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.
Greed Energy Economics:
*** We’re Winning the War on the Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE)
*** Can solar and wind + batteries really provide 24/7/365 electricity?
What it really takes to meet the materialistic demands of the modern world
Unreliables: Energy Health and Ecosystem Consequences:
*** Bonfires of the Batteries
Wyoming Rally: Save the Eagles, Stop Wind
When Wind Turbines Kill Wildlife, Environmentalists Look Away
Unreliables (General):*** The Eastern Power Grid Will Run Out of Emergency Peak Power in June, 2027 – Here’s Why You Must Prepare for Blackouts NOW
Wind Energy — General:
The Garroting of Big Wind
Interior in $765M offshore wind buy-out deal with Invenergy
Nuclear Energy:
*** Small nuclear is advancing rapidly
*** Would You Rather Live Near a Battery Energy Storage System or a Nuclear Plant?
Fossil Fuel Energy:
*** US Natural Gas In A Dominant Position For Decades To Come
Oil Plummets After Tentative US-Iran Peace Deal Announced
Everyone Wants Affordable Energy. Nobody Wants to Cut the Ribbon.
Miscellaneous Energy News:
*** Don’t Blame Data Centers for PJM’s Failures
*** Rare Earth Elements
Tribute to Travis Fisher: A Young Man to Whom Old Men Should Listen
Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:
*** The History of Greenpeace: The Evolution of Green Extremism
National Academy Persists in Fearmongering
Conservatives rattled by Trump DOJ’s Supreme Court climate brief
The World Health Organization and Their Specious “Health Care Crisis”
Politico’s Climate News Site Shutters a Year After Gov’t Turned Off Taxpayer Spigot
Net Zero is reversing the Industrial Revolution