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. The complete Newsletter for this post can be found here.

Greed Energy Economics:
*** The full cost of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) subsidies

Unreliables Energy Health and Ecosystem Consequences:
Another Study Shows Low-Frequency Vibrations From Wind Turbines Can Harm Human Health
Archive: Is Enough Attention Paid to the Health Effects of Low-Frequency Noise in Today’s Society?
Effects of Sound Frequencies Below the Threshold of Hearing on Brain Health and Cognition
Inaudible Infrasound Disturbs Human Health

Unreliables (General):
*** A simple way to save the grid from more wind and solar
*** Cautionary Tales
Coalition to Congress: End “Inflation Reduction Act” “Green New Deal subsidies” now

Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** Coalition to Burgum: “Stop offshore wind!”…

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. The complete Newsletter for this post can be found here.

Unreliables: Energy Health and Ecosystem Consequences:
*** The loss of pollinators: The hidden ecological cost of Wind Turbines

Unreliables (General):
*** Introducing The Global Renewable Rejection Database: At Least 72 Rejections Of Wind/Solar Since 2023
Trump Drops Truth Bomb On Green Energy
A Key Federal Agency Stopped Approving New Renewables Projects

Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** Elon, it’s time to sic the DOGE on BOEM
*** The Collapse of Offshore Wind Power is Only the Beginning
Deficiencies in Dominion’s offshore wind permits
Opposition Grows to Offshore Lake Erie Wind Turbines
Media outlet is reporting possible data falsification at plant where defective Vineyard Wind turbine blades were manufactured

Wind Energy — Other:
*** Big Wind is in big trouble
GE closing wind blade factory with 1,000 jobs to go

Solar Energy:
Energy experts blast failed billion-dollar DOE solar project as ‘financial boondoggle,’ ‘disaster’
The Ivanpah Solar Power Monstrosity Bites the Taxpayers.…

Ed. Note: Just 15 months after receiving a $3.0 billion loan guarantee from the U.S. Department of Energy (Jigar Shaw), Sunnova stock price has cratered with the prospect of bankruptcy. Sunnova founder (and Enron-ex) John Berger’s battle cry–“solar is going to rip apart the energy business as we know it”– is an example of the philosophical fraud committed by political capitalists who are tipsy on taxpayer dollars.

UPDATE: Sunnova is bankrupt several times over. “The company has approximately $1.9 billion in debt that needs to be fully repaid by the end of 2028,” reported Houston Chronicle (02-20-2025). “That includes $975 million in debt due for payment in 2026. In comparison, Sunnova’s market capitalization, or the value of its total shares, is $251 million….” It is also in legal peril (see here).…

“The data make it clear that the only possible rationale for renewable energy—making significant reductions of CO2 emissions—cannot be achieved. The costs of attempting to do this are already imposing heavy costs on economies across the world.”

By the 1800s, wind and solar were both mature and successful technologies. Yet as soon as Western society developed the wealth and technology to take advantage of fossil fuels, they were discarded—along with batteries for electric cars—with no place in the modern world for grid-scale generation of electricity.  

Renewable energy still cannot compete with the efficiency, affordability, and reliability of fossil fuels. But this has not stopped it from making a comeback on the backs of American taxpayers and consumers who have paid for hundreds of billions of dollars of subsidies from federal, state, and local governments.…