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. Droz is also the author of the popular Substack Critically Thinking About Select Societal Issues.
Greed Energy Economics:
*** The Well Hidden and Distorted cost of Renewables: A Comprehensive Comparison of Wind Energy and Combined Cycle Gas Turbine Plant
Wind, Solar Projects Can Stick Taxpayers With the Tab Coming and Going
Cost of Wind and Solar both going up
Japan’s Offshore Wind Setback: A Lesson in the Full Cost of Energy
Unreliables (General):
*** US Energy Department Cuts $7.56 Billion in Green Projects
*** Energy secretary explains the difficulties of relying on wind and solar power
Wind Energy — Other:
*** Avian Mortality: Industrial Wind in Ecological Trouble
*** Texans Should Stop Spending on Fake Climate Crisis
The curious case of the wind project and the seismic array
Nuclear Energy:
*** And Now, SMR Intelligence Global
*** SMR Sector Continues Red-Hot Streak With 5 IPOs
*** Ted Cruz Seeking Answer To Decades-Old Riddle That Has Stunted American Nuclear Energy
Why does the world insanely ignore nuclear power?…
“Climate policy is decidedly unfashionable in 2025 — among Democrats…. Climate is out, affordability is in.” – Debra Kahn, Politico (below)
Debra Kahn, “editor of POLITICO’s California Climate newsletter and author of Currents, a reported column on the conversations, conflicts and characters animating the energy, environment and climate debates,” corrected the eco-narrative recently. While the climate campaigners are busy trying to sell politically correct renewables (wind and solar) as cheaper, she uncorked a Truth Bomb.
In “What Trump’s Victory Taught Democrats About Climate Change,” Politico Magazine (October 16, 2025), she wrote:
… Continue ReadingThe party isn’t embracing climate change denialism like many in the GOP, nor is it endorsing the Trump administration’s attacks on clean energy. But as Democrats continue groping for a way forward after their 2024 defeat, they’ve clearly decided they need to change how they talk about climate and energy issues.
“In plain language: fossil fuels were becoming too difficult and expensive to produce – until AI came along to make them profitable again. That isn’t ‘innovation’ – it’s acceleration toward climate collapse.” – Holly Alpine, climate activist (below)
And so the litany and narrative goes on. Oil was supposed to run out a half-century ago. Then horizontal drilling and fractionation came along (bad luck!). Now AI has come to the rescue to, again, postpone the inevitable–more bad luck! (Never mind that thing called resourceship, explaining how the improvement process is open-ended.)
What is good is bad to the nature-is-optimal-and-fragile Deep Ecologists. More people. Growing resource usage. Higher living standards. All bad. Remember these quotation by Paul and Anne Ehrlich and two-term Obama science advisor John Holdren?
… Continue ReadingA massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States.