Energy & Environmental Review: December 22, 2025

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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.

Wind Energy — Offshore:
Monitoring offshore wind impacts needs to be done right
Theoretical upper limit for offshore wind energy extraction
Judge rejects US Wind permit review case

Renewables — Other:
*** Baseload Solar’s Four Little Secrets
*** Madison County wind farm neighbors feel betrayed by NY state
Wind turbine eagle-kill secrecy may soon end
Another Battery Catastrophe
The renewables trap

Nuclear Energy:
*** The World’s First Thorium Molten Salt Reactor
*** Why are developing economies pursuing small modular reactors?
*** California Coastal Commission Votes 9-3 to Extend Nuclear Operations to 2030
British nuclear fusion breakthrough
A Nuclear Resurgence, but Major Obstacles Remain

Fossil Fuel Energy:
Why Did NY Gov Hochul Back Down on New York’s Gas Ban?

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Energy & Environmental Review: December 8, 2025

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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 Energy Health and Ecosystem Consequences:
*** The Severe Ecological Ramifications of Offshore Wind Projects in the Atlantic

Wind Energy — Offshore:
Trump Administration Requests Remand of Federal Approval for Another Offshore Wind Project

Wind Energy — Other:
*** Short Video: Time to Take Down Industrial Wind Turbines!

Nuclear Energy:
*** Nuclear-generated electricity overshadows government-subsidized wind and solar
Wind, water and solar energy aren’t enough. California needs nuclear options

Fossil Fuel Energy:
Short video: Hyrdaulic Fracturing Simulation
Has California’s Oil and Gas Industry Hit the Point of No Return?

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Energy & Environmental Review: September 29, 2025

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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:
*** Why Are Green Activists Suddenly Outraged at the Billions Wasted Paying Wind Projects to Switch Off When it’s Too Windy?

Unreliables (General):
*** How to end the “100% renewable” fraud
*** The transition to renewables is a globalist suicide pact for the rest of us!
Breaking Down How Energy Prices Will End Up Affecting the Midterm Elections
Public Should Receive Earlier Notification of Solar or Wind Projects

Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** All Republicans Must Stop The Wind Scam
*** Court filings claim Revolution Wind developers didn’t answer Fed questions
UK Offshore Wind Project receives $2.5+ Billion (US) in just Six Years

Wind Energy — Other:
*** Wind Turbine Radar Interference
Upstate NY Wind Project demolition

Nuclear Energy:
*** Introducing SMR Intelligence US
OKLO SMR

Miscellaneous  Energy News:
*** AlexAI on why European electricity is so expensive, “energy efficiency,” and the limitations of batteries
*** Alex Epstein: Talking points roundup: rising electricity prices, the National Academies’ climate “report,” China’s new coal plants, and more
60 Hours: Berlin Suffers Longest Power Cut Since WW2 after Ultra-Leftist Sabotage
It makes more sense to produce hydrogen with nuclear, not renewables

Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:
*** The Consensed and the Realist
*** Teaching Children about Climate Misinformation Caused by Averaging
Media’s Psyop Against Climate Scientists
Three Climate Lawsuits in Montana
Trump to UN: Climate change ‘the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world’

Manmade Global Warming — The Science:
*** The National Academies’ perversion of science

Manmade Global Warming — Miscellaneous:
*** GAO submits Comments on EPA Reconsideration of 2009 “Endangerment Finding”
Europe’s Days of Carbon Colonialism are Numbered
Geoengineering?

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Energy and Environmental Review: December 4, 2023

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Ed. Note: 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. The complete Newsletter for this post can be found here.

Greed Energy Economics:
*** Study: Green Energy and Economic Fabulism
*** Study: Residents in Blue States Pay Much More for Electricity than in Red States
Michigan Energy Plan: At Least $200 Billion For Wind, Solar and Corporate Profits With No Effect On Global Climate
The US should take warning from the huge costs of British floating wind power

Unreliables: Energy, Health, and Ecosystem Consequences:
World Leaders Ignore Growing Safety Issues with Green Energy

Unreliables (General):
*** The Green Energy Wall gradually coming into focus
*** New York energy transition faces reliability challenges, grid operator says
The Biden Energy Slush Fund
Demonstration Challenge

Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** What Happened to the Great Lakes Offshore Wind Boom?

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ExxonMobil Cans Algae (greenwash failure)

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Guyana, Suriname Oil Bonanza to Boost Economies, Help Meet Global Demand

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Africa Wants Oil and Gas: Not UN/COP Poverty

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Amy Myers Jaffe Disses Oil, Gas, and Houston

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Energy and Environmental Review: January 3, 2022

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