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
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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
Subsidised Suicide: Wind Power Delivers Nothing But Rocketing Power Prices & Blackouts
*** In this pair of pearlers, James Delingpole spans the globe: firstly detailing the growing and staggering cost of subsidised wind power in Britain; and then turning his attention Downunder to the disaster that is Australia's wind power capital, South Australia. Post-Brexit Britain Wants To Escape Its EU Renewables Targets. About Time Too Breitbart James … Continue reading Subsidised Suicide: Wind Power Delivers Nothing But Rocketing Power Prices & Blackouts
Green Mythology: Sun, Wind, Waves & Tides Fail to Deliver the Goods
Perpetual motion machines, turning lead into gold and capturing moonbeams in a jar are just some of the fanciful notions that have attracted human attention over the eons. The last generation have been obsessed in their attempts to run whole economies on the weather. For those that launched all out efforts to run on sunshine … Continue reading Green Mythology: Sun, Wind, Waves & Tides Fail to Deliver the Goods
James Delingpole Dumps on the Great Wind Power Fraud
James Delingpole has been slugging it out with lunatics from the Greenblob for more than a decade. Now, as the world wakes up to the scale and scope of the great wind power fraud, Slim Jim finds himself on the right side of history. Here he is letting the world know about it. Why Renewables … Continue reading James Delingpole Dumps on the Great Wind Power Fraud
Scottish Wind Power Company Attempts to Cover Up Turbine Collapse
*** What's notable about this story is not that a 160 tonne turbine collapsed without warning, nor is it the effort by the wind power outfit's spin doctor to pretend that this is the first time a 90m tower has taken a tumble to terra firma (a line we demolish, so to speak, below). No, … Continue reading Scottish Wind Power Company Attempts to Cover Up Turbine Collapse
James Delingpole Hammers the Great Wind Power Fraud: ‘Green Energy is a Charter For Crooks And Liars’
For STT followers, James 'Slim Jim' Delingpole needs no fanfare - this boy tells it like it is - even if that means being pursued by Australia's PC Police for quoting a NSW farmer who (in a mastery of understatement) described the wind industry as being "worse than a paedophile ring". Over to James. Green … Continue reading James Delingpole Hammers the Great Wind Power Fraud: ‘Green Energy is a Charter For Crooks And Liars’
Economic Disaster Looms: The £300 Billion Cost of Britain’s Wind Power Debacle
*** Britain set itself on the path to wind powered penury a decade ago and sealed its fate with its Climate Change Act in 2008. As anyone with a modicum of common sense could have predicted, the result has been a social and economic disaster, the costs of which can only escalate from here. In … Continue reading Economic Disaster Looms: The £300 Billion Cost of Britain’s Wind Power Debacle
Wind Farm Mass Attack: Wind Turbines Collapsing & Combusting Around the World
*** The number of cases involving turbines collapsing, self immolating or throwing their blades to the four winds (aka “component liberation”) has become so common that, if we were a tad cynical, we would go so far to suggest the possibility of some kind of pattern, along the lines proffered by Mr Bond’s nemesis, Goldfinger: … Continue reading Wind Farm Mass Attack: Wind Turbines Collapsing & Combusting Around the World
