**** In last night’s post we took a look at China’s wind power debacle, where grid operators are refusing to hook up wind farms to the grid – due the uneconomic cost of doing so in remote locations – with the result that more than 20% of its wind power capacity sits idle – and … Continue reading Origin’s Grant King Spells Out the Inevitable Demise of the LRET & the Wind Industry
Category: Australia
China’s Wind Power Ponzi Scheme Collapsing: Grid Operators Refusing to Connect Wind Farms
**** In recent times – with the wind industry taking a belting around the planet – its spruikers have taken to clinging to any vestige of hope, with the anxious zeal of shipwreck survivors happening upon a little fortuitous flotsam. One such “hope”, is their belief that China provides the perfect example of what wind … Continue reading China’s Wind Power Ponzi Scheme Collapsing: Grid Operators Refusing to Connect Wind Farms
Thai Turbine-Terrorist, RATCH Scores Monumental “Own Goal” during Senate’s Wind Farm Inquiry
**** The Australian Senate’s Inquiry into the great wind power fraud resumed on 18 May in Cairns, Far North Queensland. One of the main topics for the day was the arrogant and high-handed misconduct of RATCH; and its efforts to ride roughshod over the rights of communities on the Atherton Tablelands - surrounding its threatened … Continue reading Thai Turbine-Terrorist, RATCH Scores Monumental “Own Goal” during Senate’s Wind Farm Inquiry
Wind Power Ponzi Scheme Implodes: IFM Investors Ditches Pac Hydro & Pac Hydro, AGL and RATCH Ditch Wind Farms
**** The wind industry in Australia – as elsewhere – is in its death throes. STT has likened it to the great corporate Ponzi schemes, pointing out, just once or twice, that the wind industry is little more than the most recent and elaborate effort to fleece gullible investors, in a list that dates back … Continue reading Wind Power Ponzi Scheme Implodes: IFM Investors Ditches Pac Hydro & Pac Hydro, AGL and RATCH Ditch Wind Farms
Wind Industry’s CO2 Abatement Claims Smashed by Top Physics Professor – Dr Joseph Wheatley
**** 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 to $55 billion will be transferred from power consumers to wind power outfits via the REC Tax/Subsidy … Continue reading Wind Industry’s CO2 Abatement Claims Smashed by Top Physics Professor – Dr Joseph Wheatley
Pac Hydro Cape Bridgewater Wind Farm Victim – Melissa Ware – Attacks Infrasound Ignorance
**** Melissa Ware is one of the long-suffering victims of Pac Hydro’s Cape Bridgewater disaster. No sooner had Melissa given Labor-in-Liberal clothing Federal MP, Disappointing Dan Tehan a solid whack - for his wind industry backed plea to salvage the completely unsustainable Large-Scale Renewable Energy Target - (see our post here), than she was back … Continue reading Pac Hydro Cape Bridgewater Wind Farm Victim – Melissa Ware – Attacks Infrasound Ignorance
Out to Save their Wind Industry Mates, Macfarlane & Hunt Lock-in $46 billion LRET Retail Power Tax
**** Wind industry front men, Ian "Macca" Macfarlane and, his youthful ward, young Gregory Hunt are out to defy all-comers: the Liberal's core constituency (of conservative voters); their colleagues, Joe Hockey and Mathias Cormann; boss, Tony Abbott; and political, economic and environmental common sense - as they pump up a deal with Labor to salvage … Continue reading Out to Save their Wind Industry Mates, Macfarlane & Hunt Lock-in $46 billion LRET Retail Power Tax
2015: the Wind Industry’s ‘Annus Horribilis’; or Time to Sink the Boots In
**** Any 'business' model or industry that is built around endless streams of government mandated subsidies - like Australia's REC Tax/Subsidy or the US's Production Tax Credit - pins its hopes of long-term survival on the whims of our political betters, which tend to ebb and flow with the economics that dictate the fortunes of … Continue reading 2015: the Wind Industry’s ‘Annus Horribilis’; or Time to Sink the Boots In
Tony Abbott Gets the Heads-Up on Disappointing Dan Tehan’s Pro-Wind Industry Push
**** Labor-in-Liberal clothing Federal MP, Dan Tehan manged to stir up a veritable hornet's nest in his western Victorian electorate by appearing on the Ministry's of Truth's 7.30 Report and putting in a performance that would have done wind industry spruikers, the Clean Energy Council proud (see our post here). Dan's dismal efforts to protect … Continue reading Tony Abbott Gets the Heads-Up on Disappointing Dan Tehan’s Pro-Wind Industry Push
Wind Turbine Noise Deprives Farmers and Truckers of Essential Sleep & Creates Unnecessary Danger for All
**** Deprive someone of a decent night’s sleep and the wheels start to fall off pretty quickly. In the absence of quality sleep, it’s not long and people start suffering mood swings, impaired mental function, lose capacity for abstract thought and – if operating heavy machinery or driving – become a danger to workmates and/or … Continue reading Wind Turbine Noise Deprives Farmers and Truckers of Essential Sleep & Creates Unnecessary Danger for All