The greatest Ponzi scheme of all time is on the brink of collapse. In America, Trump’s 'deplorables' have crushed the wind industry’s hopes of carpeting the United States in millions of these things; shares in wind turbine makers, like Denmark’s Vestas have plummeted. In Australia, the wind industry is like a wandering zombie; quite apparently … Continue reading British Wind Industry’s Desperate Bid to Retain Subsidies Crushed by Court of Appeal
Category: UK
Blackouts Beckon as Cost of Britain’s Wind Powered Energy ‘Transition’ Rockets
*** Britain went into wind power almost as fast and hard as Germany: the costs have been colossal and the effects on its power grid chaotic. Fortunately, however, David Cameron’s Conservatives followed an election manifesto, slashed subsidies to onshore wind power and gave planning veto rights back to communities. Inevitably, the construction of proposed onshore … Continue reading Blackouts Beckon as Cost of Britain’s Wind Powered Energy ‘Transition’ Rockets
Giant Battery Myth Offers Wind Industry No Salvation from its Ultimate Demise
*** One of the more hilarious moments that followed the aftermath of South Australia’s statewide blackout on 28 September (aka ‘Black Wednesday’), was when The Australian quoted the CEO of French wind power outfit Neoen - one of the wind power operators whose turbines were responsible for SA's date with the Dark Ages: Neoen Australia … Continue reading Giant Battery Myth Offers Wind Industry No Salvation from its Ultimate Demise
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