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 — Offshore:
Monitoring offshore wind impacts needs to be done right
Theoretical upper limit for offshore wind energy extraction
Judge rejects US Wind permit review case
Renewables — Other:
*** Baseload Solar’s Four Little Secrets
*** Madison County wind farm neighbors feel betrayed by NY state
Wind turbine eagle-kill secrecy may soon end
Another Battery Catastrophe
The renewables trap
Nuclear Energy:
*** The World’s First Thorium Molten Salt Reactor
*** Why are developing economies pursuing small modular reactors?
*** California Coastal Commission Votes 9-3 to Extend Nuclear Operations to 2030
British nuclear fusion breakthrough
A Nuclear Resurgence, but Major Obstacles Remain
Fossil Fuel Energy:
Why Did NY Gov Hochul Back Down on New York’s Gas Ban?…
“Climate activists are in denial. A great reset is underway…. But are they willing to emotionally reject their prior thinking for cause?”
It’s a funny, scary time in the climate alarmist camp. Once-favorable economic and political trends are going the other way in the U.S. and increasingly in the world. What to do? Literally thousands of climate-issue employees (grifters?) need to find alternative employment, almost all in net-positive (CO2) industries where value is being created rather than redistributed and lost. Big Money Green will keep priming the pump for many, however, so a base of false-green advocacy will remain.
Scaleback
In 2024 (Google summary):
“Anyone with real climate anxiety who can make a living outside of the Climate Industrial Complex should take up the Alex Epstein challenge….”
On social media, Greg Small, executive director of Climate Solutions, asked his followers:
… Continue ReadingOk folks, looking for some ideas. We are starting to plan out the Climate Solutions dinner for next May. This is our big annual event that typically has about 700 or so people attend.
We are thinking about who a great keynote speaker might be. In the past we have had folks like Gina McCarthy, Van Jones, Bill McKibben, Bill Gates, Mindy Lubber, and Jigar Shah.
Who have you seen recently that lights things up and brings energy and excitement to a keynote speech.
Who do you want to hear from? Huge thanks for any ideas that you have.