*** What's notable about this story is not that a 160 tonne turbine collapsed without warning, nor is it the effort by the wind power outfit's spin doctor to pretend that this is the first time a 90m tower has taken a tumble to terra firma (a line we demolish, so to speak, below). No, … Continue reading Scottish Wind Power Company Attempts to Cover Up Turbine Collapse
Author: stopthesethings
The Hidden Human Tragedy Caused by Incessant Wind Turbine Noise
Helen Schwiesow Parker, PhD, is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and a Past Clinical Supervisory Faculty member at the University of Virginia Medical School. Her career includes practical experience in the fields of autism, sensory perception, memory and learning, attention deficit and anxiety disorders, including panic disorder and PTSD. In this well-crafted piece, Helen details the misery and suffering … Continue reading The Hidden Human Tragedy Caused by Incessant Wind Turbine Noise
Coal Power Prevents Thousands of Germans from Freezing as Wind & Solar Output Plummets
A couple of weeks back 90,000 South Australian families found themselves powerless and boiling in a heat wave when its 1,576 MW of wind power capacity started the day producing more than 1,000 MW, but which later collapsed suddenly to a trifling 70 MW, sending the grid into meltdown. Meanwhile in Germany, it was a … Continue reading Coal Power Prevents Thousands of Germans from Freezing as Wind & Solar Output Plummets
Chaotic Wind Power Shunned: Coalition to Use ‘Green’ Slush Fund to Build Coal-Fired Power Plants
*** The political climate surrounding energy policy in Australia is febrile. However, nervous and feverish excitement is hardly conducive to sensible solutions. Bill Shorten’s Labor opposition is turning itself inside out as it struggles to come to grips with the political punishment that will be meted out by voters who have already worked out that … Continue reading Chaotic Wind Power Shunned: Coalition to Use ‘Green’ Slush Fund to Build Coal-Fired Power Plants
Wind Power Disaster Means South Australian Labor Government ‘Gone with the Wind’
*** While the power pricing and supply calamity that is South Australia is down to the subsidies awarded to wind power under the Federal government's Large-Scale RET, the state Labor government has done plenty to create the unfolding disaster and nothing to mitigate it. It's vapid Premier, Jay Weatherill must know that, as a wind … Continue reading Wind Power Disaster Means South Australian Labor Government ‘Gone with the Wind’
Australia’s Renewable Policy Doomed as Labor Party Scuttles Away from Suicidal 50% RET
*** Former union bully boy and billionaire wannabe, Labor opposition leader, Bill Shorten is all over the shop on energy policy. Terrified witless of the lunatic left and the Greens who, like the tail that wags the dog, have driven the Australian Labor Party into a suicidal push for a 50% RET, Shorten has taken … Continue reading Australia’s Renewable Policy Doomed as Labor Party Scuttles Away from Suicidal 50% RET
Political ‘System Black’: South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle Turns Renewable Policy Toxic
*** Politics is a cruel game, at the best of times. But Australia's renewable energy debacle is testing the wits of even the brightest of our political betters. The political graveyard is littered with those brave and foolhardy enough to ignore the average voting punter; recent interments include Hillary Clinton, buried in a landslide of … Continue reading Political ‘System Black’: South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle Turns Renewable Policy Toxic
South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle: Supermarkets Sacking Staff, While Sales of Portable Generators Boom
Reliable, secure and affordable electricity is one of those things that the last few generations of Australians have largely taken for granted. Not so in Australia’s so-called ‘wind power capital’, South Australia. These days, Croweaters count their blessings if power is delivered at all and count their pennies every time they’re hit with a power … Continue reading South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle: Supermarkets Sacking Staff, While Sales of Portable Generators Boom
Coalition’s Contempt: Senators Slam Pathetic & Belated Response to Wind Farm Inquiry
STT followers will well remember the efforts made by a band of Federal Senators to lift the lid on Australia’s wind industry. Starting back in April 2015, those Senators spent almost 6 months, attended 8 hearings in 4 States and the ACT, heard from dozens of witnesses and received almost 500 submissions, before producing their … Continue reading Coalition’s Contempt: Senators Slam Pathetic & Belated Response to Wind Farm Inquiry
Political Storm Erupts: Hostile Germans Turn on Ugly, Costly & Ineffective Wind Power
Held up as the wind cult's poster girl, Germany went hard and fast, spearing tens of thousands of these things all over its, once cherished and pristine, landscape. The cost of its maniacal rush into massively subsidised wind and solar to German businesses and households has been astronomical and, in the mother of all ironies, … Continue reading Political Storm Erupts: Hostile Germans Turn on Ugly, Costly & Ineffective Wind Power