The mother of all blackouts struck the Iberian Peninsula last week - and the lived-reality of the so-called wind and solar transition hit home. For a few days immediately preceding the inevitable calamity, the wind and sun cult were in raptures - Spain claimed to be running on nothing but sunshine and breezes. Then it … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 4 May 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: 30 March 2025
As the USA returns to energy sanity - driven by Donald Trump’s determination to destroy the wind industry and embrace, coal, gas and nuclear - any country still obsessed with chaotically intermittent and heavily subsidised wind and solar looks positively bonkers. Australia sits firmly in that category. However, with a Federal election set for 3 … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 30 March 2025
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: 25 February 2025
Wind and solar sit at the heart of the net-zero CO2 emissions scam which, thanks to Donald J Trump, is in its terminal phase. Indeed, the climate cult and its beneficiaries are in more trouble the Ned Kelly and his bushranger brothers at Glenrowan. Kicking off this week’s roundup, Robert Bryce provides a delightful summary … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 25 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: 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: 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
Blade-Runners Busted: State Sues Fake ‘Recycler’ For Dumping Wind Turbine Blades
Millions of toxic wind turbine blades have already been dumped in landfill, with millions more to follow. The wind industry is filled with shysters of all shapes and sizes, and has managed to spawn a peculiar a sub-species that spends their days telling everyone about their wonderful plans to recycle turbine blades, and their nights … Continue reading Blade-Runners Busted: State Sues Fake ‘Recycler’ For Dumping Wind Turbine Blades