Around the globe, the proles are on the march. They’ve worked out that the wind and solar 'transition' is the cause of their crushing power bills. In the US, contrary to almost every pundit’s prediction, Donald J Trump stormed home with a very convincing victory, grabbing control of every level of government. Trump’s promise of … Continue reading Obsession With Unreliable Wind & Solar Drives Punishing Cost of Net-Zero CO2 Delusion
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Stop These Things Weekly Roundup: 10 November 2024
This week’s roundup includes articles detailing Donald Trump’s overwhelming victory and what the political shift means for the Climate Industrial Complex; how efforts by America’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to gaslight Atlantic coastal communities about the devastating environmental harm caused by offshore wind power; how so-called ‘green’ energy drives the demand for coal, … Continue reading Stop These Things Weekly Roundup: 10 November 2024
Stop These Things’ Weekly Roundup: 3 November 2024
Since December 2012, Stop These Things has been slugging away, exposing the grand subsidised wind and solar scam. When the site was fired up by a handful of dedicated volunteers 12 years ago, it was one of a very few tackling the greatest economic and environmental fraud of all time. Not quite an orphan, but … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Roundup: 3 November 2024
Grand Wind & Solar Transition Delivers Crushing Retail Power Bills
Propagandists pushing the wind and solar transition are struggling to explain away the crushing power bills that inevitably follow. Every state or country (without exception) that is attempting to run on sunshine and breezes suffers rocketing retail power bills. Wind powered Denmark and wind and solar powered Germany suffer Europe’s highest power prices, by a … Continue reading Grand Wind & Solar Transition Delivers Crushing Retail Power Bills
Talk’s Cheap: Why Wind & Solar Guarantee Rocketing Power Bills
The relationship between crushing power bills and increasing wind and solar capacity is crystal clear. Notwithstanding the persistent claims that the wind and sun are ‘free’. Maybe. But turning sunshine and breezes into meaningful electricity is a whole different (and very costly) exercise. There’s no such thing as a free lunch. And talk about wind … Continue reading Talk’s Cheap: Why Wind & Solar Guarantee Rocketing Power Bills
Shared Misery: Wind & Solar Transition Smashes Businesses and Families
As power prices rocket into orbit, thanks to an obsession with unreliable, subsidised wind and solar, businesses and households are finally waking up to the greatest economic and environmental fraud, of all time. Rural communities being treated as roadkill by industrial wind and solar outfits are furious; and every power consumer understand full well why … Continue reading Shared Misery: Wind & Solar Transition Smashes Businesses and Families
Not Cheap: Offshore Wind Power 4 Times the Cost of Gas and Nuclear Power
New Yorkers are paying a huge price of offshore wind power, which is 4 times the cost of their conventional supplies from gas and nuclear. So much for all that loose talk about wind power being cheap, clean and green. As Willis Eschenbach points out below, for an industry that brags about cost, wind power … Continue reading Not Cheap: Offshore Wind Power 4 Times the Cost of Gas and Nuclear Power
Massive Subsidy Cost Blowout Smashes ‘Cheap’ Solar Power Myth
Where solar power generates hyperbole and myth 24 hours a day, it struggles to produce useful electricity for more than 8 hours out of every 24. Depending where the panels are located in relation to the equator, and the angle of the Sun to the earth (think the height of summer vs the depth of … Continue reading Massive Subsidy Cost Blowout Smashes ‘Cheap’ Solar Power Myth
Failed Wind & Solar Transition Heralds Shift to New-Age Nuclear Power
Every country with an eye on the future is switching to new-age nuclear power generation, joining plenty of other that have had the benefits of safe, reliable and affordable nuclear power for generations. The French long-ago set the benchmark, with a disorderly queue forming across Europe to join them as nuclear energy superpowers. Then there’s … Continue reading Failed Wind & Solar Transition Heralds Shift to New-Age Nuclear Power
Junk Energy: Uncontrollable Domestic Solar Power Generates Total Grid Chaos
Places like California and Australia are victims of their own idiotic domestic solar schemes, scams and subsidies. The disaster was as perfectly predictable as it was perfectly avoidable. But it’s still fun to watch! Sunshine-dependent solar power and wind-dependent wind power have no commercial value because the operators can never tell you when they might … Continue reading Junk Energy: Uncontrollable Domestic Solar Power Generates Total Grid Chaos
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