Donald J Trump’s Panzer-division onslaught against the wind industry picked up pace as he lambasted Keir Starmer and Ursula von der Leyen in front of the international media, smashing Europe and the UK for their totally insane obsession with ‘windmills’, as the President calls them. Calling out those behind the great wind power fraud is always a treat, but it’s so much better when it’s coming from a wrecking-ball Commander in Chief, who leaves his targets looking like naughty children rebuked in front of all their friends for their apparent stupidity.
Which brings us to this week’s roundup with videos of both – very direct and brutal – exchanges.
And then came Starmer’s turn:
Vijay Jayaraj picks holes in the climate cult narrative wind and solar are the only cure to excessive carbon dioxide gas emissions. To the contrary, every wind turbine and solar panel is itself a product of massive volumes of energy spent in their creation, all of which generates CO2 emissions way beyond whatever they could ever notionally ‘save’ during their short, miserable life spans.
The Great ‘Zero-Carbon Renewables’ Deception
California Globe
Vijay Jayaraj
21 July 2025
Caroline Di Russo reports on the complete and utter collapse of the so-called ‘green’ hydrogen industry, noting how dozens of projects started out with plenty of PR bang only to end in a last-gasp whimper
Gladstone hydrogen project axed: Chris Bowen’s green energy fantasy continues slow sink into the abyss as $12.5 billion plant gets reality check
Sky News
Caroline Di Russo
15 July 2025
Ronald Stein P.E., Dr. Robert Jeffrey and Olivia Vaughan reports on the development of Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) and Small Modular Reactor (SMR) technologies in South Africa, which promise to deliver the reliable and affordable power that country critically needs to drag itself out of miserable (mostly self-inflicted) poverty.
The economic imperative for nuclear power
America Out Loud
Ronald Stein P.E., Dr. Robert Jeffrey and Olivia Vaughan
7 July 2025
The team from Jo Nova join the dots between the ludicrous and rising costs of attempting to connect far-flung turbines and solar panels delivering occasional power and Australia’s rocketing power bills.
Cost of delayed Victorian interconnector lifts off and reaches escape velocity
Jo Nova Blog
Jo Nova
1 August 2025
In less than 30 seconds, the IPA’s Mia Schlicht reveals the inherent insanity of what passes as energy policy in Australia today.
Peta Credlin and Alex O’Brien celebrate the total collapse of yet another Australian offshore wind project that never made any financial sense, or any sense at all.
While Trump’s efforts to stop these things during meetings with Ursula von der Leyen and Starmer were deadly serious for rent-seekers everywhere. We thought we’d finish with the Diaper Diplomacy gang’s light hearted take on the President in full flight.
Stay tuned, STT will be back next week with more.
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