**** There are at least 2 critical dangers for flyers created by giant fans: 1) air turbulence – generated by a sea of 50-60m blades with their outer tips travelling at around 400km/h – interfering with the ability of the pilot to control their kite (see our post here); and 2) slamming into them – … Continue reading Wind Farm MET Masts Become Crop-Dusters’ Mortal Enemies
Category: Big wind industry
Wind Industry In Freefall: Wind Turbines Keep Dropping Like Flies & Hard Hats Won’t Help
**** A little while back we covered a spate of turbine collapses across the UK – terrorising locals not used to the sky-falling in around them on a regular basis (see our post here). And we recently covered the terror being wrought in schoolyards in Scotland by collapsing fans and flying blades in this post. … Continue reading Wind Industry In Freefall: Wind Turbines Keep Dropping Like Flies & Hard Hats Won’t Help
US Wind Power Outfit Whacked with $2.5 million Fine for Rampant Golden Eagle Slaughter
**** The rampant slaughter of millions of birds and bats - including rare, endangered and majestic species, like America's iconic bald and golden eagles - is one of the many 'inconvenient' facts that moves the wind industry to lie like fury and - when the corpses can no longer be hidden and the lying fails … Continue reading US Wind Power Outfit Whacked with $2.5 million Fine for Rampant Golden Eagle Slaughter
Banks Refuse to Lend for Properties Neighbouring Wind Farms
**** Wherever giant fans have gone up – or are threatened to go up – neighbouring homeowners are finding that the value of their properties is being slashed in half – if they can find a willing buyer at all. Scottish real estate agents trying to sell homes situated anywhere near giant fans are finding … Continue reading Banks Refuse to Lend for Properties Neighbouring Wind Farms
German Wind Power’s ‘Titanic’ Debacle: Bright Future for Coal Guaranteed, as Wind Power Investors Get Fleeced
**** The Germans went into wind power harder and faster than anyone else – and the cost of doing so is catching up with a vengeance. The subsidies have been colossal, the impacts on the electricity market chaotic and – contrary to the environmental purpose of the policy – CO2 emissions are rising fast: if … Continue reading German Wind Power’s ‘Titanic’ Debacle: Bright Future for Coal Guaranteed, as Wind Power Investors Get Fleeced
Merry Christmas to you & Happy Second Birthday to STT
Merry Christmas and Season's Greetings to all of our dedicated band of followers, all around the World. And it’s Happy Birthday to STT: Boxing Day 2014 marks 2 years of giving the beleaguered wind industry and its dwindling band of parasites and spruikers hell. We’ve clocked over 637,000 views and given our loyal readers 827 … Continue reading Merry Christmas to you & Happy Second Birthday to STT
Exposure of UK’s Wind Power’s Crippling Costs sees Britain’s “Greenblob” Turn to Doublethink & Doublespeak
**** Britain's energy policy is a debacle. It's been driven by Marxist zealots of the hard-'green'-left - branded the "Greenblob" by the reasonable and honest folks in politics, like Owen Paterson (see our post here). The Greenblob have set Britain up for an inevitable economic disaster, by wedding its increasingly bleak future to insanely expensive, … Continue reading Exposure of UK’s Wind Power’s Crippling Costs sees Britain’s “Greenblob” Turn to Doublethink & Doublespeak
Why Wind Power MWs Will Never Be Equal
All megawatts are not equal Judithcurry.com By Planning Engineer 11 December 2014 Some of the Climate Etc. denizens have requested a post on the generation planning process to help them better understand cost issues surrounding the large scale addition and integration of renewable resources. The major takeaway is that differing types of generating resources bring … Continue reading Why Wind Power MWs Will Never Be Equal
Gravity Bringing Wind Power to its Knees: Blades Keep Flying, as Farmers & Schoolkids Learn to Run & Duck for Cover
**** A little while back we covered a spate of turbine collapses across the UK – terrorising locals not used to the sky-falling in around them on a regular basis (see our post here). And we’ve dealt with the increasing numbers of turbine blades that routinely unshackle themselves in bids for airborne freedom, troublesome events, … Continue reading Gravity Bringing Wind Power to its Knees: Blades Keep Flying, as Farmers & Schoolkids Learn to Run & Duck for Cover
Sex, Lies and Videotape: NextEra “Won” Wind Farm Approval by getting its Operative to Bonk Top Government Adviser
We’ve reported on just how rotten the wind industry is – from top to bottom – and whether it’s bribery and fraud; vote rigging scandals; tax fraud; investor fraud or REC fraud – wind weasels set a uniform standard that would make most businessman blush. Struggling Danish fan maker, Vestas set the benchmark a while … Continue reading Sex, Lies and Videotape: NextEra “Won” Wind Farm Approval by getting its Operative to Bonk Top Government Adviser
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