**** The great wind farm farce The Telegraph James Delingpole 22 February 2015 Ed Davey’s plan for 400 turbines to be erected off the Yorkshire coast will be a heinous burden on the taxpayer If ever there’s a competition for the most spectacularly pointless and wasteful project in engineering history, you’d be hard pressed to … Continue reading James Delingpole: UK’s Wind Power Debacle Reaches “High Farce”
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Rearranging Deckchairs on the Titanic: or Ian Macfarlane’s Futile Efforts to Save the LRET & his mates at Infigen
**** For more than just a little while, STT has been pointing out that the Large-Scale Renewable Energy Target (LRET) is simply unsustainable - be that as a matter of simple economics; or as a cold, hard political fact. A couple of weeks back, we provided a very detailed analysis as to just why the … Continue reading Rearranging Deckchairs on the Titanic: or Ian Macfarlane’s Futile Efforts to Save the LRET & his mates at Infigen
Europe’s Industry Massacred by Wind Power Policy
Roger Helmer, MEP gave a speech in the European Parliament on 26 January 2015 pointing out how runaway renewable policies have resulted in an industrial massacre in Europe. Roger is on the money when he says: “We have a policy which is exporting jobs, exporting investment, exporting manufacturing, and increasing CO2 emissions at the same … Continue reading Europe’s Industry Massacred by Wind Power Policy
LRET “Stealth Tax” to Cost Australian Power Punters $30 BILLION
**** As STT has pointed out – just once or twice – the Large-Scale Renewable Energy Target is simply unsustainable: any policy which is unsustainable will eventually fail under its own unfathomable weight; or its creators will be forced to scrap it, in circumstances of shame and ignominy. We’ll go on to detail just why … Continue reading LRET “Stealth Tax” to Cost Australian Power Punters $30 BILLION
More on Germany’s Wind Power Fiasco
**** 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 More on Germany’s Wind Power Fiasco
Parker Gallant: Wind Power Outfits’ Christmas Bonanza in Ontario
**** More wind energy means higher costs to power punters, pure and simple. If you're looking for obscene examples of the great wind power fraud in action, you need look no further than Ontario. Ontario is the place where the most bizarre energy policy in the world has seen thousands of giant fans speared into … Continue reading Parker Gallant: Wind Power Outfits’ Christmas Bonanza in Ontario
Australia’s Most Notorious Wind Power Outfit – Infigen – says “Move Over Pinocchio, Here We Come”
Lies, treachery and deceit are the hallmarks of the wind industry – fraud of all manner of descriptions is de rigueur for wind power outfits; and whether it’s bribery and fraud; vote rigging scandals; tax fraud; investor fraud or REC fraud – crooks and corruption rule. These boys are the grand masters of fleecing customers … Continue reading Australia’s Most Notorious Wind Power Outfit – Infigen – says “Move Over Pinocchio, Here We Come”
German Wind Power’s ‘Titanic’ Debacle: Bright Future for Coal Guaranteed, as Wind Power Investors Get Fleeced
**** 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 Wind Power’s ‘Titanic’ Debacle: Bright Future for Coal Guaranteed, as Wind Power Investors Get Fleeced
Exposure of UK’s Wind Power’s Crippling Costs sees Britain’s “Greenblob” Turn to Doublethink & Doublespeak
**** Britain's energy policy is a debacle. It's been driven by Marxist zealots of the hard-'green'-left - branded the "Greenblob" by the reasonable and honest folks in politics, like Owen Paterson (see our post here). The Greenblob have set Britain up for an inevitable economic disaster, by wedding its increasingly bleak future to insanely expensive, … Continue reading Exposure of UK’s Wind Power’s Crippling Costs sees Britain’s “Greenblob” Turn to Doublethink & Doublespeak
Why Wind Power MWs Will Never Be Equal
All megawatts are not equal Judithcurry.com By Planning Engineer 11 December 2014 Some of the Climate Etc. denizens have requested a post on the generation planning process to help them better understand cost issues surrounding the large scale addition and integration of renewable resources. The major takeaway is that differing types of generating resources bring … Continue reading Why Wind Power MWs Will Never Be Equal
