South Australia is where the wind industry got going in Australia; and the inevitable and disastrous results of South Australia’s ludicrous attempt to run itself on the whims of the weather mean that South Australia is the place where the wind industry meets its doom. No commercial power retailer in their right mind is going … Continue reading Why Wind Power is Slaughtering South Australia: In-a-Nutshell
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Rural Germans Revolt Against Wind Power Roll-Out: Farmers Sabotage Wind Projects
Far from being in love with these things - as the gullible press here would have us believe - the Germans that are forced to endure them, hate them just as much as everyone else in the World. In this wrap up of a report from Die Welt by NoTricksZone, set-upon rural Germans have had - … Continue reading Rural Germans Revolt Against Wind Power Roll-Out: Farmers Sabotage Wind Projects
Irish Eyes Ain’t Smiling: Wind Power Push Sends Power Prices Into Orbit
The political lunatics in charge of Ireland's wind powered energy debacle are about to reap the reality of what they have sown. Despite all that puff and guff about wind power being free, and getting cheaper all the time, the Irish have just been told that the Public Service Obligation (a levy tacked on power bills … Continue reading Irish Eyes Ain’t Smiling: Wind Power Push Sends Power Prices Into Orbit
US Threat to Wind Power Subsidies Reveals Last Great Ponzi Scheme
STT has likened it to the great corporate Ponzi schemes, pointing out, just once or twice, that the wind industry is little more than the most recent and elaborate effort to fleece gullible investors, in a list that dates back to “corporate investment classics”, like the South-Sea Bubble and Dutch tulip mania. In the wind … Continue reading US Threat to Wind Power Subsidies Reveals Last Great Ponzi Scheme
Wind Power Debacle: South Australia an International Joke
*** South Australia is, thanks to its ludicrous attempt to run on sunshine and breezes, now on the World stage: for all the wrong reasons. With total and totally unpredictable collapses in its wind power output, SA is now accustomed to routine load-shedding (dropping suburbs and whole regions off the grid to keep the rest … Continue reading Wind Power Debacle: South Australia an International Joke
Robert Bryce: New York’s Wind Power-Play Smacks Into Reality
New York State's Governor is grappling with a confirmed case of 'Wind Turbine Syndrome', the obvious signs of which are that he's hell-bent on following the path set by the Germans and South Australians on the road to economic and social disaster. However, unlike the lunatics in charge of those energy calamities, before he has … Continue reading Robert Bryce: New York’s Wind Power-Play Smacks Into Reality
Wind Industry’s Bird & Bat Slaughter: Canadians Expose the ‘Unhelpful’ Numbers
The wind industry and its parasites have – from the outset – pitched these things as a “planet saving, clean, green and environmentally friendly technology”; which doesn’t quite gel with the wholesale slaughter of birds and bats. Let’s call it an “inconvenient truth” (see our post here). Were anyone caught shooting eagles or other protected … Continue reading Wind Industry’s Bird & Bat Slaughter: Canadians Expose the ‘Unhelpful’ Numbers
Fry-day Funnies: Wind Turbines ‘Explode’ onto the World Energy Stage
Only the Germans could come up with a single word to capture the churlish sentiment of feeling a sense of malicious glee at another’s downfall. It’s a sentiment pouring from this recent Tweet from STT Champion, James Delingpole. https://twitter.com/JamesDelingpole/status/761596079079100416 Which led us to these glee-giving videos. While their capacity for self-immolation is well-known; as with … Continue reading Fry-day Funnies: Wind Turbines ‘Explode’ onto the World Energy Stage
SA’s Wind Power Debacle: Opportunity Knocks for More Subsidy-Sucking Rent Seekers
Investment is not always good Catallaxy files Judith Sloan 29 July 2016 Since the return of the Labor-lite Turnbull government – or should that just be Labor – the rent-seekers in the renewable energy space have been out and about. No doubt, the South Australian debacle has thrown a spanner in the works, but the … Continue reading SA’s Wind Power Debacle: Opportunity Knocks for More Subsidy-Sucking Rent Seekers
South Australia’s Wind Power Obsession an Economic Suicide Pact
Alan Moran gets it. Setting a cult-like feel-good power policy, obsessed with wind power isn't just fanciful nonsense, it's nothing short of an economic suicide pact. Here's how things are playing out in Australia's "wind power capital", South Australia. Renewable energy demanding a high price for unreliability The Australian Financial Review Alan Moran 29 July … Continue reading South Australia’s Wind Power Obsession an Economic Suicide Pact