Add ‘wind’, ‘solar’ or ‘renewable’ to a financial asset and you’ll soon have a line of suckers between here and the horizon. The canny investor knows that, if it’s too good to be true, it is. However, that doesn’t curb the enthusiasm of those eager to take your money and run. Not that the habit … Continue reading You’ve Been Had: Investors Drawn By Massive Solar Subsidy Scam
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Scam Alert: How ‘Green’ Energy Companies Are Ripping You Off
So-called ‘green’ power suppliers are finally being called out for the scammers that they truly are. Their pitch was that they would only ever supply you with electrons - lovingly caressed from sunshine and breezes - for a fraction of the cost of power generated using coal, nuclear or gas. Western Europe’s recent Big Calm … Continue reading Scam Alert: How ‘Green’ Energy Companies Are Ripping You Off
Staggering Waste: Counting The Obscene Cost of Wind & Solar Subsidies
There would not be wind or solar industries in the absence of massive and endless subsidies. Those subsidies are either tacked on top of rocketing power bills and paid for by households and businesses; or they are provided in the form of tax credits or rebates to the owners and operators of wind turbines and … Continue reading Staggering Waste: Counting The Obscene Cost of Wind & Solar Subsidies
Renewables Retreat: Europe’s Big Wind Power Drought Provides Major Reality Check
All of a sudden coal-fired power is back in vogue and everybody wants a nuclear power plant: what a difference a burst of calm weather can make. The world’s ‘love’ affair with wind power was never going to last. It was always going to be like unveiling a mystery bride on the wedding night to … Continue reading Renewables Retreat: Europe’s Big Wind Power Drought Provides Major Reality Check
Follow the Money: Politicians Plugging Wind & Solar Pocketing Untold $Millions
Crony capitalism is the new ‘Green’: every politician plugging wind and solar will eventually be caught pocketing cash for his time and trouble. Sure, there’s an ostensible sense of virtue when an MP propounds renewables as a solution to all the world’s perceived ills. But it doesn’t take much digging to work out precisely why … Continue reading Follow the Money: Politicians Plugging Wind & Solar Pocketing Untold $Millions
Subsidised Suicide: How Wind & Solar Carpetbaggers Trashed Australia’s Energy Grid
With abundant supplies of coal, gas and uranium Australia ought to be renowned as an energy superpower. It isn’t. In less than 20 years it deliberately destroyed the most reliable and affordable power generation and delivery system, on earth. It started with subsidies; massive subsidies to wind and solar - both domestic and large-scale - … Continue reading Subsidised Suicide: How Wind & Solar Carpetbaggers Trashed Australia’s Energy Grid
Waste in The West: Texans Have Already Squandered $66 Billion on Unreliable Wind & Solar
Texans suffering weather-caused power supply shortages might well query the $66 billion that's already been squandered on the unreliables, $22 billion of which has been directly pocketed as subsidies by the wind and solar industries, with plenty more coming their way. Robert Bryce takes a look at where power-starved Texan taxpayers' dollars are being directed. … Continue reading Waste in The West: Texans Have Already Squandered $66 Billion on Unreliable Wind & Solar
Endless Resuscitation Required: Wind & Solar Simply Can’t Survive Without Massive Subsidies
As soon as the subsidies for wind and solar dry up, so does the investment in generating capacity, proving the point that neither wind nor solar can survive for very long without guaranteed, government-mandated support; whether in the form of Production Tax Credits, Renewable Energy Certificates or penalties and fines laid on retailers if they … Continue reading Endless Resuscitation Required: Wind & Solar Simply Can’t Survive Without Massive Subsidies
Atomic Alternative: Nuclear Power Only Pathway to Net-Zero Emissions
Householders, businesses, indeed, power consumers of all shapes and sizes are bracing themselves for the suicidal results of looming Net-Zero CO2 emissions targets. We’ll start from the premise that nothing will shake the resolve of the lunatics who pretend to govern us, when it comes to their do or die quest for reducing man-made emissions … Continue reading Atomic Alternative: Nuclear Power Only Pathway to Net-Zero Emissions
Renewable Energy Obsession Means Brits Pay £10.8 Billion in Wind & Solar Subsidies Every Year
Unreliable, inefficient and insanely costly, there’s plenty to dislike about subsidised wind and solar. British power prices have rocketed; ‘reliability’ is now just a catchphrase; energy poverty is the new normal; and its PM, Boris Johnson apparently couldn’t care less. Indeed, he seems even more fixated on unreliable and unaffordable power, than his predecessors. Dr … Continue reading Renewable Energy Obsession Means Brits Pay £10.8 Billion in Wind & Solar Subsidies Every Year
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