As Donald J Trump tells the world that America’s “not gonna do the wind thing” anymore, wind industry rent seekers are in a state of suicidal panic. As promised, Trump has signed executive orders that will pull offshore wind power projects to a grinding halt, as well as onshore projects that were slated for Federal … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 26 January 2025
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Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 14 January 2025
Happy New Year to all our loyal followers. We hope you had a fabulous Christmas. With Donald J Trump returning to the White House next week, 2025 promises to deliver unprecedented pain and suffering to wind and solar rent seekers, wherever they ply their subsidy-soaked trade. In this week’s roundup, we have articles on the … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 14 January 2025
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
Brits Count Mounting & Staggering Wind Power Subsidy Cost
Unbeknownst to taxpayers and power consumers, the wind industry has engineered the most outrageous raft of subsidies, mostly hidden and all massively generous. These include being paid hundreds of $millions to produce nothing at all, with what are called “constraint payments”. In Britain, taxpayers have stumped up £1 billion in constraint payments to wind power … Continue reading Brits Count Mounting & Staggering Wind Power Subsidy Cost
Making a Small Fortune Investing in Wind & Solar Means Starting With A Large One
Buying shares in wind and solar manufacturers makes horseracing and cocaine habits look like canny investments. Big wind turbine makers like Vestas and Siemens have destroyed $billions worth of value for their shareholders, as input costs skyrocket and revenues crash, smashing share prices along the way. Steve Goreham is an analyst who has been watching … Continue reading Making a Small Fortune Investing in Wind & Solar Means Starting With A Large One
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
Never-Ending Story: Why Wind & Solar Wouldn’t Exist Without Massive Subsidies
The combined cost of renewable energy certificates, tax credits, soft loans and other subsidies is staggering. The total cost of which always lands with the power consumer and/or taxpayer, with the wholly unjustified benefits pocketed by crony capitalists, carpetbaggers and rent-seekers. The subsidised wind and solar scam has been running full throttle for more than … Continue reading Never-Ending Story: Why Wind & Solar Wouldn’t Exist Without Massive Subsidies
Green Hydrogen Meltdown: Carpetbaggers Crabwalk Away From ‘Clean Fuel’ Projects
Seems like only yesterday when ‘green’ hydrogen gas was the next big thing. And then, all of a sudden, it wasn’t. The story, or should we say fairytale, went something like this. Once upon a time there were millions of solar panels and wind turbines generating electricity in such a sporadic and chaotic fashion, that … Continue reading Green Hydrogen Meltdown: Carpetbaggers Crabwalk Away From ‘Clean Fuel’ Projects
Totally Busted: California’s Subsidised Solar Scam Implodes
Over-generous subsidies and guaranteed over-the-market prices are the only explanation for rooftop solar. Having millions of mini (occasional) rooftop generation stations (aka domestic residences) never made any sense. Producing notionally ‘useful’ power for 5 or 6 hours a day - weather permitting - never made any sense, but nothing about the grand wind and solar … Continue reading Totally Busted: California’s Subsidised Solar Scam Implodes
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