Texas has squandered a cool $66 billion on building its wind and solar capacity and the infrastructure needed to support it. The subsidies that have driven the the wind and solar onslaught - principally the Production Tax Credit, as well as state-mandated feed-in tariffs), deliberately designed to relegate the reliable generators (nuclear, coal and gas) to … Continue reading Blackout Prevention Intervention: Wind & Solar ‘Powered’ Texas Spends $Billions On Gas-Powered Plants
Author: stopthesethings
We are a group of citizens concerned about the rapid spread of industrial wind power generation installations across Australia.
Australia’s Self-Inflicted Wind & Solar Calamity Demands Permanent Nuclear Power Solution
The fastest way to get people thinking about where their power comes from is to deprive them of it. A lengthy evening blackout will do it, every time. Australia’s Eastern Grid (that connects Queensland, New South Wales, the ACT, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia) is a veritable house of cards - a coal-fired power plant … Continue reading Australia’s Self-Inflicted Wind & Solar Calamity Demands Permanent Nuclear Power Solution
Grand Delusion: Why Battery Storage Can’t Fix Wind & Solar’s Intermittency Problem
Claims that mega-batteries will fix wind and solar’s natural intermittency problem turn out to be mega-myths. First, lithium-ion batteries of the kind pitched by Tesla (see above) - like every kind of battery - do not generate a single watt of power and are net consumers of electricity during their charge/discharge phase. Second, they are … Continue reading Grand Delusion: Why Battery Storage Can’t Fix Wind & Solar’s Intermittency Problem
No Answer: Climate Change ‘Threat’ Can’t Be Cured By Intermittent Wind Power
It’s apparently gospel now, that man-made carbon dioxide gas is toxic “pollution” that - unless humans stop generating it ASAP - an inevitable Armageddon follows. The naturally occurring kind doesn’t register, however. In the next earnest breath, we are told that the only answer available to prevent our planet’s pending demise is to carpet its … Continue reading No Answer: Climate Change ‘Threat’ Can’t Be Cured By Intermittent Wind Power
How To Destroy Jobs & Wreck An Economy: Add Even More Subsidised Wind & Solar
Those behind the greatest economic and environmental scam in history, still pretend that there's millions of groovy Green jobs in the making - as long as the massive subsidies keep heading in their direction. Trouble is, all the evidence suggests otherwise. Depriving your economy of reliable and affordable power is the fastest way to wreck … Continue reading How To Destroy Jobs & Wreck An Economy: Add Even More Subsidised Wind & Solar
Don’t Believe The Hype: Wind Power Remains Fastest Way to Waste Taxpayers’ Money
Hyperbole is the wind and solar industry’s preferred dialect. Long on promises and short on delivery, those that pretend we’ll all soon be running on nothing but sunshine and breezes have no interest in dealing with troublesome facts, such as sunset and/or calm weather. Grand, sweeping visions might work to a point, but, eventually, reality … Continue reading Don’t Believe The Hype: Wind Power Remains Fastest Way to Waste Taxpayers’ Money
Energy ‘Transition’ Built On Grand Delusion That Wind & Solar Power Is Cheap & Reliable
War is peace’, ‘freedom is slavery’ and ‘wind and solar power are cheap and reliable’. Big Brother and his Ministry of Truth would, no doubt, approve of the approach taken by rent-seeking crony capitalists and their political enablers to give the appearance of solidity to pure wind, and the impression that the sun shines 24 … Continue reading Energy ‘Transition’ Built On Grand Delusion That Wind & Solar Power Is Cheap & Reliable
Crashed & Burned: Soaring Construction & Maintenance Costs Make Offshore Wind Power Projects ‘Unbackable’
The wind industry is moaning about the soaring cost of spearing these things into the seafloor, miles offshore. Rent-seekers are backing away from dozens of touted projects - as if they’d never thought about the insane costs and low energy returns. Any seafaring soul could have easily explained that the operating cost of maintaining any … Continue reading Crashed & Burned: Soaring Construction & Maintenance Costs Make Offshore Wind Power Projects ‘Unbackable’
Costly & Pathetic ‘Performance’: Thousands of Wind Turbines Being Replaced After 12 Years
Wind industry shills still make ludicrous claims about turbines running on the smell of an oily rag and lasting for 25 years or more, needing little more than a hug from time to time. They never talk about the operations and maintenance costs which - as reported by one Australian outfit Infigen - runs at … Continue reading Costly & Pathetic ‘Performance’: Thousands of Wind Turbines Being Replaced After 12 Years
All Downside: Energy & Mineral Hungry Wind & Solar Are Simply Not Sustainable
There is no such thing as a 'free' lunch, some one always pays. Wind and sun may be free, the occasional power they produce is anything but. 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 … Continue reading All Downside: Energy & Mineral Hungry Wind & Solar Are Simply Not Sustainable
STOP THESE THINGS 