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.
Unreliables (General):
*** NY State’s energy policies absurd, costly (this applies to many other states)
Empire Center Warns of Sharp Increase in New York Electricity Prices
Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** Offshore wind turbines steal each other’s wind: yields greatly overestimated
*** Scotland’s Biggest Offshore Wind Farm Wasting Three Quarters of its Energy
Dominion loses early court battle on CVOW
A speculation on military risk with offshore wind — AI submarines
Fossil Fuel Energy:
*** Why Fossil Fuels Remain Essential to America’s Economic Engine in 2026
Trump’s first year back in office sees major oil and gas permit surge
Electric Vehicles (EVs):
*** The Dirty Truth About Lithium Ion Batteries
Cyclotech’s Revolutionary Blackbird eVTOL
Misellaneousc Energy News:
*** Energy wisdom is lacking among public officials
*** Activist Groups Sabotaging American Energy Oppose America Itself
*** Attacking global electricity poverty
*** What is Technology
A Tribute to Robert Bryce: More Than Three Decades of Energy Humanism
Supreme Court Weighs Big Case Involving Major American Energy Companies
The essential guide to Micron’s chip project in Upstate NY: the largest private development project in NYS history
Affordability Crisis: Gavin Newsom and the California Energy Disaster
Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:
*** UN to Censor All Criticism of the Climate Agenda as Whistleblower Exposes it as a Total Scam
*** New Yorkers Organize Big-Time to Fight Back Against Empire State Climate Insanity and for Safe and Reliable Energy
*** President Trump And The Doomsday Glacier
*** Twenty Years Later, ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ Has Been Thoroughly Debunked
3 Cheers For CO₂!
The antics of the climate clique
Manmade Global Warming — The Science:
*** The U.S. Energy Secretary just obliterated Net Zero ideology
Notable Quotables on Consensus
More on the Greenhouse Effect