Today’s “No Shit Sherlock” award goes to the New York Times‘s environment pages for their belated discovery that renewable energy is a lame duck. Breitbart James Delingpole 20 July 2016 Is the global effort to combat climate change, painstakingly agreed to in Paris seven months ago, already going off the rails? Germany, Europe’s champion for … Continue reading No Shit Sherlock – Wind Power is a Lame Duck
Category: South Australia
Why Wind Power Causes ‘Load-Shedding’ & Blackouts in SA: Power Generation for Dummies
There are 3 electricity essentials – that the power source and its delivery to homes and businesses be: 1) reliable; 2) secure; and 3) affordable. Which means that wind power – a wholly weather dependent power source, that can’t be stored and costs 3-4 times the cost of conventional power – scores NIL on all … Continue reading Why Wind Power Causes ‘Load-Shedding’ & Blackouts in SA: Power Generation for Dummies
SA’s Debacle Spreads: Wind Power Threatens to Wreck an Entire Power System
*** Things got serious in Australia's energy sector as soon as the wind power debacle in South Australia started making the front pages of Australia's metropolitan dailies. For a while, the happy citizens of states (other than SA) not wedded to the wind power delusion could quietly snigger at the mess South Australia's hapless Labor … Continue reading SA’s Debacle Spreads: Wind Power Threatens to Wreck an Entire Power System
Running on Wind Power & Wishes: South Australia Becomes a ‘Fools Paradise’
Last week had State Energy Ministers in a desperate rush to Canberra to plead for help from Federal Energy Minister, Josh Frydenberg at an urgently convened COAG Energy Summit. In the lead up, every one of them was being fed lines from those eager to profit from South Australia's energy calamity: grid operators, keen to … Continue reading Running on Wind Power & Wishes: South Australia Becomes a ‘Fools Paradise’
Wind Power Obsession Sends South Australians Back to the Stone Age
Amidst the panic and chaos being experienced by the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers - due to the unfolding and inevitable wind power calamity in South Australia - one of the newly invented catchphrases is “transition”. It’s a term now employed by wind spinners, dimwitted politicians and gullible journalists; and is often coupled up … Continue reading Wind Power Obsession Sends South Australians Back to the Stone Age
Why Wind Power is Slaughtering South Australia: In-a-Nutshell
South Australia is where the wind industry got going in Australia; and the inevitable and disastrous results of South Australia’s ludicrous attempt to run itself on the whims of the weather mean that South Australia is the place where the wind industry meets its doom. No commercial power retailer in their right mind is going … Continue reading Why Wind Power is Slaughtering South Australia: In-a-Nutshell
Wind Power Debacle: South Australia an International Joke
*** South Australia is, thanks to its ludicrous attempt to run on sunshine and breezes, now on the World stage: for all the wrong reasons. With total and totally unpredictable collapses in its wind power output, SA is now accustomed to routine load-shedding (dropping suburbs and whole regions off the grid to keep the rest … Continue reading Wind Power Debacle: South Australia an International Joke
SA’s Wind Power Debacle: Opportunity Knocks for More Subsidy-Sucking Rent Seekers
Investment is not always good Catallaxy files Judith Sloan 29 July 2016 Since the return of the Labor-lite Turnbull government – or should that just be Labor – the rent-seekers in the renewable energy space have been out and about. No doubt, the South Australian debacle has thrown a spanner in the works, but the … Continue reading SA’s Wind Power Debacle: Opportunity Knocks for More Subsidy-Sucking Rent Seekers
South Australia’s Wind Power Obsession an Economic Suicide Pact
Alan Moran gets it. Setting a cult-like feel-good power policy, obsessed with wind power isn't just fanciful nonsense, it's nothing short of an economic suicide pact. Here's how things are playing out in Australia's "wind power capital", South Australia. Renewable energy demanding a high price for unreliability The Australian Financial Review Alan Moran 29 July … Continue reading South Australia’s Wind Power Obsession an Economic Suicide Pact
South Africa Slams the Door on Wind Power: Nuclear Powered Future Beckons
*** STT followers might have tumbled to the fact that we’ve been pretty heavily focused on SA over the last month. However, in this post, we head a few thousand clicks, west across the Indian Ocean to another ‘SA’; this time South Africa, which appears entirely sensible enough to be able to avoid the power … Continue reading South Africa Slams the Door on Wind Power: Nuclear Powered Future Beckons
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