**** STT has been delighted to report on the full-scale open rebellion that's erupted in Vermont - as nearly a hundred separate communities take up arms against chancers like David Blittersdorf - the recipient of a dead deer's head on his doorstep - and a band of bent political enablers that give oxygen to the … Continue reading Vermont’s Wind Farm Rebellion Rolls & Builds: Bogus Charge Against Top Community Defender – Annette Smith – Dropped
Category: Big wind politics
SA’s Wind Farm Fiasco: $Millions in Subsidies Thrown at GDF Suez to Reopen Mothballed Gas-Fired Power Plant
South Australia has the dubious honour of being referred to as “Australia’s wind farm capital”. That ‘accolade’ has brought with it rocketing power prices, an unstable grid and routine blackouts. As to the latter, South Australians are learning to live with daily ‘load-shedding’, that even its premier academic institutions have to suffer, along with thousands … Continue reading SA’s Wind Farm Fiasco: $Millions in Subsidies Thrown at GDF Suez to Reopen Mothballed Gas-Fired Power Plant
India’s Quest for ‘24/7 Reliable Power’ Means Munching More Coal, Not Praying for the Wind to Blow
**** Among the selfish conceits peddled by the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers is the notion that a wholly weather dependent power source - which is 4 times the cost of coal-fired power and which will always require 100% of its capacity to be backed up 100% of the time by conventional generation sources … Continue reading India’s Quest for ‘24/7 Reliable Power’ Means Munching More Coal, Not Praying for the Wind to Blow
Spain’s Subsidy Cut sees Wind Industry Collapse: NO Capacity Installed Since 2014
**** The Spanish wind industry faces its coup de grâce for the very same reason that the wind industry is on the ropes in the UK, Germany, the US, here and elsewhere: either the massive subsidies that have driven the greatest fraud of all time have actually been cut; or there’s the inevitable prospect that … Continue reading Spain’s Subsidy Cut sees Wind Industry Collapse: NO Capacity Installed Since 2014
Wind Power Will Never Keep the Lights On: Propaganda Obscures Truth About Where Your Power Really Comes From
Claims and delivery are a gulf apart, when what's put up by the wind and solar crowd is measured up against the hard cold facts that reside in 'reality-land'. With every new wind farm proposal we're told how this operation would 'power' a hundred thousand homes (for 'free') - although these days it's a line … Continue reading Wind Power Will Never Keep the Lights On: Propaganda Obscures Truth About Where Your Power Really Comes From
Wind Power Disaster: South Australians Grapple with Rocketing Power Prices, an Unstable Grid & Rolling Blackouts
**** In Australia's wind farm capital, South Australia the terms ‘chaos’ and ‘crisis’ are used to describe the aftermath of an energy policy ‘designed’ on desktops by dimwits, who haven’t got the faintest clue about how power generation works (or much else, for that matter). Wind power collapses and blackouts are now part of South … Continue reading Wind Power Disaster: South Australians Grapple with Rocketing Power Prices, an Unstable Grid & Rolling Blackouts
Wind Industry Still Wailing About ‘Uncertainty’ as Construction Finance ‘Drought’ Hits
Wind power outfits have now cottoned on to the fact (slow learners that they are) that Australia’s big power retailers have turned their backs on the wind to face the Sun, instead. The former second-hand car salesmen that front the wind industry are still coming to grips with the recalcitrance of commercial retailers (we don’t … Continue reading Wind Industry Still Wailing About ‘Uncertainty’ as Construction Finance ‘Drought’ Hits
Wind Power is a Perpetual Loser: Wherever These Things Get Planted
A little while back, the usual response from those opposed to wind farms was along the lines of: “we’re all in favour of renewable energy, so long as wind farms are built in the right place”. But that was before people understood the phenomenal cost of the subsidies directed at wind power through the mandatory … Continue reading Wind Power is a Perpetual Loser: Wherever These Things Get Planted
Governments Lying About Wind Turbine Noise: Ignorance No Defence to Claims Worth $Millions
**** As the number of cases launched against wind power outfits and the landholders who 'host' these things takes off, the government agencies that continue to run the wind industry line that the incessant turbine generated low-frequency noise and infrasound and the sleep deprivation it causes is all in the victims' heads (a former tobacco … Continue reading Governments Lying About Wind Turbine Noise: Ignorance No Defence to Claims Worth $Millions
Could the Wind Industry Get Any More Ridiculous?!?!
Sometimes, a picture is worth more than a thousand words: it's 'priceless'! Saturday Silliness – wind turbine photo of the year WattsUpWithThat Anthony Watts 23 January 2016 The entire rationale for wind turbines is to stop global warming by reducing the amount of CO2 being returned to the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels. … Continue reading Could the Wind Industry Get Any More Ridiculous?!?!