**** 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
Category: Australia
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
Subsidising Wind Power: A Sure-Fire Job Killer
*** As the wind industry gravy train shudders to a halt in Australia, the wind industry and its parasites are working overtime to garner support for retention of the completely unsustainable 41,000 GWh mandatory Renewable Energy Target. One of the “pitches” being made is that winding back the RET will cost tens of thousands of … Continue reading Subsidising Wind Power: A Sure-Fire Job Killer
Wind Industry’s “Death By A Thousand Cuts”: RET Review Panel – current RET should go
**** The RET Review Panel has delivered the final blow for the Australian wind industry, with recommendations that include killing the RET rort from here on: the Panel recommending that the current 41,000 GWh target be abolished - and that the door be firmly shut on any new wind farm investments. The Panel’s report is … Continue reading Wind Industry’s “Death By A Thousand Cuts”: RET Review Panel – current RET should go
Senator David Leyonhjelm: “Wake Up Clive!” – It’s Time to Kill the RET & Save the Poor
**** STT hears that Tony Abbott is hard at work on his mission to kill off the mandatory RET - with the aim of bringing an end to the most expensive and pointless policy of all time. One of the cross-bench Senators the PM needs to help demolish it during this parliament is David Leyonhjelm … Continue reading Senator David Leyonhjelm: “Wake Up Clive!” – It’s Time to Kill the RET & Save the Poor
Australian Wind Industry Doomed: Tony Abbott Signals the End of the Mandatory RET
STT followers have been delighted with news that Tony Abbott, Joe Hockey and Mathias Cormann have teamed up to axe the mandatory RET (see our post here). In response to the PM's mooted plan, the wind industry and its parasites have been reduced to making idle threats of "revenge" and bleating about "sovereign risk". … Continue reading Australian Wind Industry Doomed: Tony Abbott Signals the End of the Mandatory RET
How the Public Are Deceived About the True Cost of the Mandatory RET
**** The Australian Financial Review – as one of the lefty Fairfax stable – “drank the Kool Aid” early and happily ran with the wind industry’s narrative that having Australia bristle with giant fans is a sure-fire way of cooling mother Earth; that wind power is free; and that the mandatory RET is public policy … Continue reading How the Public Are Deceived About the True Cost of the Mandatory RET
Mandatory RET: An Expensive (and Unsustainable) Economic Burden
**** The RET is an expensive burden on the economy Australian Financial Review Alan Moran 19 August 2014 People and firms should be free to choose how they trade off their sources of energy and price preferences. With the carbon tax repealed, the focus has shifted to the renewable requirements. A key component of these, … Continue reading Mandatory RET: An Expensive (and Unsustainable) Economic Burden
Lost In Translation: How a CO2 Abatement Scheme Became “Corporate Welfare on Steroids”
**** Time to remember the original aim of the RET Australian Financial Review Danny Price 21 August 2014 The RET was intended to cut carbon. Opening it up to more forms of efficient generation would help get that result. The debate over the renewable energy target has ended up exactly where you would expect a … Continue reading Lost In Translation: How a CO2 Abatement Scheme Became “Corporate Welfare on Steroids”
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