When they’re not bursting into toxic fireballs, the contribution made by giant lithium-ion batteries remains utterly trivial. They are, after all, electricity storage devices and don’t add a lick to electricity generation capacity, anywhere. The cost of battery storage, at scale, is out of all proportion to the benefits returned and we wouldn’t be having … Continue reading Hype-Dream: World’s Renewable Energy Storage Capacity Destined to Remain Totally Trivial
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We are a group of citizens concerned about the rapid spread of industrial wind power generation installations across Australia.
Utter Madness: Trivial Energy Return For $Billions Squandered On Unreliable Wind Power
Despite the countless $billions in subsidies thrown at wind power, its contribution to world energy demand remains an accounting rounding error. Talk about wind power making a meaningful contribution to electricity supplies is pure delusion. And yet, those that pretend to govern us openly conspire with the rent-seekers stealing from us in their joint efforts … Continue reading Utter Madness: Trivial Energy Return For $Billions Squandered On Unreliable Wind Power
Routine Delivery Failures Renders Offshore Wind Power Utterly Meaningless
Despite overblown promises, offshore wind power is as meaningless as its onshore cousin. Centuries of sailing the high seas provided the clue: when the wind stops blowing, the boat ain’t going. So, if seafarers had nothing but curses for their days in the doldrums, why would offshore wind power be any different? Not only is … Continue reading Routine Delivery Failures Renders Offshore Wind Power Utterly Meaningless
Diesel Driven: World’s First “Net-Zero” Wind Power/Pumped Hydro System A Dismal Failure
The climate/RE cult’s latest mantra “net-zero”, apparently means wind and solar connected to batteries or pumped hydro. The notion has it that wind and solar’s hopeless intermittency can be overcome by a few TWh’s worth of giant lithium-ion batteries or, where geography and hydrology permit, pumped hydro systems. The latter model involves using wind and … Continue reading Diesel Driven: World’s First “Net-Zero” Wind Power/Pumped Hydro System A Dismal Failure
Crash Course: Industrial Wind Turbines Pose Deadly Threat to Light Aircraft
Industrial wind turbines create at least 2 critical dangers for flyers: 1) wake turbulence; 2) collision with blades and towers. The air turbulence generated by hundreds of 50-60m blades with their outer tips travelling at around 350km/h (wake turbulence) messes with the pilot's ability to control their aircraft (see our post here). Slamming into them, often … Continue reading Crash Course: Industrial Wind Turbines Pose Deadly Threat to Light Aircraft
Spain’s Wind Industry Slaughters Thousands of Endangered Birds With Impunity
The wind industry is all about getting away with it. Whether it’s slaughtering millions of birds and bats, or terrorising neighbours, wind power outfits pride themselves on avoiding liability to all and sundry. Over the last 20 years, Spain has been overrun with these things, including the pretty principality of Asturias on its northwest coast. … Continue reading Spain’s Wind Industry Slaughters Thousands of Endangered Birds With Impunity
Weather Makers: How Industrial Wind Turbines Are Changing The World’s Climate
As the mantra has it, wind turbines are the perfect panacea for rising temperatures. The ever fearful fret about the planet’s temperature rising a couple of notches (apparently an increase of just 1.5°C means instant disaster and pumping it up by 2°C means an irreversible catastrophe). Now it seems that these things are playing their … Continue reading Weather Makers: How Industrial Wind Turbines Are Changing The World’s Climate
Democrat’s Green New Deal: Part Energy Fantasy/Part Economic Suicide Pact
Hubris and arrogance are essential character traits for those pretending that we’re well on our way to an all-wind and sun-powered future. Helpfully, the terrible events unfolding in Ukraine have exposed that whopping lie, for all to see. Energy self-reliance is back on the agenda, with a vengeance, and that means fossil fuels and nuclear … Continue reading Democrat’s Green New Deal: Part Energy Fantasy/Part Economic Suicide Pact
Inevitable Transition: Why Intermittent Wind Power Drives Power Prices Through The Roof
Every country attempting to run on wind and solar suffers rocketing power prices; no exception. In Britain, power prices jumped 50%, overnight, when a legislated price cap was lifted; and power prices continue to rise at an astonishing rate. Subsidised wind power is at the heart of Britain’s power pricing and supply calamity. Pete North … Continue reading Inevitable Transition: Why Intermittent Wind Power Drives Power Prices Through The Roof
Wind & Solar Subsidies: High Time To End The Never-Ending Story of Wasted $Billions
Death and taxes are certainties, so too the wind and solar industry’s critical dependence on massive and endless subsidies. Those pushing wind and solar keep telling us that the power they produce is ‘free’ and getting cheaper all the time. Every so often, rent seekers and their political enablers are faced with the retort that, … Continue reading Wind & Solar Subsidies: High Time To End The Never-Ending Story of Wasted $Billions
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