If the true and staggering cost of subsidised wind and solar power were public knowledge, there would be public outrage. For more than a decade the wind industry and its political enablers have trotted out mythical figures, all based on fanciful modelling, claiming that the total cost of renewable power to consumers is less than … Continue reading Why Governments Refuse to Admit the True & Staggering Cost of Subsidised Wind & Solar
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Government Mandated Theft: The Great Scottish Wind Power Racket Unwrapped
Dr John Constable is Director of the Renewable Energy Foundation. Matt Ridley is a journalist and author. In this well-crafted piece they pair up to unwrap the greatest State sponsored fraud in history; this time as it's playing out in Scotland. The Scottish wind-power racket CAPX John Constable and Matt Ridley 10 August 2017 Imagine … Continue reading Government Mandated Theft: The Great Scottish Wind Power Racket Unwrapped
The Monstrous ‘Ethics’ of the Wind Industry’s Acoustic Consultants
The acoustic consultants who have made $millions from writing utterly irrelevant noise ‘rules’ and defending them in front of planning courts and panels will never be accused of acting ethically. Their clients demand compliance reports that are made-to-measure, and they are happy to oblige, by either causing data to disappear or simply changing the numbers … Continue reading The Monstrous ‘Ethics’ of the Wind Industry’s Acoustic Consultants
Trawlermen vs Turbines: Offshore Wind Farms Putting Scottish Fishermen Out of Business
Celebrated in the BBC reality TV series, ‘Trawlermen’ the men that brave the waves in search of the seafood that graces British dining tables, restaurants and fish and chip shops risk life and limb to bring the catch home. Ruthlessly competitive, British fishermen not only have to contend with mountainous seas and other Trawlermen, now … Continue reading Trawlermen vs Turbines: Offshore Wind Farms Putting Scottish Fishermen Out of Business
How ‘Green’ is Wind Power: Offshore Wind Farms Killing Whales
*** Energy generation systems of all descriptions take their toll, but only one of them claims moral superiority over all others. That increasingly tenuous claim rests on the 'we're saving the planet' mantra - chanted by the wind cult around the Globe. Not for the first time, and not for the last time, wind turbine noise … Continue reading How ‘Green’ is Wind Power: Offshore Wind Farms Killing Whales
Scotland Squanders ₤Billions on Subsidised Wind & Gets Stone Age Power in Return
*** A decade or so from now, when thousands of wind turbines are quietly rusting in some dimwit’s back paddock, the next generation will rightly ask why states and whole nations squandered $billions on a wholly weather dependent power source, abandoned centuries ago for pretty obvious reasons? Eventually, the spotlight will turn on the political … Continue reading Scotland Squanders ₤Billions on Subsidised Wind & Gets Stone Age Power in Return
Wind Turbines Provide Zero% of Global Energy: Despite $Billions Squandered on Subsidies
*** Matt Ridley defines pragmatism and common sense. If - as the wind cult constantly exhorts us - generating power without generating CO2 emissions is the object, then wind power offers no solution. Matt correctly points out the path to CO2 reductions in the power sector involves gas, for now, and investing in an atomic … Continue reading Wind Turbines Provide Zero% of Global Energy: Despite $Billions Squandered on Subsidies
Renewables Relief: Brexit Brings End to Britain’s Staggering Wind Power Subsidies
As Britain begins to untangle itself from the web of subsidies, regulations and mandates set by green-left lunatics in Europe, its rent-seeking wind power outfits must be feeling as anxious as ever. The cost of intermittent and unreliable renewables can no longer be concealed (despite the climate cults' best efforts) and, with that in mind, … Continue reading Renewables Relief: Brexit Brings End to Britain’s Staggering Wind Power Subsidies
Wales Erupts in Wild Protests Against Outrageous 800 Turbine Wind Farm
Nothing generates more hatred and bitter community division than a wind farm. And when what's proposed is 800 of these things: 290 tonne, 165m tall, bat-chomping, bird slicing, blade-chucking, pyrotechnic, sonic-torture devices - speared all over the bucolic Welsh and Shropshire countryside it's little wonder that locals have erupted in fury - a taste of which … Continue reading Wales Erupts in Wild Protests Against Outrageous 800 Turbine Wind Farm
UK Government Conceals Staggering Cost of Wind Power Subsidies
As STT keeps pointing out, it is the staggering cost of subsidising intermittent and unreliable wind power (for which there is no market in the absence of Soviet era mandates) that ultimately destroys the wind industry. Quite apparently aware of that fact, the UK government has sought to keep the lid on the figures which … Continue reading UK Government Conceals Staggering Cost of Wind Power Subsidies