As the wind and solar scam spirals into oblivion, the USA is pulling out all stops to restore reliable and affordable energy, for all. Reason being that energy isn't just part of the economy: it is the economy. Following that theme, Robert Bryce picks up on a speech given by US Energy Secretary, Chris Wright … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 16 March 2025
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Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 9 March 2025
Subsidy-soaked wind and solar scammers have never had it so tough: in the USA, Donald Trump is making good on his threat to end the ‘green’ energy fraud, once and for all; and across the globe rural communities have unified in a full-scale revolt against the social, community and environmental destruction wrought by industrial wind … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 9 March 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: 14 January 2025
Happy New Year to all our loyal followers. We hope you had a fabulous Christmas. With Donald J Trump returning to the White House next week, 2025 promises to deliver unprecedented pain and suffering to wind and solar rent seekers, wherever they ply their subsidy-soaked trade. In this week’s roundup, we have articles on the … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 14 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: 8 December 2024
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
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
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