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):
*** The price of energy and the system costs of renewables
Wind turbines and solar panels ONLY generate electricity
California Blackouts Have Begun. Thank ‘Green Energy’

Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** Trump’s Transportation Secretary Terminates $679 Million from Offshore Wind Projects
*** Trump Admin Kills Massive RI Offshore Wind Project
S&P downgrades Orsted credit rating

Wind Energy — Other:
*** A newer Study about the adverse consequences of turbine generated infrasound

Solar Energy:
How Bill McKibben Lost the Plot
South American Cold Underscores Role of Oil and Gas

Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:
*** Stossel on the Green Industrial Complex: Power, Panic, and Profits
*** The Supposed Nearly Unanimous Consensus on Climate Change Was A High Stakes Pernicious Deception
UN abandons science and hires climate change zealots who damn the facts
Lobbying Judges Is the Latest Form of Climate Lawfare, A Case of Elites Buying Favoritism from the Courts

Manmade Global Warming — The Science:
*** Interview.…

“Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.” – Milton Friedman

Even since the Great Texas Blackout of February 2021, I have tried to engage classical liberal scholars with the lost tradition of free market electricity in theory, practice, and public policy. An interesting exchange with economist Steve Postrel on social media some months ago is worth preserving, in this regard.

Postrel is very critical of Lynne Kiesling’s uber-technical optimism with governmental chess pieces (wind, solar, batteries, another story). But he rejects a free market in electricity.

I reproduce the exchange and then offer a critical comment. It began with my reference to my AIER primer: Free Market Electricity.

Postrel to Bradley: I am familiar with the old Primeaux and Demsetz [free market] arguments, but they have little concordance with each other or with the pre-regulation utopia you try to resurrect in your article.…

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.

Greed Energy Economics:“
*** U.S. “renewables” mad scramble to waste billions is on
*** Ending Market Distorting Subsidies for Unreliable, Foreign Controlled Energy Sources
*** How the Interconnection Queue Could Make Qualifying for Tax Credits Next to Impossible
Making PJM all wind and solar would cost over $2.4 trillion in battery backup

Unreliables (General):
*** DOE: Existing US Energy Generation Retirements Increase Blackout Risk by 100x in 2030
*** Grid & Inertia
Green Lobby’s Dishonest Crusade for Solar and Wind
President Trump: Terminate The Green New Scam Now

Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** Wind Energy is an Environmental Disaster
Netherlands says no to offshore wind
Environmental group opposes Scotland offshore wind expansion

Nuclear Energy:
*** The Economic Imperative for Nuclear Power
*** Atomic Abundance and Its Enemies
Nuclear Chickens Come Home To Roost in NY

Miscellaneous Energy News:
*** This 7% of Earth’s surface burns more fuel than anywhere

Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:
*** Climate Fact Check: June 2025 Edition
*** Climate Activists Wipe Out While Surfing the Tragic Texas Flooding
Exposing the Media’s Greta Thunberg Narrative
I’m a Young Meteorologist Who Questioned the Idea of Man-Made Climate Change.…

The intellectual and practical case for separating government and electricity is strong. The historical record offers little support for “market failure”–quite the opposite. The laws of physics do not preclude private ownership and control of assets in this area unless you assume mandatory open access–Lynne Kiesling’s Ostrom trick–to make private operation of control areas problematic. [1]

So I labor against faux classical liberals/think tanks that offer suggestion after suggestion to try to make government planned ISO/RTO’s work. But the fix is in with the guilty who refuse to seriously consider a free market in electricity.

Two exchanges with my critics follow. One is with Michael Giberson, a “Right” central planner; the other with Robert Borlick, a Progressive Left central planner.

Michael Giberson Exchange

Giberson posted on his regulatory filing:

The DOJ Anticompetitive Regulations Task Force requested comments on how state and federal regulations act to impair competition.