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Energy & Environmental Review: August 19, 2024

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#john-droz">John Droz, Jr.</a> -- August 19, 2024

Ed. Note: 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:
*** “Green” Hydrogen Subsidies are 1,900x Larger Than What’s Given to Nuclear

Unreliables (General):
*** Coming Clean on Clean Energy: It’s a Dirty Business
(Alex Epstein) Summer Talking Points: Unreliable Power
Wholesale prices surge as wind and solar output falls to zero in South Australia

Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** Report: Offshore Wind Turbines May Kill You
Vineyard Wind turbine debris makes it to Cape Cod
Floating Offshore Wind – A Financial Catastrophe
Feds must rethink authorizing harassment of whales by offshore wind

Wind Energy — Other:
*** Taking the Wind Out of Climate Change (referencing 60± studies)
*** Report: Clearing the Air — Honest Truths About Clean Energy
Wind project shelved after landholders change their minds

Solar Energy:
State Regulations Force Bankruptcy of California Solar Company

Nuclear Energy:
*** Swedes Embrace Nuclear & Join Europe’s Grand Rejection of Wind & Solar Transition
*** Small modular nuclear reactors could be an affordable path to a carbon-free future
America’s oldest nuclear plants are in Upstate, and NY needs them.

Energy & Environmental Review: August 5, 2024

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#john-droz">John Droz, Jr.</a> -- August 5, 2024

Ed. Note: 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 UN’s Green Agenda Will Spark Famine

Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** Taking the Wind Out of Climate Change (referencing 60± studies)
*** Fight Against Wind Turbines in Lake Erie Continues
*** As more turbine trash washes up on Nantucket, town considers suing
*** Breaking Wind
Virginia’s risk of offshore wind turbine blade failure is serious
Offshore wind whale deaths indicated by statistical analysis
California Rushes In Where Angels Fear to Tread

Solar Energy:
*** Solar industry sees first projects put on ice as nuclear proposal sows doubt among investors

Nuclear Energy:
*** Nuclear Power is the way to go
Nuclear micro-reactors may be deployed at Niagara Falls data center
Tell the World Bank to scrap it’s ban on carbon-free Nuclear Energy

Fossil Fuel Energy:
Natural Gas Industry’s Smear of Coal Is False and Self-Defeating
UK may need new gas-fired power stations to decarbonize grid
Kamala Harris reverses earlier anti-fracking stance and no longer supports a ban

Electric Vehicles (EVs):
*** Report: EVs for all (Part 1)
Ford’s EV Bloodbath Continues
Power Outages Bring Hurricane of EV Buyers’ Remorse
*** Alex Epstein: Energy Sound Bites on Fossil Fuels, Part 2
Global Power Demand Is Soaring, IEA Expects 4% Growth in ’24 & ‘25

Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:
*** New Peer-Reviewed Study: CO2 Has Zero Impact on Climate Change
*** Polar Bears, Dead Coral and Other Climate Fictions
*** Japanese Scientist Concludes IPCC Is Using “Erroneous” Parameters And Climate Sensitivities
*** Inconvenient Truth: 32 Climate Predictions Proven False

Manmade Global Warming — Miscellaneous
*** Biden Admin Demands $78 Trillion to Fund ‘Net Zero’
*** The Economic Folly of a Carbon Tax
*** New Zealand changing course on climate emissions
Why the ‘Green Economy’ Is Suddenly in Retreat—in EU, US, and on Wall Street
Video: Volcanic Eruptions and Extreme Weather

Energy & Environmental Review: July 22, 2024

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#john-droz">John Droz, Jr.</a> -- July 22, 2024

Ed. Note: 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.

Unreliables (General):
*** Big Batteries Bring Big Problems!
Alberta’s wind and solar output plunge to near zero…again

Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** The Offshore Wind Energy Scandal is Even Worse Than You Think
*** Shattered wind turbine closes Nantucket beaches feds suspend Vineyard Wind
*** Why Are Massive Amounts of the World’s Most Potent Greenhouse Gas Being Ferried Out into the Ocean off the Eastern Seaboard?
Offshore Wind Turbines Wrecking Marine Radar Signals
The Titanic scale of floating wind turbines quantified

Wind Energy — Other:
*** Taking the Wind Out of Climate Change (referencing 60± studies)
*** Short video: The Most Confusing Part of the Power Grid
*** Nine July Days Clearly Demonstrate Industrial Wind Turbines Intermittent Uselessness
Turbines were Missing in Action for High Peak Demand Days
Green Hypocrisy
German wind power sector in crisis.

Energy & Environmental Review: July 8, 2024

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#john-droz">John Droz, Jr.</a> -- July 8, 2024

Energy & Environmental Review: June 24, 2024

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#john-droz">John Droz, Jr.</a> -- June 24, 2024

Energy & Environmental Review: June 10, 2024

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#john-droz">John Droz, Jr.</a> -- June 10, 2024

“All of the Above” — Bad Energy Policy

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#john-droz">John Droz, Jr.</a> -- June 3, 2024

Energy & Environmental Review: May 28, 2024

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#john-droz">John Droz, Jr.</a> -- May 28, 2024

Energy & Environmental Review: May 13, 2024

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#john-droz">John Droz, Jr.</a> -- May 13, 2024

Wind Turbine-related Radiation

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#john-droz">John Droz, Jr.</a> -- May 10, 2024