**** Greens’ silence on folly of wind and solar power News Weekly Ian Plimer 25 October 2014 A simple evaluation of ideological electricity shows that it is unsustainable. The answer is certainly not blowing in the wind. The amount of energy embedded in steel pylons, concrete footings, blades, wiring, magnets, land clearing and roads is … Continue reading Professor Ian Plimer Slams the Great Wind Power Fraud
Category: Australia
Jupiter Wind Farm Proponents from Another Planet
Yet another wind farm disaster proposed for the Southern Tablelands, yet another community backlash. This time it's the threatened Jupiter wind farm at Tarago that has sent locals into orbit: the community is nothing short of ropeable (see our posts here and here). Here's one of their number smashing the Spanish developer, the disgraceful NSW … Continue reading Jupiter Wind Farm Proponents from Another Planet
Coalition LRET Deal Rejected: Labor Determined to Kill Jobs in Australian Mining, Manufacturing & Industry
**** Renewable energy target deal key to ‘saving jobs’ The Australian Sid Maher & Andrew White 23 October 2014 Labor caught between workers, Greens ahead of talks with coalition THE controversial renewable energy target faces cuts to save jobs in energy-intensive industries, under a Coalition plan to break the political impasse over the scheme, but … Continue reading Coalition LRET Deal Rejected: Labor Determined to Kill Jobs in Australian Mining, Manufacturing & Industry
The Wind Industry Pays “Green” Groups $millions to Chant for More Subsidies
A little while back, the good Senator from Victoria, John “Marshall” Madigan launched an Exocet missile at the seedy world of hard-green-left politics and the wind power outfits that fund the Australian Greens (see our post here). The Greens have been particularly coy about where the hundreds of thousands of dollars used to fund … Continue reading The Wind Industry Pays “Green” Groups $millions to Chant for More Subsidies
World First: Ontario Council Includes Infrasound in Wind Farm Noise Law
The most common source of complaint from those unfortunates forced to live next to wind farms is the incessant low-frequency noise and infrasound generated by giant industrial wind turbines: turning a quiet night in into an occasion of acoustic torture (see our post here); and destroying many a good night's sleep (see our post here). … Continue reading World First: Ontario Council Includes Infrasound in Wind Farm Noise Law
Miners Skewer Wind Industry Myth that the LRET is Lowering Power Prices
STT followers have a keen ear when it comes to picking wind industry spin. One of the most fantastic efforts to turn night into day is the completely bogus story about wind power causing a reduction in Australian retail power prices. Like most wind industry drivel, it's a tale that's heavy on emotional "belief" and … Continue reading Miners Skewer Wind Industry Myth that the LRET is Lowering Power Prices
Mandatory RET Just Another Form of Punishment for the Poor
**** The mandatory RET has seen around $9 billion worth of Renewable Energy Certificates issued to wind power outfits, so far; the cost of which has been added to retail power prices and recovered from all Australian power consumers. With a further $50 billion to be transferred from power consumers to wind power outfits via … Continue reading Mandatory RET Just Another Form of Punishment for the Poor
Farmers Tell Wind Farm Developer to Stick its Turbines Where the Sun Don’t Shine
**** The great wind power fraud depends on a few gullible land owners signing up to host turbines for charming wind power outfits like Thailand’s RATCH (see our posts here and here and here). No turbine hosts; no wind industry. Lured by annual licence fees of around $10,000 per turbine, farmers who do sign up … Continue reading Farmers Tell Wind Farm Developer to Stick its Turbines Where the Sun Don’t Shine
Pac Hydro Write-Down Proves Wind Farms Don’t Run on Wind, they Run on Subsidies
**** Remember all that huff and puff put out over the last few months by the Clean Energy Council and near-bankrupt wind power outfit, Infigen about wind power becoming so cheap as to be competitive with coal and gas fired generators? You know, the fantastic tales about wind power causing a reduction in Australian retail … Continue reading Pac Hydro Write-Down Proves Wind Farms Don’t Run on Wind, they Run on Subsidies
Crookwell Crooks: Goldwind Slammed for its “Rules are for Fools” Approach
The Gullen Range wind farm has been a disaster from the get go (see our post here) - with hundreds of homes lined up as sonic torture traps (see our post here). There are 32 non-involved residences within 1.5 km of the turbines; about 60 within 2 km; and 118 within 3 km. Within 5 … Continue reading Crookwell Crooks: Goldwind Slammed for its “Rules are for Fools” Approach