Category: Europe

Gone With the Wind

**** Gone with the wind farm Australian Financial Review Paul Comrie-Thomson 4 October 2013 One thousand new wind turbines a week or 52,000 a year would be needed just to keep pace with India and China’s coal burn. So, where to now in the climate debate? Dieter Helm, CBE, is eminently qualified to write about … Continue reading Gone With the Wind

What was all THAT about? The Great Wind Rush Hangover

Remember country primary school Christmas concerts when you were 5? *** Performer anxiety as you stood up to recite Banjo Paterson’s the Man from Snowy River, off the cuff, to the whole town.  A strangely familiar Father Christmas doling out presents to all the kids in the school.  Gorging on gallons of raspberry cordial, gutsing … Continue reading What was all THAT about? The Great Wind Rush Hangover

Australia dodges an energy price spiral bullet

With the Coalition about to take the reins - and the line up taking control of the Senate next July even more hostile to the great wind power fraud than we could have hoped for - Australia has just dodged a bullet - an energy price spiral bullet, that is. The Coalition is all set … Continue reading Australia dodges an energy price spiral bullet

What’s 15 years?

This German anti-wind energy manifesto was presented at a press conference at the Bonn press club on September 1st, 1998 by Prof. Dr. Lothar Hoischen. It has been signed by many. Now, 15 years to the day, we share this English translation and ask how has this wind energy fiasco been allowed to persist? The … Continue reading What’s 15 years?

I’ve got to take my problem to the United Nations

When a bad bout of the Summertime Blues struck Trex’s Marc Bolan a while back, he told us he had no choice but to take his problem to the United Nations. Here's a flashback for Glam Rock tragics: ****   **** Facing their own version of the same malady – this time the threat of … Continue reading I’ve got to take my problem to the United Nations

The great wind power fraud: a tale from two continents

The Americans are watching Europe's wind power debacle in horror – a little like a bunny in the headlights – the glare catches its gaze and it’s just not quite sure what to do next. But – maybe, just maybe - they’ll hop to safety before they get overrun by the greatest economic and environmental … Continue reading The great wind power fraud: a tale from two continents

Up in Smoke

So much for wind power "saving the planet" - fossil fuel suppliers are watching their diesel sales soar as it becomes the fuel of choice for the back-up generation needed when wind-watts go missing - an inconvenient fact covered in Bobby thumbed a “Diesel” down …. You could say green dreams are going "Up in Smoke". … Continue reading Up in Smoke

Europeans get ready to can wind power for good

The wind industry is on its last legs. Vestas have poured millions into the Australian Greens and its “let’s-invent-the facts” campaign in an effort to knock off South Australian Senator Nick Xenophon.  Although STT thinks it might have been better advised to keep its Danish Krone at home - to help stay afloat and to … Continue reading Europeans get ready to can wind power for good

Never Mind the Bollocks – here’s Vestas

Struggling Danish turbine outfit Vestas went on the rampage after the National Rally with a campaign to counteract known and obvious facts (to anyone with half-a-brain - that is) with crackers such as the wind is NOT intermittent; families with young children can't wait to have a swag of V112s go up in their back … Continue reading Never Mind the Bollocks – here’s Vestas

Spaniards cry Olé – as its great wind scam nears the end

A while back we started running a form guide looking at the odds on which country would be first to put an end to the great wind power fraud.  Front runners were Australia, the UK and Germany. But a rank outsider – España - has just caught the bookies’ eyes. As if Spanish wind swindlers … Continue reading Spaniards cry Olé – as its great wind scam nears the end