“I have found that if we reframe the conversation to always focus on the full context of human flourishing, many people will be won over.” (Alex Epstein)
Fasten your seatbelts. This is the year of energy realism and elevating the politically incorrect, economically correct into the mainstream. Donald Trump energy policy promises to be free-market-oriented in a way that has been absent through recent Republican and Democratic administrations.
A leading voice for an energy/climate realism is Alex Epstein, a one-man dynamo for clear thinking in a field dominated by want it, think it, emote it … and it is.
In writing and by lecture, Epstein is ready to convince a Rotary Club or Prime Time America on the benefits of consumer-chosen, taxpayer neutral, economical, reliable energies. He will debate anyone anywhere–and should get more chances than ever in this new policy era.…
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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:
Outstanding podcast on Energy and Climate Change
Excellent Study: Energy Deregulation
Per Capita Energy Productivity for Primary Sources of Electrical Energy
China Closer to Harnessing Clean, Limitless Energy from Nuclear Fusion
Trump Has Better Ideas on Energy
Cutting the Crap at DOE (See new Newsletter section on Trump & Energy)
Sweden Denies Permit for World’s Largest Wind Project, Due to its Military Interference
Obsolete Calculations of Cost of Carbon
Southern Baptist leaders defend Trump’s pick to lead EPA (See new Newsletter section on Trump & AGW)
100% Of US Warming Is Due To NOAA Data Tampering
New Study Casts Doubt on Key Climate Change Predicting Metric
97% Consequential Misperceptions: Ethics of Consensus on Global Warming
Biggest Fake News Story: Global Warming and Phony Consensus
Skeptical Climate Scientists Coming In From the Cold
Greed Energy Economics:
Per Capita Energy Productivity for Primary Sources of Electrical Energy
The $3.5 Trillion Fracking Economy Is About To Get A Lot Bigger
More IRS Wind Energy Shenanigans
Turbine Health Matters:
Ontario Wind Turbine Health Study Begins
EPA’s Study of Hydraulic Fracturing and Its Potential Impact on Drinking Water Resources
Renewable Energy Destroying Ecosystems:
The Environmental Toll of a Netflix Binge
Final US wind-turbine rule permits thousands of eagle deaths
EPA Finds No Widespread Water Pollution From Fracking
Fracking-Contaminated Groundwater: The Myth that Failed
UK Court Gives Fracking Green Light
Miscellaneous Energy News:
Outstanding podcast on Energy and Climate Change
Excellent Study: Energy Deregulation
China closer to harnessing clean, limitless energy from nuclear fusion
Sweden denies permit for world’s largest wind project, as it would interfere with its military
Wind turbines hinder military readiness, Texas state lawmaker argues
Look at Reviving a Discounted Source of Energy
Three worthwhile SMR presentations
UK Electricity Part 3: Wind and Solar
Why Big Mining Loves Big Green
NYS Cuts 2017 Renewable Energy Targets by 94%
NY County Passes Broad Resolution Against Wind Turbines
Trump and Energy:
Trump Has Better Ideas on Energy
Trump Signals Push for American Energy Boom
Continue Reading“Big Government Democrats are not the cure to Big Government Republicanism. Oil, natural gas, and coal are middle class, working class energies. Wind and solar are for the rich…. Maybe, just maybe, these parasitic, inefficient energies will get the scrutiny they deserve from all sides of the political spectrum.”
The beginning of the Obama presidency was less than one month away. Things looked bad for energy. Climate exaggeration and alarmism as US policy was coming up. And there were very few of us in the free market camp to fight against climate/energy statism.
Eight years ago this month, I got in touch with these few–Marlo Lewis (Competitive Enterprise Institute), Ken Green (American Enterprise Institute), and Jerry Taylor (Cato Institute), and a few others–to launch a new website. Two-thousand one-hundred and twenty-seven posts later, we are into year nine of “a free market energy blog.”…
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