Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 6 April 2025

With Donald Trump’s tariff-led geopolitical strategy in train, watch countries rapidly ditch their obsession with chaotically intermittent wind and solar. Cheap and reliable energy is, always and everywhere, the key to competing in the global marketplace. That’s precisely why China dominates in manufacturing all of the stuff that the West consumes and uses.

And within those countries, watch power consumers and taxpayers revolt over their crushing power bills all due to the net-zero CO2 emissions madness.

Which brings us to this week’s roundup.

GB News reports that UK consumers are now forking out £12 billion per year in supporting renewables, more than £400 per household.

Keir Starmer’s green energy subsidies are costing Britons £12bn a year – £450 per household
CBN
Lucy Johnston
13 March 2025

Ronald Stein makes the clear and compelling case for nuclear power generation in a world where energy matters more than ever.

Nuclear-generated electricity saves an electricity-starved world
America Out Loud
Ronald Stein P.E., Oliver Hemmers, Steve Curtis
17 Mar 2025

Eric Worrall makes the same point in the Australian context, comparing ever-reliable nuclear with the never-reliable incomparables – intermittent wind and solar.

Aussie Election: A Choice Between Impractical Renewables and Unaffordable Nuclear
Watts Up With That?
Eric Worrall
29 March 2025

Charles Rotter details the collapse of yet another offshore wind power debacle

Atlantic Shores Wind Project Sinks—And With It, A Green Illusion
Watts Up With That?
Charles Rotter
31 March 2025

And Collister Johnston calls on Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to deliver the coup de grace and bring offshore wind to a halt, for all time.

Secretary Burgum: You have the legal authority to halt offshore wind
Washington Times
Collister Johnston
11 March 2025

In one from the archives, this video interview with Robert Bryce is as pertinent now as then.  Watch as Bryce sympathises with the victims of the Climate Industrial Complex.

They Couldn’t Even Defend Their Own 
YouTube
We Got a Problem
29 June 2023

Stay tuned, STT will be back next week with more.

2 thoughts on “Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 6 April 2025

  1. Since the assassination of Tony Abbott the leadership of the Liberal Party has given up on sensible energy policy under the influence of the pink and green rats in the ranks and drifted into the net zero campaign under the listless leadership of Scott Morrison.

    Now they are not even prepared to mention the word coal in case it frightens the voters. The polls show that public opinion favours wind and solar because the Liberals have never learned enough to make a case for coal in public, in the way they helped to turn public opinion against the Racist Voice because they made an effort to do so.

    Moreover they have been told about wind droughts but have not got the message. The point is that wind droughts make the wind and solar transition impossible. The irony is that Australians discovered wind droughts over a decade ago.

    https://rafechampion.substack.com/p/the-late-discovery-of-wind-droughts

    https://open.substack.com/pub/rafechampion/p/we-have-to-talk-about-wind-droughts

    https://www.flickerpower.com/index.php/search/categories/general/escaping-the-wind-drought-trap Rafe Champion https://www.flickerpower.com/index.php/search/categories/general/list-of-briefing-notes

    Warning! Wind watching can be time-consuming and habit-forming. Watch responsibly.

  2. The Sooner we Get OUT OF THE UN the Sooner we will get our country and our economy back. Coal Fired power stations are a MUST and we should be building more of them while Nuclear Is being developed.

    If Its ok for China to burn Our Coal , it should be MORE than OK for Us to burn it too.

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