Author: stopthesethings

We are a group of citizens concerned about the rapid spread of industrial wind power generation installations across Australia.

Wind Power: the Wick Just Ain’t Worth the Candle: Energy Return vs Energy Invested Explained

In most scenarios involving the sane, equipped with cool, analytical heads, the economic choices we make (and the policies that surround, support or reflect them) are driven by a simple equation: that the economic cost should be outweighed by the benefits on offer. In less than a figurative heartbeat, energy policy has been hijacked by … Continue reading Wind Power: the Wick Just Ain’t Worth the Candle: Energy Return vs Energy Invested Explained

Wind Industry Corruption: Plug Secretly Pulled on Wind Farm Health Investigation

Back in March STT reported on events in Huron County, Ontario – where, overwhelmed by health complaints, regional authorities appeared to have relented in an effort to gather the evidence of the known and obvious effects of incessant turbine generated low-frequency noise and infrasound - and to act on it (see our post here). We … Continue reading Wind Industry Corruption: Plug Secretly Pulled on Wind Farm Health Investigation

Wind in the Gallows: Study Shows Badgers Suffer Merciless Stress & Torment from Wind Turbine Noise & Vibration

The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame) has been a childhood favourite for more than a century.  The exploits of Toad, Rat, Mole and the elusive but respected Mr Badger, stand as an allegory of what is deemed worthy in the British concept of character, and their understanding of what constitutes good and bad manners. … Continue reading Wind in the Gallows: Study Shows Badgers Suffer Merciless Stress & Torment from Wind Turbine Noise & Vibration

South Australia’s Wind Power Chaos: Victoria’s Coal-Fired Plant its Only Salvation

Wind cultists have been making the brazen claim that the rampant proliferation of these things in South Australia led to the demise of Alinta's coal-fired plant at Port Augusta. The perverse economics of the LRET (and the market distortions of directing RECs - currently worth $80 - to a 'product' with NO commercial value) is … Continue reading South Australia’s Wind Power Chaos: Victoria’s Coal-Fired Plant its Only Salvation

Wind Industry Corruption Leaves Ontario with Nothing But Misery & a Whopping Bill

Ontario has been destroyed by a band of lunatics, headed up by Kathleen Wynne. Rocketing power prices - killing its manufacturers - and tens of thousands of these things killing rural communities, as to their peace, prosperity and cohesion are just some of the consequences of being over-run by wind-cultists. But, behind every political puppet, … Continue reading Wind Industry Corruption Leaves Ontario with Nothing But Misery & a Whopping Bill

Texan Pyrotechnic Turbine Terror: Wind Power Setting the World on Fire

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD0lc8YpXe8 **** Utterly pointless, on every level; and insanely dangerous to man and beast, one of the more exciting features of these things is their ability to spontaneously combust. Above is a video, and below is the story and pics, of a recent piece of 'green' energy pyrotechnics on the Prairie. Watch it burn: Multiple … Continue reading Texan Pyrotechnic Turbine Terror: Wind Power Setting the World on Fire

NSW Planning Dept Cover Up: Wind Farm Noise Documents Buried

New South Wales is a hotbed of wind industry corruption of the kind that would keep its ICAC busy for a decade (see our posts here and here). At the centre of the cesspit is the NSW Planning Department. After being bombarded with complaints raised by wind farm neighbours about incessant turbine generated low-frequency noise … Continue reading NSW Planning Dept Cover Up: Wind Farm Noise Documents Buried

Freefall: Wind Power Investment Collapses in Europe

In a 'what goes around comes around' kind of way, it's fitting that the great wind power fraud is taking European 'investors' - of the Energreen mold - to the cleaners. The subsidies have run out and, as night follows day, investors are racing to the exits - which brings the greatest Ponzi scheme of … Continue reading Freefall: Wind Power Investment Collapses in Europe

Kathleen Wynne’s Ontario Wind Power Fantasy Doubles Power Prices

**** Ontario was, once upon a time, an agricultural and manufacturing power house. Alas, the former pursuit has been smashed by plummeting property values and sonic torture, making thousands of farm homes uninhabitable; the latter endeavour has been demolished by power costs that have risen 108% due to the fantasy of trying to rely on … Continue reading Kathleen Wynne’s Ontario Wind Power Fantasy Doubles Power Prices

Panic Erupts: Infigen Set to Offload Worn-Out Australian Wind Farms to Even ‘Greater Fools’

**** In the hard-hitting Danish docu-drama, Follow the Money, the Armani-suited executives of Energreen play a game of cat and mouse with the Fraud Squad, pumping up the value of their wind farm ‘assets’, while erasing anything from their books that investors might reasonably conclude were liabilities. Some viewers might call it ‘creative accounting’, others … Continue reading Panic Erupts: Infigen Set to Offload Worn-Out Australian Wind Farms to Even ‘Greater Fools’