The subsidised wind and solar chickens are coming home to roost - power prices are rocketing out of control in any jurisdiction attempting to run on sunshine and breezes. Adding mega-batteries only makes matters worse. With the ever-present threat of total blackouts, rent-seekers and their propaganda machines are still attempting to deflect and bury what … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 1 June 2025
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Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 6 April 2025
With Donald Trump’s tariff-led geopolitical strategy in train, watch countries rapidly ditch their obsession with chaotically intermittent wind and solar. Cheap and reliable energy is, always and everywhere, the key to competing in the global marketplace. That’s precisely why China dominates in manufacturing all of the stuff that the West consumes and uses. And within … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 6 April 2025
Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 16 February 2025
Thanks to Donald J Trump, wind and solar rent-seekers are facing total Armageddon - pro-reliable and affordable energy bloggers are having a field day. First up, Roger Caiazza smashes the “wind is always blowing somewhere” myth with data gathered from across the USA, proving (if ever there was any doubt) that wind (and its sunshine-dependent … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 16 February 2025
Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 9 February 2025
As wind power output across the UK continues to plummet, Matt Ridley smashes the notion that Britain is on the brink of wind and solar Nirvana, noting Britain’s so-called energy policy has turned to a risible farce. Britain’s net zero, green energy madness is set for a head-on collision with reality The Telegraph Matt Ridley … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 9 February 2025
Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 2 February 2025
Donald Trump’s efforts to destroy the wind industry continue apace. The President has made no secret of his disdain for these things, and the subsidies that rent seekers have gouged from power consumers and taxpayers over the last generation. The video above paints a picture of a man ready to Stop These Things, as to … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 2 February 2025
Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 26 January 2025
As Donald J Trump tells the world that America’s “not gonna do the wind thing” anymore, wind industry rent seekers are in a state of suicidal panic. As promised, Trump has signed executive orders that will pull offshore wind power projects to a grinding halt, as well as onshore projects that were slated for Federal … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 26 January 2025
Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 15 December 2024
Our weekly roundup has articles smashing the myth that wind, solar plus giant batteries are perfectly designed to power first world economies - with one drawing focus on the disaster that unfolded in Broken Hill, NSW, and another on “demand management”, a policy that involves telling power consumers to stop consuming power because wind and … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 15 December 2024
Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 24 November 2024
This week’s roundup includes articles on the obscene and staggering cost of subsidies to wind power outfits born by every taxpayer and power consumer; how power prices are rocketing in every US state that’s backed chaotically intermittent wind and solar; how wind power never makes sense and taking it offshore is positively insane; how Donald Trump’s … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 24 November 2024
Brits Count Mounting & Staggering Wind Power Subsidy Cost
Unbeknownst to taxpayers and power consumers, the wind industry has engineered the most outrageous raft of subsidies, mostly hidden and all massively generous. These include being paid hundreds of $millions to produce nothing at all, with what are called “constraint payments”. In Britain, taxpayers have stumped up £1 billion in constraint payments to wind power … Continue reading Brits Count Mounting & Staggering Wind Power Subsidy Cost
False Dawn: Big Talk About Millions of Groovy ‘Green’ Jobs Evaporates
The Neo-Marxists driving the energy agenda are always quick to promise a workers’ paradise, lined with millions of groovy jobs that are meant to fall like fruit from trees as part of the grand wind and solar transition. The problem with Utopia, of course, is that it’s always over the horizon and always just out … Continue reading False Dawn: Big Talk About Millions of Groovy ‘Green’ Jobs Evaporates
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