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
Category: nuclear power
Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 23 March 2025
Among rent-seeking wind and solar subsidy grifters and their spin masters, desperation is the new black. Donald Trump’s moves the throttle their so-called ‘industries’ on American soil has rattled investors and seen plans for dozens of large-scale wind and solar factories scrapped, around the globe. Which brings us to this week's roundup. Paul Brown gives … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 23 March 2025
Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 14 January 2025
Happy New Year to all our loyal followers. We hope you had a fabulous Christmas. With Donald J Trump returning to the White House next week, 2025 promises to deliver unprecedented pain and suffering to wind and solar rent seekers, wherever they ply their subsidy-soaked trade. In this week’s roundup, we have articles on the … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 14 January 2025
Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 15 December 2024
Our weekly roundup has articles smashing the myth that wind, solar plus giant batteries are perfectly designed to power first world economies - with one drawing focus on the disaster that unfolded in Broken Hill, NSW, and another on “demand management”, a policy that involves telling power consumers to stop consuming power because wind and … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 15 December 2024
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: 1 December 2024
This week’s roundup kicks off with Australia’s wind and solar driven power supply calamity, when a couple of mildly warm days (30°C) had the NSW Premier demanding householders turn off their air conditioners, pool pumps and other appliances to avoid a complete grid collapse. Third World stuff, to be sure. South Australia, touted as the … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 1 December 2024
Wind & Solar Cult Apoplectic Over Big Tech’s Nuclear Power Move
After Microsoft, Amazon and Google unveiled their plans to back nuclear power, hysteria amongst wind and solar rent-seekers hit unprecedented levels. And the wind and sun cult are positively apoplectic. When the smart money, including Big Tech backs ever-reliable nuclear over hopelessly unreliable wind and solar, you know the game is over. Fatuous claims about … Continue reading Wind & Solar Cult Apoplectic Over Big Tech’s Nuclear Power Move
Microsoft, Google & Amazon Back New-Age Nuclear Power
The serious money is backing new-age nuclear - a truly serious power generation source, which delivers power on demand, irrespective of the weather, with no need for batteries and no need for back up. In the US, tech giants, Microsoft, Amazon and Google are leading the charge. Backing research into small-scale nuclear plants, planning to … Continue reading Microsoft, Google & Amazon Back New-Age Nuclear Power
Grand Designs: Nuclear Saving the Environment From Wind & Solar’s Big Ugly
As the wind and solar industries destroy the scenery from coast to coast, wipeout pristine forests and flatten whole mountain ranges, there’s even more to be said for new-age nuclear. A nuclear plant that pumps out 1,000MW around-the-clock takes up an area no bigger than a city block. Whereas giant industrial wind turbines and endless … Continue reading Grand Designs: Nuclear Saving the Environment From Wind & Solar’s Big Ugly
Energy No-Brainer: The Nuclear-Powered Path to Permanent Prosperity
The anti-carbon dioxide squad comes undone the moment they start ranting against nuclear power generation. The only stand-alone power generation system that does not generate CO2 during the process, that delivers power 24 x 365 - irrespective of the weather or time-of-day - with no need for batteries and no need for back up. The … Continue reading Energy No-Brainer: The Nuclear-Powered Path to Permanent Prosperity