Black & Veatch executive Phil Fischer wrote this piece late last year making a case for natural gas for power generation, whether for the entire data center or for backup. In a free market, natural gas combined cycle, cogeneration, and peaking turbines have proven to be technologies of choice. With wind, solar, and battery subsidies on the chopping block, a new era for gas-fired electrical generation could be ahead.

“Companies developing data centers are in a new era in which the scope of project planning must expand far beyond the data center itself and into the supporting physical infrastructure – power generation, water delivery and water treatment,” Phil Fisher begins. “Delays in this physical infrastructure have led to new ideas that open the window for options that previously had not been on the table.”…

Ed note: One of the nation’s leading environmental organizations, Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, has done their homework on the ecological harms of offshore wind turbines. This letter to Secretary Burgum of the U.S. Department of the Interior from David Wojick (CFACT) and David Stevenson (Center for Energy & Environment, Caesar Rodney Institute) follows.

A previous post, Whales and Offshore Wind: Trump Time (Wojick has built a case), detailed the forty-one (!) posts of David Wojick on this issue. The latest is to put the evidence into political action now that look-the-other-way Podesta-Biden-Harris (and a lot of hypocritical ‘environmental’ groups) has been replaced by a new Administration. The letter and accompanying information follow.

RE: Reviewing legitimacy of Offshore Wind Project approvals

Dear Secretary Burgum,

It is with a sense of real urgency we are writing to you today.…

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. The complete Newsletter for this post can be found here.

Greed Energy Economics:
*** The full cost of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) subsidies

Unreliables Energy Health and Ecosystem Consequences:
Another Study Shows Low-Frequency Vibrations From Wind Turbines Can Harm Human Health
Archive: Is Enough Attention Paid to the Health Effects of Low-Frequency Noise in Today’s Society?
Effects of Sound Frequencies Below the Threshold of Hearing on Brain Health and Cognition
Inaudible Infrasound Disturbs Human Health

Unreliables (General):
*** A simple way to save the grid from more wind and solar
*** Cautionary Tales
Coalition to Congress: End “Inflation Reduction Act” “Green New Deal subsidies” now

Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** Coalition to Burgum: “Stop offshore wind!”…

The Facebook website Wind Farm Living published this explainer on noise from industrial wind turbines. (Click on the illustration for more visual clarity)