Author: stopthesethings

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

Wind Industry in Fresh Panic: German’s Deliver ‘Smoking Gun’ Infrasound Research

**** To say that the wind industry is having a 'tough' time of late, is to downplay what is odds-on to be the biggest and fastest implosion, since the Hindenburg took less than a fiery minute to burn its way into the pages of tragic history. In Australia, the wind industry has been belted with … Continue reading Wind Industry in Fresh Panic: German’s Deliver ‘Smoking Gun’ Infrasound Research

Senate Wind Farm Inquiry – Dr Sarah Laurie says: “Kill the Noise & give Neighbours a Fair Go”

****  The Senate Inquiry has had to wade through a fairly pungent cesspit of 'material' dropped on it by the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers. No doubt to their great relief (or, in the case of wind industry stooge, Anne Urquhart, infuriation) the Senators have heard from a raft of genuine and highly qualified … Continue reading Senate Wind Farm Inquiry – Dr Sarah Laurie says: “Kill the Noise & give Neighbours a Fair Go”

Wind Farms Even More Expensive And Pointless Than You Thought

**** Study: Wind Farms Even More Expensive And Pointless Than You Thought Breitbart.com James Delingpole 5 July 2015 The cost of wind energy is significantly more expensive than its advocates pretend, a new US study has found: available here. If you believe this chart produced by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), then onshore wind … Continue reading Wind Farms Even More Expensive And Pointless Than You Thought

Farmer Knocks Back ‘Offers’ of $100,000 a Year to Host Turbines & Tells Senate: “These Things Shouldn’t Be In Anyone’s Backyard”

**** Remember all those glowing stories about wind power outfits being welcomed into rural communities with open arms? You know, tales about how farmers are dying to have turbines lined up all over their properties? How locals can’t wait to pick up some of the thousands of permanent, high paying jobs on offer? How developers … Continue reading Farmer Knocks Back ‘Offers’ of $100,000 a Year to Host Turbines & Tells Senate: “These Things Shouldn’t Be In Anyone’s Backyard”

Wind Power: ‘Shredding Birds and Mincing Logic’

 **** Shredding Birds and Mincing Logic Quadrant Online Peter O'Brien 1 July 2015 That wind farms are ugly is the least of the problems their heavily subsidised, rent-seeking promoters are inflicting on the rest of us. Quite apart from their damage to avian populations, the very process of manufacturing them generates a vast tonnage of … Continue reading Wind Power: ‘Shredding Birds and Mincing Logic’

ARREA Spears Wind Industry’s Parasites During Thumping Senate Appearance

**** The mandatory RET has seen the cost of around $9 billion worth of Renewable Energy Certificates added to retail power prices and recovered from all Australian power consumers. Under the Large-Scale Renewable Energy Target, a further $45 billion is designed to be transferred from power consumers to wind power outfits via the REC Tax/Subsidy … Continue reading ARREA Spears Wind Industry’s Parasites During Thumping Senate Appearance

Germany’s Wind Power Debacle Escalates: Nation’s Grid on the Brink of Collapse

**** Calamitous Planning: German Wind Parks Overload Power Grid … “At Its Limits” … Record 50,000 Grid Interventions In May! NoTricksZone Pierre Gosselin 1 July 2015 Online German NDR public radio here wrote last week how northern Germany’s power grid had suffered a major bottleneck that led to the overload of the Flensburg-Niebüll power transmission … Continue reading Germany’s Wind Power Debacle Escalates: Nation’s Grid on the Brink of Collapse

STT’s Take on the ‘Global Warming’ Story

**** Now and again, STT gets a comment that seeks to pin us down as “anti-wind”, “climate deniers”. Here’s one from Enough Already: I agree with your specific arguments against wind turbines, but even hosting AGW-denial articles puts me off. It perpetuates stereotypes of dumb bogans when we need all possible intelligence on this side! … Continue reading STT’s Take on the ‘Global Warming’ Story

Dr Malcolm Swinbanks tells Senate: ‘NASA’s 1980s Research on Health Effects from Wind Farm Noise More Relevant Than Ever’

**** The Senate Inquiry into the great wind power fraud has heard evidence and received submissions from some of the best in the acoustics and health business: Dr Malcolm Swinbanks, among them. Here’s what he had to say. Senate Select Committee on Wind Turbines – 23 June 2015 SWINBANKS, Dr Malcolm Alexander, Private capacity CHAIR … Continue reading Dr Malcolm Swinbanks tells Senate: ‘NASA’s 1980s Research on Health Effects from Wind Farm Noise More Relevant Than Ever’