about renewables, reveals solar panels to be carbon-intensive
Let Them Eat Solar Panels

Nuclear Energy:
*** China Approves Six Nuclear Reactors at $17 Billion Investment
*** Vivek Ramaswamy: Shut Down the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
God and Nuclear Energy

Fossil Fuel Energy:
*** Eliminating Fossil Fuels Will Cause Massive Decline In Human Well-Being
*** Biden admin quietly revises gas stove analysis, reduces projected benefits
Three Cheers for Refrigeration—and Four, Once Everyone Has It
North Sea oil and gas fields tax credits are not subsidies

Electric Vehicles (EVs):
*** Electrogreens Want to Suck Your EV
*** Control is the Aim, EVs are the Game of the Moment
*** Spontaneous Combustion: A Serious Product Defect
They’re Coming for Your Cars
China ‘will use electric cars to spy on Britain’

Miscellaneous Energy News:
*** How to powerfully and accurately criticize the Biden Admin’s energy policies
*** Biden’s new crackdown on Air Conditioners will be worse than gas stoves
*** The EPA Tries to Destroy the Grid
The US Electrical Grid: Achilles Heel of the World?…