Green Mythology and the High Price of European Electricity Energy Matters Euan Mearns 17 August 2015 The price of residential electricity in the EU is correlated with the level of renewable energy installed on a per capita basis. The data shows that more renewables leads to higher electricity bills. The notion that renewable energy is cheap … Continue reading ‘Green’ Power Myths Busted: Wind ‘Powered’ Danes & Germans Pay Europe’s Highest Power Prices By Far
Category: Europe
Germany’s Wind Power Surges Plunge Their Neighbours Into Darkness
**** The economics of Germany's “Energiewende” are so bizarre, that you’d think it had been put together by the GDR’s ‘brains trust’, before the Berlin Wall took its tumble in 1989. In Germany, around €100 billion has already been burnt on renewable subsidies; currently the green energy levy costs €56 million every day. And, the … Continue reading Germany’s Wind Power Surges Plunge Their Neighbours Into Darkness
Rocketing Power Prices see Subsidies Slashed, Bringing Europe’s Wind Industry to its Knees
**** The Australian wind industry is copping a belting from all sides at the moment. With the Senate Inquiry about to release its final report on the great wind power fraud; retailers flatly refusing to enter long-term Power Purchase Agreements - essential to obtain finance for new wind farms; and with an increasing number of … Continue reading Rocketing Power Prices see Subsidies Slashed, Bringing Europe’s Wind Industry to its Knees
Europe’s Wind Powered Recipe for Economic Disaster
**** Lessons from Europe: Recipe for a high-cost energy system Communities Digital News Steve Goreham 26 May 2015 CHICAGO, May 26, 2015 — While President Obama promotes renewable energy and members of Congress argue about energy policy, a renewable energy disaster is unfolding in Europe. Driven by a desire to halt climate change, Europe has … Continue reading Europe’s Wind Powered Recipe for Economic Disaster
Germany’s Wind Power ‘Dream’ Becomes a Living Nightmare
**** The wind industry, its parasites and spruikers, around the globe, hail Germany as THE wind power ‘Super Model’. Trouble is, in Germany - as elsewhere - the ‘gloss’ has well-and-truly worn off - and the 'Model' is looking more than just a little worse for wear. The Germans went into wind power harder and … Continue reading Germany’s Wind Power ‘Dream’ Becomes a Living Nightmare
Turkish Court Shuts Down 50 Turbines: Yaylaköy Residents Delighted at 1st Chance to Sleep in Years
**** One of the myths pedalled by Australia’s self-appointed wind farm noise, sleep and health 'expert' (a former tobacco advertising guru) is that the known and obvious adverse health impacts from incessant turbine generated low-frequency noise and infrasound are a cooked-up “phenomenon”, exclusive to the English speaking world. Trouble with that little tale is that’s … Continue reading Turkish Court Shuts Down 50 Turbines: Yaylaköy Residents Delighted at 1st Chance to Sleep in Years
Noose Tightens on Spain’s Wind Farm Fraudsters: Tax Inspectors Uncover €110 million Paid as Bribes & Backhanders
**** The wind industry seems to attract a particular class of bloke, in much the same way that the Prohibition era drew lots of heavy-set Italians to the Mob. Maybe that seemingly endless stream of massive subsidies filched from taxpayers and power consumers generates the same allure as festering dung does for swarms of flies? … Continue reading Noose Tightens on Spain’s Wind Farm Fraudsters: Tax Inspectors Uncover €110 million Paid as Bribes & Backhanders
Denmark Calls Halt to More Wind Farm Harm
***** Denmark is the home of struggling Danish fan maker, Vestas – an outfit that – after our Wind Power Fraud Rally in June 2013 – paid $millions to a crack team of Australian propaganda parrots to invent a campaign aimed at winning back the “moral” high ground. It called its new public relations model … Continue reading Denmark Calls Halt to More Wind Farm Harm
Wind Power: an Insanely Costly Exercise in Pointless Futility
Robert Wilson is a PhD Student in Mathematical Ecology at the University of Strathclyde. Robert has a had a little stab at getting behind the greatest fraud of all time; although he's on the right track, he doesn't quite get there, as we'll explain below. Why wind farms can be relied on for almost zero power Robert … Continue reading Wind Power: an Insanely Costly Exercise in Pointless Futility
The Wind Industry Knows No Shame: Turbines to Desecrate the Unknown Graves of Thousands of Australian Soldiers in France
**** This coming Anzac Day, 25 April 2015, looms large in Australia’s history, and collective consciousness, marking the Centenary of Australia’s bloody entry to the War to end all Wars, on the beaches of Gallipoli. Not so much a celebration, as a reflection on the honour, courage and spirit of Australia’s fighting men and women, … Continue reading The Wind Industry Knows No Shame: Turbines to Desecrate the Unknown Graves of Thousands of Australian Soldiers in France