Why Wind Power MWs Will Never Be Equal

All megawatts are not equal Judithcurry.com By Planning Engineer 11 December 2014 Some of the Climate Etc. denizens have requested a post on the generation planning process to help them better understand cost issues surrounding the large scale addition and integration of renewable resources. The major takeaway is that differing types of generating resources bring … Continue reading Why Wind Power MWs Will Never Be Equal

Gravity Bringing Wind Power to its Knees: Blades Keep Flying, as Farmers & Schoolkids Learn to Run & Duck for Cover

**** A little while back we covered a spate of turbine collapses across the UK – terrorising locals not used to the sky-falling in around them on a regular basis (see our post here). And we’ve dealt with the increasing numbers of turbine blades that routinely unshackle themselves in bids for airborne freedom, troublesome events, … Continue reading Gravity Bringing Wind Power to its Knees: Blades Keep Flying, as Farmers & Schoolkids Learn to Run & Duck for Cover

Crooks & Corruption Rule: What is it with the Wind Industry?

The wind industry seems to attract a particular class of bloke, in much the same way that the Prohibition era drew lots of heavy-set Italians to the Mob. Maybe that seemingly endless stream of massive subsidies filched from taxpayers and power consumers generates the same allure as festering dung does for swarms of flies? Whatever … Continue reading Crooks & Corruption Rule: What is it with the Wind Industry?

Greg Hunt (“Dumb”) & Ian Macfarlane (“Dumber”) Out to Send ALL Australians Into Power Price Penury

Ian "Macca" Macfarlane and his youthful ward, Greg Hunt are the flies in the Coalition's political ointment, when it comes to engineering anything like a sensible policy on energy. Both Macfarlane's and Hunt's offices are filled with wind industry plants and stooges, like Vesta's Ken McAlpine's best mate, Patrick Gibbons; and both Macca and Hunt … Continue reading Greg Hunt (“Dumb”) & Ian Macfarlane (“Dumber”) Out to Send ALL Australians Into Power Price Penury

The Wind Industry’s Need for Massive Subsidies: The Never Ending Story

**** Wind Power Is Intermittent, But Subsidies Are Eternal Wall Street Journal Tim Phillips 1 December 2014 “Tax credits have been essential to the economic viability of wind farms so far, but will not be needed within a few years.” So said Christopher Flavin, now president emeritus of the Worldwatch Institute - in 1984. Thirty … Continue reading The Wind Industry’s Need for Massive Subsidies: The Never Ending Story

Bye-Bye Barnyard: Mike Barnard’s Boss – IBM – Shuts Down the Wind Industry’s Most Rabid & Nasty Propaganda Parrot

**** Mike Barnard - “Barnyard”, as he’s affectionately known - is easily the most vicious, vile and virulent of the wind industry’s beleaguered band of propagandists, spruikers, parasites and media manipulators. Along with other members of his dwindling pack of marauding-media-manipulators, Barnyard stalks internet sites and Twitter like a starving hyaena – venting spleen; denigrating … Continue reading Bye-Bye Barnyard: Mike Barnard’s Boss – IBM – Shuts Down the Wind Industry’s Most Rabid & Nasty Propaganda Parrot

Ohio Joins Global Effort to Slam the Door on Big Wind

Around the world, rural communities are fighting back hard against the great wind power fraud. Wherever wind farms have appeared – or have been threatened – big numbers of locals take a set against the monsters being speared into their previously peaceful – and often idyllic – rural communities. Their anger extends to the goons … Continue reading Ohio Joins Global Effort to Slam the Door on Big Wind

BUSHFIRE RED ALERT: Wind Power Really Is Setting the World on FIRE

As the Australian countryside turns to the golden hues of summer, the attentions of its farming and rural communities also turn: hundreds of eager eyes become fixed on the horizon for tell-tale signs of the smoke that heralds the bushfires that cast fear amongst those that live and work in the bush. Rules are set … Continue reading BUSHFIRE RED ALERT: Wind Power Really Is Setting the World on FIRE

Institute for Energy Research Takes the Scalpel to the Great Wind Power Fraud

As time goes by, the number of crack energy market experts joining the effort to bring the great wind power fraud to its inevitable denouement – and the quality of their work directed at that fine and noble task – has increased exponentially. The American "Institute for Energy Research" has just released a brilliant piece … Continue reading Institute for Energy Research Takes the Scalpel to the Great Wind Power Fraud

Casualties of South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle Mount: Thousands Can’t Afford Power

**** The new protectionism: renewable energy industry’s shameless self-promotion Catallaxy Files Alan Moran 5 December 2014 According to Christopher Flavin, the President emeritus of the Worldwatch Institute, in a few years’ time wind energy will not need to be subsidised. Oh wait! He said that back in 1984. And he was not alone, Booz, Allen … Continue reading Casualties of South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle Mount: Thousands Can’t Afford Power