**** After years of being lied to, bullied, berated and treated like fools (at best) and “road-kill” (at worst), for most, the ‘gloss’ comprising wind industry PR efforts to ‘win hearts and minds’ has well and truly worn off. These days, the communities aren’t so gullible; they aren’t so welcoming; and they aren’t willing to … Continue reading Community Defenders Bomb Wind Farm in the Philippines
Category: Big wind politics
Wind Turbine Rollout Turns Californian Desert from Dream to Nightmare
**** Stop ruining our priceless desert in the name of the big 'E' The Bakersfield Californian Girard Fisher 1 March 2016 Ever been to Nipton? It’s a whistle stop on the northern edge of the Mojave National Preserve. It’s as far west of the California state line as nearby Primm, Nev., is east. In other … Continue reading Wind Turbine Rollout Turns Californian Desert from Dream to Nightmare
Working a ‘Steam Up’: Baseload Renewables Leave Wind Power for Dead
**** Nuclear power is the only stand-alone thermal power source that is base-load, which does not emit CO2 emissions, while providing what we all justifiably crave: power on demand. It’s true that geothermal falls into the same category, but away from volcanic zones (think New Zealand and Iceland) depends on accessing “hot-rocks” deep underground – … Continue reading Working a ‘Steam Up’: Baseload Renewables Leave Wind Power for Dead
Wind & Solar Power can NEVER Replace Conventional Power Generation
**** The death of the wind industry didn't come about because BIG Coal felt 'threatened' and set out in some kind of John Grisham conspiracy to wreck it by fair means or foul. No. What kills it is the fact that a growing band of 'eco-travellers' - of the kind who once placed their faith … Continue reading Wind & Solar Power can NEVER Replace Conventional Power Generation
The Fantasy of Storing Wind Power: No Commercial System Exists & None is Likely
**** The wind industry is the perpetual infant of power generation: always looking for the subsidies to last that little bit longer; always promising to improve its performance; always claiming it will outdo hydro, coal and gas – provided, of course, that the subsidies keep flowing. STT for one thinks the wind industry has had … Continue reading The Fantasy of Storing Wind Power: No Commercial System Exists & None is Likely
Polish Power Consumers & Property Owners Demand & Get New Criminal Rules to Jail Wind Farm Developers
**** Wind Farms Now Come With the Threat of Jail Bloomberg Business Jessica Shankleman 3 March 2016 Poland's proposed rules may cost industry $38 million a year Legislation would apply to existing renewable plants One of Europe’s most promising markets for renewable energy is being threatened by legislation that would impose new fees and potential … Continue reading Polish Power Consumers & Property Owners Demand & Get New Criminal Rules to Jail Wind Farm Developers
Britain’s Wind Power Debacle: Wind Power Outfits Paid £200 Million a Year for Producing NO Power at All
**** Pinning its hopes to a wholly weather dependent power source - that requires 100% of its capacity to be backed up 100% of the time by conventional generation sources - Britain's energy 'policy' was never going to end well. Already faced with an unstable grid and rocketing power prices thanks to its gamble on … Continue reading Britain’s Wind Power Debacle: Wind Power Outfits Paid £200 Million a Year for Producing NO Power at All
Power Punters Pay and Pay: $Billions Squandered on Wholly Weather-Dependent Wind Power
**** Squandering other peoples’ money on pointless power sources is the new ‘black’ for politicians pocketing the ‘grease’ thrown at them by wind power outfits and the votes of fawning wind worshippers. The only loser on the ‘trade’ is the long-forgotten power punter - forced to pay double for a power source with NO commercial … Continue reading Power Punters Pay and Pay: $Billions Squandered on Wholly Weather-Dependent Wind Power
Britain’s Wind Power ‘Leap of Faith’
The dimwits from DECCs, that coupled Britain's energy future to wind power, are calling on Britons to trust them in an almighty 'Leap of Faith'. With aging, beyond their use by date, coal-fired power plants being closed this year, British power punters are being promised, by the very idiots that created the mess, that everything … Continue reading Britain’s Wind Power ‘Leap of Faith’
MIT Study Shows Wind Power Can NEVER Compete with Conventional Sources
In their sillier moments, the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers pitch the line that their pointless product is not only getting cheaper all the time, but go so far as to claim that wind power is already cheaper than gas and coal-fired power. Risible PR antics aside, the wind industry has always had a … Continue reading MIT Study Shows Wind Power Can NEVER Compete with Conventional Sources