Energy & Environmental Review: October 28, 2024
By John Droz, Jr. -- October 28, 2024This 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:
*** Inflation Reduction Act’s costly green giveaways
Biden administration races to shell out billions for clean energy as election nears
Buy Woke, Go Broke: The Failure of ESG Investing
Unreliables Energy Health and Ecosystem Consequences:
Archive Report: Green Killing Machines: The impact of renewable energy on wildlife and nature
Unreliables (General):
*** The “green” scam of the century: “Renewables” increase fossil fuel demands
*** The Big Lie
Solar Costs Jump, More Offshore (and Onshore) Wind Woes, SMR Update
Will Wind and Solar Hammer Hydro in Washington State?…
Industrial Wind Turbine Noise: A Summary
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 25, 2024The Facebook website Wind Farm Living published this explainer on noise from industrial wind turbines. (Click on the illustration for more visual clarity)
The Party For Socialism and Liberation (another Left choice for the U.S. election)
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 24, 2024“The climate catastrophe demonstrates the disastrous self-interest of the capitalist class. To avoid excessive warming, as well as the many severe environmental threats produced by capitalism, it is necessary to shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy.” (PSL, below)
Previous posts at MasterResource have examined the energy platforms of the Democrat Party, Green Party, and Cornel West for President. On the free-market side, summaries have been provided for the GOP Platform, American Petroleum Institute, and Heritage Foundation/Agenda 25, and America First Policy Institute (AFPI, a think tank in the Trump fold). Today’s post turns again to the interventionist/socialist view of energy and climate.
The Party For Socialism and Liberation (PSL). “For the planet to live capitalism must end,” states the website banner. The “About” section reads:
… Continue ReadingThe Party for Socialism and Liberation believes that the only solution to the deepening crisis of capitalism is the socialist transformation of society.