Australia’s Renewable Energy policy is an economic suicide pact, from which there is no escape. The result of that winning combination of greed, ignorance and downright stupidity, the Renewable Energy Target has destroyed businesses and is set to destroy whole industries. Manufacturers, miners and mineral processors are screaming blue murder as they watch once reliable … Continue reading Businesses Belted by Australia’s Renewable Energy Target: Power Prices Spiral Out of Control
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Germans in ‘Green’ Power Backlash: Burgeoning Free Democrats Run on Anti-Wind Platform
Germans are a relatively cool tempered bunch, keen for consensus and to avoid serious civil confrontation. Which goes some way to explain why Germany was overrun by these things; with thousands of them speared all across their farms and forests. However, Germans quite obviously have their limits of tolerance. During the winter just gone, with … Continue reading Germans in ‘Green’ Power Backlash: Burgeoning Free Democrats Run on Anti-Wind Platform
Wind Turbines Provide Zero% of Global Energy: Despite $Billions Squandered on Subsidies
*** Matt Ridley defines pragmatism and common sense. If - as the wind cult constantly exhorts us - generating power without generating CO2 emissions is the object, then wind power offers no solution. Matt correctly points out the path to CO2 reductions in the power sector involves gas, for now, and investing in an atomic … Continue reading Wind Turbines Provide Zero% of Global Energy: Despite $Billions Squandered on Subsidies
Donald Trump’s War On Wind Power: Wind Industry Panics as Republicans Plan to Slash Subsidies
A couple of weeks back we covered the story of how the Republicans are lining up to slash wind power subsidies to the bone: America Set to Cut Subsidies to Wind Power & Prevent Grid Chaos And from all reports, their President needs little encouragement, as Slim Jim Delingpole reports (as an aside, STT was chuffed … Continue reading Donald Trump’s War On Wind Power: Wind Industry Panics as Republicans Plan to Slash Subsidies
Australia’s Renewable Policy Destroying Jobs: Miners Facing Power Price & Supply Crisis
Australia's enviable prosperity isn't due to sunshine and breezes, it's down to iron ore, coal and a bevy of other minerals including copper and uranium of the kind being gouged out of the ground by BHP Billiton at Roxby Downs in South Australia's North (see above). How long Australia maintains its wealth is down to … Continue reading Australia’s Renewable Policy Destroying Jobs: Miners Facing Power Price & Supply Crisis
Former PM – John Howard Calls Australia’s Renewables Policy a ‘National Scandal’
*** John Howard was seen by many as the underdog of Australian conservative politics, who took more than two decades as a Federal MP to reach the position of Prime Minister, the victim of bitter internal political wrangling and intrigue within the Liberal Party. After he was deposed as Liberal opposition leader by Andrew Peacock … Continue reading Former PM – John Howard Calls Australia’s Renewables Policy a ‘National Scandal’
Australia’s Failed Wind Power ‘Experiment’ Makes it an International Joke: Wind Power Output Totally Collapses (Again)
Where the wind industry’s propaganda machine has spent the best part of 20 years trying to reinvent the facts, giving perceived substance to myth and fantasy - what American comedian Stephen Colbert defines as “truthiness”, assertions emanating ‘from the gut’ which are made because they just ‘feel right’ - STT has spent its entire existence … Continue reading Australia’s Failed Wind Power ‘Experiment’ Makes it an International Joke: Wind Power Output Totally Collapses (Again)
Germany’s Wind Power Debacle Worsens: Too Much Power One Day, None the Next
*** Like South Australians, Germans are attempting to run on sunshine and breezes and in both places the results have been an unmitigated disaster. When power output depends on the weather and whether the sun is up and the sky isn't clouded up, results can, as they say in marketing blurbs, 'vary'. During January of … Continue reading Germany’s Wind Power Debacle Worsens: Too Much Power One Day, None the Next
South Australia’s Wind Power Crisis Continues: Gas Generators Forced to Fire Up to Prevent Another Statewide Blackout
*** South Australians wake up to a nightmare every day. Its hapless Labor government’s obsession with wind power has destroyed the reliability of its electricity grid and sent power prices through the roof. Here’s why. SA power: Gas generators ordered on as South Australia’s wind production peaked ABC News Nick Harmsen 26 April 2017 The … Continue reading South Australia’s Wind Power Crisis Continues: Gas Generators Forced to Fire Up to Prevent Another Statewide Blackout
Being Powered 100% By Wind & Solar = 100% Total Fantasy
This piece is not just fun because it wallops the myth that the world is well on the way to being totally powered by sunshine and breezes, the merriment is multiplied because the study proving the bleeding obvious to be the case was put together by one group of climate catastrophists, who have drawn an … Continue reading Being Powered 100% By Wind & Solar = 100% Total Fantasy