“Bipartisan support for commercial fission in Congress and the White House has opened the subsidy floodgates and, to an extent, reined-in overregulation. But the information of a free market where government is neutral is needed for the first time in the history of the industry.”
Free-market energy adherents are warned to not make commercial nuclear power (fission) the new government darling in place of wind, solar, and batteries. Instead, a free-market framework needs to be established to let the market decide with government neutral.
Special government favor created this peacetime industry in the 1950s, and its heralded promise never eventualized since. At the same time, turbine technology to generate electricity put fuel oil and natural gas into the game, providing much needed (fossil fuel) competition to coal. Wind and solar as grid electricity were nowhere through the 1960s and into the 1970s.…
Continue ReadingThis 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.…
“The ‘invisible hand’ is at work to enable the dash-to-gas (and diesel too) in the catch-up period for economical, large-scale power generation.”
Climate alarmist/activist Jamie Skaar provided a ‘current’ from the POWERGEN International conference held in San Antonio. His summary on LinkedIn (no link: he blocked me) follows verbatim [with my additions in brackets].
Industry Leaders Signal Major Shift in Gas Turbine Market: Key Takeaways
“Recent insights … reveal an unexpected trend: Gas turbine demand is surging to levels not seen since the early 2000s. What’s driving this growth during our push toward renewables? The answer lies in the unprecedented expansion of data centers and electrification, creating extraordinary demand for reliable, round-the-clock power.”
“Let’s examine what industry leaders are seeing:
1. Current Market Dynamics
– Over 7,000 gas turbines operating in U.S.…