This week’s roundup leads with South Australia's return to dirty diesel generators. SA is touted as Australia's wind and solar capital, and its quiet effort to increase diesel generation capacity stands as one almighty embarrassing admission of failure. In other news, Peter Dutton (Australia's Federal opposition leader) is channelling Donald J Trump with an announcement … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 8 December 2024
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Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 1 December 2024
This week’s roundup kicks off with Australia’s wind and solar driven power supply calamity, when a couple of mildly warm days (30°C) had the NSW Premier demanding householders turn off their air conditioners, pool pumps and other appliances to avoid a complete grid collapse. Third World stuff, to be sure. South Australia, touted as the … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 1 December 2024
Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 17 November 2024
This week’s roundup includes articles on how wind and solar's hopeless intermittency is wrecking power grids in the UK and Germany - in a version of energy Russian roulette; the insane mortal danger faced by construction workers dealing with giant 80m blades weighing close to 30 tonnes - with one man killed in Victoria, adding … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 17 November 2024
Stop These Things’ Weekly Roundup: 3 November 2024
Since December 2012, Stop These Things has been slugging away, exposing the grand subsidised wind and solar scam. When the site was fired up by a handful of dedicated volunteers 12 years ago, it was one of a very few tackling the greatest economic and environmental fraud of all time. Not quite an orphan, but … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Roundup: 3 November 2024
Rent-Seeking Wind & Solar Scammers Stealing From Taxpayers
The great wind and solar scam has allowed crony capitalists to make out like bandits. While they couldn’t care less about delivering reliable and affordable power, try standing between them and a bucket of subsidies and they’ll soon respond. When depression era bank robber, Willie Sutton was asked by a journo why he robbed banks, … Continue reading Rent-Seeking Wind & Solar Scammers Stealing From Taxpayers
Talk’s Cheap: Why Wind & Solar Guarantee Rocketing Power Bills
The relationship between crushing power bills and increasing wind and solar capacity is crystal clear. Notwithstanding the persistent claims that the wind and sun are ‘free’. Maybe. But turning sunshine and breezes into meaningful electricity is a whole different (and very costly) exercise. There’s no such thing as a free lunch. And talk about wind … Continue reading Talk’s Cheap: Why Wind & Solar Guarantee Rocketing Power Bills
Grand Wind & Solar ‘Transition’ Built on Massive Subsidies and Even Bigger Lies
The wind and solar ‘industries’ were built on lies and run on subsidies. The electricity that the occasionally produce has no commercial value, simply because it can’t be delivered as and when power consumers need it. And because their output can’t be controlled, producers get paid a fortune to produce nothing at all to prevent … Continue reading Grand Wind & Solar ‘Transition’ Built on Massive Subsidies and Even Bigger Lies
Power Shock: Maine’s Power Users Being Smashed By Massive Solar Subsidy Cost
In a - they didn’t really think solar is free moment - power users in Maine are being belted with crushing power bills and told by the powers that be to expect much more of the same. Where numerous businesses are being driven to the wall, thousands of householders are being hit especially hard, with … Continue reading Power Shock: Maine’s Power Users Being Smashed By Massive Solar Subsidy Cost
Germany’s Nuclear Power Rejection Delivers Wind & Solar Driven Energy Calamity
Germany’s wind and solar obsessed energy policy has delivered a perfect power pricing and supply calamity. Not only did their green tinged lunatics squander billions on chaotically intermittent wind and solar, they deliberately destroyed one of Europe’s best run nuclear power generation fleets, in the bargain. Whenever calm, cloudy weather hits - aka ‘dunkelflaute’ - … Continue reading Germany’s Nuclear Power Rejection Delivers Wind & Solar Driven Energy Calamity
Graft & Grift: How the Climate Industrial Complex Uses ‘Perceptionware’ to Hoodwink the Masses
Acting as the spearhead for rent-seeking wind and solar outfits, the climate cult rants and raves about the need for ‘immediate climate action.’ All the while tearing around the world in private jets, floating the 7 seas and luxury liners and otherwise dining out at our expense. Sure, hypocrisy comes in many shades. But, like … Continue reading Graft & Grift: How the Climate Industrial Complex Uses ‘Perceptionware’ to Hoodwink the Masses
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