Author: stopthesethings

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

Wind & Solar ‘Transition’ Perfectly Engineered For Ultimate (Costly) Failure

Once ideologues replaced engineers, reliable and affordable electricity supplies were doomed. It began 20 years ago, with massive subsidies for the occasional production of electricity using wind turbines and solar panels. There was no shortage of perfectly reliable electricity at the time. Back then, electricity was not only reliably delivered on demand, it was cheap. … Continue reading Wind & Solar ‘Transition’ Perfectly Engineered For Ultimate (Costly) Failure

Destroying the Planet to ‘Save It’: Green Hypocrites Demand Even More Wind & Solar

Leaving a wake of environmental destruction wherever it plies its subsidy-soaked trade, the wind industry is the Grand Master of green hypocrisy. Once upon a time, environmentalists were known as ‘tree huggers’, these days the new ‘green’ cult can’t destroy them fast enough. And it’s not just pristine rainforests - critical habitat for a countless … Continue reading Destroying the Planet to ‘Save It’: Green Hypocrites Demand Even More Wind & Solar

Wind & Solar ‘Transition’: Gambling With Other Peoples’ Money And Always Losing

Squandering $billions on chaotically intermittent wind and solar is the cornerstone of the policy said to deliver the grand energy transition. Not that we have any say in the matter, but, if given the choice of paying rent-seekers to carpet the country in even more solar panels and wind turbines or joining the political malefactors … Continue reading Wind & Solar ‘Transition’: Gambling With Other Peoples’ Money And Always Losing

Practical Reality: Off-Road Campers Grapple With Solar Power’s Natural Limits

https://youtu.be/HQthAzrrzkg?si=QRqmGfcAuf0mIsPe The Sun cult reckon solar (with a few $trillion worth of lithium-ion batteries) is already capable of powering the planet. Reality begs to differ. The performance claims made by solar panel sales reps are always overhyped. Actual output never matches the numbers laid out in glossy brochures or on slick websites. A lot of … Continue reading Practical Reality: Off-Road Campers Grapple With Solar Power’s Natural Limits

America Tells Australia To Grow Up & Get With The Nuclear Power Program

Australia’s ban on nuclear power is not just embarrassing, it’s positively idiotic. A fact not lost on our American cousins, who are demanding that we grow up and get with the nuclear power program. And they are perfectly qualified to criticize. The US has 92 reactors operating, with a combined capacity of 94,718 MW – … Continue reading America Tells Australia To Grow Up & Get With The Nuclear Power Program

Wind & Solar Generators Couldn’t Care Less When You’re Freezing In The Dark

Solar panels smothered with snow and ice produce nothing; wind turbines frozen solid during breathless, frigid weather produce even less (they actually consume power from the grid to run heating systems meant to prevent their internal workings suffering permanent damage). So, if you’re sitting freezing in the dark, don’t expect wind and solar power generators … Continue reading Wind & Solar Generators Couldn’t Care Less When You’re Freezing In The Dark

Wind & Solar Fail to Dent World’s Record Demand For Coal

The wind and sun cult reckon ‘coal is dead’. The truth is the energy-rich black stuff hasn’t suffered so much as a flesh wound. World energy markets keep defying long-repeated predictions that coal’s days are over. Coal remains critical because it does something that sunshine and breezes can never do; fed into coal-fired power plants … Continue reading Wind & Solar Fail to Dent World’s Record Demand For Coal

Shipwrecked: America’s Offshore Wind Industry Being Crushed By Rising Construction Costs

2023 was the year when the offshore wind industry’s grand implosion began. Major investors bailed out as the insane cost of attempting to (occasionally) generate electricity with no commercial value in hostile marine environments began to bite. Dozens of projects have been scrapped and others are now highly doubtful. And for those wind power outfits … Continue reading Shipwrecked: America’s Offshore Wind Industry Being Crushed By Rising Construction Costs

Energy Illiterate Halfwits Responsible For Subsidised Wind & Solar Death Spiral

To call it ‘energy policy’ is to flatter it. Attempting to run first world economies on part-time power is not just delusional, it is criminal. Unfortunately, those responsible for the greatest economic and environmental fraud of all time can only be brought to justice at the ballot box. In Australia, a group of energy illiterate … Continue reading Energy Illiterate Halfwits Responsible For Subsidised Wind & Solar Death Spiral

Locals Ecstatic: French Court Orders Demolition of Noisy, Eagle Killing Wind Turbines

A French Court has ordered the wipeout of a fleet of wind turbines that have been wiping out golden eagles and which long ago wiped out the ability of locals to sleep peacefully in their own homes. The turbines in question have been slaughtering birds, including golden eagles, for years incensing conservation groups, as well … Continue reading Locals Ecstatic: French Court Orders Demolition of Noisy, Eagle Killing Wind Turbines