Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 4 January 2026

Happy New Year to all our fans and followers, and what promises to be a very miserable 12 months for wind and solar scammers.

In America, the US President is smashing the wind industry with relish. And elsewhere voters are waking up to the unassailable fact that chaotically intermittent and massively subsidised wind and solar are driving their power prices through the roof. The very nature of the intermittency is destroying once reliable grids and rendering electricity unaffordable to an increasing number of increasingly disgruntled voters.

Which brings us to this week’s roundup.

Empowering America pulls together 12 critical facts about energy affordability, pointing out the staggering cost associated with subsidised wind and solar.

12 Facts of Energy Affordability
Empowering America
The Empowerment Alliance
15 December 2025

Leen Weijers sets out to destroy the myth of ‘baseload’ solar, contrasting the dim and dismal output from German panels with – the still pathetic – output from panels in much sunnier Texas.

“Baseload” Solar’s Four Little Secrets
Substack
Leen Weijers
30 November 2025

Robert Bryce reports on the multi-billion-dollar losses suffered by Ford as it chased the all EV dream.

Ford’s $35.1 Billion EV Fiasco
Substack
Robert Bryce
16 December 2025

Ronald Stein, Robert Jeffrey and Olivia Vaughan detail how any developing economy looking for reliable and affordable power is rejecting wind and solar, and shifting their focus to nuclear power, starting with SMRs.

Why are developing economies pursuing small modular reactors?
America Out Loud
Ronald Stein, Robert Jeffrey and Olivia Vaughan
8 December 2025

Haley Zaremba reports on what appears to be and electricity generation game changer: a successful prototype thorium-based molten salt reactor being built and run by the Chinese.

The World’s First Thorium Molten Salt Reactor
Oil Price
Haley Zaremba
Date 2025

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