**** Let’s assume (as STT does, for the sake of argument) that the global warming/climate change Chicken Littles are right: the sky really is falling and it’s all CO2’s fault. So what the HELL are we doing pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into subsidies for wind power? The Wind Power Fraud (in pictures): Part … Continue reading Looking for Safe, Affordable, CO2 Free Power? Then it’s Nukes or Nothing
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Bjørn Lomborg Counts the ‘Enormous’ Cost of the Wind Power ‘Mirage’
When it comes to assessing the costs, risks and benefits of environmental policy, Bjørn Lomborg is one of the very few that provide balanced, detailed analysis; properly supported by facts and evidence. The economic choices we make – about allocating scarce resources to unlimited wants – should – as Lomborg consistently points out – be … Continue reading Bjørn Lomborg Counts the ‘Enormous’ Cost of the Wind Power ‘Mirage’
Wind Industry’s Armageddon: Wind Farm Output Collapse Leaves 110,000 South Australian Homes & Businesses Powerless
**** STT could be forgiven for being just a little smug after events unfolded last Sunday night (1 November 2015) in Australia’s “Wind Farm Capital”, South Australia. As our post - Wind Power Disaster Unfolds: SA Facing Total Blackouts, Rocketing Power Prices & Thousands More Chopped from the Grid - was being put together for … Continue reading Wind Industry’s Armageddon: Wind Farm Output Collapse Leaves 110,000 South Australian Homes & Businesses Powerless
The Wind is ‘Free’ Myth – Totally Busted: the True & Staggering Cost of Wind Power
Wind worshippers continue to make wild claims about wind power already being “free” – and, apparently, getting cheaper all the time. Although, it appears that selling a product with no commercial value (apart from the massive subsidies it attracts) is getting tougher all the time. Even the merest mention of a cut to subsidies has … Continue reading The Wind is ‘Free’ Myth – Totally Busted: the True & Staggering Cost of Wind Power
Fighting a Monstrous & Cruel Industry: Ireland Declares War on the Great Wind Power Fraud
**** What kills the wind industry is facts; including the fact that rural communities are fighting back, simply because THESE THINGS DON'T WORK at any level. Here's a tale from the Emerald Isle that combines just about every pertinent fact, of the kind that spells inevitable doom for the wind industry and its parasites, everywhere. … Continue reading Fighting a Monstrous & Cruel Industry: Ireland Declares War on the Great Wind Power Fraud
Wind Power Disaster Unfolds: SA Facing Total Blackouts, Rocketing Power Prices & Thousands More Chopped from the Grid
**** To call what South Australia’s Labor government has ‘gifted’ their constituents an energy ‘policy’, is to flatter it as involving some kind of genuine ‘design’. It’s an economic debacle, pure and simple. The current mess started under former Premier, Mike Rann – a former spin-doctor, whose relatives lined up at the wind power subsidy … Continue reading Wind Power Disaster Unfolds: SA Facing Total Blackouts, Rocketing Power Prices & Thousands More Chopped from the Grid
Germany’s Wind Power Disaster: the Perfect Lesson on How to Simultaneously Wreck an Economy & the Environment
The Germans went into wind power harder and faster than anyone else – and the cost of doing so is catching up with a vengeance. The subsidies have been colossal, the impacts on the electricity market chaotic and – contrary to the environmental purpose of the policy – CO2 emissions are rising fast: if “saving” … Continue reading Germany’s Wind Power Disaster: the Perfect Lesson on How to Simultaneously Wreck an Economy & the Environment
UK Wind Industry Collapses as David Cameron Slashes Subsidies for Wind Power
**** While the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers continue to wail like banshees about dreaded ‘uncertainty’ all over the globe, there seems to be another ‘certainty’ keen to muscle up alongside the usual pair cited as examples of dead-set certainties in life: “death and taxes”. The newest absolute certainty is that, in the absence … Continue reading UK Wind Industry Collapses as David Cameron Slashes Subsidies for Wind Power
Ontario’s Wind Power Disaster Sends Power Prices Into Orbit, Driving REAL Industries Offshore
**** Ontario is the place where the most bizarre energy policy in the world has seen thousands of these things speared into the backyards of homes – in the most agriculturally productive part of Canada. When we say “bizarre” we mean completely bonkers. Canada has one of the “cleanest” power generation mixes on the planet, … Continue reading Ontario’s Wind Power Disaster Sends Power Prices Into Orbit, Driving REAL Industries Offshore
Britain’s Economic Nightmare Unfolds: Wind Power Costs Killing Thousands of REAL Jobs
**** A few posts back we focused on the naked malice of Labor's Bill Shorten - as he derided Joanne Kermond on national television. Joanne is among the many victims of Pacific Hydro's non-compliant Cape Bridgewater disaster - an outfit owned by Bill's Labor/Union buddies, which has been defrauding the Commonwealth for nearly 7 years: … Continue reading Britain’s Economic Nightmare Unfolds: Wind Power Costs Killing Thousands of REAL Jobs
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