For more than 15 years renewables rent seekers have been peddling the myth that wind and solar power are practically free, and getting cheaper all the time. As Australian power consumers anxiously crack open the envelopes that contain power bills guaranteed to shock over the next few weeks, the crushing bottom line staring back in … Continue reading Politics of Power: Queensland Voters Blame Subsidised Renewables for Rocketing Power Prices
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South Australia’s Renewable Energy Fiasco: Wind ‘Powered’ State to Run On Diesel-Fuelled Jet Engines
If South Australia were a novel, it would find itself a place amongst the classic tragic comedies. For a while the bromance between its vapid Premier, Jay Weatherill and Californian carpetbagger, Elon Musk might’ve earned a place in the ‘rom/com’ category, as well. However, now that Jay Weatherill is determined to keep the lights … Continue reading South Australia’s Renewable Energy Fiasco: Wind ‘Powered’ State to Run On Diesel-Fuelled Jet Engines
Renewable Energy Policy in South Australia & Ontario: ‘Simply Murder’
STT is not sure whether it’s just an Australian thing, but about 30 years ago capital cities around the country set out to find an international doppelgänger somewhere else in the world, willing to be referred to as their ‘Sister City’. Adelaide, the capital of that beleaguered economic backwater, South Australia has four of them: … Continue reading Renewable Energy Policy in South Australia & Ontario: ‘Simply Murder’
Power Prices in Wind ‘Powered’ South Australia Double the Price of Power in Nuclear Powered France
As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. The picture above speaks volumes about the real cost of wind and solar power to the people that really matter: power consumers. Before we unpack some of the gems glittering in the power price league table above, we’ll hand over to one of the few … Continue reading Power Prices in Wind ‘Powered’ South Australia Double the Price of Power in Nuclear Powered France
RET Protection Racket: PM Puts Retailers on ‘Double Secret Probation’ for Price ‘Gouging’
Australia’s self-inflicted power pricing and supply calamity lunges from the patently absurd to the utterly ridiculous. In the week just gone, Australia’s patrician and aloof PM, Malcolm Turnbull dragged the heads of Australia’s electricity retailers to Canberra for a shellacking that was supposed to impress Australia’s battered and beleaguered power consumers. To STT though, … Continue reading RET Protection Racket: PM Puts Retailers on ‘Double Secret Probation’ for Price ‘Gouging’
Battered: America’s Hoary Bats Belted to Kingdom Come by Wind Turbines
Salthaven Wildlife Rehabilitation & Education Centres is a non-profit organisation that feed, house and rehabilitate sick, injured and orphaned wildlife in Canada. Brian Salt penned this plea for help, no doubt moved by the miserable plight of one of his patients. Salthaven's Patient of the Week: Gone with the wind The Londoner Brian Salt 4 … Continue reading Battered: America’s Hoary Bats Belted to Kingdom Come by Wind Turbines
Wind Industry’s Dirty Little Secret: Turbines to Generate 40 Million Tonnes of Toxic Waste
Environmentalists of the kind lovingly called ‘tree huggers’ (rather than wind turbine worshippers) are finally cottoning on to the fact that the wind industry is anything but the ‘clean, green’ energy source its proponents claim it to be. In this piece, Emily Wade makes her indignation palpable; it’s almost as if she’s been played for … Continue reading Wind Industry’s Dirty Little Secret: Turbines to Generate 40 Million Tonnes of Toxic Waste
The Sum of All Costs: Counting the True Costs of Intermittent Wind & Solar Power
Researchers have been underestimating the cost of wind and solar Our Finite World Gail Tverberg 22 July 2017 How should electricity from wind turbines and solar panels be evaluated? Should it be evaluated as if these devices are stand-alone devices? Or do these devices provide electricity that is of such low quality, because of its intermittency … Continue reading The Sum of All Costs: Counting the True Costs of Intermittent Wind & Solar Power
American Backlash Against Big Wind: States Cut Subsidies & Ban New Wind Power Projects
If your understanding of the world is limited to what’s printed in the mainstream press, you’d be forgiven for thinking that rural folk can’t wait to nuzzle up to 300 tonne Vestas, with 70m blades towering 180m above them. Step out of the inner-city comfort zone, and the picture is just a little different. In … Continue reading American Backlash Against Big Wind: States Cut Subsidies & Ban New Wind Power Projects
Debunking the 100% Renewables Fantasy: Running on Sunshine & Breezes – Pure Nonsense
In the heavy metal mockumentary, This is Spinal Tap, the band’s himbo front man, Nigel Tufnel struggles with almost everything, including bringing his grating, 8 minute guitar solos to an end. For Nigel, 10 isn’t enough - his Marshall amp has to go one better (see the video above). The painful exchange between Tufnel … Continue reading Debunking the 100% Renewables Fantasy: Running on Sunshine & Breezes – Pure Nonsense
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