Californian carpet-bagger, Elon Musk has been threatening South Australia with a plan to scoop up at least $150 million of the $550 million its hapless Labor government is about to squander on non-fixes for its self-inflicted wind power disaster. So no time like the present to reflect on just how 'green' is SA's plan to … Continue reading Industrial Scale Battery Storage of Wind & Solar Would Cause Surge in CO2 Emissions
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We are a group of citizens concerned about the rapid spread of industrial wind power generation installations across Australia.
Donald Trump’s War On Wind Power: Wind Industry Panics as Republicans Plan to Slash Subsidies
A couple of weeks back we covered the story of how the Republicans are lining up to slash wind power subsidies to the bone: America Set to Cut Subsidies to Wind Power & Prevent Grid Chaos And from all reports, their President needs little encouragement, as Slim Jim Delingpole reports (as an aside, STT was chuffed … Continue reading Donald Trump’s War On Wind Power: Wind Industry Panics as Republicans Plan to Slash Subsidies
Australia’s Renewable Policy Destroying Jobs: Miners Facing Power Price & Supply Crisis
Australia's enviable prosperity isn't due to sunshine and breezes, 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 long Australia maintains its wealth is down to … Continue reading Australia’s Renewable Policy Destroying Jobs: Miners Facing Power Price & Supply Crisis
Former PM – John Howard Calls Australia’s Renewables Policy a ‘National Scandal’
*** John Howard was seen by many as the underdog of Australian conservative politics, who took more than two decades as a Federal MP to reach the position of Prime Minister, the victim of bitter internal political wrangling and intrigue within the Liberal Party. After he was deposed as Liberal opposition leader by Andrew Peacock … Continue reading Former PM – John Howard Calls Australia’s Renewables Policy a ‘National Scandal’
Kiwi Community Backlash Forces Wind Farm Shutdown & Gets All New Noise Rules
*** Kiwis fight. And we are not talking about the dowdy little flightless birds that scurry about on the forest floor at night. The Maori are a people who fought their British colonists to a standstill in the early 19th century and forced upon them the Treaty of Waitangi, which enshrined terms the envy of … Continue reading Kiwi Community Backlash Forces Wind Farm Shutdown & Gets All New Noise Rules
Neighbours Sue Wind Power Operator – Infigen – for $20m Damages Caused by Devastating Wind Farm Fire
On 17 January 2017, wind farm operator Infigen sparked a blaze that ripped across the southern Tablelands of NSW and destroyed 3,400 hectares (8,400 acres), hundreds of sheep and cattle, sheds and at least one home. STT first reported on it on 25 January: Wind Power Setting the World on Fire: Infigen Sparks Devastating NSW Bushfire … Continue reading Neighbours Sue Wind Power Operator – Infigen – for $20m Damages Caused by Devastating Wind Farm Fire
Australia’s Failed Wind Power ‘Experiment’ Makes it an International Joke: Wind Power Output Totally Collapses (Again)
Where the wind industry’s propaganda machine has spent the best part of 20 years trying to reinvent the facts, giving perceived substance to myth and fantasy - what American comedian Stephen Colbert defines as “truthiness”, assertions emanating ‘from the gut’ which are made because they just ‘feel right’ - STT has spent its entire existence … Continue reading Australia’s Failed Wind Power ‘Experiment’ Makes it an International Joke: Wind Power Output Totally Collapses (Again)
Greeks Rally Against Subsidised Wind Power & Wind Industry’s Unlawful Land Grabs
*** The Greeks can claim many things: weird and wonderful mythical gods and creatures (think Zeus and Poseidon, Pan and the Minotaur); deep thinking philosophers, such as Plato and Aristotle; and mathematicians well ahead of their time, think Archimedes and his bath-time ‘Eureka’ moment. Another claim worth crowing about is their ‘get-your-hands-dirty’ take on democracy, … Continue reading Greeks Rally Against Subsidised Wind Power & Wind Industry’s Unlawful Land Grabs
Germany’s Wind Power Debacle Worsens: Too Much Power One Day, None the Next
*** Like South Australians, Germans are attempting to run on sunshine and breezes and in both places the results have been an unmitigated disaster. When power output depends on the weather and whether the sun is up and the sky isn't clouded up, results can, as they say in marketing blurbs, 'vary'. During January of … Continue reading Germany’s Wind Power Debacle Worsens: Too Much Power One Day, None the Next
Europe Squanders €1.1 trillion on Wind & Solar: But Gets Only 4% of its Power from Sun & Wind
This piece was published last year, but the message is so stark it's well-worth revisiting. Despite spending €1,100,000,000,000 on large-scale wind and solar generation, the amount of power being actually delivered in return is risible: The actual measured output by 2014 from data supplied by the Renewables Industry has been 38 Gigawatts or 3.8% of Europe’s electricity … Continue reading Europe Squanders €1.1 trillion on Wind & Solar: But Gets Only 4% of its Power from Sun & Wind
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