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:
*** Blue States, High Rates
Electricity Rate Increases
Unreliables: Energy Health and Ecosystem Consequences:
Minnesota green energy program fined for killing bald eagle: ‘National treasure’
Conservation Group Sues, Claims Feds Hiding Wyoming Wind Turbine Eagle Deaths
Unreliables (General):
*** Transition & Redundancy
*** Report: The Intrinsic Danger of Siting Utility Scale Lithium Based Energy Storage Systems In Densely Populated Areas
Charging ahead: $500M Dunkirk battery storage project seeks tax assistance
Letter to DOE Sec Wright re the Senate considering Carbon Taxes (!)…
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:
NYS Electricity bills are out of control because of Cuomo and ‘green’ madness
Unreliables (General):
*** Report: Utility Scale Lithium Based Energy Storage System Issues
*** Report: The Best Battery Chemistry Types for Energy Storage: A Guide to Safety and Efficiency
*** Study: A critical discussion of the current availability of lithium and zinc for use in batteries
Study: Comparative Analysis of Lithium, Sodium, and Zinc Batteries for Power Grid Applications
Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** America First Legal Seems To Stump States Suing Trump Administration Over Offshore Wind
Offshore wind lawsuit confusion abounds
How China Sold America the Wind Turbine Scam
Nuclear Energy:
*** German Nuclear Power Phase Out a “Huge Mistake”- Chancellor Merz
Fossil Fuel Energy:
Efforts to Kill PA Gas Industry Disguised as Environmental Protection
US ramps up pressure on UK to abandon net zero
Miscellaneous Energy News:
*** New Report: Electrification – can the grid cope?…
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):
*** NY State’s energy policies absurd, costly (this applies to many other states)
Empire Center Warns of Sharp Increase in New York Electricity Prices
Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** Offshore wind turbines steal each other’s wind: yields greatly overestimated
*** Scotland’s Biggest Offshore Wind Farm Wasting Three Quarters of its Energy
Dominion loses early court battle on CVOW
A speculation on military risk with offshore wind — AI submarines
Fossil Fuel Energy:
*** Why Fossil Fuels Remain Essential to America’s Economic Engine in 2026
Trump’s first year back in office sees major oil and gas permit surge
Electric Vehicles (EVs):
*** The Dirty Truth About Lithium Ion Batteries
Cyclotech’s Revolutionary Blackbird eVTOL
Misellaneousc Energy News:
*** Energy wisdom is lacking among public officials
*** Activist Groups Sabotaging American Energy Oppose America Itself
*** Attacking global electricity poverty
*** What is Technology
A Tribute to Robert Bryce: More Than Three Decades of Energy Humanism
Supreme Court Weighs Big Case Involving Major American Energy Companies
The essential guide to Micron’s chip project in Upstate NY: the largest private development project in NYS history
Affordability Crisis: Gavin Newsom and the California Energy Disaster
Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:
*** UN to Censor All Criticism of the Climate Agenda as Whistleblower Exposes it as a Total Scam
*** New Yorkers Organize Big-Time to Fight Back Against Empire State Climate Insanity and for Safe and Reliable Energy
*** President Trump And The Doomsday Glacier
*** Twenty Years Later, ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ Has Been Thoroughly Debunked
3 Cheers For CO₂!…