The wind industry has been stealing from us for almost 30 years now. $Trillions in subsidies and all we’ve got to show for it are rocketing power prices, pristine landscapes turned to industrial wastelands, wrecked rural communities and bird and bat carnage. Even former Greens leader, Bob Brown spat the dummy recently over plans to … Continue reading No More Mr Nice Guy: It’s Past Time to Flip the Bird at Wind Turbines
Category: Australia
Blackout Bitching: Feds Blame States For Australia’s Renewables Fiasco
Australia’s self-inflicted renewable energy calamity was as perfectly predictable as it was perfectly avoidable. The circus started in 2001, when Liberal PM, John Howard introduced a modest Renewable Energy Target, which translated at the time to around 5% of electricity generation. Thereafter, wind power outfits, like the notorious Babcock & Brown (which went bankrupt and … Continue reading Blackout Bitching: Feds Blame States For Australia’s Renewables Fiasco
Loser Pays: Making Wind & Solar Pay the Staggering Cost of their Chaotic Intermittency
All care and no responsibility, the wind and solar ‘industries’ have been allowed to destroy the grid and the power market without consequence. At least on their part; at least for now. The retailer reliability obligation put in place by Federal Energy Minister, Angus Taylor (which was the only part of the National Energy Guarantee … Continue reading Loser Pays: Making Wind & Solar Pay the Staggering Cost of their Chaotic Intermittency
Code Black: Wind & Solar Chaos Guarantee Mass Summer Blackouts (Again)
As Summer approaches, Australia's wind and solar obsession means more mass blackouts are guaranteed. During January 2018, load shedding caught power consumers short in South Australia, Victoria and NSW. Energy hungry businesses such as aluminium smelters and even hospitals were forced to power down during a run of scorching days and nights, when temperatures … Continue reading Code Black: Wind & Solar Chaos Guarantee Mass Summer Blackouts (Again)
‘Green’ Hypocrites Want Industrial Wind Turbines in YOUR Backyard, But Never in Theirs
The green is always ready to spear hundreds of giant 240m (787ft) industrial wind turbines - into your backyard, but goes nuts if the ‘favour’ might be returned. Destroying your patch of paradise is a sacrifice that he is always willing to make. When former Greens leader, Dr Bob Brown started railing about the prospect … Continue reading ‘Green’ Hypocrites Want Industrial Wind Turbines in YOUR Backyard, But Never in Theirs
Totally Unreliable Wind & Solar: Deliver Occasional Power & Guarantee Constant Chaos
Talking about wind and solar capacity is like pointing to a giant bucket, with a whole in its bottom; what's promised and what's delivered never match. The consumption of electricity is a here and now kind of thing. No one cares about how many windmills and solar panels there are, only that power is delivered … Continue reading Totally Unreliable Wind & Solar: Deliver Occasional Power & Guarantee Constant Chaos
Blown Away: Actual Wind Farm Output a Chaotic Fraction of Total Capacity
The renewable energy zealot occupies a world somewhere between fantasy and delusion, ignoring the consequences of sunset and calm weather. The mainstream media headlines still scream about a surge in wind or solar capacity, what they never talk about is actual output. And there’s a good reason for that. The data above comes from Aneroid … Continue reading Blown Away: Actual Wind Farm Output a Chaotic Fraction of Total Capacity
Solar Eclipsed: Renewable Energy Investors Fret as Share Price Plummets
The hopes of renewable energy investors depend on subsidies to wind and solar lasting forever. Sadly, for those with skin in the game, the longevity of the subsidies, targets, mandates, penalties and fines - that make intermittent wind and solar profitable - are limited. The idea was, of course, that after a decade or so … Continue reading Solar Eclipsed: Renewable Energy Investors Fret as Share Price Plummets
Nuclear Power: Safe, 24/7 CO2 Free Generation – What On Earth is Australia Waiting For?
Tell someone from the first world that the world’s 3rd biggest uranium producer banned nuclear power generation and you’ll be met with bewilderment. But, that’s precisely the case: 20 years ago, the country with the largest uranium reserves in the world placed a ban on nuclear power stations; unlike the 30 Countries around the Globe … Continue reading Nuclear Power: Safe, 24/7 CO2 Free Generation – What On Earth is Australia Waiting For?
Wedge-Tail Wipeout: Tasmanian Wind Farms Threaten Eagle Extinction
Cars, cats and skyscrapers don’t kill Eagles, but 60 m wind turbine blades with their tips travelling at 350 Kph routinely smash them out of existence. In Australia’s designated National Park, Tasmania, its peculiar species of Wedge-Tailed Eagle is both rare and endangered. Now it faces the existential threat of ever more and even … Continue reading Wedge-Tail Wipeout: Tasmanian Wind Farms Threaten Eagle Extinction
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