AWED Energy & Environmental Newsletter: January 5, 2015
By John Droz, Jr. -- January 5, 2015The Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving national, state, and local energy & environmental policies. Our basic position is that technical matters like these should be addressed by using Real Science. It’s all spelled out at WiseEnergy.org, which is a wealth of energy and environmental resources.
A key element of AWED’s efforts is public education. Towards that end, every 3 weeks we put together a newsletter to balance what is found in the mainstream media about energy and environmental matters. We appreciate MasterResource for their assistance in publishing this information.
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Greed Energy Economics:
More on the Real Cost of Wind Energy
Solar Leases Sales Pitches (like wind): Overstate the benefits
The renewable energy sector needs to commit to getting off subsidies
Wind Project Caused Illinois Property Value to Tank by 56%
Negative Pricing in The NE Electric Pool Cost Ratepayers a Fortune
Is Cape Wind Running Out of Time?…
Continue ReadingHappy Holidays from MasterResource
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- December 23, 2014MasterResource, a free-market energy blog, turns six years old on December 26th. We thanks our contributors, readers, and parent (Institute for Energy Research) for their continual support. We will resume publication on Monday January 5th.
“Peak Oil Has Arrived:” Paul Krugman on Mineral Scarcity (2010 prediction from Dr. Errant)
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- December 22, 2014“What the commodity markets are telling us is that we’re living in a finite world, in which the rapid growth of emerging economies is placing pressure on limited supplies of raw materials, pushing up their prices…. [P]eak oil has arrived.”
“[R]esource constraints are becoming increasingly binding. This won’t bring an end to economic growth [but] … will require that we gradually change the way we live, adapting our economy and our lifestyles to the reality of more expensive resources.”
– Paul Krugman, “A Finite World,” New York Times, December 26, 2010.
Finiteness … fixity … depletion … rising cost … rising price.
The Hotelling Principle … The Limits to Growth … Jimmy Carter and James Schlesinger … Paul Ehrlich and John Holdren …
And a role for peak government to manage peaked commodities.…
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