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:
*** The DOE Is Stonewalling on Residential Energy Costs and its Electrify Everything Push
“Green” Objectives Stifle Economic Growth in the Developing World

Unreliables (General):
*** Report: The Clean Energy Transition’s Voter Problem
*** Capacity Factors: Dispatchable vs. Non-dispatchable
*** Electric grid operators warn U.S. Supreme Court that new EPA rules will cause widespread blackouts
IEA: The World Is Not on Track to Triple Renewable Capacity by 2030

Grid Batteries:
*** Report: Grid Scale Batteries and Fire Risk
Grid scale battery fires loom large
If Green Energy Is the Future, Bring a Fire Extinguisher

Wind Energy — Offshore:
Offshore wind’s bogus benefits bragged on

Wind Energy — Other:
*** Taking the Wind Out of Climate Change (referencing 60± studies)

Nuclear Energy:
*** Natura Resources’ Molten Salt Reactor at ACU Receives Historic NRC Construction Permit
AI Power Demands Mandate Overdue Nuclear Investments

Fossil Fuel Energy:
It’s Too Soon to Abandon Fossil Fuels, Says Pulitzer-Nominated Author, Ronald Stein

Electric Vehicles (EVs):
*** The Left’s Climate and EV Craze Couldn’t Make China Happier
EVs and Global Warming
The EV Flame Out

Miscellaneous Energy News:
*** Report: Hydrogen… What More Can We Wish For?…

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:
*** Renewables Price check
*** The Catastrophic Costs of Government-Dictated Green Energy (Epstein)
*** 12 myths that government-dictated green energy is cheaper than fossil fuels

Unreliables (General):
*** Tally Of US Wind & Solar Rejections Hits 735
*** Why There Will Never Be a Zero Emissions Electricity System Powered Mainly by Wind and Sun

Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** Glass fibers – the rest of the story?????
*** Oregon’s offshore lease sale canceled as bidders back out, governor raises concerns
Maine’s massive “floating wind” folly — my report
BP to sell its US onshore wind business
ACK For Whales Asks Supreme Court to Hear Appeal

Wind Energy — Other:
*** Taking the Wind Out of Climate Change (referencing 60± studies)
Industrial Wind Turbines Show up at the Party — Almost Always, after Everyone Has Left

Nuclear Energy:
*** It’s time to follow the Navy’s 50-year Safety Record of Nuclear Power Generation
*** Construction Permit issued for Molten Salt Reactor in Texas
Nuclear Now?…

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:
*** Has the Electricity Reality Check Arrived?
*** The Green New Deal could make electricity 28 times more expensive
Two Days of Fall Weather in Late Summer Demonstrates Industrial Wind’s Incredible Costs
New Paper Shows the Problem with Power Subsidies

Wind Energy — Offshore:
Offshore wind energy development: A David vs Goliath story

Wind Energy — Other:
*** Taking the Wind Out of Climate Change (referencing 60± studies)
Wind turbines “destroy habitats”
Turbine fire burns 260+ acres in California

Solar Energy:
*** More Solar Silliness In The New York Times

Nuclear Energy:
*** If Germany kept nuclear power, it could have saved $600b and cut emissions by 73%
*** Is Nuclear the Tortoise to the Wind and Solar Hare?…

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:
*** Americans’ hearts sink as electric bills nearly double, ‘green nightmare’ blamed
*** Billions paid to wind companies to stop generating electricity is scandalous waste of money

Unreliables (General):
*** Better batteries won’t save the energy grid
*** Tangled Comparisons: Renewables Versus Fossil Fuels

Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** Floating Offshore Wind – An Environmental Catastrophe
*** Looming ‘clean’ energy disasters off our coasts
*** Offshore Trojan Horses
Bad Streak for GE Vernova as Another Offshore Blade Fails
New National Offshore-wind Opposition Alliance
Maine’s mysterious floating wind research

Wind Energy — Other:
*** Taking the Wind Out of Climate Change (referencing 60± studies)
How a small Minnesota town was left with a giant pile of wind turbine blades

Solar Energy:
Why Maine businesses are facing crippling solar fees

Nuclear Energy:
*** Nuclear Symposium 2024 (NYC)
*** Trump vows to make electricity cheap with ‘hundreds of new power plants’ and modular nuclear reactors
*** Artificial Intelligence Goes Nuclear
Study Quantifies Germany’s Disastrous Switch Away from Nuclear Power
China prepares to change world with introduction of revolutionary nuclear power station: ‘This design significantly reduces the chances of meltdowns’
Can a Closed Nuclear Power Plant From the ’70s be Brought Back to Life?…