Created to Reign

Most people think the electric grid is a giant battery—store power when there’s extra and pull it out when you need it. Simple. And completely wrong. 
In this episode, David R. Legates explains how the electric grid actually works: a just-in-time system where electricity must be generated and consumed almost simultaneously. Using clear analogies, he walks through generation, transmission, distribution, and consumption—and shows why reliability depends on energy sources that can be used when needed. 
The discussion also explores why wind and solar, which are non-dispatchable, cannot keep the lights on without constant real-time backup, and how rising demand, grid operators like PJM, and policy choices affect reliability and cost. 
If you want to understand why blackouts happen, why electricity prices are rising, and why the grid is far more fragile than most people realize, this episode is for you.
Sources:
https://www.caesarrodney.org/post/delaware-s-energy-crossroads-rising-demand-shrinking-reliability

https://16f05e07-790c-4e37-8967-e07503198f80.usrfiles.com/ugd/16f05e_950ecbbff4b54cbc8b9223d8dc890591.pdf
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Migraines are a debilitating neurological condition affecting millions—and no one who has experienced one takes them lightly. In the United Kingdom alone, an estimated 10 million adults suffer from migraines, costing millions of lost workdays each year. So when headlines recently declared that scientists have pinpointed a reason migraines are on the rise, it sounded like an important public-health breakthrough. 
But there was a familiar twist. 
According to the popular press, the culprit is—of course—climate change. Rising temperatures, turbulent weather patterns, and even anxiety about climate change itself are now being blamed for an alleged migraine “epidemic.” But does the evidence actually support these claims? 
In this episode of Created to Reign, David R. Legates takes a closer look at what the studies really say, what they don’t say, and how correlation is being dressed up as causation. From daily and seasonal migraine patterns to the role of stress, diagnosis, and media framing, this episode asks a simple question: are migraines increasing because of climate change—or because climate change has become the go-to explanation for everything?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-15422347/Scientists-pinpoint-reason-people-getting-migraines.html
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/health/article/migraines-climate-change-weather-heat-pressure 
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9664747/
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s10194-021-01276-w
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$7.56 billion. 321 grants. One federal judge. And a big question: who should be spending your money? 
In this episode of Created to Reign, Dr. E. Calvin Beisner breaks down the Department of Energy’s attempt to cancel billions in clean-energy and climate grants—and why a federal court just forced those projects back onto the taxpayer’s tab. Were the terminations a long-overdue effort to stop wasteful spending? Or a politically clumsy move that handed the courts an easy win? 
We unpack the legal ruling, the politics behind the grants, and the uncomfortable reality of government picking winners and losers with other people’s money. Along the way, Dr. Beisner asks the harder question Washington never wants to answer: Why is the federal government in this business at all? 
If you care about energy realism, fiscal sanity, and the growing habit of reaching into your pocket to fund someone else’s pet project—this episode is for you.

Show notes: 
https://www.energy.gov/articles/secretary-wright-announces-new-policy-increasing-accountability-identifying-wasteful
https://www.energy.gov/articles/energy-department-announces-termination-223-projects-saving-over-75-billion
https://news.oilandgaswatch.org/post/trump-cancels-billions-in-clean-energy-grants-while-increasing-subsidies-for-oil-and-gas
https://whyy.org/articles/delaware-new-jersey-clean-energy-projects-funding-cuts/
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https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/judge-says-trump-admin-illegally-cut-billions-in-grants-from-blue-states-climate-projects-5969995
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The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has been called the “mothership” of climate science. So when reports claimed the Trump administration was planning to shut it down, the reaction was explosive—headlines screamed “destruction of knowledge” and “war on science.” 
But is that what’s actually happening? 
In this episode of Created to Reign, David R. Legates cuts through the hysteria to examine what the administration really said, what NCAR was created to do, and how decades of federal funding have fueled an entrenched climate alarmist narrative. Is science being silenced—or is ideological spending finally being challenged? 
This is a conversation about power, money, and whether climate research can survive without the federal gravy train.
Sources:
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/shaman-performs-pagan-ritual-over-world-economic-forum-leaders-at-davos-summit/
https://x.com/russvought/status/2001099488774033692
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/16/trump-dismantle-national-center-atmospheric-research-climate/87798771007/
https://theweek.com/politics/trump-vought-climate-national-center-atmospheric-research
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/major-climate-research-center-trump-administration-dismantle-climate-alarmism/
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/17/trump-team-breaking-up-top-climate-research-center-00694887
https://apnews.com/article/trump-colorado-climate-research-lab-1eaf91b1e737809b80497f44d45b6c03
https://nypost.com/2025/03/05/business/john-podesta-375m-epa-slush-fund-gave-billions-to-newly-formed-charities/
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/22/trump-stalin-national-center-atmospheric-research
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Psalm 104 offers a bracing corrective to the modern habit of treating the world as fragile, chaotic, or fundamentally out of control. In this episode of Created to Reign, Cal Beisner walks through one of Scripture’s most vivid portraits of creation—not as a system teetering on the brink, but as a world actively governed, sustained, and ordered by God’s wise and joyful providence. 
Adapted from Cal’s book Psalms of Promise, this episode explores what Psalm 104 teaches about God’s ongoing care for the natural world and humanity’s place within it. From daily provision to cosmic order, the psalm reminds us that creation is neither abandoned nor autonomous—and that confidence in God’s rule changes how we think about stewardship, responsibility, and trust.
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