The Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving national, state, and local energy and environmental policies. Our premise is that technical matters like these should be addressed by using Real Science (please consult WiseEnergy.org for more information).
A key element of AWED’s efforts is public education. Towards that end, every three weeks we put together a newsletter to balance what is found in the mainstream media about energy and the environment. We appreciate MasterResource for their assistance in publishing this information.
Some of the more important articles in this issue are:
Wind and Solar Power Advance, but Carbon Refuses to Retreat
Wind & Solar are Less Efficient Decarbonizers than CC Gas Turbines
Maine DEP Issues Draft Wind Energy Rules (two VERY good parts)
Grid-Scale Storage of Renewable Energy: The Impossible Dream
Tesla battery production releases as much CO2 as 8 years of gasoline driving
Report by head of German Wildlife Foundation: Truly Green?…
Continue Reading“The true meaning of Thanksgiving is the triumph of Capitalism over the failure of Collectivism in all its forms.”
This time of the year is when Americans gather with their families and friends and enjoy a Thanksgiving meal together. Almost 51 million Americans are travelling this Thanksgiving to find their table of celebration in remembrance of those early Pilgrim Fathers who crossed the uncharted ocean from Europe to make a new start in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
What is less appreciated is that Thanksgiving also is a celebration of the birth of free enterprise in America. The English Puritans, who left Great Britain and sailed across the Atlantic on the Mayflower in 1620, were not only escaping from religious persecution in their homeland. They also wanted to turn their back on what they viewed as the materialistic and greedy corruption of the Old World.…
Continue Reading“The Icebreaker Windpower project can be seen as entirely moot: there will be no meaningful benefit to Ohio and its citizens. The chimera of jobs and a boosted economy will never become material; the obvious loss to bird and bat life scarcely needs a comment.”
The heat is on for supporters of the six-turbine LEEDCo Icebreaker Windpower project offshore of Cleveland.
A show of “yeas” at the November 8th public meeting of the Ohio Power Siting Board (OPSB) at Cleveland City Hall failed to make a dent in the logical and passionate opposition. A few dozen supporters at a public meeting is not material for a facility that is uneconomical and environmentally invasive–and unneeded except for a poster child of what was Obama energy policy.
It is surprising that the OPSB has not closed the file on the now called “Icebreaker Windpower.”…
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