Following South Australia’s lead on wind and solar was never going to end well. The State that set and met its very own 50% RET is renowned for mass load shedding and Australia’s only statewide blackout. SA also suffers the world’s highest power prices. So, it should come as no surprise to Victorians that … Continue reading Victorian Vortex: Wind & Solar Obsession Guarantees Mass Summer Blackouts & Power Prices Soar (Again)
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We are a group of citizens concerned about the rapid spread of industrial wind power generation installations across Australia.
Policy Burn Out: Rocketing Power Prices Product of Government Obsession with Unreliable Wind & Solar
“The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help”. So said Ronald Reagan, the folksy and affable 40th President of the USA. And, so it’s been with energy policy in the USA, Australia, Europe and dozens of other places where lobbyists took control of politicians and … Continue reading Policy Burn Out: Rocketing Power Prices Product of Government Obsession with Unreliable Wind & Solar
All Fired Up: Texan Wildfire Sparked by Self-Incinerating Wind Turbine
The number of wildfires sparked by these things grows by the day. Contrary to their ‘super-safe’, ‘clean’, ‘green’ image, giant industrial wind turbines are the perfect incendiary device. Around the world, hundreds have exploded into in palls of smoke and balls of flame – in the process – each one raining molten metal and over … Continue reading All Fired Up: Texan Wildfire Sparked by Self-Incinerating Wind Turbine
Unbearable Burden: Mounting Cost of Subsidised Wind & Solar Crushing Poorest Power Consumers
It’s an unassailable fact: add heavily subsidised and chaotically intermittent wind and solar to your grid and power prices skyrocket. South Australians, Danes and Germans fight for line honours over which of their proletariat suffers the world’s highest power prices. As to the Australian states hooked up to the Eastern Grid, Dr Michael Crawford’s simple … Continue reading Unbearable Burden: Mounting Cost of Subsidised Wind & Solar Crushing Poorest Power Consumers
Cost-Effective ‘Renewable’ Energy Is Like Unobtanium: A Fictional Construct
Wind power sits comfortably alongside Alchemy and perpetual motion machines: ideas that were both superficially attractive and utterly impossible. No country has ever powered itself entirely with wind power, and no country ever will. Putting aside their unreliability and chaotic intermittency, the amount of energy and resources that go into building a single wind turbine … Continue reading Cost-Effective ‘Renewable’ Energy Is Like Unobtanium: A Fictional Construct
Wanna Know What’s Really Powering Australia? It Ain’t Sunshine & Breezes – It’s Coal
After almost 20 years and tens of $billions in subsidies, wind and solar’s combined contribution to Australian energy demand is risible. And that’s on average. Those pesky facts (sunset and calm weather) mean that there are hundreds of occasions each year when their combined contribution is a big fat zero. Meanwhile, back on Earth, … Continue reading Wanna Know What’s Really Powering Australia? It Ain’t Sunshine & Breezes – It’s Coal
Battle Lost: Mob Turns Against Chaotically Intermittent & Heavily Subsidised Wind & Solar
Seems like only yesterday when you were hard pressed to find anything in print criticising wind and solar, save for sites like this one. Nowadays, there’s a veritable smorgasbord. Quite a few mainstream journalists are waking up to the greatest economic and environmental fraud of all time. STT has been joined by dozens of … Continue reading Battle Lost: Mob Turns Against Chaotically Intermittent & Heavily Subsidised Wind & Solar
Renewable Energy Armageddon: Australia’s Self-Inflicted Power Pricing & Supply Calamity
Chaotically intermittent and heavily subsidised wind and solar are at the heart of Australia’s power pricing and supply calamity. Like a runaway train, the disaster is unfolding before the passengers' very eyes, with state and federal politicians apparently incapable of bringing the disaster to a halt and ever-present rent seekers throwing the throttle wide open. … Continue reading Renewable Energy Armageddon: Australia’s Self-Inflicted Power Pricing & Supply Calamity
Wind Farms: Industrial Killing Zones for Millions of Birds, Bats & Bugs
Ironically, climate cultists raging about extinctions keep berating us that the solution's an all wind powered future. Merrily ignoring the wanton destruction of millions of birds, bats and bugs caused by their beloveds, every year. Cars, cats and skyscrapers don’t kill Eagles - like the critically endangered Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle, but 60 m wind turbine … Continue reading Wind Farms: Industrial Killing Zones for Millions of Birds, Bats & Bugs
Blown Away: Mounting Community Opposition Brings Wind Industry to Grinding Halt
The wind industry once held a kind of ‘social licence’. Now that ‘licence’ has been revoked, with rural communities in uproar. In Germany, new wind farm construction has ground to a halt this year - and across the USA the same pattern is emerging. Local governments, legislators and conservation groups have united to pull the … Continue reading Blown Away: Mounting Community Opposition Brings Wind Industry to Grinding Halt
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