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?…
“Government as engineer for top-down planning or bottom-up incentives is a fatal conceit. Misidentifying the problem and imposing (government) solutions is error upon error–and in this case on a global scale. What about here-and-now economics? Consumers matter. Taxpayers matter. Energy freedom matters.”
Susan Krumdieck, an “energy transition engineer,” posted an open invitation to her network about a March 16 online discussion hosted by Insight Committee for Convergence, “Global Solutions and Outreach Programs – Our Best Chance to Resolve Global Warming.” The invitation read:
Humanity is staring into the face of an existential threat of its own making. Humanity must collaborate to minimize the risk from this threat. Current global collaboration efforts are failing.
The pitch:
We are now locked into a paradigm that prevents us from resolving this threat.…
Continue Reading“Do not dare say that Texas is ‘deregulated’ or the free market or ‘competition’ failed in the Lone Star State. All of the state and federal laws [listed] need to be repealed where the owners of assets gain control of them–and customers make voluntary transactions with government out of the picture….”
Doug Sheridan, a top energy analyst with a large social media footprint, noted the dirty hidden secret behind Texas’s beleaguered grid.
When we examine the cost of solar energy, we assume all energy comes from new assets built at current costs. Those assets are assumed to power a hypothetical grid in a US region rich in both natural gas and sunlight.
The results of the analyses show a breakeven cost of generation of $54.24 per MWh for a 100% newbuild gas-fired system.…