Recent Energy And Environmental News – March 30th 2015

Posted on Tue 03/31/2015 by PA Pundits - International

By John Droz, Jr ~

This is the latest Energy Related newsletter from John Droz.

Since I’ve received quite a few requests for Solar information, I’ve now added a Solar page to our WiseEnergy.org website. If you have any suggestions for additions or improvements, please let me know.

Greed Energy Economics:

Renewable Energy — the Most Expensive Policy Disaster in History

EIA Report: Subsidies Continue to Roll In For Wind and Solar

Property purchasers win award due to failure to disclose wind project

Kansas Legislators debate killing their RPS

A Study about the Kansas RPS

Study concludes that NC’s RPC costs each citizen $1500± per year

Archive: How Electricity Became a Luxury Good

Archive: Study finds wind energy increases cost of electricity and CO2 emissions

Blowing More Tax Dollars on Subsidies

Wind Turbines Blamed for Pushing Up Rates

German Companies May File $22 Billion Lawsuit due to wind energy, etc.

Certainty Will Come When Wind Handouts Are Ended

Rigging the Data for Excessive IRS Wind Energy Tax Credits

Wind Energy Performance in the UK (2000 thru 2013)

Big Money Flows to Politicians through LLC Loophole

Proposal to Fund Science instead of the Wind PTC

IEA: Oil price has further to fall

Turbine Health Matters:

Wind Turbine Infrasound: Terms & Conditions Defined

Carmen Krogh’s Turbine Health Studies Synopsis

Brown County (Wisc) Board of Health 2014 Meeting Minutes

Doctors Call for Reduction in Turbine Noise

Wind Turbine Torture

An Interview with Acoustic Engineer Steven Cooper

A very good graphic for Wind Energy Noise

Some excellent audio files demonstrating wind energy noise

France considering doubling minimum wind setback distance

Turbine company hears opposition loud and clear

Wind farm opposition against APEX is growing

Turbine Wildlife Matters:

Destroying The Environment In Order To “Save It”

Wildlife Expert – turbines could kill thousands of bats

Birds die as East Bay wind turbine replacement lags

Miscellaneous Energy News:

Fossil Fuels Will Save The World

Petroleum: A magnificent but much maligned resource

GOP moves to block Obama’s fracking regs

GOP bill delays EPA rule, gives states veto

Wind and National Security

More Nuclear Energy Proposed for Australia

Protesters cynically oppose energies that make life cleaner, better for all

Virginia Offshore Wind (24 miles) Test Project gets approval

Texas wind project stops construction as oil company questions locations

Solar Energy:

Solar Power propaganda vs. the real world

Solar Power in the US — Lessons Learned

Conservative Groups Battle over Solar in Florida

The Florida Solar Ballot is not about Freedom or Choice

A Cloud Hangs over Solar Financing

West Virginia Enacts Net Metering Bill

When Solar Panels Become a Headache

Oregon DOJ launches investigations of tax credits for university solar projects

Manmade Global Warming Articles:

Differences between Real Science and Man Made Global Warming Science

Climate Science Doubts — Because the Science is Bad

Scientists: Orbital Variations Main Cause of Climate Change

Why my own Royal Society is wrong on climate change

The Small Print – What The Royal Society Left Out

Climate alarmism just took one helluva beating

Missing the mark on climate change skepticism

Why I Am A Climate Change Skeptic

Settled Science Scam

When You Have Nothing Left With Which to Argue…

Journalistic Bias for Sale

Why America is Not Normal

Scientist wins legal victory over arbitrary dismissal

Top US hedge fund manager: Global warming isn’t a danger

The Coming Climate Court

The Hunt for Global Warming – South America

FEMA to States: No Climate Planning, No Money

No, Being a Climate Change Skeptic Isn’t Like Fearing Vaccines

Observed Climate Change — and the State of Utah

Good interview about sea level rise (starts at 4:00 min)

20 years of measurements conclude no Gulf Stream slowdown

Man-made CO2 could only cause warming of ‘a few tenths of a degree, if at all’

America’s Fear Of Global Warming Drops To 1980s Levels

Presidential candidate Ted Cruz on global warming (excellent)

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Final Thoughts

Our proposed national energy slogan is “All of the Sensible” (in contrast to the absurd “All of the Above”). Additionally we should be using the term “unreliables” when speaking of renewables. Please pass these on. US citizens should make sure to get up-to-speed with what is on our PTCFacts.Info pages, as the PTC is still a political issue.

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Please pass this information on to other open-minded, science-oriented people.

Thank you for your support.

John Droz, Jr.

Physicist and Environmental Advocate

Fellow: American Tradition Institute (http://www.atinstitute.org)

MasterResource http://www.masterresource.org/ now hosts The Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED) and it is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving national, state, and local energy & environmental policies.