South Australia’s Risible RET Rescue: Giant $150m Tesla Battery to Power SA for 4 Minutes

*** South Australia’s wind powered energy calamity hit high farce in the week just gone. Its vapid Premier, Jay Weatherill proved the adage that when you’re in a hole it’s best to stop digging; except that he didn’t - and, instead, determined to dig into taxpayers’ empty pockets. Faced with a looming electoral disaster 12 … Continue reading South Australia’s Risible RET Rescue: Giant $150m Tesla Battery to Power SA for 4 Minutes

How Green Hypocrites Use Energy Illiteracy to Prey on the Gullible and Naive

In Australia, at least, education has been reduced to helping our little darlings understand why they feel the way they do. The hard graft of maths and science has given way to gender theory. Little wonder that the current generation have no idea how energy is produced, how much is consumed and who or what … Continue reading How Green Hypocrites Use Energy Illiteracy to Prey on the Gullible and Naive

Australian Wind Lobby Joins Massive Opposition to Threatened Jupiter Wind Farm

*** Nothing generates more hatred and bitter community division than a wind farm. While all eyes are on Australia's brewing energy catastrophe and the Large-Scale RET that caused it, it's easy to forget that the battle against the great wind power fraud is still being fought town by town and community by community, in the … Continue reading Australian Wind Lobby Joins Massive Opposition to Threatened Jupiter Wind Farm

Power Costs Crippling Business: Australia’s Renewable Target is an Economic Suicide Pact

In much the same way that a multiple truck and car pileup on a freeway draws a growing throng of gawping onlookers, Australia’s energy debacle is attracting a whole new class of journalist to the mounting carnage. The latest to join them is the dour and humourless Paul Kelly. Kelly, Editor-at-Large for The Australian has … Continue reading Power Costs Crippling Business: Australia’s Renewable Target is an Economic Suicide Pact

Born Lucky: Stars Align Perfectly for PM’s Son with Mammoth Bet on Wind Power Outfit Infigen

Life is a lottery. And lottery winners are a mixed bag. Sometimes it’s that battler from Bundaberg who scoops the jackpot, immediately pays off the mortgages of his mates and buys five identical V8 Holden Commodores. On other occasions, the lottery was won at birth. Sometimes the advantage of parentage is immediate and other times … Continue reading Born Lucky: Stars Align Perfectly for PM’s Son with Mammoth Bet on Wind Power Outfit Infigen

Retailers’ Call for ‘Emissions Intensity Scheme’ Signals End for Australia’s Renewable Energy Target

Willing to be accused of stating the bleeding obvious, electricity retailers aren’t in the business of not selling power; they’re in the business of selling power, at a profitable margin, to as many customers as possible. Power retailers in Australia have just come to the horrifying realisation that, with rocketing power prices and an increasingly … Continue reading Retailers’ Call for ‘Emissions Intensity Scheme’ Signals End for Australia’s Renewable Energy Target

Australia’s Power Policy FAIL: Runaway Renewable Energy Target Destroying Business, Industry & Jobs

*** In the, ‘it seemed like a good idea at the time’ category, Australia’s Renewable Energy Target has turned toxic. Costly and pointless at the same time, the massive subsidies directed to wind and solar power have not only destroyed once affordable and reliable power supplies, they are inevitably destroying not just otherwise viable businesses, … Continue reading Australia’s Power Policy FAIL: Runaway Renewable Energy Target Destroying Business, Industry & Jobs

Economic Carnage: SA’s Rocketing Power Prices Crippling Miners, Bakers & Brewers Alike

*** With the exception of the wind industry, South Australia's hapless Labor government will never be accused of economic favouritism: it treats all of its business owners with utter contempt. Rocketing power prices, routine load shedding and blackouts affect miners, bakers and brewers, alike. BHP Billiton warns for crisis in power market The Australian Matt … Continue reading Economic Carnage: SA’s Rocketing Power Prices Crippling Miners, Bakers & Brewers Alike

Renewables Revolt: Australians Refuse to Pay One Cent More for Wind & Solar

Among the mantras that feature in wind industry propaganda is the line about Australians being all in favour of renewable energy. That may well be. However, the wind cult are having a hard time convincing the thousands of South Australians who are often left sitting freezing or boiling in the dark - whenever wind power … Continue reading Renewables Revolt: Australians Refuse to Pay One Cent More for Wind & Solar

Australia’s Power Grid Groans: Wind Power Obsession Threatens Lives & Livelihoods

Vain and dishonest, former Labor PM (and Muppet-in-Chief), Kevin Rudd has a lot to answer for. When his predecessor, Liberal PM, John Howard brought in a renewable energy target in 2001, it was set at a tokenistic 2%: clearly a sop to the wind cult, but for Australian businesses and families, a 'nothing to see … Continue reading Australia’s Power Grid Groans: Wind Power Obsession Threatens Lives & Livelihoods