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Energy & Environmental Review: September 3, 2024

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#john-droz">John Droz, Jr.</a> -- September 3, 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:
*** Americans’ hearts sink as electric bills nearly double, ‘green nightmare’ blamed
*** Billions paid to wind companies to stop generating electricity is scandalous waste of money

Unreliables (General):
*** Better batteries won’t save the energy grid
*** Tangled Comparisons: Renewables Versus Fossil Fuels

Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** Floating Offshore Wind – An Environmental Catastrophe
*** Looming ‘clean’ energy disasters off our coasts
*** Offshore Trojan Horses
Bad Streak for GE Vernova as Another Offshore Blade Fails
New National Offshore-wind Opposition Alliance
Maine’s mysterious floating wind research

Wind Energy — Other:
*** Taking the Wind Out of Climate Change (referencing 60± studies)
How a small Minnesota town was left with a giant pile of wind turbine blades

Solar Energy:
Why Maine businesses are facing crippling solar fees

Nuclear Energy:
*** Nuclear Symposium 2024 (NYC)
*** Trump vows to make electricity cheap with ‘hundreds of new power plants’ and modular nuclear reactors
*** Artificial Intelligence Goes Nuclear
Study Quantifies Germany’s Disastrous Switch Away from Nuclear Power
China prepares to change world with introduction of revolutionary nuclear power station: ‘This design significantly reduces the chances of meltdowns’
Can a Closed Nuclear Power Plant From the ’70s be Brought Back to Life?

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

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