The first recruit in war is God and the first casualty is the truth. For 20 years, the wind industry has been slaughtering the truth across the globe in an unrelenting propaganda war. George Orwell, British novelist and keen political observer, understood the power of words and the power that comes from manipulating them. Orwell … Continue reading Wind Power Propaganda Unplugged: How Media Helped Sell the Greatest Fraud of All Time
Author: stopthesethings
We are a group of citizens concerned about the rapid spread of industrial wind power generation installations across Australia.
Urgent Newsflash! Wind Power Utterly Dependent on the Wind: Texan Summertime Output Collapses (Again)
For STT followers the news that wind power critically depends upon the er … ahem … wind is hardly news, at all. Year after miserable year, Australia’s most notorious wind power outfit, Infigen (aka Babcock & Brown) whinges and moans that its pathetic financial performance is all due to malicious meteorological forces: Shock, Horror! Wind … Continue reading Urgent Newsflash! Wind Power Utterly Dependent on the Wind: Texan Summertime Output Collapses (Again)
South Australia’s Wind Power Nightmare Contagious: Power Pricing & Supply Calamity Spreads
Among other descriptions, the power pricing and supply calamity that is South Australia has been referred to as the ‘canary in the coal mine’, the consequence of its hell-for-leather renewable energy experiment. The ‘canary in the coal mine’ was, of course, destined to be sacrificed in order to save underground miners from the perils of … Continue reading South Australia’s Wind Power Nightmare Contagious: Power Pricing & Supply Calamity Spreads
Shock Horror! Poll Shows Tourists Hate Wind Turbines: Scotland’s Highlands Shunned
A decade or so ago, the wind industry used to include claims about the tourism potential of their proposed wind farm in their planning documents. For some reason, that pitch has been quietly removed from planning applications in recent years. Could it be that it’s not just the locals who hate the look of these … Continue reading Shock Horror! Poll Shows Tourists Hate Wind Turbines: Scotland’s Highlands Shunned
Renewable Energy Train Wreck: Australian Power Prices Set to Rocket (Again)
The moral of the story of ‘The Boy Who Cried Wolf’ isn’t don’t lie, it’s don’t tell the same lie twice. Renewables rent-seekers continue to stick with the same grab bag of lies, myths and furphies, despite mountains of evidence revealing their marketing pitch is just so much polished propaganda. South Australia (Australia’s so-called ‘wind … Continue reading Renewable Energy Train Wreck: Australian Power Prices Set to Rocket (Again)
Australia’s Renewable Energy Experiment a Monumental Disaster
Experience is the most expensive teacher there is. For those gifted with our good friends, logic and reason, the principal lesson learned from failures suffered is to avoid their repetition at all costs. Not so, when it comes to energy policy in Australia. Despite monumental and irreversible failures such as Australia’s so-called wind power capital, … Continue reading Australia’s Renewable Energy Experiment a Monumental Disaster
The True & Staggering Environmental Cost of Wind & Solar Power: Unsustainable Energy Defined
For the uninitiated, the sight of snow white wind turbines flailing in the breeze in some green field reinforces that feel-good notion that wind power is the crème de la crème of ‘green energy’. For those in the know, whenever the term ‘green energy’ is trotted out by some starry-eyed hipster or sandal wearing … Continue reading The True & Staggering Environmental Cost of Wind & Solar Power: Unsustainable Energy Defined
The Fantasy of Running On Sunshine & Breezes: Why Wind & Solar Power Are So Utterly Pointless
After a generation of claiming to be not only competitive with, but cheaper than, every form of conventional generation there is, wind and large-scale solar generators are still unable to wean themselves off the massive stream of subsidies that created their so-called ‘industries’ - simply because, without those subsidies - coupled with mandated targets … Continue reading The Fantasy of Running On Sunshine & Breezes: Why Wind & Solar Power Are So Utterly Pointless
German Study Proves Its Combined Wind & Solar Capacity Must be 100% Backed by Coal/Gas/Nuclear 100% of the Time
Amongst wind and sun worshippers, Germany is held in a kind of reverent awe. However, like everything held dear by the renewables cult, the ideal and the real are worlds apart. For years we were told that if you kept spearing wind turbines into the countryside and spread them far and wide, we could … Continue reading German Study Proves Its Combined Wind & Solar Capacity Must be 100% Backed by Coal/Gas/Nuclear 100% of the Time
Australia’s Great Shame: Renewable Energy Obsession Leaves Pensioners Freezing in the Dark
Australia’s maniacal obsession with attempting to power itself on sunshine and breezes has led to ‘The Great Shame’: a 140% increase in the number of homes disconnected from the grid, no longer able to afford power prices rocketing, year-on year, at 16 to 20%, leaving 25% of households unable to heat their homes during … Continue reading Australia’s Great Shame: Renewable Energy Obsession Leaves Pensioners Freezing in the Dark
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