Apart from literally burning cash, there is no faster way to squander money than by piling it into an offshore wind power project. It’s hardly news that the true cost of generating electricity using wind power is staggering; the cost of doing so offshore is astronomical. Instead of producing ‘free’ energy with purportedly ‘endless’ sea breezes, offshore … Continue reading Offshore Wind Power All at Sea: Danish Wind Farm Operator Suffers Massive Financial Losses
Category: Big wind politics
Get On With It: Australia’s Renewable Energy Calamity Screaming Out for Nuclear Power
In the midst of a RE-driven power pricing and supply calamity, the only thing worse than talking about nuclear energy, is not talking about nuclear energy. Australia has never had a nuclear power plant, and in 1998 placed an outright ban on nuclear power generation. Which seems a trifle odd, given Australia is the world’s … Continue reading Get On With It: Australia’s Renewable Energy Calamity Screaming Out for Nuclear Power
Fantasyland Fiction: Batteries Will Never Solve Wind & Solar’s Hopeless Intermittency
For almost a century, electricity generation and distribution were treated as a tightly integrated system: it was designed and built as one, and is meant to operate as designed. However, the chaotic delivery of wind and solar have all but trashed the electricity generation and delivery system, as we know it. Germany, South Australia, Texas … Continue reading Fantasyland Fiction: Batteries Will Never Solve Wind & Solar’s Hopeless Intermittency
Dashed Hopes: Wind & Solar Acolytes Horrified by Great Renewables-to-Hydrogen-Gas Hoax
Delusional, sure, but wind and solar worshippers are not altogether stupid. At least some of them have worked out that the ‘renewables-to-hydrogen’ story is an enormous hoax. The true eco-loon wants to do away with fossil fuels, and the sooner the better. However, it’s just dawned on them that hydrogen gas is just another fuel … Continue reading Dashed Hopes: Wind & Solar Acolytes Horrified by Great Renewables-to-Hydrogen-Gas Hoax
‘Green’ Monster: Biden’s Wind Power Plan Destroys Offshore Fisheries & Threatens Endangered Whales
Joe Biden and his Squad of wind worshipping lunatics are hellbent on destroying the livelihoods of America’s Atlantic fishermen, and much more besides. Endangered Right Whales are in the gun, as well. [Note to Ed: remember when lefties used to exhort us to Save the Whales?] Big spending Biden wants to squander untold $billions of … Continue reading ‘Green’ Monster: Biden’s Wind Power Plan Destroys Offshore Fisheries & Threatens Endangered Whales
Massive Subsidies For Wind & Solar ‘Industries’: The Never, Never, Never-Ending Story
Back in 1983 the American Wind Industry Association claimed that solar and wind would be “competitive and self-supporting on a national level by the end of the decade if assisted by tax credits and augmented by federally sponsored R&D”. That was over 37 years ago. And there was no lack of assistance in the form … Continue reading Massive Subsidies For Wind & Solar ‘Industries’: The Never, Never, Never-Ending Story
Why Intermittent Wind & Solar Will Never Amount to Serious Power Sources
Calm weather, sunset and the impossibility of economically storing electricity at grid scale, render wind and solar practically useless. For every MW of wind and solar capacity there has to be an equal MW of dispatchable generation capacity somewhere in the system, to allow the grid to function without total collapse. The inherent and chaotic … Continue reading Why Intermittent Wind & Solar Will Never Amount to Serious Power Sources
Total Joke: Australian Wind Farms Regularly Deliver Tiny Fraction of Their Total Capacity
If Australia’s wind turbine fleet hadn’t cost power consumers $20 billion to build, the joke would almost be funny. Spread from Far North Queensland to the West Coast of South Australia, on the Eastern Grid, Australia’s wind farms are located in 5 States: Tasmania, South Australia, Victoria, NSW and Queensland (see below). In SA they’re … Continue reading Total Joke: Australian Wind Farms Regularly Deliver Tiny Fraction of Their Total Capacity
Wanna Wreck Your Economy? Just Add Unreliable Subsidised Wind & Solar
Australia’s energy system is a diabolical mess, largely thanks to the Federal Government’s Renewable Energy Target. But the Feds can’t take all the blame, in all instances. A number of States - usually headed by Trotskyites, like Chairman Dan Andrews - are determined to destroy the last vestiges of their economies. What the Fed’s … Continue reading Wanna Wreck Your Economy? Just Add Unreliable Subsidised Wind & Solar
Let the Diggers Rest in Peace: French Wind Power Outfit Set to Desecrate Australian War Graves
The efforts by wind power outfits to desecrate the battlefield graves of thousands who died in France are nothing short of outrageous. Quite rightly, historians and the relatives and descendants of those who died fighting to protect French lives and liberty are furious as a French wind power outfit literally rips up a battlefield and … Continue reading Let the Diggers Rest in Peace: French Wind Power Outfit Set to Desecrate Australian War Graves
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