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

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

More MET Mast Mayhem: Community Defenders Drop Mast in Fight to Save Homes near Bangor, Maine

**** The MET masts used by developers to gauge wind speeds are the vanguard for every wind farm disaster: no MET mast data, no wind farm. As soon as they go up, the locals circle their wagons, marshal their forces and declare war on the developer. No surprises there. With the wind industry on the … Continue reading More MET Mast Mayhem: Community Defenders Drop Mast in Fight to Save Homes near Bangor, Maine

Crooks & Corruption Rule: What is it with the Wind Industry?

The wind industry seems to attract a particular class of bloke, in much the same way that the Prohibition era drew lots of heavy-set Italians to the Mob. Maybe that seemingly endless stream of massive subsidies filched from taxpayers and power consumers generates the same allure as festering dung does for swarms of flies? Whatever … Continue reading Crooks & Corruption Rule: What is it with the Wind Industry?

Greg Hunt (“Dumb”) & Ian Macfarlane (“Dumber”) Out to Send ALL Australians Into Power Price Penury

Ian "Macca" Macfarlane and his youthful ward, Greg Hunt are the flies in the Coalition's political ointment, when it comes to engineering anything like a sensible policy on energy. Both Macfarlane's and Hunt's offices are filled with wind industry plants and stooges, like Vesta's Ken McAlpine's best mate, Patrick Gibbons; and both Macca and Hunt … Continue reading Greg Hunt (“Dumb”) & Ian Macfarlane (“Dumber”) Out to Send ALL Australians Into Power Price Penury