Western Europe’s sad and sorry descent started with delusional claims that wind and solar can power industrial economies, all by themselves. Massively subsidised, delivered only occasional and then on a chaotic basis, their insane cost and inherent unreliability has gutted Germany’s industrial sector and delivered punitive power prices across the Continent. Weakened by an ideology that is as dangerous as it is delusional, the UK and much of Western Europe is an energy train wreck.
Which brings us to this week’s roundup.
Roger Caiazza shares an excellent series of articles by Steve Carson, explaining why the line that renewables are cheap is a complete fallacy – examining case studies around the world, including the disaster that is South Australia – Australia’s wind and solar capital.
Renewables Are Cheap Myth
Watts Up With That?
Roger Caiazza
27 March 2026
As Linnea Lueken details, the hydrocarbon production set are quietly crab walking away from the net-zero insanity, slashing their ESG commitments and pulling investments from climate scams – like offshore wind and ‘green’ hydrogen.
Great News: Oil Majors Are Backing Down on “Green” Energy Projects
Climate Realism
Linnea Lueken
25 March 2026
And, as Vijay Jayaraj explains, the outbreak of energy sanity has even struck home at BlackRock, with its CEO Larry Fink announcing a major retreat from green scam boondoggles.
BlackRock CEO Abandons Climate Delusion For Investor Needs
Daily Caller
Vijay Jayaraj
24 March 2026
Samuel Furfari drills into the hydrocarbon hypocrisy of Europe’s globalists. Noting that all that wild talk among the EU’s apparatchiks about ditching “evil fossil fuels” lasts about as long as it takes to drain the fuel tank of a V8 Mercedes-Benz.
The Strait of Hormuz’s bitter lesson for the European Union
Washington Examiner
Samuel Furfari
30 March 2026
Pierre Gosselin reports on yet another case where a weather-dependent energy source gets knocked out by the weather. This time, a stiff breeze in Indiana managed to demolish thousands of solar panels in a matter of minutes, spraying shattered glass and toxic gunk all over the countryside.
Low Intensity Tornado Wrecks Major Solar Farm, Creating A Potential Toxic Dump
No Tricks one
Pierre Gosselin
2 April 2026
In this post Tony Seruga provides a simple tally of the pointless and mounting cost of the disaster caused by the wind and solar obsession that has gripped the world over the last 20 years.
Stay tuned, STT will be back next week with more.
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