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:
NY State’s Greed Machine ignores high energy costs
Unreliables (General):
*** Wind and solar are parasites on the grid
*** The Energy Cost of Energy
*** Driving Up the Cost Of Energy While Claiming to Promote “Affordability”
RGGI Transition Powerplant Cost
Wind Energy — Offshore:
Trump Administration Gets Strategic With Offshore Wind
Solar Energy:
*** The Terrible Track Record of the New Top Solar Lobbyist
Nuclear Energy:
*** Every Confusing Thing About Nuclear Power Explained Slowly
Germany’s Nuclear Confession Is a Crack in Net‑Zero Pretense
Book: Energy is Life — Why Environmentalism Went Nuclear
Fossil Fuel Energy:
The Indispensable Role of Fossil Fuels in Modern Civilization
China Will Buy Oil From The U.S.
Miscellaneous Energy News:
*** Top 10 Reasons Why Communities Are Fighting Data Centers
NextEra bets $66.8B on AI power boom with Dominion Energy acquisition
Why Democrats and Republicans both need comprehensive permitting reform
Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:
*** Climate pseudoscience debunked: Livestock methane fears are baseless
*** Enemy of affordability: The radical climate agenda
Roger Pielke Jr: The Death of RCP8.5
You Can’t Trust ‘Climate Economics’
The Steyer Smear
The Urban Heat Island and Urban Cool Island: A Few Examples for U.S. Major Metropolitan Areas
Manmade Global Warming — The Science:
Why New Zealand Must Drop Net Zero 2050
ASEAN Nations Return to Fossil Fuels, Back Away From Net Zero Plans
Why Undoing the EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Rule Matters for Americans