As time goes by, the number of crack energy market experts joining the effort to bring the great wind power fraud to its inevitable denouement – and the quality of their work directed at that fine and noble task – has increased exponentially. The American "Institute for Energy Research" has just released a brilliant piece … Continue reading Institute for Energy Research Takes the Scalpel to the Great Wind Power Fraud
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Casualties of South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle Mount: Thousands Can’t Afford Power
**** The new protectionism: renewable energy industry’s shameless self-promotion Catallaxy Files Alan Moran 5 December 2014 According to Christopher Flavin, the President emeritus of the Worldwatch Institute, in a few years’ time wind energy will not need to be subsidised. Oh wait! He said that back in 1984. And he was not alone, Booz, Allen … Continue reading Casualties of South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle Mount: Thousands Can’t Afford Power
Senator Matt Canavan: Australia’s RET Policy: “Robin Hood visits Bizarro World”
**** Labor’s energy policy nothing but wind The Australian Matt Canavan 4 December 2014 GEORGE Orwell once said that political language was designed to “give an appearance of solidity to pure wind”. Step forward exhibit A and the Labor Party’s explanation for refusing to fix the mess that is Australian renewable energy policy. Mark Butler … Continue reading Senator Matt Canavan: Australia’s RET Policy: “Robin Hood visits Bizarro World”
Tom Adams and Ross McKitrick: Wind Industry Claims about Wind Power NOT Causing Increased Power Prices a Tissue of Lies
**** Professor Ross McKitrick has been slamming the great wind power fraud for years now: his analysis is detailed, pointed and cuts across the lies and half-truths peddled by the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers (see our post here). Ross points to the glaringly obvious when he says that "wind turbines don't run on … Continue reading Tom Adams and Ross McKitrick: Wind Industry Claims about Wind Power NOT Causing Increased Power Prices a Tissue of Lies
European Government Support for Wind Power Collapses
**** Europe winds back the clock on windmills The Sunday Times Danny Forston 23 November 2014 Lured by subsidies, the power companies went green. But to keep the lights on they have to burn coal Sixty miles northeast of Düsseldorf, outside the town of Hamm in northwest Germany, workers are giving a final tune-up to … Continue reading European Government Support for Wind Power Collapses
Google’s Top Engineers say: “Renewable Energy Simply Won’t Work”
**** Renewable energy ‘simply WON’T WORK’: Top Google engineers The Register Lewis Page 21 November 2014 Windmills, solar, tidal - all a ‘false hope’, say Stanford PhDs Two highly qualified Google engineers who have spent years studying and trying to improve renewable energy technology have stated quite bluntly that renewables will never permit the human … Continue reading Google’s Top Engineers say: “Renewable Energy Simply Won’t Work”
20 Reasons Why the Wind Industry’s “Case” Doesn’t Stack Up
**** Here's a great little take on the great wind power fraud from the US. Twenty Bad Things About Wind Energy, and Three Reasons Why By John Droz, Jr. -- October 24, 2012 Editor note: This is an updated version of a previous post at MasterResource: “Wind Spin: Misdirection and Fluff by a Taxpayer-enabled Industry” … Continue reading 20 Reasons Why the Wind Industry’s “Case” Doesn’t Stack Up
Australian Senate to Turn Up the Blowtorch on the Great Wind Power Fraud
**** The Senate is about to launch into a full-blown attack on the wind industry and the fictions which have sustained it. Until now. We’ll open the batting with some moaning from the greentard’s favourite megaphone, The Guardian. Crossbench senators back another inquiry into wind power The Guardian Lenore Taylor 18 November 2014 Examination into … Continue reading Australian Senate to Turn Up the Blowtorch on the Great Wind Power Fraud
UK Subsidising Wind Industry Jobs at £115,000 a Pop & Killing REAL Jobs in the “Bargain”
Wind farm owners ‘get £115,000 subsidy for UK every job they create’ The Telegraph Emily Gosden 12 November 2014 Wind industry says record numbers of people employed in the UK - but critics say the subsidy bill has risen even faster Wind farm developers receive more than £115,000 in subsidy for every person they employ … Continue reading UK Subsidising Wind Industry Jobs at £115,000 a Pop & Killing REAL Jobs in the “Bargain”
Labor Determined to Smash the Poor & Put REAL Australian Businesses to the Sword
**** A little while back we covered the lone-wolf efforts of the Coalition’s Energy Minister, Ian “Macca” Macfarlane to salvage the Renewable Energy Target from its inevitable collapse. Macca – whose links to near-bankrupt wind power outfit Infigen are far from “healthy” (see our posts here and here) tossed a ball into the Labor Opposition’s … Continue reading Labor Determined to Smash the Poor & Put REAL Australian Businesses to the Sword
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