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Energy & Environmental Review: May 12, 2025

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#john-droz">John Droz, Jr.</a> -- May 12, 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.

Spain and Portugal Power Grid Failure:
*** The Spanish Blackout Shows Why the Green Dream Is Unsustainable
*** What Is Reactive Power and Why Is It Important in Power Systems?
*** Study: The effect of renewable energy incorporation on power grid stability and resilience
*** El Blackout
Spain’s blackout is a flashing warning light for our renewable energy system
Did Spain’s push for renewable energy have any impact on its mass power blackout?
Over-Reliance On Renewables Behind Catastrophic Blackouts in Spain
Yes, We Can Blame Solar for Spain’s Blackout — and if the Socialist Government Doesn’t Change Course, Expect More Blackouts
The Spanish Blackout Is a Warning to the World

Greed Energy Economics:
Pennsylvania’s ‘Price Cap’ Could Hike Electricity Bills

Unreliables: Energy Health and Ecosystem Consequences:
Wind power’s eagle-kill permits are a deadly failure so permitting must stop

Unreliables (General):
*** Just Say No to Battery Storage for Wind or Solar
Green NGOs feel the heat
Renewable Portfolio Standards

Wind Energy — Offshore:
RWE ending US offshore operations

Wind Energy — Other:
*** Wind industry keeps preying on Upstate NY region

Nuclear Energy:
*** A Thorium Reactor Has Rewritten the Rules of Nuclear Power
Nuward’s New SMR Concept

Fossil Fuel Energy:
Epstein: Answers to student questions about fossil fuel growth

Electric Vehicles (EVs):
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, of Electric Vehicles

Miscellaneous Energy News:
Rethinking the Future of Energy: The Real Clear Energy Future Forum

Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:
*** You don’t have to be a climate scientist to personally fact check misleading Climate Claims by Governments and activists
*** Carbon Capture: Costly, Useless & Harmful
The Nihilism of Beijing’s New York Climate Radicals
UK To Experiment With “Dim The Sun” Projects To Stop Global Warming

Manmade Global Warming — The Science:
*** Trump Crushes Climate Dogma as Europe Doubles Down on Folly

Energy & Environmental Review: April 28, 2025

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#john-droz">John Droz, Jr.</a> -- April 28, 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.

Greed Energy Economics:
*** Epstein: Why Congress’s new budget should eliminate all IRA “tax credits”
Trump energy chief warns clean energy tax credits are a ‘big mistake’

Unreliables: Energy Health and Ecosystem Consequences:
*** Affordable, Reliable, Clean Scorecard: Natural Gas Is Tops, Wind And Solar Are The Worst
Two new studies imply the Golden Eagle cannot survive more wind turbines
Wind power is buying eagle-kill indulgences

Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, President Trump
*** Trump Admin Halts New York Offshore Wind Project, Orders Review of All Existing Biden-Era Wind Permits
Did BOEM Break the Law to Approve Offshore Wind?

Energy & Environmental Review: April 14, 2025

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#john-droz">John Droz, Jr.</a> -- April 14, 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.

Unreliables: Energy Health and Ecosystem Consequences:
The Feds are hiding the eagle death data
Court orders temporary shutdown of wind project (due to bird deaths)

Unreliables (General):
Report: clean energy group admits that going green may mean power grid chaos
Land-Use Conflicts Are Derailing Albany’s Alt-Energy Fantasies

Wind Energy — Offshore:
Will Trump stand by as mega-offshore wind projects resume construction?
Offshore Wind Developers Risk Trouble With Trump

Solar Energy:
The Solar Fund Standoff: Following the Money at Latest Target for Funding Cuts

Nuclear Energy:
Demand in US electricity elevates risk of wind/solar & highlights need for nuclear
The advantages and challenges of nuclear-powered data centers

Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:
*** Ten Environmentalist Myths
*** Trump Takes Aim at the Heart of the Climate Industrial Complex
Over 30 items here: Evidence that the climate scam is collapsing
Climate Change Driving California’s Golden Road to Decline
Book: Climate and Energy Lies: Expensive, Dangerous & Destructive

Manmade Global Warming — The Science:
*** Mann’s DC Trick
|*** Capping Carbon Admissions: The Biden Administration is Accused of Burying Conflicting Climate Change Report

Manmade Global Warming — Miscellaneous:
US Supreme Court Declines Appeal in Youth-Led Climate Change Case
Trump’s Climate Policy Shift Could Save American Farmers from Disaster
US Military Exits Climate Change After a Decade of Waste
New NASA Chief Will Wind Down Climate Alarm Shop

Energy & Environmental Review: March 31, 2025

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#john-droz">John Droz, Jr.</a> -- March 31, 2025

Energy & Environmental Review: March 17, 2025

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#john-droz">John Droz, Jr.</a> -- March 17, 2025

Energy & Environmental Review: March 3, 2025

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#john-droz">John Droz, Jr.</a> -- March 3, 2025

Energy & Environmental Review: February 17, 2025

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#john-droz">John Droz, Jr.</a> -- February 17, 2025

Energy & Environmental Review: February 3, 2025

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#john-droz">John Droz, Jr.</a> -- February 3, 2025

Energy & Environmental Review: January 21, 2025

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

Energy & Environmental Review: January 6, 2025

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#john-droz">John Droz, Jr.</a> -- January 6, 2025