History will punish those who encouraged a bunch of rent-seeking psychopaths to destroy Western energy independence, peace and prosperity. Once upon a time in Australia soldiers, sheep-shearers, engineers and business leaders occupied the Treasury benches. These days it’s career politicians: Arts grads who started out as political advisers destined for a Parliament now dominated by delusional ideologues; a perpetually ignorant class of people, more worried about the weather 50 years from now, than how to run an economy and balance the books today.
Which brings us to this week’s roundup.
Along with giant batteries and ‘green’ hydrogen, pumped hydro is touted as the solution to wind and solar power’s hopeless intermittency. Eight years ago, Australia’s then PM, Malcolm Turnbull pitched his very own mega-pumped hydro project, tagged Snowy 2.0.
The numbering was meant to be a nod to computer program upgrades and signal an improvement on the original Snowy scheme – without doubt – the single greatest renewable energy project ever built in Australia – with a mammoth 3,950 MW of capacity, which is available on-demand (unlike the pointless nonsense that is wind power). It cost $1 billion (in today’s money) to build.
Almost a decade on, Snowy 2.0 has blown out from its original estimated cost of a mere $2 billion, now heading towards $50 billion. It has become the mother of all White elephants, as the team from Jo Nova report below.
Snowy 2.0 blows out 20 times to $42b — we could have built 4 nuclear plants instead
Jo Nova Blog
Jo Nova
27 April 2026
In this report, Vijay Jayaraj demonstrates how Australia’s maniacal obsession with intermittent wind and solar has gutted its ability to support any meaningful industry, following Germany’s path to complete deindustrialisation.
Australia’s ‘Renewable’ Obsession Decimates Industry
California Globe
Vijay Jayaraj
2 April 2026
Eric Worrall details an aspect of the grand wind and solar scam that isn’t part of the marketing material. Claims that we will all soon be running on nothing but mountains of electricity produced by sunshine and breezes are not panning all that well in Victoria.
Electrify Everything Policies in the Aussie State of Victoria are Breaking the Grid
Watts Up With That?
Eric Worrall
24 April 2026
As Richard Lyon points out in this piece, the only problem with the grand wind and solar ‘transition’ narrative is the evidence that demonstrates that it’s a complete fiction founded on myth and lies.
The Energy Trap — The Complete Series
Substack – The State of Britain
Richard Lyon
13 April 2026
Reiner Kuhr details the disastrous cost of subsidising occasionally delivered solar power in the state of Massachusetts, comparing it with Florida where its constituents pay a fraction of what their New England counterparts have to suffer.
How we pay for solar subsidies – Comparing recent electric bills from Florida and Massachusetts
Substack – Reiner Kuhr
Reiner Kuhr
22 March 2026
Stay tuned, STT will be back next week with more.
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