The generation that have come to worship wind and solar power operate in a fact and consequence free zone, where logic and reason were bound and gagged from the beginning. Their finest trait is their ability to shift the narrative, when troublesome facts - like blackouts caused by wind power output collapses and rocketing power … Continue reading Counting the Cost of Subsidised Wind Power: Some Basic Facts
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Wind Industry Lies About Falling Costs Backfire: MPs Demand End to Subsidies for Wind Power
The moral of the story of ‘The Boy Who Cried Wolf’ isn’t don’t lie, it’s don’t tell the same lie twice. Renewables rent-seekers continue to stick with the same grab bag of lies, myths and furphies, despite mountains of evidence revealing their marketing pitch is just so much polished propaganda. South Australia (Australia’s so-called ‘wind … Continue reading Wind Industry Lies About Falling Costs Backfire: MPs Demand End to Subsidies for Wind Power
All at Sea – Forget Wind Industry Spin: Offshore Wind Costs are Not Falling, They’re Staggering
Over the last year or so, the Australian wind industry, its parasites and spruikers have pointed to a number of proposals to spear mega-windmills offshore and out in the briny blue, including one monstrous boondoggle pitched for the waters off of the Victorian coast. These pie-in-the-sky plans are accompanied with the usual guff about wind power being … Continue reading All at Sea – Forget Wind Industry Spin: Offshore Wind Costs are Not Falling, They’re Staggering
Why Governments Refuse to Admit the True & Staggering Cost of Subsidised Wind & Solar
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
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
