Since December 2012, Stop These Things has been slugging away, exposing the grand subsidised wind and solar scam. When the site was fired up by a handful of dedicated volunteers 12 years ago, it was one of a very few tackling the greatest economic and environmental fraud of all time. Not quite an orphan, but certainly a lonely voice in the energy policy wilderness.
With more than 4,200 posts published over that time span, we’re relieved if not delighted to say that STT has been joined by hundreds of switched on commentators and dozens of blogs, substacks and other platforms operated all around the world, where the truth about our energy supply appears on a daily basis.
At the risk of sounding like a superhero when he/she says his/her “work here is done”, our work here is done. But not completely.
Instead of our regular daily posts, STT will provide a weekly wrap up with links to selected articles from our fellow travellers. From time to time, we’ll weigh in with our own substantial posts – whenever the subject matter warrants our attention and commentary. But, from here on, STT will leave the heavy lifting to others with more resources, time and energy.
This week’s roundup includes articles smashing the myth that we’re well on our way to an all wind and sun powered future; the staggering and ever-increasing cost of subsidies to unreliable wind and solar in the UK and in Germany; and how pro-reliable energy community advocates have united to destroy the grand offshore wind power scam.
Broken Hill Wind & Solar Fiasco
Broken Hill is a once highly prosperous mining town in far Western New South Wales. Built around the mines that extracted silver, lead and zinc from one of the richest deposits in the world, the town started to lose its sparkle as the ore ran out. But it’s the Hill’s ludicrous attempt to run on sunshine and breezes that turned the outback town into a global laughingstock, as the team from Jo Nova and Nick Cater outline in these posts.
$650m in renewable energy didn’t save Broken Hill from days of blackouts after a storm islanded it
Jo Nova Blog
Jo Nova
28 October 2024
Strung Along
Substack
Nick Cater
30 October 2024
UK’s Rocketing Wind Power Subsidy Costs
Andrew Montford tackles the outrageously generous subsidies to intermittent wind and solar, drawing parallels with the inherent corruption and resulting market failure seen in the USSR and its Soviet Bloc satellites before their inevitable collapse.
Subsidy Madness
Net Zero Watch
Andrew Montford
27 September 2024
Germany’s Economic Suicide Pact
In the post below, Eugyppius details how Germany’s wind and solar obsession is more like a National suicide pact, with German taxpayers stumping up billions of euros for electricity which is practically worthless, because it can’t be delivered on demand.
Germany: The Country Where Taxpayers Are Charged Billions When the Sun Shines
The Daily Sceptic
Eugyppius
26 October 2024
Growing Public Resistance to Pointless Wind & Solar
In the next 2 posts, Paul Driessen and Adam Willis detail the growing fury among communities treated as roadkill by the Climate Industrial Complex and their resistance to local consequences of its wind and solar rollout.
Rural and coastal residents delay, block green energy projects
CFACT
Paul Driessen
23 October 2024
Ocean City, others sue federal government over offshore wind project
Baltimore Banner
Adam Willis
25 October 2024
Stay tuned, STT will be back next week with more.
STOP THESE THINGS 
Thankyou for all your dedication, for speaking out against this industry to a blinded mainstream public, over many years. STT has been a lifeline of strength for long-suffering neighbours, forced, or ‘gagged’, to silently endure havoc creating wind turbine electricity plants built too close, or too big next door. Isolated people in isolated and now divided communities. Wherever you are STT, in whatever shape and form… keep going.
A champion innings.
Your ongoing legacy of rallying the troops and exposing the scam has been magnificent.
Thanks to you and your team of operatives, WE WILL PREVAIL
Thanks Mick, has been a team effort. We ran the race pretty hard for a long time. Now others have the baton and can finish what we started.
great effort team hopefully wind and solar family budget wreckers will be voted out next year. Stt gave us immediate neighbors some hope and now the city power consumers are hurting paying their energy bills.we saw the waste and destruction first hand over the fence everyday. And suffer at night with sleep deprivation. If we can get nuclear up these fly by night company’s will disappear. Be interesting to see how many of the carpet baggers try and jump on the nuclear job opportunities. So thanks for bringing these liars to account. Cheers.
12 years is a fantastic effort. My congratulations to you.
I still do not know who you are, but that does not matter. Whoever you are, I want to say congratulations and thank you so much.
Sometimes I wonder if what I do is worthwhile, and I have to think every little bit helps. I often think of the story of monkeys on one island starting to peel their bananas in a similar fashion to the monkeys on another island at about the same time, even though the distance separating them was too far to swim. Darwin’s Origin of Species came out at a similar time to someone else thinking the same thing. And so slowly the ridiculousness of wind and solar is revealed to many. As if lithium batteries are going to save us!!! I am so pleased that Broken Hill with a battery, a wind farm, and one or two solar farms could not regain electricity for two weeks until the grid was reconnected.
What I am trying to say, is that like the monkeys, or Darwin, or people in Broken Hill, is that your impact has been far far greater than ever you could imagine. Well Done.
Regards,
Bob King
I congratulate you on this anniversary. Thank you for your commitment and your many, beautiful introductory comments.
Yes, this summary is also good, please continue.
Many greetings from Germany and from Eike.org, your brothers in arms in spirit
Andy Demmig
Nice move comrades! We have to make the best use our limited resources.
The Energy Realists of Australia, with our comrades in the Climate and Energy Realists, are embarking on the next stage of our journey which is community development and outreach to make a difference in future elections.
The aim is to establish two types of cells in as many Federal electorates as possible. Type 1 cadres will maintain personal contact with the local member and prospective members to ensure that they have the best available information to support their position if they are sensible and to shift their position if they are not.
The other cadres will consist of two or more people who meet regularly for coffee or beer and discuss, among other things, how to advance climate and energy realism in their locality.
The cadres will be distribution points for the information that is spreading through the National Information Network, and its offspring the National Rational Energy Network. This is hardly developed at present and it needs to spread because the MAD legislation impending may drive reliable information out of the mainstream media and public outlets so an underground network may be required. A worst case scenario but one we need to be prepared to handle.
Thank you for your many years of leadership in exposing the climate-energy fraud.