Anyone still banging on about CO2 emissions in the electricity generation sector, ought to be banging on about nothing other than nuclear power. Nuclear power is the only, stand-alone generation source that can deliver reliable, affordable power without generating CO2 gas, in the process. The fact that politicians in this Country talk about anything but … Continue reading ‘Saving’ the Planet from CO2 Gas Means Cheap & Reliable Nuclear Power or Nothing
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Ian Plimer: How Australia’s Renewables Obsession Destroyed its Reliable & Cheap Power Supply
Australia’s suicidal renewable energy policies have all but destroyed what was once an energy superpower. Rocketing power prices and a grid on the brink of collapse are the consequence of an obsessive desire to run an entire country on sunshine and breezes. Lunacy doesn’t cover it. How we got there and what it means to … Continue reading Ian Plimer: How Australia’s Renewables Obsession Destroyed its Reliable & Cheap Power Supply
America’s Wind Industry Doomed as Republicans Back Cheap, Reliable Coal & Nuclear
As a first world energy source, there’s only one problem with wind power: and that would be the W-I-N-D. The United States of America didn’t become the richest and most powerful Nation on earth running on sunshine and breezes. To become the industrial juggernaut and technological master that it is, Americans burnt mountains of … Continue reading America’s Wind Industry Doomed as Republicans Back Cheap, Reliable Coal & Nuclear
Rocketing Power Prices & Chaotic Supply Send Australian Businesses Packing to Pennsylvania USA
Every viable business depends upon a reliable and affordable electricity supply. In Australia, thanks to its suicidal renewable energy policies, that essential combination is now a relic of history. The chaos and staggering cost of intermittent wind and solar power has sent power prices through the roof and left its grid on the brink of … Continue reading Rocketing Power Prices & Chaotic Supply Send Australian Businesses Packing to Pennsylvania USA
Nuclear Retreat Leaves Wind ‘Powered’ Germany’s Power Grid on the Brink of Collapse
Act in haste, repent at your leisure. Germany’s rush to wind and solar, while shutting down what was one of Europe’s largest and most reliable nuclear power generation fleets will go down as one of the greatest economic and environmental disasters of all time. Spooked by an incident at a nuclear reactor at Fukushima, resulting … Continue reading Nuclear Retreat Leaves Wind ‘Powered’ Germany’s Power Grid on the Brink of Collapse
Want Statewide Power Blackouts? Then Plug In To Weather-Dependant Wind & Solar
For a bit over 20 years, we’ve been berated with warnings that the climate is changing so rapidly, that 'fixing' it is a matter of the most pressing urgency. Notwithstanding that, for nearly 20 years, global temperatures have stubbornly refused to budge, such that there are plenty of climate alarmists not game to bet … Continue reading Want Statewide Power Blackouts? Then Plug In To Weather-Dependant Wind & Solar
Guilty: Subsidised Wind & Solar Drive Australia’s Rocketing Retail Power Prices
Among the dwindling band of deluded wind and sun worshippers, no two words are more prone to send them into apoplexy than ‘South Australia’. Held up as the example of how to run an economy on sunshine and breezes (sprinkled with a liberal dose of pixie dust and batteries that cost $150 million to power … Continue reading Guilty: Subsidised Wind & Solar Drive Australia’s Rocketing Retail Power Prices
Turnbull’s Trilemma: PM’s Power to Rise (or Fall) with National Energy Guarantee
The reason that Australian governments give for policies set to squander $60 billion in subsidies on wind and solar power is a three-way mission to deliver (1) reliable, (2) affordable and (3) low-CO2-emissions electricity. After the debacle that’s played out in Australia’s wind power capital, South Australia, the odds of that trifecta ever becoming a … Continue reading Turnbull’s Trilemma: PM’s Power to Rise (or Fall) with National Energy Guarantee
Brits Squander £360 million Paying Wind Power Outfits to NOT Produce Power
Britain is suffering from the same diabolical wind turbine syndrome that wrecked South Australia, Germany, Spain and the like. However, with construction of the Hinkley Point nuclear power plant now underway, it seems that the Brits have finally worked out that you cannot hope to run an economy on wintery bluster and summer breezes. The … Continue reading Brits Squander £360 million Paying Wind Power Outfits to NOT Produce Power
Wrong Bet: Unreliable, Intermittent, Subsidised Wind & Solar Odds-on Losers
It’s said that you can’t keep a good man down and, in that respect, Ian Plimer is simply irrepressible. His latest book, The Climate Delusion and The Great Electricity Rip-off is jumping off the shelves. A précis (and where to purchase it) appears in our post here: Ian Plimer: The Climate Change Delusion and The … Continue reading Wrong Bet: Unreliable, Intermittent, Subsidised Wind & Solar Odds-on Losers
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