Since the RET Review Panel delivered its coup de grâce to the Australian wind industry, the wind industry and its parasites - and the ABC and Fairfax press that run cover for them - have all tried to put a very different spin on the panel's recommendations - as to which, see our post here. … Continue reading RET Review Panel Head, Dick Warburton: “the RET should be ended now”
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Robert Bryce: Want to live in Stone-Age Poverty? Then tie your future to Wind Power
**** Robert Bryce picked the wind power fraud for what it is from the very beginning. In his 2010 book “Power Hungry: The Myths of “Green” Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future” (Public Affairs), Bryce skewered every one of the myths relied upon by the wind industry to peddle its wares; and went … Continue reading Robert Bryce: Want to live in Stone-Age Poverty? Then tie your future to Wind Power
Terry McCrann: The Mandatory RET – It’s Only a RORT When You’re Not In On It
Follow the money trail, and RET spells rort not power Herald Sun Terry McCrann 8 September 2014 TWO eternal pieces of advice emerged from the Watergate saga that kneecapped Richard Nixon’s presidency and then the president himself. The first was the observation that it’s not the crime that gets you but the cover-up; the second … Continue reading Terry McCrann: The Mandatory RET – It’s Only a RORT When You’re Not In On It
Politicians & Business Finally Waking Up to the Massive Costs of the LRET
**** In this post we highlighted the political distinction between the small scale renewable energy scheme (SRES) – which doles out subsidies for rooftop solar – and the Large-Scale RET (LRET) - upon which the debacle that is the wind industry depends. While Greg Hunt and Ian “Macca” Macfarlane have been running around talking up … Continue reading Politicians & Business Finally Waking Up to the Massive Costs of the LRET
Senator Chris Back: Wind Industry must prove its CO2 abatement claims
**** In our last post we tipped a bucket on the central, endlessly repeated lie trotted out by the wind industry and its parasites, that Australia's great wind rush has resulted in substantial reductions of CO2 emissions in the electricity sector. In Australia, the central object of the Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000 is for … Continue reading Senator Chris Back: Wind Industry must prove its CO2 abatement claims
Why Intermittent Wind Power Increases CO2 Emissions in the Electricity Sector
The central, endlessly repeated lie (upon which the great wind power fraud rests) is that increasing wind power generation results in decreases in CO2 emissions. In Australia, the central object of the Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000 is for "renewable" energy to "reduce emissions of greenhouse gases in the electricity sector" (see s3). But, somewhere … Continue reading Why Intermittent Wind Power Increases CO2 Emissions in the Electricity Sector
Angus Taylor: Coalition set to kill the wind industry, while supporting rooftop solar
With the wind industry reeling after the RET review panel delivered its recommendation to slam the door shut on any more wind farms (see our post here), it’s sought to whip up support for the mandatory RET by enlisting the usual band of useful Marxist idiots (like GetUp! and 350.org) to rally a band of … Continue reading Angus Taylor: Coalition set to kill the wind industry, while supporting rooftop solar
Wind Power: The Parasitic Power Producer
**** Promoting Parasitic Power Producers carbon-sense.com Viv Forbes 17 July 2014 Wind and solar are parasitic power producers, unable to survive in a modern electricity grid without the back-up of stand-alone electricity generators such as hydro, coal, gas or nuclear. And like all parasites, they weaken their hosts, causing increased operating and transmission costs and … Continue reading Wind Power: The Parasitic Power Producer
The Economic Storage of Wind Power is a Pipe-Dream
**** The wind industry is the perpetual infant of power generation: always looking for the subsidies to last that little bit longer; always promising to improve its performance; always claiming it will outdo hydro, coal and gas – provided, of course, that the subsidies keep flowing. STT for one thinks the wind industry has had … Continue reading The Economic Storage of Wind Power is a Pipe-Dream
Of Unicorns & Pink Elephants: “Reliance” on Wind Power is Pure “Green” Fantasy
When it comes to their demand for electricity, the power consumer has a couple of basic needs: when they hit the light switch they assume illumination will shortly follow and that when the kettle is kicked into gear it’ll be boiling soon thereafter. And the power consumer assumes that these – and similar actions in … Continue reading Of Unicorns & Pink Elephants: “Reliance” on Wind Power is Pure “Green” Fantasy
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