Claims that mega-batteries will fix wind and solar’s natural intermittency problem turn out to be mega-myths. First, lithium-ion batteries of the kind pitched by Tesla (see above) - like every kind of battery - do not generate a single watt of power and are net consumers of electricity during their charge/discharge phase. Second, they are … Continue reading Grand Delusion: Why Battery Storage Can’t Fix Wind & Solar’s Intermittency Problem
Category: Big wind industry
No Answer: Climate Change ‘Threat’ Can’t Be Cured By Intermittent Wind Power
It’s apparently gospel now, that man-made carbon dioxide gas is toxic “pollution” that - unless humans stop generating it ASAP - an inevitable Armageddon follows. The naturally occurring kind doesn’t register, however. In the next earnest breath, we are told that the only answer available to prevent our planet’s pending demise is to carpet its … Continue reading No Answer: Climate Change ‘Threat’ Can’t Be Cured By Intermittent Wind Power
Don’t Believe The Hype: Wind Power Remains Fastest Way to Waste Taxpayers’ Money
Hyperbole is the wind and solar industry’s preferred dialect. Long on promises and short on delivery, those that pretend we’ll all soon be running on nothing but sunshine and breezes have no interest in dealing with troublesome facts, such as sunset and/or calm weather. Grand, sweeping visions might work to a point, but, eventually, reality … Continue reading Don’t Believe The Hype: Wind Power Remains Fastest Way to Waste Taxpayers’ Money
Energy ‘Transition’ Built On Grand Delusion That Wind & Solar Power Is Cheap & Reliable
War is peace’, ‘freedom is slavery’ and ‘wind and solar power are cheap and reliable’. Big Brother and his Ministry of Truth would, no doubt, approve of the approach taken by rent-seeking crony capitalists and their political enablers to give the appearance of solidity to pure wind, and the impression that the sun shines 24 … Continue reading Energy ‘Transition’ Built On Grand Delusion That Wind & Solar Power Is Cheap & Reliable
Costly & Pathetic ‘Performance’: Thousands of Wind Turbines Being Replaced After 12 Years
Wind industry shills still make ludicrous claims about turbines running on the smell of an oily rag and lasting for 25 years or more, needing little more than a hug from time to time. They never talk about the operations and maintenance costs which - as reported by one Australian outfit Infigen - runs at … Continue reading Costly & Pathetic ‘Performance’: Thousands of Wind Turbines Being Replaced After 12 Years
Renewables Cult Accuse Weather of Conspiring Against Grand Wind & Solar ‘Transition’
Ideologues are quick to find a conspiracy, whenever their pet belief ultimately fails. So it is with the renewables cult - accusing mother nature of dishing up “dark doldrums”, or “dunkelflaute” (as the Germans call it) - with seemingly increasing regularity. Cloudy, calm weather is seen as a curse, and the lengthy absence of suitably … Continue reading Renewables Cult Accuse Weather of Conspiring Against Grand Wind & Solar ‘Transition’
Why 100% Wind & Solar 100% Guarantees Blackouts and Rocketing Power Prices
No civilised country has ever powered itself entirely with wind and solar; no country ever will. And yet the grand wind and solar ‘transition’ - being peddled by rent-seekers and crony capitalists - is still taken as an article of faith by the naïve and gullible. What is evident is the direct and unassailable relationship … Continue reading Why 100% Wind & Solar 100% Guarantees Blackouts and Rocketing Power Prices
Why Naturally Intermittent Wind & Solar Can Never Replace Coal, Gas & Nuclear
Europeans with any sense have woken up to the fact that the much-touted wind and solar ‘transition’ is a cruel hoax driven by cynical crony capitalists and their political enablers. Driven by starry-eyed ideology, rather than sound engineering and economics, the great ‘green’ reset fell apart because households, businesses and industries aren’t prepared to limit … Continue reading Why Naturally Intermittent Wind & Solar Can Never Replace Coal, Gas & Nuclear
Forget About Intermittent Wind & Solar If You Want Power As And When You Need It
As immutable laws, solar output collapses when the sun sets and wind power output collapses when calm weather sets in (and when wind speeds hit gale force and turbines automatically shut down). No amount of spin doctoring, varnishing or linguistic invention can undo them. Rafe Champion builds on those laws with his ‘iron triangle of … Continue reading Forget About Intermittent Wind & Solar If You Want Power As And When You Need It
Political Power Failure: 88% of Germans Reckon Wind & Solar ‘Transition’ Doomed to Failure
Germans were said to be rock-solid supporters of the grand ‘plan’ to run on nothing but wind and solar. Well, not anymore. Faced with Europe’s highest power prices (which are still rising at a staggering clip), routine power rationing and blackouts, the German populous seems to have fallen out of love with the notion of … Continue reading Political Power Failure: 88% of Germans Reckon Wind & Solar ‘Transition’ Doomed to Failure
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