Energy & Environmental Review: January 6, 2025
By John Droz, Jr. -- January 6, 2025This 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.
Unreliables (General):
*** Wind & Solar: You Can’t Subsidize Them Enough
*** Here’s Proof That Environmentalism Doesn’t Motivate the ‘Green Energy’ Industry
*** Sweden Issues CHILLING Alert on Renewables
Wind Energy — Other:
Wind Turbines Set To Come Down, Threatening Hawaii Renewable Energy Goals
Lawsuit Against Arkwright Wind Turbines Adds Plaintiffs
Discarded wind energy increases by 91% in 2024
Solar Energy:
*** Appeals Court upholds NC County’s rejection of 2,300-acre solar facility
Nuclear Energy:
*** Nuclear Waste could be the game-changer to Unlimited Electricity
Fossil Fuel Energy:
*** New NYS bill that will charge oil and gas firms $75B, but critics say customers will really foot the tab
America’s Big Natural-Gas Footprint is About to Get Even Bigger
German Greens advocate for coal
Miscellaneous Energy News:
*** New: Alex Epstein’s Energy AI
Trump’s Going Places With Energy, but Biden’s the Backseat Driver
$10 billion reasons New Mexico can’t afford to abandon oil and gas
U.S.…
HEATED/Atkin: Retrenchment, Burnout, Questioning
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- January 2, 2025“Will HEATED end its bias and vehemence against critics of climate exaggeration and forced energy transformation? Will Emily Atkin consider the welfare of energy consumers and taxpayers? The harms of wind, solar, and batteries? The Big Money and Big Power agenda of the Climate Industrial Complex?”
The announcement came the week before Christmas. In “A Note on the Future: Taking a Short Break, and Changing Course,” Emily Atkin of HEATED (“A newsletter for people who are pissed off about the climate crisis”) announced:
… Continue ReadingIn 2024, the fifth year of HEATED, we continued our mission of producing original, impactful, reader-powered journalism that holds polluters to account…. But our paid subscriber community did not grow in tandem with our free community this year. In fact, we have fewer paying subscribers now than we did at this time last year….
Happy New Year from MasterResource
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- December 31, 2024Seventeen years, 3,905 posts, 980 categories, 167 authors. And the contributions read as well today as when they were written, ‘as if led by an invisible hand’. That’s worth celebrating!
Here is to a healthy and prosperous new year to our many readers!…
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