STT will be talking shortly to Australian online betting guru – young Tommy Waterhouse – about starting a book with odds on which Country will drive the final stake into the great wind power fraud first. STT tips the trifecta line-up as being Australia, Germany and the UK. But we can’t work out who is … Continue reading Punters – who kills the wind power fraud first: the UK, Germany or Australia?
Category: Europe
The Danes’ Lament
“When sorrows come, they come not single spies. But in battalions!” In a decade long fit of “turbine madness” the Danes have thrown more money at wind farms than just about any other place in the world - they share the honour with wind power mad South Australia as having the highest power prices in … Continue reading The Danes’ Lament
Turbine “interaction” ends badly for “inexperienced” Eagle
Brett Lane copped a serve back in January in our post “The ‘tainted’ work of Brett Lane and Associates”. One of Brett’s theories is that birds will learn how to negotiate 50m turbine blades with their tips thundering along at 350 km/h. Apparently they send the best of the best to a place called Miramar … Continue reading Turbine “interaction” ends badly for “inexperienced” Eagle
Industrial Wind Turbines: what’s not to like?
As readers know STT just loves giant fans. This one’s from the archives and should give readers that warm “fuzzy” feeling that you get when you see a newborn or a cute little puppy. **** One thing we haven’t thought through is – when our mission is complete – what happens to the mess created … Continue reading Industrial Wind Turbines: what’s not to like?
German power prices driven sky high by wind power subsidies
We’ve been following German anti-wind power fraud moves by business and consumers over the last couple of weeks. This piece from Der Spiegel suggests the Germans really have been taken for ride. We’ve highlighted the passage which sets out exactly what STT has been banging on about from the beginning: wind farms cannot possibly produce … Continue reading German power prices driven sky high by wind power subsidies
German industry set to flee renewable power price punishment
In a recent post we detailed the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel’s response to the consumer and business backlash against the insane costs of electricity in the Fatherland. German power prices are being driven sky-high by out-of-control German renewables policy, and the Germans have had enough. **** Deutsche Welle reports on a pending exodus by German … Continue reading German industry set to flee renewable power price punishment
Australia: slow to wake up?
As the rest of the major economies wake up to the insane cost of wind power - and the fact that its claimed benefit to the environment is so much turbulent air - has Australia been caught napping? Graham Lloyd's article in the Weekend Australian today suggests it's time to Wake Up Australia. The Weekend … Continue reading Australia: slow to wake up?
Germans launch blitzkrieg on turbines
STT readers might think of Germany as the land where large men in leather shorts drink beer all day from steins the size of Belgium, but it's not just a land where slops and sausage reign supreme. The German Mittelstand - its thousands of small to medium sized firms - builds stuff that works and … Continue reading Germans launch blitzkrieg on turbines
Winning hearts and minds? These people have no shame.
Normandy faces new assaultBY:DAVID CHAZAN, PARIS From: The Times May 02, 2013 12:00AMEVERY year, thousands of people make a pilgrimage to the D-Day beaches in Normandy to remember the Allied troops who landed there to liberate France from Nazi occupation.Almost 70 years after the assault that changed the course of World War II, however, the … Continue reading Winning hearts and minds? These people have no shame.
Of course there’s no problem … look at Denmark
The Danish police gave up removing protesters against the cutting down of forest to make room for the planned National Test Centre for 250 metre-tall wind turbines in Thy, Northern Jutland [Denmark]. Photo: http://www.windturbinesyndrome.com October 2012 Author: Danish Society for Occupational and Environmental Medicine DASAM [the Danish Society for Occupational and Environmental Medicine] has with interest … Continue reading Of course there’s no problem … look at Denmark
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