Energy & Environmental Review: September 2, 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 (General):
*** The price of energy and the system costs of renewables
Wind turbines and solar panels ONLY generate electricity
California Blackouts Have Begun. Thank ‘Green Energy’

Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** Trump’s Transportation Secretary Terminates $679 Million from Offshore Wind Projects
*** Trump Admin Kills Massive RI Offshore Wind Project
S&P downgrades Orsted credit rating

Wind Energy — Other:
*** A newer Study about the adverse consequences of turbine generated infrasound

Solar Energy:
How Bill McKibben Lost the Plot
South American Cold Underscores Role of Oil and Gas

Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:
*** Stossel on the Green Industrial Complex: Power, Panic, and Profits
*** The Supposed Nearly Unanimous Consensus on Climate Change Was A High Stakes Pernicious Deception
UN abandons science and hires climate change zealots who damn the facts
Lobbying Judges Is the Latest Form of Climate Lawfare, A Case of Elites Buying Favoritism from the Courts

Manmade Global Warming — The Science:
*** Interview.

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Energy & Environmental Review: August 18, 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 (General):
*** Governors, Renewables & PJM
Progressive Don Quixotes: Tilting at Wind Projects

Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** Duke Energy officially decides against offshore wind for North Carolina
*** Great news: Duke has decided to stop pursuing offshore wind
Massachusetts Postpones Round 5 Offshore Wind Solicitation

Wind Energy — Other:
Trump cancels giant Lava-Ridge wind project

Solar Energy:
Expert exposes solar panel industry as a ‘total scam’

Nuclear Energy:
*** Nuclear power in a free enterprise environment is the pathway to abundant low-cost electricity
How AI Can Make Nuclear Power a Safe Bet
Report: New Financing Strategy Needed to Spark America’s Nuclear Energy Revival

Fossil Fuel Energy:
CEI Comments on EPA’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emission standards for fossil fuel power plants
South American Cold Underscores Role of Oil and Gas

Electric Vehicles (EVs):
US EV Future: Unsubsidized and Uncertain

Miscellaneous Energy News:
*** America’s Critical Mining Industry Finds Itself in a Deep Hole

Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:
*** How China Hijacked America’s Climate Fears
*** Turns Out Major Climate Study Peddled by Media Relied on Bunk Data
Too Big to Fail: A major new scandal in climate science
The Climate Alarmism Grift is Dying

Manmade Global Warming — The Science:
*** The Carbon Mirage: When the DOE Broke Ranks and the Climate Script Cracked
*** The Rise of the Climate Right
Radioactivity in Ice Cores and Unreliability of C02 Estimates

Manmade Global Warming — Misc:ellaneous
Nova Scotians fined $25,000 for hiking in the wood

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Energy & Environmental Review: August 4, 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:
*** The Ongoing Fiction of Cheap Wind and Solar

Unreliables (General):
*** Electricity generated from wind and solar cannot replace fossil fuels!
*** How to Fix Renewable Energy’s Hidden Infrastructure Problem
CFACT delivers important renewable energy message to ALEC attendees
BP Abandoning Renewables

Wind Energy — Offshore:
New York halts offshore wind power line approvals, citing Trump opposition

Wind Energy — Other:
*** FWS is violating its own eagle-kill regulations
*** The Ugly Truth About Wind: Environmental Disaster Masquerading as Clean Energy

Solar Energy:
SUNBLOCK: The Global Fight To Save Farmland From Big Solar (short video)

Nuclear Energy:
*** Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) are a game-changer for the world
*** How to unleash Small Modular Reactors (Alex Epstein)
Asia’s Pivot Toward Nuclear Energy
The Future of Nuclear in Texas
Startup begins work on US fusion power plant.

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Energy & Environmental Review: July 21, 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.

Greed Energy Economics:
*** U.S. “renewables” mad scramble to waste billions is on
*** Ending Market Distorting Subsidies for Unreliable, Foreign Controlled Energy Sources
*** How the Interconnection Queue Could Make Qualifying for Tax Credits Next to Impossible
Making PJM all wind and solar would cost over $2.4 trillion in battery backup

Unreliables (General):
*** DOE: Existing US Energy Generation Retirements Increase Blackout Risk by 100x in 2030
*** Grid & Inertia
Green Lobby’s Dishonest Crusade for Solar and Wind
President Trump: Terminate The Green New Scam Now

Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** Wind Energy is an Environmental Disaster
Netherlands says no to offshore wind
Environmental group opposes Scotland offshore wind expansion

Nuclear Energy:
*** The Economic Imperative for Nuclear Power
*** Atomic Abundance and Its Enemies
Nuclear Chickens Come Home To Roost in NY

Miscellaneous Energy News:
*** This 7% of Earth’s surface burns more fuel than anywhere

Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:
*** Climate Fact Check: June 2025 Edition
*** Climate Activists Wipe Out While Surfing the Tragic Texas Flooding
Exposing the Media’s Greta Thunberg Narrative
I’m a Young Meteorologist Who Questioned the Idea of Man-Made Climate Change.

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Energy & Environmental Review: July 7, 2025

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Energy & Environmental Review: June 9, 2025

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