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Solar Alert! Rooftop Decay, Facility Decommissioning

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- April 15, 2025

“This is where the next frontier of solar energy lies—not in installing the next 100GW—it’s rescuing the first 100GW.” – Cesar Barbosa (below)

And you thought that owning a Tesla was ecological …. Imagine that solar roof that now needs attention with the installer AWOL. The solar industry is about to become the least popular in the U.S. with hundreds of thousands of disappointed customers.

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Cesar Barbosa is busy in a hot new field–solar decommissioning. And repowering too if the tax credit is still there.

“As the founder of NuLife Power Services,” he states, “I’m proud to lead a nationally recognized company specializing in Repowering, Removal & Reinstallation, and Decommissioning for aging solar assets across North America.”

For me, it’s not just about revitalizing solar systems—it’s about building a strong workforce through solid leadership and investing in people who are driven to make a lasting impact in renewable energy.

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Energy & Environmental Review: April 14, 2025

By -- April 14, 2025

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.

Unreliables: Energy Health and Ecosystem Consequences:
The Feds are hiding the eagle death data
Court orders temporary shutdown of wind project (due to bird deaths)

Unreliables (General):
Report: clean energy group admits that going green may mean power grid chaos
Land-Use Conflicts Are Derailing Albany’s Alt-Energy Fantasies

Wind Energy — Offshore:
Will Trump stand by as mega-offshore wind projects resume construction?
Offshore Wind Developers Risk Trouble With Trump

Solar Energy:
The Solar Fund Standoff: Following the Money at Latest Target for Funding Cuts

Nuclear Energy:
Demand in US electricity elevates risk of wind/solar & highlights need for nuclear
The advantages and challenges of nuclear-powered data centers

Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:
*** Ten Environmentalist Myths
*** Trump Takes Aim at the Heart of the Climate Industrial Complex
Over 30 items here: Evidence that the climate scam is collapsing
Climate Change Driving California’s Golden Road to Decline
Book: Climate and Energy Lies: Expensive, Dangerous & Destructive

Manmade Global Warming — The Science:
*** Mann’s DC Trick
|*** Capping Carbon Admissions: The Biden Administration is Accused of Burying Conflicting Climate Change Report

Manmade Global Warming — Miscellaneous:
US Supreme Court Declines Appeal in Youth-Led Climate Change Case
Trump’s Climate Policy Shift Could Save American Farmers from Disaster
US Military Exits Climate Change After a Decade of Waste
New NASA Chief Will Wind Down Climate Alarm Shop

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Gas-fired Electricity for New Data Centers: Fischer Makes A Case

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- April 10, 2025

Black & Veatch executive Phil Fischer wrote this piece late last year making a case for natural gas for power generation, whether for the entire data center or for backup. In a free market, natural gas combined cycle, cogeneration, and peaking turbines have proven to be technologies of choice. With wind, solar, and battery subsidies on the chopping block, a new era for gas-fired electrical generation could be ahead.

“Companies developing data centers are in a new era in which the scope of project planning must expand far beyond the data center itself and into the supporting physical infrastructure – power generation, water delivery and water treatment,” Phil Fisher begins. “Delays in this physical infrastructure have led to new ideas that open the window for options that previously had not been on the table.”…

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Climate/Energy Exchange with Jody Freeman (Harvard University)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- April 9, 2025
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‘The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions’, U.S. Department of Energy Example

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- April 8, 2025
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Three Cheers for Diminished ‘Just Stop Oil’

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- April 7, 2025
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Ecologists Question Renewable Energy Sprawl

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- April 4, 2025
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Biden Lives! Nuclear Power Welfare from U.S. Department of Energy

By Kennedy Maize -- April 3, 2025
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US Military Exits Climate Change After Wasteful Decade

By Steve Goreham -- April 2, 2025
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John Berger: “Lifetime Achievement Award” for Sustainable Energy Future

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- April 1, 2025
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