This post excerpts energy and climate material from the Media Balance Newsletter, a free fortnightly published by physicist John Droz Jr., founder of the Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions. Droz is also the author of the popular Substack Critically Thinking About Select Societal Issues.
Greed Energy Economics:
California Duck & Cover: Part 1 and Part 2
Unreliables (General):
*** MISO Obliterates Solar, Storage, and Wind Capacity Values
*** Leaders Like Mark Carney Sold the West a Renewable Energy Story. China Is Cashing In
*** The Cost of Wind and Solar Power Backup
Google Management Admits Renewables Don’t Work for Powering Data Centers
Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** Haunting discovery near wind turbine raises questions about fishing boat tragedy
Trump Administration Seeks Remand of COP Approval for Offshore Wind Farm Now in Final Commissioning Stage
Alliance unveils floating wind action plan
Solar Energy:
Once touted as a clean-energy blueprint, Nevada solar plant sells for cents on the dollar
Nuclear Energy:
Nuclear radiation and falling out of bed
The Anti-Nuclear Playbook Comes for Data Centers
Fossil Fuel Energy:
*** Trump Announces “Massive” Greenland Oil Exploration Plans
Labour discovers Britain still needs gas
US challenges World Bank fossil fuel restrictions
Miscellaneous Energy News:
California’s Energy Crisis Could Bring the West Coast to its Knees
Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:
*** More Truth About The Climate Lies
*** UN Climate Panic Rests on False Scenario and Buried Past
*** New documents reveal stealth advocacy at the heart of America’s National Academies
Finally, a Net Zero sceptic on the BBC
Climate Lawsuits Fail Constitutional and Scientific Review
The Five Dimensions of a Simplistic Argument
Manmade Global Warming — The Science:
*** Super El Niño then and now: How this year’s strengthening event compares to historic extremes
Positive Response to CO2 Coalition Messages Spurs National Ad Campaign
Climate’s Past Performance Uncertain Predictor of FutureClimate Conference Stumbles Into Realities…
This post excerpts energy and climate material from the Media Balance Newsletter, a free fortnightly published by physicist John Droz Jr., founder of the Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions. Droz is also the author of the popular Substack Critically Thinking About Select Societal Issues.
Wind Energy:
Britain spends £1.5bn switching wind off and gas on
Why Is New York Paying So Much for Wind Power?
Solar Energy:
*** An Unlikely Power Player in the Fight over Solar Projects on American Farmland
*** New York’s ORES solar complexes are being used to fund foreign pension plans
*** Resource extraction at NY solar complexes: the soil “shell game” under the guise of green energy
Portugal’s Largest Flagship Solar Park Insolvent!
Nuclear Energy:
Deep Fission and SMRs
Fossil Fuel Energy:
US Unshackles Its Power Plants; Poor Nations Must Do the Same
America’s diesel problem—and how to fix it
Electric Vehicles (EVs):
Why I Will Still Never Buy an Electric Car
Miscellaneous Energy News:
Africa’s Energy Moment: From Poverty to Abundance
Report: UNECE Protocol on Full System Value and Cost Approach for Resilient and Carbon Neutral Electricity Systems
Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:
*** Covid, Climate and the ‘Consensus Trap’ —- By Steven E.…
This post excerpts energy and climate material from the Media Balance Newsletter, a free fortnightly published by physicist John Droz Jr., founder of the Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions. Droz is also the author of the popular Substack Critically Thinking About Select Societal Issues.
Greed Energy Economics:
*** Expensive State Clean Energy Mandates: The Math Nobody Ran
*** Politicians organize to drive up the cost of electricity
Unreliables (General):
Renewable FMEA Thoughts
Reality Check for PA’s Failed Green-Energy Mandates
Solar Energy:
*** What Price Solar? It’s not so cheap as they would have you believe
Wind Energy:
New York, California Launch New Lawsuits Over Trump Administration’s Offshore Wind Lease Buyouts
Nuclear Energy:
*** Unlocking America’s nuclear gold mine: The promise of spent fuel
It’s Time for America to ‘Go Nuclear’ — Power That Is!…