“There is no renewables ‘transition’ – ONLY addition.” (below)

The much-hyped “energy transition” has predictably failed. Grant Lukies presented the chart below and reported on social media:

For those of you paying attention – still no ‘transition’ evident whatsoever (to August 2025). 33 years of IPCC stewardship and panic and $billions spent and absolutely zero downward trend in slope of the curve.

THIS is THE failed KPI of alarmist catastrophism writ large. There is no renewables ‘transition’ – ONLY addition.

Is this bad news? Hardly. The plants rejoice as CO2 enrichment continues. A greener Planet Earth is surely better than wind, solar, and battery industrialization from all points of view.

Remember what Daniel Yergin concluded in The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations (2020), p. 422:

As they grow, wind and solar and EVs will need ‘big shovels’ to meet their increasing call on mined minerals and land itself.

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:

California launches Golden State lease buyout lawsuit
California Moves to Sue Trump Administration, RWE Over Deal to Cancel Floating Wind Project

Unreliables (General):
*** The Green Energy Paradox: Saving Nature by Destroying It

Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** Manipulation, hype and floating offshore windmills
Offshore Windmill Failures in Irish Sea
Britain ‘hog-tied’ to China for a third of wind power

Solar Energy:
Solar overtakes coal as biggest power source in China — but off 60% of the time!
New York’s New Solar Religion Is Absolutely Devastating to Wildlife, Farmland

Nuclear Energy:
*** The Army’s SMR Shortlist
*** Deployable Energy’s new compact nuclear reactor

Fossil Fuel Energy:
*** A Nation Divided by Natural Gas
Ban Natural Gas, Pay More

Electric Vehicles (EVs):
Scientists confirm solar storms can crash self-driving cars
Report: Another Tesla on Autopilot Stopped on Freeway, Driver Died

Data Centers:
*** GUIDE: What every town should know before approving a data center
*** Panicking Tech Execs Try to Pivot Message on AI Data Centers
The Shocking Truth About Water-Guzzling Hyperscale Data Centers

Miscellaneous Energy News:
*** Video: “We Cracked Antigravity” NASA Physicist Shows Proof of Secret Tech
Report: Embodied energy – The first step in understanding eROI
If our politicians care about affordability, they will pass permitting reform

Manmade Global Warming — The Science:
*** Climate: What We Don’t Know
Norway Rejects Climate Orthodoxy’s False Choice, Builds Wealth
Greenland’s Icecap Grew This Year…

Ed. note: This letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and key members of Congress from Consumer Action for a Strong Economy and other free market energy groups is reproduced below. At issue is a legal loophole allowing Chinese-owned battery component manufacturers to receive taxpayer funded incentives. More information can be found here.

“American taxpayers should not finance the expansion of Chinese-controlled battery companies inside the United States.”

Dear Secretary Bessent:

Consumer Action for a Strong Economy and the undersigned organizations urge the Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service to fully enforce the foreign-entity restrictions enacted through the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and prevent Chinese-controlled battery companies from accessing American manufacturing and energy tax incentives, including the Section 45X Advanced Manufacturing Production Credit and the Section 48E Clean Electricity Investment Credit, through U.S.…

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.

Unreliables (General):
*** Grid Instability
Geopolitical Reality Has Ended the Rush to Renewables
The Renewable Data Center Fantasy
New York’s New Solar Religion is Absolutely Devastating to Wildlife, Farmland

Nuclear Energy:
America is Watching the World’s Movement to Nuclear Power Generation
Billion-dollar machine aims to set a fusion-energy record — and study nuclear weapons

Fossil Fuel Energy:
*** Trump announces ‘biggest oil deal in world history,’ says it will substantially lower gas prices
*** Why Gasoline Costs More in Democratic-Controlled States
Trump administration to pay German firm to halt US wind projects – and ‘re-invest’ in gas schemes
Yes, Coal Clearly Has A Future

Electric Vehicles (EVs):
They were told to park outside – then their cars burst into flames

Miscellaneous Energy News:
*** Shockingly vulnerable US power grid could result in 18-month nationwide blackout, expert warns
*** Energy War: Iran, China, AI and the fight to control the future
*** A sort talk: Meredith Angwin and the Two Grids in the Hudson Valley
Battery System Capital & Operating Costs, Energy Losses and Aging
Hydrogen: Not Market Ready

Manmade Global Warming — Miscellaneous:
*** Climate ‘Experts’ Are 0-54 with Their Doomsday Predictions
*** Climatologist Says a Century of Weather Data Contradicts Claims of Record Heat
*** Net Zero Won’t Fix Climate Change.…