Where General Sir John Monash built Victoria’s electricity system, Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg is determined to destroy it. When the aptly named Monash Forum (a group of 30 Liberal and National MPs) formed a few months ago, all hell broke loose in Canberra. Armed with common sense and compassion, this group is out to … Continue reading Coal-Hard Facts: Australia’s Energy Minister Gripped by Renewables Delusion
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RE Reality Check: PM’s $10bn Pumped Hydro Plan to Save Wind Industry Doesn’t Hold Water
Wind and large-scale solar are doomed, but the saviour is said to be pumped hydro; paid for, of course, with other people’s money. Touted by Turnbull and his hapless sidekick, Josh Frydenberg as the Nation’s mega-battery, the heavily-hyped Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro scheme (shelved in the 1970s because it was uneconomic then) has been … Continue reading RE Reality Check: PM’s $10bn Pumped Hydro Plan to Save Wind Industry Doesn’t Hold Water
The BIG Lie: Energy Boffin’s Claims Australia Can Go 100% Renewable = 100% Fantasy
Renewable energy zealots talk about the ‘transition’ to an all wind and sun powered future being ‘inevitable’. Except that the only thing inevitable about running on sunshine and breezes, is grid chaos and rocketing power prices. And the reason for that can be all spelt out in a picture: see above the collective output of … Continue reading The BIG Lie: Energy Boffin’s Claims Australia Can Go 100% Renewable = 100% Fantasy
Affordable Energy Wars: Australian MPs Determined to End Subsidies to Wind & Solar
The solution to Australia’s self-inflicted energy calamity involves a battle between deluded zealots and pragmatic realists. In the former camp sits Audrey Zibelman (head of AEMO) and Kerry Schott (head of the Energy Security Board), along with a band of equally deluded fellow travellers. In the latter, it’s the 30 or so Liberal and … Continue reading Affordable Energy Wars: Australian MPs Determined to End Subsidies to Wind & Solar
Tasmania’s Pathetic Wind Power Push: Plug Gets Pulled on Plans for All RE Future
These days, it’s almost impossible for wind power promoters to finish a sentence without reference to batteries or pumped hydro. In the beginning, when the wind industry said ‘let there be light’, they meant only occasionally, and only when the wind was blowing, just right. Now that the average punter has worked out that the … Continue reading Tasmania’s Pathetic Wind Power Push: Plug Gets Pulled on Plans for All RE Future
Australian Business Despairs: Renewables Obsessed Energy Minister Throws Economy to the Wolves
Australia’s Energy Minister, Josh Frydenberg’s obsession with wind and solar is literally crippling his country: rocketing power prices have left tens of thousands of families powerless; and energy hungry businesses are gobsmacked at his every gormless utterance. Threatened by the Monash Forum (a group of 30 or so Liberal and National MPs), Frydenberg has taken … Continue reading Australian Business Despairs: Renewables Obsessed Energy Minister Throws Economy to the Wolves
Threat to Endless Subsidies Sends Australia’s Renewable Energy Companies Into Meltdown
Wind and solar power were both founded on lies and myth, and can only exist when and where massive subsidies are practically perpetual. Now that it’s become impossible for them to hide the obvious relationship between intermittent wind and solar and rocketing power prices and grid instability, the pleading to maintain the subsidies that sustain them, … Continue reading Threat to Endless Subsidies Sends Australia’s Renewable Energy Companies Into Meltdown
Redbank Power Station’s Renaissance: Bitcoiners Sign Up to Buy Cheap & Reliable Coal-Fired Power
For power consumers searching for the cheapest and most reliable power, coal is the only answer. Crypto-currencies, like Bitcoin, have been a bonanza; not only for risk-hungry techie investors (not to mention risk-averse drug smugglers and money launderers), they’ve been a windfall for power generators - provided those generators can deliver it reliably and … Continue reading Redbank Power Station’s Renaissance: Bitcoiners Sign Up to Buy Cheap & Reliable Coal-Fired Power
Eco-Irony: Power-Starved Australian Households Switch to Scavenged Firewood to Beat Winter’s Chill
Let eco-zealots get control of your country’s power generation system, and rocketing power prices follow as night follows day. Those countries whose energy policies have been hijacked by renewable energy rent seekers - pumping heavily subsidised, utterly unreliable and completely chaotic wind and solar - have watched their power prices double in a veritable heartbeat. … Continue reading Eco-Irony: Power-Starved Australian Households Switch to Scavenged Firewood to Beat Winter’s Chill
Renewables Rent-Seeker Round-Up: Time to Shame the Bad, the Worse & the Ugly
The next generation of Australians will be eager to string up those responsible for turning an energy superpower into an international joke. Coal, gas and uranium rich Australia shouldn’t be paying the highest power prices in the world; and it shouldn’t be cutting power to businesses and hospitals during hot weather, when demand spikes and … Continue reading Renewables Rent-Seeker Round-Up: Time to Shame the Bad, the Worse & the Ugly
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