**** Spain has been held up by the gullible and naïve (some might say, cynical and malign) hard-green-left as the model for our “new” energy future. Some “model”!! The Spaniards have thrown 100s of billions of euros in subsidies at solar and wind power, and have achieved nothing but economic punishment in return. The power … Continue reading Spain’s Renewable Energy Disaster Draws to a Close
Category: Europe
Danish Fan Maker Vestas Run by Crooks – and that’s a FACT
**** Does anyone remember Vestas? The struggling Danish fan maker used to be a “big player” in Australia’s wind industry – having sold hundreds of its turbines here. But - with Australia’s wind industry on the ropes - Vestas just seems to have lost interest in Australia - because we’ve hardly heard a peep out … Continue reading Danish Fan Maker Vestas Run by Crooks – and that’s a FACT
Bjørn Lomborg: Wind power is the path to poverty
**** Dr. Bjørn Lomborg is the Director of Copenhagen Consensus Center and Adjunct Professor at Copenhagen Business School and conducts research into the smartest ways to improve the environment and the world. According to the UK Guardian, he is one of the 50 people who could save the planet. Here he writes how the burden of ineffective 'green' technologies … Continue reading Bjørn Lomborg: Wind power is the path to poverty
Europe turns tail on wind: cuts subsidies, taxes profits
Well it has started in Europe - the march away from subsidies for intermittent and unreliable power sources such as wind energy. We'll let Brady Yauch, an economist and Executive Director from the Consumer Policy Institute in Canada, explain. Governments rip up renewable contracts Brady Yauch 18 March 2014 Europe’s renewable energy investors are facing … Continue reading Europe turns tail on wind: cuts subsidies, taxes profits
With wind energy, your goose is cooked
Birds and bats cop it pretty rough when it comes to wind turbines entering their environment. But some animals are migratory, so when the low frequency noise and infrasound starts being emitted, that can take to the air and find somewhere else to call home. But what happens to animals when they can't escape? It … Continue reading With wind energy, your goose is cooked
Europe ditches green economics
With their renewables experiment fast starting to look like a costly disaster, Europeans are quickening the pace in their rush to bring the insanity to an end. Europe Starts To Run, Not Walk, Away From Green Economics Investors.com 5 February 2014 Energy Policy: The media aren't paying much attention, but in recent weeks Europe has decided … Continue reading Europe ditches green economics
Acciona Hits the Wall
Spanish wind conquistadors, Acciona set the benchmark in generating community outrage in Australia with the way it has ridden roughshod over the hard-working locals at Waubra in Victoria – where it runs a wind farm that the Victorian government and the Clean Energy Regulator know full well does not and can not comply with the … Continue reading Acciona Hits the Wall
Fan Makers Howl: The Sound of Squealing Pigs from Germany
Germans have woken up to the true cost of the insanity brought to them by their political betters aka the Energiewende. That ludicrous policy has foisted thousands of fans all over the German countryside - subsidised to the tune of €billions – but has, perversely - and predictably - resulted in increased CO2 emissions as … Continue reading Fan Makers Howl: The Sound of Squealing Pigs from Germany
Europe Ditches Crazy Wind Power Targets
**** It seems the European member states are fast catching up with the insane costs of their efforts to cover every inch of their turf in giant fans. Now they want out. As Oxford don, Dieter Helm pointed out (see this post) “wind power is staggeringly expensive” and “among the most expensive ways of marginally … Continue reading Europe Ditches Crazy Wind Power Targets
When The Party’s Over
Built on a fat pile of subsidies filched from unwitting taxpayers and power consumers - and forced on customers by Stalinist edicts so outrageous that they would've surprised George Orwell with their reach and audacity - wind power is all set to get the boot in Europe. But the fan scamming leeches that have grown … Continue reading When The Party’s Over
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