When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. Australians are fast growing up to the fact that running a country on sunshine and breezes is so much childish nonsense. Like most childish … Continue reading Malcolm, Josh Grow Up, Kill the Renewable Energy Target & Go Nuclear
Category: South Australia blackouts
Australian Summer Forecast: More Blackouts & Rocketing Power Prices
Australia’s decade-long dalliance with sunshine and breezes is about to get really, really serious. South Australia’s reputation as both Australia’s wind power capital and the home of the highest power prices in the world, and mass load shedding and statewide blackouts is no coincidence. The implicit purpose behind Australia’s Federal Large-Scale Renewable Energy Target is … Continue reading Australian Summer Forecast: More Blackouts & Rocketing Power Prices
No Comparison: Why Wind Power Can Never ‘Compete’ with Conventional Generators
The well-chewed ‘chestnut, about wind power being cheaper than coal or gas-fired power is a nonsense. For a start, the Operations and Maintenance costs of running wind turbines is in the order of $24 for every MWh dispatched – see our post here and this from our favourite whipping boys, Infigen: The wind might … Continue reading No Comparison: Why Wind Power Can Never ‘Compete’ with Conventional Generators
South Australia: Sublime One Day, Ridiculous the Next – Premier Set to Squander $1.2bn on Solar-Thermal Boondoggle
South Australians must wake each morning not knowing whether to laugh or cry. With unemployment already the worst in the Nation and soon to rise fast - when General Motors Holden shuts the door on SA’s last motor manufacturing plant in October - the highest power prices in the world (with worse to come) … Continue reading South Australia: Sublime One Day, Ridiculous the Next – Premier Set to Squander $1.2bn on Solar-Thermal Boondoggle
High Farce: Renewable Energy Target Sending Australia Broke
Tony Abbott’s RET, emissions policies made energy policy a farce The Australian Judith Sloan 12 August 2017 Tony Abbott may have seen the light on energy policy since ceasing to be prime minister. But when he had the top job, he made two fatal mistakes. The first was to agree to the renewable energy target … Continue reading High Farce: Renewable Energy Target Sending Australia Broke
South Australia’s Renewable Energy Fiasco: Wind ‘Powered’ State to Run On Diesel-Fuelled Jet Engines
If South Australia were a novel, it would find itself a place amongst the classic tragic comedies. For a while the bromance between its vapid Premier, Jay Weatherill and Californian carpetbagger, Elon Musk might’ve earned a place in the ‘rom/com’ category, as well. However, now that Jay Weatherill is determined to keep the lights … Continue reading South Australia’s Renewable Energy Fiasco: Wind ‘Powered’ State to Run On Diesel-Fuelled Jet Engines
Renewable Energy Policy in South Australia & Ontario: ‘Simply Murder’
STT is not sure whether it’s just an Australian thing, but about 30 years ago capital cities around the country set out to find an international doppelgänger somewhere else in the world, willing to be referred to as their ‘Sister City’. Adelaide, the capital of that beleaguered economic backwater, South Australia has four of them: … Continue reading Renewable Energy Policy in South Australia & Ontario: ‘Simply Murder’
Power Prices in Wind ‘Powered’ South Australia Double the Price of Power in Nuclear Powered France
As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. The picture above speaks volumes about the real cost of wind and solar power to the people that really matter: power consumers. Before we unpack some of the gems glittering in the power price league table above, we’ll hand over to one of the few … Continue reading Power Prices in Wind ‘Powered’ South Australia Double the Price of Power in Nuclear Powered France
Debunking the 100% Renewables Fantasy: Running on Sunshine & Breezes – Pure Nonsense
In the heavy metal mockumentary, This is Spinal Tap, the band’s himbo front man, Nigel Tufnel struggles with almost everything, including bringing his grating, 8 minute guitar solos to an end. For Nigel, 10 isn’t enough - his Marshall amp has to go one better (see the video above). The painful exchange between Tufnel … Continue reading Debunking the 100% Renewables Fantasy: Running on Sunshine & Breezes – Pure Nonsense
Australia’s Desperate Miners Demand End to Renewable Energy Madness: RET Must Go Now
Australia’s enviable prosperity isn’t due to sunshine and glinting solar panels or windmills flailing in the breeze, 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 … Continue reading Australia’s Desperate Miners Demand End to Renewable Energy Madness: RET Must Go Now
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