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:

Why some rural communities are fighting back against wind development

Wind turbines delivering next to nothing to grid despite hysteria

Environmental activists ignore energy security realities

America’s Next Energy Crisis

Short video: Overcoming Bias in Energy Conversations

The World Bank’s anti-energy policy betrays its core development mission

Offshore Wind States: Beware

Wind Projects Worry Federal Meteorologist

Environmental justice and the expanding geography of wind power conflicts

Duke Energy Considering Extending Nuclear Plant Life to 80 years

Study: Wind turbines impact bat activity, leading to high losses of habitat

Study: Gone with the Wind – Wind Development and Raptors

All wind energy avian mortality research and reporting is just deception

Solar panels could be a source of GenX and other perflourinated contaminants

Study: Model falsifiability and climate slow modes

IPCC report deleted uncertainties about human caused climate change

Climate Change, Catastrophe, Regulation and the Social Cost of Carbon

Climate Change Wackos Exposed in California Court

Four Questions on Climate Change

DDP: Ten Key Questions about Climate Change

A Challenge to the American Planning Association (re Sustainability)

Startling New Discovery Could Destroy Global Warming Doomsday Forecasts

Scott Pruitt – Warrior for Science

Crushing the Global Warming Cult at the EPA

Inventory of U.S.…

“The top-down approach by many [Peak Oil] analysts tends to ignore the explanatory variables behind oil supply trends. [They] merely extrapolate recent trends, especially if they are declining. Oil prices, fiscal regimes, and other factors that influence investment and supply trends are ignored….”

“While it is true that the success of any given wildcat cannot be predicted, you can forecast that discoveries will continue to occur and that a certain percentage of exploratory wells will find oil. And where the resource base has a history of exploration, the confidence about discoveries grows, especially in terms of the success rate.”

Abstract: The presumption that the inability to predict a given oil field discovery translates into an assumption of no discoveries is a primary factor behind neo-Malthusian pessimism about oil supply.  Given data for a basin, it can be safely assumed that a certain level of discoveries will continue.…

“Comparing straight costs for disparate products or where there are intangibles involved (convenience of a gasoline engine versus low maintenance on an electric vehicle) can be tricky and allow for wild differences in estimated consumer demand for a product, even without disagreements over future cost trends.”

“Although costs have been dropping for the Cleantech products such as solar, wind power, and lithium-ion batteries, costs for a number of other long-advocated energies such as cellulosic ethanol have not…. The ultimate lesson is an old one:  skepticism should always be applied, especially to the more optimistic predictions.”

Any number of analytical and advocacy groups have pointed to plummeting costs for wind, solar and lithium-ion batteries to predict massive changes in the future energy industry, some more aggressive than others.  The UK-based think tank RethinkX, for example, expects a huge shift from private vehicle ownership to the use of Transportation As A Service, provided mostly by battery-powered autonomous (self-driving) vehicles.…

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?…