If your understanding of the world is limited to what’s printed in the mainstream press, you’d be forgiven for thinking that rural folk can’t wait to nuzzle up to 300 tonne Vestas, with 70m blades towering 180m above them. Step out of the inner-city comfort zone, and the picture is just a little different. In … Continue reading American Backlash Against Big Wind: States Cut Subsidies & Ban New Wind Power Projects
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We are a group of citizens concerned about the rapid spread of industrial wind power generation installations across Australia.
Debunking the 100% Renewables Fantasy: Running on Sunshine & Breezes – Pure Nonsense
In the heavy metal mockumentary, This is Spinal Tap, the band’s himbo front man, Nigel Tufnel struggles with almost everything, including bringing his grating, 8 minute guitar solos to an end. For Nigel, 10 isn’t enough - his Marshall amp has to go one better (see the video above). The painful exchange between Tufnel … Continue reading Debunking the 100% Renewables Fantasy: Running on Sunshine & Breezes – Pure Nonsense
Australia’s Desperate Miners Demand End to Renewable Energy Madness: RET Must Go Now
Australia’s enviable prosperity isn’t due to sunshine and glinting solar panels or windmills flailing in the breeze, it’s down to iron ore, coal and a bevy of other minerals including copper and uranium of the kind being gouged out of the ground by BHP Billiton at Roxby Downs in South Australia’s North (see above). How … Continue reading Australia’s Desperate Miners Demand End to Renewable Energy Madness: RET Must Go Now
Australia’s Renewable Energy Debacle: Policy Insanity Overtakes ‘Green’ Hypocrisy
Australian politics is often a feast of the bizarre. And one of the more bizarre dishes on the menu was watching Al Gore (the original global warming alarmist profiteer) stand side-by-side with big Clive Palmer (the original overstuffed windbag, cum-political buffoon) back in June 2014. Back then, big Clive was at the top of his … Continue reading Australia’s Renewable Energy Debacle: Policy Insanity Overtakes ‘Green’ Hypocrisy
US Take On South Australia’s Wind Power Disaster: Mass Blackouts Make SA Butt of International Jokes
South Australia’s vapid Premier, Jay Weatherill presides over a self-inflicted social and economic calamity and rebukes his critics as “right-wing fu%@wits”; notwithstanding that his obsession with wind power has left his beleaguered State with the highest power prices in the world and a grid on the brink of total collapse. South Australia’s frequent load shedding … Continue reading US Take On South Australia’s Wind Power Disaster: Mass Blackouts Make SA Butt of International Jokes
Senator Calls Australia’s Renewable Energy Debacle a National Emergency
Whether it’s the looming threat of mass blackouts and load shedding this coming summer, the 140% increase in the number of homes disconnected from the grid (families unable to pay power bills increasing at 20%, year-on-year) or thousands of pensioners freezing in the dark, Australia’s decade-long dalliance with sunshine and breezes just got serious. Hitherto … Continue reading Senator Calls Australia’s Renewable Energy Debacle a National Emergency
SOS: Kill the Renewable Energy Target Before It’s All Too Late
Starting next week, hard-pressed households and battered businesses will start receiving power bills which will be between 16 and 20% higher than the same time last year. In Australia, the underlying rate of inflation is around 1.5%. Punitive power bills have left 25% of households unable to heat their homes during the depth of an … Continue reading SOS: Kill the Renewable Energy Target Before It’s All Too Late
SA’s Wind Power Disaster: Deluded, Potty-Mouthed Premier Brands Critics ‘Right-Wing Fu@%wits’
South Australians must wake up each morning in the vain hope that it’s all just a very bad dream. Alas, their sorry reality is one dictated by wind worshipping lunatics, not least its vapid Premier, Jay Weatherill. Last week, Weatherill launched an astonishing tirade against Chris Kenny - a columnist with The Australian and … Continue reading SA’s Wind Power Disaster: Deluded, Potty-Mouthed Premier Brands Critics ‘Right-Wing Fu@%wits’
The Appalling Delusion of 100 Percent Renewables, Exposed
For STT followers Robert Bryce needs no introduction. Here he is exposing the delusional belief that whole nations can be entirely powered by sunshine and breezes. The Appalling Delusion of 100 Percent Renewables, Exposed National Review Robert Bryce 24 June 2017 The National Academy of Science refutes Mark Jacobson’s dream that our economy can … Continue reading The Appalling Delusion of 100 Percent Renewables, Exposed
Wind Turbine Noise & Vibration Causing Harm to Humans & Animals Alike
For those unfortunates forced to live with incessant turbine generated low-frequency noise and infrasound, the cause of the sleep deprivation they suffer is no mystery. Moreover, a menagerie of domestic and wild animals stuck next to wind turbines suffer similar effects, including well-documented increases in the stress hormone cortisol (see our post here). Dr Mariana … Continue reading Wind Turbine Noise & Vibration Causing Harm to Humans & Animals Alike
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