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 insightful articles in this issue are:
MIT Report: Germany Runs Up Against the Limits of Renewables
Peer Reviewed Study: much of the effort to combat global warming is actually making it worse
New Discovery May Scale Back Climate Alarm
Climate Science Obsessively Focused on Computer Modeling
Green Indoctrination at School
Serious Problems with Science Journalism
Real Science vs Catastophism [See section below on Free Speech]
Danish Government: Cost of Wind Energy is Too Expensive
3 Ways Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) Overcome Existing Barriers to Nuclear
Wind Project Decimates 80% of a Protected Species
Wind Energy Results in Animal Deaths and Deformities
Greed Energy Economics:
Danish Government: Cost of Wind Energy is Too Expensive
Nordic Alternative Energy Turns Stagnant
Solar Power Investments Don’t Pay Off
IRS Over-reach on Wind Energy: Likely Illegal
Renewable Energy Destroying Ecosystems:
Wind Project Decimates 80% of a Protected Species
Wind Energy Results in Animal Deaths and Deformities
Make Comments on Proposed USF&W Raptor Rules
Fire at World’s Largest Solar Facility
Miscellaneous Energy news:
MIT Report: Germany Runs Up Against the Limits of Renewables
3 Ways Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) Overcome Existing Barriers to Nuclear
Down Wind movie exposes wind energy deception
Oklahoma landowners register private airstrips to keep wind farms at bay
Wind turbines do not reduce pollution or the carbon footprint
Colorado Supreme Court embraces the rule of law, not fear mongering
Battle Over Fracking Causing Green Civil War
Killing US Coal Also Means Burying US Steel Industry
Energy suppliers must hang together, or they will all hang separately
Wind developer colluding with resident to influence decision
A new NC Solar & Wind Energy Bill
Two NYS Energy Agencies Receive Subpoenas in Federal Investigation
Wind & Solar Nearly Fry Germany’s Electric Grid
Inexpensive way to Shield a Smart Utility Meter
Major Military Facility Expresses Concerns about Nearby Wind Development
Manmade Global Warming Articles:
Peer Reviewed Study: much of the effort to combat global warming is actually making it worse
New Discovery May Scale Back Climate Alarm
Climate Science Obsessively Focused on Computer Modeling
Green Indoctrination at School
Serious Problems with Science Journalism
Real Science vs Catastophism [See section below on Free Speech]
Latest NOAA SLR Numbers Show No Acceleration
“Beginning with the Memorial Day weekend and throughout the summer, Americans will spend their hard-earned dollars traveling to visit family, friends, and the great outdoors. Meanwhile, Big Oil will be making huge profits off of these travel expenditures on fuel, while at the same time fighting for decreased public health and climate-change protections.”
– Center for American Progress (and Climate Progress), three years ago.
The American Automobile Association predicts that 38 million Americans will hit the open road this Memorial Day weekend, the second highest in history. Affordable, reliable, widely available gasoline and diesel is a big reason. And maybe Americans are fleeing their economic woes under the current Administration.
While we wait for the anti-energy, glass-emptying Center for American Progress (not Prosperity) to psychologically retool, the rest of us can be optimistic.
“The owner [of the Lake Pulaski solar project], multinational conglomerate Enel Green Power, recently clear-cut hundreds of mature hardwood trees to make way for tens of thousands of solar panels later this summer. Angry residents posted dozens of photos of the carnage on the township’s Facebook page, too late to save 11 acres of maple, ash and oak from the chainsaw.”
It’s a given that solar power is unreliable as a source of base load power to meet our daily energy requirements. After all, the sun—at best—shines some of the time. Great River Energy’s experimental solar array in the Twin Cities, for example, operated at 13.6 percent of capacity in 2014. The utility recorded overcast skies a full 70 percent of days, observing clear and sunny conditions just 10 percent of the year.…