The DOE move to prop up the nuclear big iron also prompts a recollection of the words of the great American philosopher Lawrence “Yogi” Berra: “It’s déjà vu all over again.” Alternatively, “Been there. Done that. Didn’t work.” Some 20 years ago, facing a 30-year decline in the U.S. nuclear power business (no reactor ordered after 1974 got built), the George W. Bush administration threw $8 billion in 2005 dollars each to two, two-unit AP-1000 reactor projects.

The Trump administration and its Department of Energy have made Canada–who many Americans other than Donald Trump consider our closest ally and good friend–happy. Recently (June 23, 2026), DOE’s loan office (grandiosity renamed the Office of Energy Dominance Financing) announced a $17.5 billion dollar loan program to subsidize building five as yet unidentified, two-unit 1,000-MW, nuclear power plant stations.…

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):
*** Renewable Energy Will Impoverish Humanity
*** Renewables still provided only 6% of global primary energy in 2025

Wind Energy — Offshore:
Duke axes North Carolina offshore wind lease
Massachusetts Wants Ratepayers to Rescue Offshore Wind

Wind Energy — Other:
Asbestos discovered in 1,000 Chinese made wind turbines

Nuclear Energy:
Department of Energy Celebrates Second Advanced Reactor Achieving Criticality

Fossil Fuel Energy:
Elon Musk Is Buying Up America’s Gas Turbines
Japan cuts LNG imports in favour of coal

Miscellaneous Energy News:
*** Secretary Chris Wright’s arrival at the Department of Energy
A Tribute to Chris Wright as Private Citizen: Powerful Architect of Energy Humanism

Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:
*** The Most Morally Inverted Movement Ever
*** NET ZERO has become a religion
*** Bjorn Lomborg blasts implausible scenarios used to scare public
*** Europe’s Deadly Aversion to Air Conditioning
Climate change” was politicized early on – thanks to Al Gore
Another Pillar of Climate Advocacy Collapses
Vatican Newspaper Taints ‘Encounter of Faith and Reason’ with Climate Falsehood
Louisiana Did the Right Thing by Blocking Climate Lawfare

Manmade Global Warming — The Science:
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Ed. Note: This post reproduces an advertisement in the Wall Street Journal (April 30, 2026) by central European energy company Orlen, titled “The Baltic Eagle Gas Hub Is Emerging as Europe’s Energy Firewall.” It documents how changed prices and profit opportunities have and will demote the Strait of Hormuz for petroleum and LNG transportation “as if led by an invisible hand”.

“By linking regional markets with global ones, the Baltic Eagle Gas Hub is emerging as part of a new energy-security architecture in Europe—one based not only on diversification of supply, but also on flexibility, regional cooperation, and the ability to respond quickly to shifts in the global environment.”

Rising geopolitical tensions are rippling through global energy markets, with fuel supplies increasingly used as instruments of influence. Countries are responding by diversifying where they buy energy to reduce dependence on any single source.…

“Literally millions are saved at any one time around the world by the use of fossil fuels in transportation and electrical generation. Imagine not having the gasoline or diesel to get to the hospital, or sanitary water and conditioned air.”

MasterResource has followed eco-radicalism and Deep Ecology, the religion behind it. Ecocide, a term transferred from the Holocaust term genocide, has been explained and debated at this site.

Eco-radicals see humankind as a plague on Nature. (“I campaign for the extinction of the human race,” stated Les Knight in The Guardian.) They exaggerate, fuss, protest, threaten, and at times end up in jail. The malcontents (e.g. Roger Hallam) are at odds with society and are to be watched carefully and avoided. Eco-terrorism is always a few steps away.…