Among the dwindling band of deluded wind and sun worshippers, no two words are more prone to send them into apoplexy than ‘South Australia’. Held up as the example of how to run an economy on sunshine and breezes (sprinkled with a liberal dose of pixie dust and batteries that cost $150 million to power … Continue reading Guilty: Subsidised Wind & Solar Drive Australia’s Rocketing Retail Power Prices
Category: Australia
Turnbull’s Trilemma: PM’s Power to Rise (or Fall) with National Energy Guarantee
The reason that Australian governments give for policies set to squander $60 billion in subsidies on wind and solar power is a three-way mission to deliver (1) reliable, (2) affordable and (3) low-CO2-emissions electricity. After the debacle that’s played out in Australia’s wind power capital, South Australia, the odds of that trifecta ever becoming a … Continue reading Turnbull’s Trilemma: PM’s Power to Rise (or Fall) with National Energy Guarantee
‘Green’ Premiers Red-Faced: Wind Power Fiasco Ends in Dirty Diesel Debacle
Australia’s ludicrous attempt to run on sunshine and breezes sometimes reads like the farcical plot of an episode of Blackadder or Fawlty Towers. In a ‘you couldn’t make this up if you tried’ moment, Australia’s ‘greenest’ States, Victoria and South Australia (which has been forced to wear its mantle as ‘Australia’s wind power capital’, … Continue reading ‘Green’ Premiers Red-Faced: Wind Power Fiasco Ends in Dirty Diesel Debacle
Outrageous Wind Farm Plan for Battlefield Graveyard Draws Fury from French & Australians
The wind industry is shameless: a plan to spear 6 turbines into the WWI Battlefield of Bullecourt, in Northern France has caused justifiable outrage in France, among those who still recognise the immeasurable sacrifice made by Australian infantrymen in their efforts to set France free from tyranny, a Century ago. However, that pales with the … Continue reading Outrageous Wind Farm Plan for Battlefield Graveyard Draws Fury from French & Australians
Armageddon Beckons: National Energy Guarantee Crushes Australia’s Wind Industry
Renewables rent-seekers are nothing if not sore losers. A heartbeat ago it seemed as if the subsidies for renewables would last until kingdom come, and wind and solar power outfits could get away with the completely unpredictable and haphazardly occasional ‘delivery’ of power at ridiculous prices. Now, PM, Malcolm Turnbull’s National Energy Guarantee has turned … Continue reading Armageddon Beckons: National Energy Guarantee Crushes Australia’s Wind Industry
Wind & Sun Undone: 100% Renewables Claims Complete Fantasy
In their sillier moments, wind and sun worshippers claim that, if only fossil fuel guzzling, climate-deniers would get out of their way, nature’s ‘wonder fuels’ could provide 100% of everybody’s energy needs, now and until kingdom come. However, in the global scheme of things, the contribution from wind and solar power barely registers, and amounts … Continue reading Wind & Sun Undone: 100% Renewables Claims Complete Fantasy
Shameless: French Wind Power Outfit, Engie Determined to Desecrate Battlefield Graveyard
On this day, at the 11th hour, 99 years ago the guns fell silent all across the Western Front. Remembrance Day in Australia doesn’t just mark an outbreak of poppies in lapels, it marks the end of what was meant to be the War to end all Wars. STT’s grandfathers served with the AIF … Continue reading Shameless: French Wind Power Outfit, Engie Determined to Desecrate Battlefield Graveyard
Wind Power: Unfolding Environmental Disaster – Entire Ecosystems Collapsing
As STT followers are well-aware, this site doesn’t mince its words: wind power is the greatest economic and environmental fraud in human history. Pull the subsidies, and this so-called ‘industry’ would disappear in a heartbeat. For the best part of 20 years, the wind cult has attempted to justify the hundreds of $billions squandered on … Continue reading Wind Power: Unfolding Environmental Disaster – Entire Ecosystems Collapsing
Politics of Power: ‘Green’ Energy May Be ‘Wonderful’ – But Nobody Wants to Pay for Being ‘Green’ or Feeling ‘Wonderful’
As that great frog-philosopher, Kermit reckoned, it isn't easy being 'green'. It is even harder when the cost of attempting to do so is, quite literally, crippling. Back in July, a family-owned specialist plastics recycling company in South Australia was forced to close its doors for good, with the loss of 35 jobs, after … Continue reading Politics of Power: ‘Green’ Energy May Be ‘Wonderful’ – But Nobody Wants to Pay for Being ‘Green’ or Feeling ‘Wonderful’
Wrong Bet: Unreliable, Intermittent, Subsidised Wind & Solar Odds-on Losers
It’s said that you can’t keep a good man down and, in that respect, Ian Plimer is simply irrepressible. His latest book, The Climate Delusion and The Great Electricity Rip-off is jumping off the shelves. A précis (and where to purchase it) appears in our post here: Ian Plimer: The Climate Change Delusion and The … Continue reading Wrong Bet: Unreliable, Intermittent, Subsidised Wind & Solar Odds-on Losers
