Thanks to Donald J Trump, wind and solar rent-seekers are facing total Armageddon – pro-reliable and affordable energy bloggers are having a field day.
First up, Roger Caiazza smashes the “wind is always blowing somewhere” myth with data gathered from across the USA, proving (if ever there was any doubt) that wind (and its sunshine-dependent companion, solar) will never amount to meaningful power sources, anywhere, ever.
Wind Blowing Somewhere Does Not Solve the Intermittency Problem
Watts Up With That?
Roger Caiazza
9 February 2025
Bill Peacock tallies up the countless $billions squandered on wind and solar – the utterly pointless, pretend power generators.
Wind, Solar, Batteries: The High Cost of Duplicative Energy
Bill Peacock
Master Resource
10 February 2025
The team from Jo Nova highlights how the French are taking advantage of their nuclear power generation capacity. With oodles of around-the-clock electricity to spare, the French are courting AI operators with cheap and abundant electricity. Who would have thought that having power available, whatever the weather, would help power energy hungry industries, hey?
France attracts global AI industry with nuclear power — Renewables-nations attract … nothing much
Jo Nova Blog
Jo Nova
14 February 2025
In the UK, the Reform Party is directing its attention to the grand wind power scam, proposing to tax overstuffed rent seekers out of existence, aiming to unlock Britain’s enormous (nad untapped) oil and gas reserves, which have been the target of the net-zero CO2 emissions insanity for far too long.
Reform UK call for windfall tax on renewable energy in anti-net zero push
CITY AM
Jessica Frank-Keyes
12 February 2025
The BBC – wind and sun cult propagandists from the very beginning – is flabbergasted and furious following BP’s announcement that it’s slashing its totally overblown plans to build wind and solar capacity, with a view to (heaven forbid) increase profits by increasing oil and gas production. The horror.
BP set to scale back green investments as profits drop sharply
BBC
Tom Espiner
11 February 2025
As Howard Fischer reports from Phoenix Arizona, the wind industry is on the back foot across the USA. Donald Trump clearly hates these things and many of his fellow Republicans are piling on, with a view to killing the scam, once and for all.
Legislation would bar wind farms within six miles of another’s property
Herald Review
Howard Fischer
10 February 2025
Australia’s oldest wind factories are giving up the ghost. Hundreds of ageing turbines are already past their use by date and, with no decommissioning bonds in place forcing operators to remove them, expect to see grand collections of them rusting in paddocks all across Australia. Wind and solar spin doctors, Ruin-economy lament the loss of some of their beloveds in the obituary below.
Australia’s oldest commercial wind farm to close as cost of repowering is too high
Renew Economy
Rachael Williamson
10 February 2025
Stay tuned, STT will be back next week with more.
STOP THESE THINGS 
It’s interesting that in AU (& probably elsewhere) international manufacturers of air conditioners have supported government’s intention not to supply sufficient electricity for consumers wants.
In AU, PeakSmart circuit boards have been installed so at times of high demand, suppliers via the SmartMeter remote reading & identifying system, can reduce a customer’s power use by changing the thermostat setting.
Whether customers knew exactly what they were agreeing to when boards were retrospectively fitted, or customers of new installations containing the PeakSmart system’s ability are told about it, is debatable. What is certain is that power companies can sneak into your property whenever they like. Such activity may or may not upset the programing of the appliance (requiring a service call & fee) as there is usually no feedback loop between the appliance & the owner’s remote control device.
So much for the free market forces of supply & demand.