It took the wind power disaster to unfold in South Australia before mainstream media started to notice the bleeding obvious: these things don't work - on any level. Slowly, but surely the press have pounced - attacking the causes and consequences of pouring $billions in subsidies at a power generation system which can only be … Continue reading South Australian Debacle Shows Wind Power a ‘Proven Failure’
Category: South Australia
Enron Rides Again: Wind Power Chaos Enables Rampant Price Gouging by Conventional Generators
South Australia’s ludicrous attempt to run on sunshine and breezes has rendered it an international laughing stock. Daily, routine, total and totally unpredictable collapses in wind power output result in price gouging efforts that see the spot price for power rocket from around $70 per MWh to $2,000 to $4,000 per MWh, in a matter … Continue reading Enron Rides Again: Wind Power Chaos Enables Rampant Price Gouging by Conventional Generators
No Shit Sherlock – Wind Power is a Lame Duck
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
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
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