Today’s “No Shit Sherlock” award goes to the New York Times‘s environment pages for their belated discovery that renewable energy is a lame duck. Breitbart James Delingpole 20 July 2016 Is the global effort to combat climate change, painstakingly agreed to in Paris seven months ago, already going off the rails? Germany, Europe’s champion for … Continue reading No Shit Sherlock – Wind Power is a Lame Duck
Author: stopthesethings
We are a group of citizens concerned about the rapid spread of industrial wind power generation installations across Australia.
Ross McKitrick: Wind Power Subsidies Triple Power Prices in Ontario
One of the favourite smoke-and-mirrors lines pulled by the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers is that wind power lowers power prices. Among the 'tiny' little omissions in that pitch are that: 1) they're only ever talking about spot prices when the wind is blowing; and 2) they skate over the massive subsidies that get … Continue reading Ross McKitrick: Wind Power Subsidies Triple Power Prices in Ontario
Why Wind Power Causes ‘Load-Shedding’ & Blackouts in SA: Power Generation for Dummies
There are 3 electricity essentials – that the power source and its delivery to homes and businesses be: 1) reliable; 2) secure; and 3) affordable. Which means that wind power – a wholly weather dependent power source, that can’t be stored and costs 3-4 times the cost of conventional power – scores NIL on all … Continue reading Why Wind Power Causes ‘Load-Shedding’ & Blackouts in SA: Power Generation for Dummies
SA’s Debacle Spreads: Wind Power Threatens to Wreck an Entire Power System
*** Things got serious in Australia's energy sector as soon as the wind power debacle in South Australia started making the front pages of Australia's metropolitan dailies. For a while, the happy citizens of states (other than SA) not wedded to the wind power delusion could quietly snigger at the mess South Australia's hapless Labor … Continue reading SA’s Debacle Spreads: Wind Power Threatens to Wreck an Entire Power System
Running on Wind Power & Wishes: South Australia Becomes a ‘Fools Paradise’
Last week had State Energy Ministers in a desperate rush to Canberra to plead for help from Federal Energy Minister, Josh Frydenberg at an urgently convened COAG Energy Summit. In the lead up, every one of them was being fed lines from those eager to profit from South Australia's energy calamity: grid operators, keen to … Continue reading Running on Wind Power & Wishes: South Australia Becomes a ‘Fools Paradise’
Wind Power Obsession Sends South Australians Back to the Stone Age
Amidst the panic and chaos being experienced by the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers - due to the unfolding and inevitable wind power calamity in South Australia - one of the newly invented catchphrases is “transition”. It’s a term now employed by wind spinners, dimwitted politicians and gullible journalists; and is often coupled up … Continue reading Wind Power Obsession Sends South Australians Back to the Stone Age
Why Wind Power is Slaughtering South Australia: In-a-Nutshell
South Australia is where the wind industry got going in Australia; and the inevitable and disastrous results of South Australia’s ludicrous attempt to run itself on the whims of the weather mean that South Australia is the place where the wind industry meets its doom. No commercial power retailer in their right mind is going … Continue reading Why Wind Power is Slaughtering South Australia: In-a-Nutshell
Rural Germans Revolt Against Wind Power Roll-Out: Farmers Sabotage Wind Projects
Far from being in love with these things - as the gullible press here would have us believe - the Germans that are forced to endure them, hate them just as much as everyone else in the World. In this wrap up of a report from Die Welt by NoTricksZone, set-upon rural Germans have had - … Continue reading Rural Germans Revolt Against Wind Power Roll-Out: Farmers Sabotage Wind Projects
Believe in Unicorns & Pixies? Why Not Believe in the Fantasy of Wind Power, Too?
The wind-cultist is a special breed: long on starry-eyed belief; short on our good friends 'logic' and 'reason' - occupying a fact-and-consequence-free netherworld, in which their favoured form of power generation arrives as a result of meteorological serendipity and, when it doesn't, the power still appears, as if by magic. Except that the 'magic' was … Continue reading Believe in Unicorns & Pixies? Why Not Believe in the Fantasy of Wind Power, Too?
Irish Eyes Ain’t Smiling: Wind Power Push Sends Power Prices Into Orbit
The political lunatics in charge of Ireland's wind powered energy debacle are about to reap the reality of what they have sown. Despite all that puff and guff about wind power being free, and getting cheaper all the time, the Irish have just been told that the Public Service Obligation (a levy tacked on power bills … Continue reading Irish Eyes Ain’t Smiling: Wind Power Push Sends Power Prices Into Orbit
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