The crony capitalists still profiteering from the great wind and solar scam have met their match with Donald J Trump. The 47th President of the USA has become their very worst nightmare. And the effects are global, with the US (almost total) collapse in investment in wind and solar capacity spreading fast. One of the … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 8 February 2026
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Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 1 February 2026
Every single country that embraced chaotically intermittent and heavily subsidised wind and solar is suffering from out-of-control power prices. No exceptions. Not one. The harder and faster they went, the more sudden the inevitable power pricing and supply calamity that follows. Germany, California, Denmark, South Australia are just the most obvious examples. Which brings us … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 1 February 2026
Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 18 January 2026
When ideologues told us that wind and solar would ‘set the world on fire’, they should have been taken literally. When these things aren’t imploding in 300 tonne whirling conflagrations, the mega-batteries that are supposed to ‘back them up’ are secretly plotting their own toxic and exciting, spontaneous combustion events. Which brings us to this … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 18 January 2026
Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 28 December 2025
When power unites with passion, the destruction of the US wind industry is what you get. President Donald J Trump has the power and hates these things with a passion. The knock-on effect across the globe - for wind power outfits, construction companies and turbine makers - has been utterly devastating. Their share prices have … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 28 December 2025
Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 21 December 2025
Merry Christmas to our dedicated fans, followers and supporters. As 2025 draws to a close, rent-seekers are left licking their wounds, after an altogether disastrous year for those crony capitalists still hoping to profit from the massive subsidies once available for intermittent wind and solar. Donald Trump deserves a serious lump of the credit for … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 21 December 2025
Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 16 November 2025
The offshore wind industry is facing wholesale slaughter. Donald Trump has turned the tables on the offshore wind scam, which has been merrily slaughtering whales, dolphins and more with complete impunity. Now it’s the offshore wind scammers who face brutal annihilation. Dozens of planned projects, involving thousands of turbines have been shelved. The effect on … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 16 November 2025
Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 26 October 2025
In the USA, wholesale carnage across the entire wind industry apace. While Donald J Trump can take his fair share of the credit, rocketing costs and anxious investors are doing their bit to bring the great wind power fraud to its knees. Which brings us to this week’s roundup, with Irina Slav reporting on yet … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 26 October 2025
Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 5 October 2025
Once upon a time, offshore wind power was seen as a subsidy Bonanza that would outlast religion. That was then. This is now. The Trump administration has all but destroyed the promise and is well advanced in its efforts to destroy the threatened disasters in the making. Which brings us to this week’s roundup. A … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 5 October 2025
Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 27 July 2025
Slash the massive subsidies and the so-called wind and solar ‘industries’ would disappear in a heartbeat. The chaotic delivery of part-time power has never made any sense. And the world is waking up to that unassailable fact. Which brings us to this week’s roundup, starting the team from Jo Nova reporting on BP’s moment of … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 27 July 2025
Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 1 June 2025
The subsidised wind and solar chickens are coming home to roost - power prices are rocketing out of control in any jurisdiction attempting to run on sunshine and breezes. Adding mega-batteries only makes matters worse. With the ever-present threat of total blackouts, rent-seekers and their propaganda machines are still attempting to deflect and bury what … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 1 June 2025