*** Clueless and desperate, Australia’s political leaders are fiddling while Rome continues to burn. The calamity that is South Australia’s self-inflicted power pricing and supply chaos, threatens to spread across state borders like a malignant tumour. While State Labor governments in Queensland and Victoria continue to talk the talk about their desire to carpet their … Continue reading South Australia’s Repeated Wind Power Blackouts Force Retreat to Fossil-Fuels: Base-load Gas Plant Ordered to Run Constantly
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Frydenberg’s Folly: Australia’s Renewable Energy Target Destined to be Capped or Scrapped
When a policy is unsustainable, either it will collapse under its own ponderous weight, or its promoters will eventually be forced to scrap it. Australia’s Large-Scale Renewable Energy Target is just such a policy. In the cutting British satire, Extras, the hapless Andy Millman (Ricky Gervais) is always foiled by his gormless but lovable side-kick, … Continue reading Frydenberg’s Folly: Australia’s Renewable Energy Target Destined to be Capped or Scrapped
South Australia’s September Wind Power Blackout Cost Businesses & Households $367 Million
When, on 28 September this year, a run-of-the-mill spring storm brought buffeting winds to South Australia, wind speeds exceeded 25m/s (90km/h), the bulk of its 18 wind farms saw their turbines shutdown automatically to protect themselves from catastrophic self-destruction. Metropolitan Adelaide was without power for hours, regional centres without power for days and mines in … Continue reading South Australia’s September Wind Power Blackout Cost Businesses & Households $367 Million
In the Post Truth World Wind is Already ‘Powering’ the Globe for Free
The experts lie about renewable energy Herald Sun Terry McCrann 29 November 2016 THE first and most important thing to understand about global warming true believers and the pushers of so-called “renewable energy” is that they lie. They lie effortlessly, seamlessly, continuously and without the slightest sense of shame. They lie deliberately and carelessly and … Continue reading In the Post Truth World Wind is Already ‘Powering’ the Globe for Free
State of Emergency: South Australia’s Wind Power Crisis Hits Full-Scale Panic
It’s a little like watching the same train wreck, over and over again. South Australia’s power pricing and supply calamity is something that STT has been predicting for years. Now that the disaster has been realised, mainstream media are all over it like a tropical rash. In South Australia there is a pervasive sense of … Continue reading State of Emergency: South Australia’s Wind Power Crisis Hits Full-Scale Panic
Australia’s Energy Debacle: South Australia Just the First Victim of the LRET’s $45bn in Wind Power Subsidies & Fines
*** Last week saw Federal Energy and Environment Minister, Josh Frydenberg briefly float and then just as quickly scrap the idea of a ‘carbon’ credit trading scheme, which - as we set out in yesterday's post - counter-intuitively had the potential of avoiding a complete political disaster for the coalition. While a media scrum kicked … Continue reading Australia’s Energy Debacle: South Australia Just the First Victim of the LRET’s $45bn in Wind Power Subsidies & Fines
Frydenberg’s Carbon Credit Capers: Coalition Signals the End for Australia’s Renewable Energy Target & Wind Power
*** A week is an awfully long time in politics and, when the subject is Australia’s calamitous energy policy, it’s a veritable aeon. When Josh Frydenberg waltzed into the Energy and Environment Portfolio, STT tried to warn the ambitious colt from Kooyong that he had, in fact, just inherited a political poisoned chalice. Last week, … Continue reading Frydenberg’s Carbon Credit Capers: Coalition Signals the End for Australia’s Renewable Energy Target & Wind Power
South Australia’s Disastrous Wind Power Obsession Hits Crisis Point: Power Prices Rocket & More Summer Blackouts Beckon
STT has been slogging away on this battleground for nearly 4 years now. At times we’ve felt like a lone sniper taking on a German Panzer division. The dim-witted arts grads that double as 'journalists' in this country either actively joined with the wind cult in worshipping these things and crushing all those who had … Continue reading South Australia’s Disastrous Wind Power Obsession Hits Crisis Point: Power Prices Rocket & More Summer Blackouts Beckon
South Australia’s Disastrous Wind Power Experiment: Business Crippled as Power Prices Double
*** Power costs spike short-circuits onshore abalone growth The Australian Michael Owen & Verity Edwards 5 December 2016 The largest onshore abalone growing company in the southern hemisphere, whose power bill is set to rise by $650,000, has joined mining giant BHP Billiton in warning that unreliable and expensive energy costs in the southern states … Continue reading South Australia’s Disastrous Wind Power Experiment: Business Crippled as Power Prices Double
Trump’s War on Wind Power: Access to Cheap & Reliable Power an Economic Fundamental
If the election of Donald Trump holds any lesson at all, it's that energy costs and the security of its supply determine the economic and social health of any Nation, and ignoring that fact - by zealously pushing policies to the contrary - will end in tears for those foolish and arrogant enough to believe … Continue reading Trump’s War on Wind Power: Access to Cheap & Reliable Power an Economic Fundamental
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