Ed. Note: This post excerpts energy and climate material from the Media Balance Newsletter, a free fortnighly 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:
*** There Is A Financial Crisis Brewing In Offshore Wind Energy
Dominion hides huge offshore wind cost risk
Unlikely Pair Tries to Blow Open Secret NY Wind Deal 

Unreliables: Energy Health and Ecosystem Consequences:
*** One Simple Energy Question Devastates ‘Net-Zero’ Pipe Dreams
Human Rights Being Sacrificed to Promote Green Energy Scams

Unreliables (General):
*** The Big Green Lie Almost Everyone Claims to Believe
*** Massive Riots, Renewable Resentments
*** The Problem with Overbuilding Wind and Solar
*** The Power Of Power Density
Think megawatt hours of gasoline

Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** Offshore Wind Lulls Threaten NY Energy Reliability
*** Fishermen question the data behind offshore wind siting process
*** Why Offshore Wind Jobs May Just Be a Lot of Hot Air
*** Save the Whales, Again
BP and Equinor Could Cancel US Offshore Wind Projects
Offshore Wind Opponents need a Mass Protest in DC

Wind Energy — Other:
*** Taking the Wind Out of Climate Change (referencing 60± studies)
*** State Senator introduces bill requiring wind turbine installations in NYC
Siemens Faces $5 Billion Loss On Faulty Wind Turbines
Massachusetts 50 Years of Wind Turbine Failures

Solar Energy:
*** Solar Realities (updated)
New analysis tears down lies about renewables, reveals solar panels to be carbon-intensive
Let Them Eat Solar Panels

Nuclear Energy:
*** China Approves Six Nuclear Reactors at $17 Billion Investment
*** Vivek Ramaswamy: Shut Down the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
God and Nuclear Energy

Fossil Fuel Energy:
*** Eliminating Fossil Fuels Will Cause Massive Decline In Human Well-Being
*** Biden admin quietly revises gas stove analysis, reduces projected benefits
Three Cheers for Refrigeration—and Four, Once Everyone Has It
North Sea oil and gas fields tax credits are not subsidies

Electric Vehicles (EVs):
*** Electrogreens Want to Suck Your EV
*** Control is the Aim, EVs are the Game of the Moment
*** Spontaneous Combustion: A Serious Product Defect
They’re Coming for Your Cars
China ‘will use electric cars to spy on Britain’

Miscellaneous Energy News:
*** How to powerfully and accurately criticize the Biden Admin’s energy policies
*** Biden’s new crackdown on Air Conditioners will be worse than gas stoves
*** The EPA Tries to Destroy the Grid
The US Electrical Grid: Achilles Heel of the World?…

“Oil industry lobbyists are not worthwhile humans. It’s not a real job, it is corruption and beneath contempt. Taking bribe money to spread propaganda that results in genocide is sub human.” Tom Trounce (below)

I recently had an ‘interesting’ discussion on social media with a strong advocate for (dilute, intermittent) ‘renewable’ energies. My critic, an angry foe of fossil fuels, didn’t present solid arguments but only ad hominems, followed by trash talk. Such is the unfortunate part of debating climate/energy issues on LinkedIn, where certain (brainwashed?) alarmists work to discredit and marginalize their opponents.

Tom Trounce was the bad guy. His profile at LinkedIn advertises:

Improving lives through community, compassion and expeditions | Non-profits | Company culture | Leadership integrity | Technology | Customer Experience | Purpose

What? Improving lives, compassion, integrity.…

“Physical and economic realities must not only be considered but controlling. Wishing and hoping for change is not a successful business strategy, and the past few years have awakened BP management to that reality.”

“Leaning in” is a phrase BP plc CEO Bernard Looney likes to use to describe how his company is embracing the energy transition. BP is transitioning from an “international oil company” to an “international energy company,” according to Looney. This means more renewable energy and less oil and gas. Looney invoked “leaning in” in February 2020 when he introduced new strategic aims for BP to reach “net zero carbon emissions on an absolute basis by 2050 or sooner.” 

The Plan

In Looney’s presentation, “Reimagining energy, reinventing BP,” he said BP needed to reinvent itself as a clean-energy producer because climate change demanded it. …

“Since 2000, the world has spent more than $5 trillion on green energy. More than 300,000 wind turbines have been erected, millions of solar arrays were installed, more than 25 million electric vehicles (EVs) have been sold, hundreds of thousands of acres of forest were cut down to produce biomass fuel, and about three percent of agricultural land is now used to produce biofuel for vehicles.”

We are in the midst of history’s greatest wealth transfer. Government subsidized wind systems, solar arrays, and electric vehicles overwhelmingly benefit the wealthy members of society and rich nations. The poor and middle class pay for green energy programs with higher taxes and higher electricity and energy costs. Developing nations suffer environmental damage to deliver mined materials needed for renewables in rich nations.

Since 2000, the world has spent more than $5 trillion on green energy.…