**** The only reason that Western economies have entertained the infantile nonsense of wind power, is that the rich world can afford (at least in the short term) to throw $billions in subsidies at a wholly weather dependent "system", that will never stump up as an "alternative", unless your starting point is sitting freezing (or … Continue reading Want to Help the Poorest? Then It’s Time to Ditch Wind Power
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Brits Waking Up to the Insane Cost of its Wind Power Disaster
**** Green targets 'cost £214 a year': Report says rush for renewable energy has been 'most expensive policy disaster in modern British history' Jack Doyle Daily Mail 18 March 2015 Shifting to wind and solar power has increased costs to consumers Ditching green energy targets would save households £214 a year Report into renewable energy … Continue reading Brits Waking Up to the Insane Cost of its Wind Power Disaster
German’s Top Daily – Bild – says Time to Chop Massive Subsidies for Wind Power
**** 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 … Continue reading German’s Top Daily – Bild – says Time to Chop Massive Subsidies for Wind Power
UK Election: Brit’s Insane Wind Power Policy the “Elephant in the Room”
**** Britain's insane wind power policy is, like elsewhere, the invisible policy-pachyderm. No-one with skin in the political game dares to speak about its true costs, its full impacts on power punters, or on how it threatens the very ability of a grid designed for on-demand generation sources to function, with the addition of an … Continue reading UK Election: Brit’s Insane Wind Power Policy the “Elephant in the Room”
Wind Industry Armageddon: Power Retailers Win Round One in Battle to Kill LRET
**** As STT has pointed out, just once or twice, the policy debacle that is the Large-Scale Renewable Energy Target (LRET) is completely unsustainable, on every level: economic, social and political. In the absence of the mandated subsidies (“the carrot”) directed to wind power outfits, and the mandated penalties (“the stick”) whacked on retailers under … Continue reading Wind Industry Armageddon: Power Retailers Win Round One in Battle to Kill LRET
Denying Power to the Poor: the Idolatry and Moral Bankruptcy of “Earth Hour”
**** The so-called “Greens”, that have sought to overtake and destroy sensible energy policy around the Globe, are not just delusional, they’re dangerous. Part of their perverse, human-hating ideology centres around demonizing electricity; and the only meaningful generation sources capable of providing it; ie, coal, gas, nuclear and hydro – yes, hydro – even though … Continue reading Denying Power to the Poor: the Idolatry and Moral Bankruptcy of “Earth Hour”
Ontario’s Wind Powered Energy Poverty
**** Around the globe, the true cost of the great wind power fraud is catching up with a vengeance. The phrase "energy poverty" is now synonymous with the insane (and utterly pointless) costs of subsidising the 'production' of electricity, using a wholly weather dependent 'system', that has to have 100% of its capacity, backed up … Continue reading Ontario’s Wind Powered Energy Poverty
Who exempts the Poor from the LRET’s $50 Billion Electricity Tax & More Power Price Punishment?
**** The "debate" about the Large-Scale Renewable Energy Target continues to rage in Canberra, where the rent-seekers' game of "save the LRET at all costs" has been driven by the increasingly panicked and apoplectic rantings of Miles George and Kane Thornton. Miles heads up near-bankrupt wind power outfit Infigen (aka Babcock & Brown) and, to … Continue reading Who exempts the Poor from the LRET’s $50 Billion Electricity Tax & More Power Price Punishment?
US “Wind Power States” Pull the Plug on Massive Wind Power Subsidy Schemes
**** This time last year, we took a look at the States in the US where $billions filched from power consumers and taxpayers have been thrown at wind power outfits, as a massive, and seemingly endless, stream of subsidies; and the skyrocketing power prices that have been the result: Want skyrocketing power prices? Just add … Continue reading US “Wind Power States” Pull the Plug on Massive Wind Power Subsidy Schemes
PSST! Want to Kill Prosperous Economies & Crush the Poorest? Then Keep Throwing $Billions at Wind Power
*** The so-called “Greens” are not just delusional, they’re dangerous. Full of hate for human beings, especially the poorest of them, their “policies” – if they can be called that? – are more like malign manifestos, of the kind that would have made the Generalissimo proud. In a brilliant essay, first published in the Wall … Continue reading PSST! Want to Kill Prosperous Economies & Crush the Poorest? Then Keep Throwing $Billions at Wind Power