Pointless Wind Farm Carnage: British Study Confirms Wholesale Bat Slaughter

Bats matter to our environment as they assist with pollination, pest control and seed dispersion. In the UK it is an offence to deliberately (or recklessly in Scotland) disturb a bat in a way that would (significantly in Scotland) affect its ability to survive, breed or rear young …. or significantly affect the local distribution or abundance of the species. Dead … Continue reading Pointless Wind Farm Carnage: British Study Confirms Wholesale Bat Slaughter

Brits Blow Hundreds of £Millions Paying Wind Power Outfits Not to Deliver Unwanted Power

*** Britain is suffering from the same diabolical wind turbine syndrome that wrecked South Australia, Germany, Spain and the like. However, with the long-awaited announcement that the planned Hinkley Point nuclear power plant is to go ahead, it seems that Brits have finally worked out that you cannot hope to run an economy on wintery … Continue reading Brits Blow Hundreds of £Millions Paying Wind Power Outfits Not to Deliver Unwanted Power

UK Losing Patients: Hospitals Face Power Cuts When Wind Power Output Drops

*** In a ‘you couldn’t make it up if you tried’ moment, Britain is demanding that hospitals turn off their lights and air-conditioners and turn on their emergency diesel generators to pump power back into the grid, every time British breezes turn to zephyrs. The wind industry, its parasites and spruikers call it “demand management”. … Continue reading UK Losing Patients: Hospitals Face Power Cuts When Wind Power Output Drops

Bulk Battery Storage of Wind Power a Myth

In the fall-out over South Australia's wind powered economic and social calamity, the line has been repeatedly spun about fixing the mess with 'rapidly improving battery storage technology'. It is little more than a 'smoke and mirrors' pitch by the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers, designed to deflect attention from the fact that wind … Continue reading Bulk Battery Storage of Wind Power a Myth

Delingpole: Ding Dong DECCs is Dead – UK’s Economy Saving Renewables Retreat

*** Britain’s New Prime Minister Drives A Stake Through The Heart Of The Green Vampire Breitbart James Delingpole 14 July 2016 Official: Britain no longer has“the greenest government ever.” Incoming Prime Minister Theresa May has driven a stake through the heart of her predecessor David Cameron’s fluffy, faux-Conservative project by scrapping the Department of Energy … Continue reading Delingpole: Ding Dong DECCs is Dead – UK’s Economy Saving Renewables Retreat

Brits Slash Subsidies to Wind Power as South Australia’s ‘Green Dream’ Turns Nightmare

*** STT followers might be wondering at our present obsession with South Australia’s wind powered, energy calamity.  However, we haven’t forgotten about the rest of the world.  Our focus, we think, is justified; as South Australia stands as the perfect and inevitable example of what happens when you try to run an economy on sunshine … Continue reading Brits Slash Subsidies to Wind Power as South Australia’s ‘Green Dream’ Turns Nightmare

Wind Farms: A Guarantee of Hatred & Community Division

*** The following pieces - the first from Lancashire, England, the second from Charlotte, upstate New York - are permeated with a sense of seething rage. While the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers still attempt the line that rural communities are falling over themselves to get in on some wind farm action, as usual, … Continue reading Wind Farms: A Guarantee of Hatred & Community Division

Africa’s Wind Power Scandal: Vestas Uses Tribal Rivalry to Steal Kenyan Farmland

**** Having watched five episodes of Danish docu-drama Follow the Money, STT is certain that the wind scamming outfit under investigation for investor fraud, Energreen, was modelled on Vestas. Just like Energreen, Vestas has infiltrated every level of social and political life in Denmark; and just like Energreen has been the subject of criminal investigations, … Continue reading Africa’s Wind Power Scandal: Vestas Uses Tribal Rivalry to Steal Kenyan Farmland

UK’s Wind Power Nightmare Hits High Farce: Having Wrecked Everything, Wind Industry Now Says ‘Britain Not Windy Enough’

Wind is an occasional ally in all sorts of recreational pursuits: sailing, kite surfing, puffing on a ready-to-burst dandelion and watching their parasol seeds drift skywards, and the childish delight of sending kites aloft. But it's taken a special breed of Muppet to turn a source of sporadic fun into a ridiculously expensive, sometime source … Continue reading UK’s Wind Power Nightmare Hits High Farce: Having Wrecked Everything, Wind Industry Now Says ‘Britain Not Windy Enough’

Wind Power Scandal Explodes & ‘Heads Must Roll’: James Delingpole Lists Britain’s ‘Most Wanted’

A week or so back, ex-Department of Energy and Climate Change apparatchik, and now head of RenewableUK, Hugh McNeal dropped the mother of all clangers, when talking about the “future” of wind power in Britain (see our post here). The subsidies for wind power have been slashed and the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers … Continue reading Wind Power Scandal Explodes & ‘Heads Must Roll’: James Delingpole Lists Britain’s ‘Most Wanted’