Energy & Environmental Newsletter: April 29, 2019

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The Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving national, state, and local energy and environmental policies. Our premise is that technical matters like these should be addressed by using Real Science (please consult WiseEnergy.org for more information).

A key element of AWED’s efforts is public education. Towards that end, every three weeks we put together a newsletter to balance what is found in the mainstream media about energy and the environment. We appreciate MasterResource for their assistance in publishing this information.

Some of the more important articles in this issue are:

Study: Renewable Energy Mandates are a costly failure

Worldwide Buyer’s Remorse Sets in for Costly Renewable Energy

Solar Energy Threatened by Wind Energy

The true cost of solar (and wind)

Dead bats and how radical Green propaganda relies on tragedy porn

Hypothesis: Radical Greens are the Great Killers of Our Age

Russia’s not-so-secret plan to control the world’s energy

The true feasibility of moving away from fossil fuels

Why 100% renewable energy goals are not practical policies

Battery Foolishness

Short video: False Choice Cafe

Short video: Green Signaling

US Chamber of Commerce: American Energy — Cleaner and Stronger

Natural Gas Is Pulling Away from Renewables; The Gap Has Never Been Wider

Next generation nuclear: 25MW, smaller, safer, can be sited anywhere

Powering the future – with no compromises

Lunacy as the New Orthodoxy

What Will It Take to End Anti-Science Insanity?

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Energy & Environmental Newsletter: February 11, 2019

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The Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving national, state, and local energy and environmental policies. Our premise is that technical matters like these should be addressed by using Real Science (please consult WiseEnergy.org for more information).

A key element of AWED’s efforts is public education. Towards that end, every three weeks we put together a newsletter to balance what is found in the mainstream media about energy and the environment. We appreciate MasterResource for their assistance in publishing this information.

Some of the more important articles in this issue are:

Bill Gates about the foolishness of renewables

Short Anti-wind video by Ohio citizens

Study: The $2.5 trillion reason we can’t rely on batteries to clean up the grid

Evolution of Electricity Rates

New Huge Study: Wind Turbines Devalue nearby Homes

Abstracts for upcoming 8th International Meeting on Wind Turbine Noise

PhD Letter re Turbine Health Impacts

German citizen anti-wind effort results in installations slump

Electoral Platitudes = Energy Trauma for Citizens

Goodbye to a misguided war on coal

Hot Day in Australia results in massive blackouts

Wind + Natural Gas

Study: Grid Scale Electricity Storage Can’t Save Renewables

The 10 Most Insane Requirements Of The Green New Deal

The Green New Deal is a leftist politician’s worst enemy

Green New Deal: The Devil Is in the Details

Green New Deal: Looks Like A Dem Parody Bill

The Green New Deal is a Prescription for Poverty

Greenhouse-warming theory does not appear to even be physically possible

Physicist: Don’t fall for the argument about ‘settled science’

Revised: Deficiencies In the IPCC’s SR15 Special Report

Stop The Climate Stupidity

Why the Left Loves and Hates Science

 

Greed Energy Economics:

Bill Gates about the foolishness of renewables

Study: The $2.5 trillion reason we can’t rely on batteries to clean up the grid

Evolution of Electricity Rates

New Huge Study: Wind Turbines Devalue nearby Homes

The Three Major Problems with a Carbon Tax

Cost-Effectively Being Dumb

Study: Tax Abatements and the Texas Wind Industry

Short video: Texas town has $30M burden after going “100% renewable”

Green Energy Being Abandoned As Economics Go Red

The foolishness of Canadians paying a Carbon Tax

The Myth of the Revenue-Neutral Carbon Tax

Carbon Taxes Aren’t Working Any More

Wyoming takes its yearly look at raising a tax on wind energy

PG&E may shed $40± billion worth of renewable contracts

Could PTC rush jeopardize U.S.

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A Spot Coal Shortage in India: Central Planners Overrate Wind

By Vijay Jayaraj -- October 10, 2018 4 Comments

“Wind turbines’ poor capacity to provide electricity was exposed last month, when [my home town in southern India] Tamil Nadu faced an unforeseen energy shortage due to a dwindling coal supply. The state had unscheduled power cuts for the first time since 2015.”

“Energy from wind turbines dropped 37 percent this year because of heavy monsoon rains. But heavy monsoon rains are not abnormal! They are blamed simply because they interrupt the turbines. Before the era of wind turbines, the rains were just as severe, but they didn’t interrupt power generation.”

India is coal country with a 76 percent market share for the indigenous fuel. But authorities are pushing uneconomic renewables as part of a green central planning plan.

This tension between economic energy and politically correct energy came into focus with a recent electricity panic in my city located in southern India.

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Energy & Environmental Newsletter: March 12, 2018

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The Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving national, state, and local energy and environmental policies. Our premise is that technical matters like these should be addressed by using Real Science (please consult WiseEnergy.org for more information).

A key element of AWED’s efforts is public education. Towards that end, every three weeks we put together a newsletter to balance what is found in the mainstream media about energy and the environment. We appreciate MasterResource for their assistance in publishing this information.

Some of the more important articles in this issue are:

The High Cost of Wind and Solar

Proposed Colorado Legislation: Health Effects of Industrial Wind Turbines

Congress: Kremlin Used Green Propaganda to Undercut U.S. Energy

Green Ideology’s Failed Experiment

California Has Too Much Green Energy

Maine Places Moratorium on Wind Projects

Scott Pruitt: The Weaponization of the EPA Is Over

Why Wind and Solar are Not the Future

Electric grid a prime target in cyberwar

Dozens of studies about the ecosystem impacts of offshore wind turbines

How Corrupt is Audubon?

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The “Powering America” Hearings (Part I)

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Energy & Environmental Newsletter: November 28, 2016

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Energy & Environmental Newsletter: August 1, 2016

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Harvesting Eagles: Time for Honesty, Accuracy, and Policy Change (Part I)

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Love to Hate? Anti-Fracking Group Scrubs Website

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AWED Energy & Environmental Newsletter: July 7, 2014

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