**** In Sunday’s post, we detailed Labor’s descent into wind power madness – with its impossible push for a 50% renewable energy target. One of the immediate responses has come from the press-pack; who have now turned on the great wind power fraud with a vengeance. Journalists with a modicum of common sense have woken … Continue reading Adam Creighton: Labor’s Ludicrous Wind Power Policy to Squander more than $100 Billion
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Electricity Bill Shorten Signs Suicide Note marked ‘Labor’ & ‘the Australian Wind Industry’
**** In a “we can’t believe our luck moment”, Labor’s ‘Electricity’ Bill Shorten came out last week to announce that Australia’s Labor Party is now hell-bent on destroying the Australian economy, with a 50% renewable energy target. Shorten’s lurch to the outer reaches of the intellectual cosmos - to a policy position that only the … Continue reading Electricity Bill Shorten Signs Suicide Note marked ‘Labor’ & ‘the Australian Wind Industry’
Bill Gates says Subsidies for Wind Power a Pointless Waste: Time to Back Nuclear & R&D on Systems that Can Actually Work
**** Gates: Renewable energy can’t do the job. Gov should switch green subsidies into R&D ‘Only way to a positive scenario is innovation’ The Register Lewis Page 26 Jun 2015 Retired software kingpin and richest man in the world Bill Gates has given his opinion that today’s renewable-energy technologies aren’t a viable solution for reducing … Continue reading Bill Gates says Subsidies for Wind Power a Pointless Waste: Time to Back Nuclear & R&D on Systems that Can Actually Work
Alan Moran: on the Insane & Pointless Cost of Wind Power
**** Green energy generates big costs for little gain Alan Moran Australian Financial Review 21 June 2015 Reports of the death of coal are greatly exaggerated. For green power is still very costly and uncompetitive, and likely to remain so despite all the subsidies. In this newspaper last week Richard Denniss opined that there was … Continue reading Alan Moran: on the Insane & Pointless Cost of Wind Power
Germany’s Wind Power Debacle: Economic Destruction on an “Astronomical Scale”
**** STT keeps a close eye on Germany. It’s held up by eco-fascist nut jobs around the globe as the wind power “Super Model” - although, as we pointed out in this recent post, their “pin-up girl” is looking a little worse for wear: Germany’s Wind Power ‘Dream’ Becomes a Living Nightmare Last week - … Continue reading Germany’s Wind Power Debacle: Economic Destruction on an “Astronomical Scale”
Wind Power Fraud Finally Exposed: Senator John Madigan Details LRET’s Astronomical 45 Billion Dollar Cost to Power Consumers
When the Chinese make the suggestion “may you live in interesting times” they don’t mean you well – it’s more of a veiled warning about the perils of what’s lurking over the horizon – and some even characterise it as a curse. Well, it seems that the wind industry is living in VERY interesting times. … Continue reading Wind Power Fraud Finally Exposed: Senator John Madigan Details LRET’s Astronomical 45 Billion Dollar Cost to Power Consumers
SA – Australia’s ‘Wind Power Capital’ – Pays the World’s Highest Power Prices and Wonders Why it’s an Economic Basket Case
**** Once upon a time, in a land far, far away there was a veritable manufacturing and industrial nirvana. Post WWII, its population grew at a phenomenal rate; and so too did the level of prosperity enjoyed by thousands of migrants fleeing to it from war ravaged Europe - cheap and abundant food, decent, affordable … Continue reading SA – Australia’s ‘Wind Power Capital’ – Pays the World’s Highest Power Prices and Wonders Why it’s an Economic Basket Case
Wind Power – It’s ONLY an ‘Alternative’, if You’re Prepared to Freeze or Boil in the Dark
**** Commentary: I love the smell of fossil fuels in the morning Elko Daily Free Press Chuck Muth 29 May 2015 When it comes to energy, windmills are useless when there’s no wind, solar is useless when there’s no sun, and hydro is useless when there’s no water – a condition Nevadans were recently warned … Continue reading Wind Power – It’s ONLY an ‘Alternative’, if You’re Prepared to Freeze or Boil in the Dark
Brits’ Wind Power Nightmare to End Soon: Tories Set to Take the Axe to Subsidies
**** Contrasting with the delusions that continue to grip Australian’s political betters in Canberra (see our post here), sensible governments are rapidly retreating from the brink of energy market madness. The Americans are pulling the plug on Federal and State based subsidies for wind power outfits. Its ‘wind power’ states have cut their state based … Continue reading Brits’ Wind Power Nightmare to End Soon: Tories Set to Take the Axe to Subsidies
Hammering Wind Industry Myths: the ‘In-a-Nutshell’ Version
**** Here's a sold little wrap-up on the great wind power fraud from Mary Kay Barton - it's so clear and thumpingly sound for STT to add, would only detract. Hats off, Mary. Over to you. Wind energy myths spun by lobbyists and salesmen Principia Scientific Mary Kay Barton 13 May 2015 Industrial wind energy … Continue reading Hammering Wind Industry Myths: the ‘In-a-Nutshell’ Version
