*** 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
Category: Big wind politics
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
South Africa Slams the Door on Wind Power: Nuclear Powered Future Beckons
*** STT followers might have tumbled to the fact that we’ve been pretty heavily focused on SA over the last month. However, in this post, we head a few thousand clicks, west across the Indian Ocean to another ‘SA’; this time South Africa, which appears entirely sensible enough to be able to avoid the power … Continue reading South Africa Slams the Door on Wind Power: Nuclear Powered Future Beckons
Bulk Battery Storage of Wind Power a Myth: With No Storage California Dumps Mountains of Wind & Solar Power
As the wind power debacle unfolds in South Australia - leaving it with an erratic power supply and rocketing power prices - one of the mythical solutions being peddled is that South Australia need only pop out to the shops and pick up a few terawatt/hours worth of battery storage. The way it is being … Continue reading Bulk Battery Storage of Wind Power a Myth: With No Storage California Dumps Mountains of Wind & Solar Power
Wind Power Calamity Leaves South Australia an International Laughing Stock
*** Only a few months ago, Labor Premier, Jay Weatherill was in Paris spruiking up SA’s wind powered credentials; and cooing about his plans for a 50% Renewable Energy Target. That was then, this is now. His distraught Energy Minister, Tom Koutsantonis is at wits end, as he attempts to placate furious business leaders faced … Continue reading Wind Power Calamity Leaves South Australia an International Laughing Stock
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews Sanctions Mass Brolga Slaughter by Approving Dundonnell Wind Farm
Daniel Andrews’ wind farm plan will add to bird deaths Herald Sun Terry McCrann 25 July 2016 LAST week Premier Daniel Andrews made a very big deal of launching a new wind farm near Dundonnell in Victoria’s southwest. It was going to create 300 direct (and, ahem, indirect) jobs in construction and a massive — … Continue reading Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews Sanctions Mass Brolga Slaughter by Approving Dundonnell Wind Farm
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