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Energy & Environmental Review: October 27, 2025

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#john-droz">John Droz, Jr.</a> -- October 27, 2025

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:
*** The Well Hidden and Distorted cost of Renewables: A Comprehensive Comparison of Wind Energy and Combined Cycle Gas Turbine Plant
Wind, Solar Projects Can Stick Taxpayers With the Tab Coming and Going
Cost of Wind and Solar both going up
Japan’s Offshore Wind Setback: A Lesson in the Full Cost of Energy

Unreliables (General):
*** US Energy Department Cuts $7.56 Billion in Green Projects
*** Energy secretary explains the difficulties of relying on wind and solar power

Wind Energy — Other:
*** Avian Mortality: Industrial Wind in Ecological Trouble
*** Texans Should Stop Spending on Fake Climate Crisis
The curious case of the wind project and the seismic array

Nuclear Energy:
*** And Now, SMR Intelligence Global
*** SMR Sector Continues Red-Hot Streak With 5 IPOs
*** Ted Cruz Seeking Answer To Decades-Old Riddle That Has Stunted American Nuclear Energy
Why does the world insanely ignore nuclear power?

Energy & Environmental Review: October 13, 2025

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#john-droz">John Droz, Jr.</a> -- October 13, 2025

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:
Why Mid-Atlantic electricity prices are rising so fast

Unreliables (General):
*** Epstein: The “Levelized Cost of Energy” scam
*** Big Tech’s ‘Misleading’ Green Energy Claims May Plunge Nation into Blackouts, AGs Warn
*** The Pros and Cons of Utility Scale Battery Storage
Wind, Solar, Trade, Sanctions, H-1B

Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** Revolution Wind Is Barking Up the Wrong Tree
Japan’s Green Energy Failures Serve as a Warning to the US: Don’t Fall for the Climate Agenda
Strange We Haven’t Heard About These Offshore Wind Farm Accidents Before

Wind Energy — Other:
*** Feds deaf to eagle-kill warning

Solar Energy:
Taxpayer-Backed Solar Facility in Mojave Desert Will Shut Down Next Year
Obama-Era Mojave Desert Solar Plant Once Hailed As A Marvel Will Close As a Glowing Relic

Fossil Fuel Energy:
*** Lomborg: Green hype vs reality in China
*** How our “knowledge system” ignores the benefits of fossil fuels
*** How our “knowledge system” catastrophizes the side-effects of fossil fuels

Electric Vehicles (EVs):
Nearly one-third of EV charging attempts fail, report finds

Miscellaneous Energy News:
*** China Inc.

Energy & Environmental Review: September 29, 2025

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#john-droz">John Droz, Jr.</a> -- September 29, 2025

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:
*** Why Are Green Activists Suddenly Outraged at the Billions Wasted Paying Wind Projects to Switch Off When it’s Too Windy?

Unreliables (General):
*** How to end the “100% renewable” fraud
*** The transition to renewables is a globalist suicide pact for the rest of us!
Breaking Down How Energy Prices Will End Up Affecting the Midterm Elections
Public Should Receive Earlier Notification of Solar or Wind Projects

Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** All Republicans Must Stop The Wind Scam
*** Court filings claim Revolution Wind developers didn’t answer Fed questions
UK Offshore Wind Project receives $2.5+ Billion (US) in just Six Years

Wind Energy — Other:
*** Wind Turbine Radar Interference
Upstate NY Wind Project demolition

Nuclear Energy:
*** Introducing SMR Intelligence US
OKLO SMR

Miscellaneous  Energy News:
*** AlexAI on why European electricity is so expensive, “energy efficiency,” and the limitations of batteries
*** Alex Epstein: Talking points roundup: rising electricity prices, the National Academies’ climate “report,” China’s new coal plants, and more
60 Hours: Berlin Suffers Longest Power Cut Since WW2 after Ultra-Leftist Sabotage
It makes more sense to produce hydrogen with nuclear, not renewables

Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:
*** The Consensed and the Realist
*** Teaching Children about Climate Misinformation Caused by Averaging
Media’s Psyop Against Climate Scientists
Three Climate Lawsuits in Montana
Trump to UN: Climate change ‘the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world’

Manmade Global Warming — The Science:
*** The National Academies’ perversion of science

Manmade Global Warming — Miscellaneous:
*** GAO submits Comments on EPA Reconsideration of 2009 “Endangerment Finding”
Europe’s Days of Carbon Colonialism are Numbered
Geoengineering?

Energy & Environmental Review: September 15, 2025

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#john-droz">John Droz, Jr.</a> -- September 15, 2025

Energy & Environmental Review: September 2, 2025

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#john-droz">John Droz, Jr.</a> -- September 2, 2025

Energy & Environmental Review: August 18, 2025

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#john-droz">John Droz, Jr.</a> -- August 18, 2025

Energy & Environmental Review: August 4, 2025

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#john-droz">John Droz, Jr.</a> -- August 4, 2025

Energy & Environmental Review: July 21, 2025

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#john-droz">John Droz, Jr.</a> -- July 21, 2025

Energy & Environmental Review: July 7, 2025

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#john-droz">John Droz, Jr.</a> -- July 7, 2025

Energy & Environmental Review: June 23, 2025

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#john-droz">John Droz, Jr.</a> -- June 23, 2025