Pinning its hopes to a wholly weather dependent power source – that requires 100% of its capacity to be backed up 100% of the time by conventional generation sources – Britain’s energy ‘policy’ was never going to end well. Already faced with an unstable grid and rocketing power prices thanks to its gamble on wind … Continue reading Lessons from the UK & SA – How to Destroy Power Supplies & Economies: Start with Subsidised Wind Power
Category: UK
James Delingpole: Who Protects Britain’s Birds from the RSPB?
**** James Delingpole, hot on the hypocrisy trail, pops up a fair and reasonable poser: who protects Britain's birds from its Royal Society for the Protection of Birds? (BTW: We've added a few graphics to help James make his point). RSPB: We must build more bird-chopping eco cruifixes James Delingpole Breitbart 26 May 2016 Britain … Continue reading James Delingpole: Who Protects Britain’s Birds from the RSPB?
Wind in the Gallows: Study Shows Badgers Suffer Merciless Stress & Torment from Wind Turbine Noise & Vibration
The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame) has been a childhood favourite for more than a century. The exploits of Toad, Rat, Mole and the elusive but respected Mr Badger, stand as an allegory of what is deemed worthy in the British concept of character, and their understanding of what constitutes good and bad manners. … Continue reading Wind in the Gallows: Study Shows Badgers Suffer Merciless Stress & Torment from Wind Turbine Noise & Vibration
Want to Destroy Your Economy? Then Follow the World’s Wind Powered Leaders: Germany & South Australia
As any student of that dismal science will tell you: for businesses, input costs matter. While wind-cultists claim that their beloveds wouldn't hurt a fly, let alone wreck whole industries, the reality is a long way removed from eco-fascist fantasy. Jack up power prices and, all things equal, an energy hungry firm's profits must fall … Continue reading Want to Destroy Your Economy? Then Follow the World’s Wind Powered Leaders: Germany & South Australia
If You’re Going through Wind Farm Hell, Then Keep Going
**** What impresses STT most is the tenacity and perseverance of community defenders, all over the Globe. Pro-farming (REAL farming, that is), pro-community and pro-real power groups are better informed and organised, and more vocal and hostile, than ever before. Hard-working, decent, rural people throughout the world are fighting back – to obtain sensible energy … Continue reading If You’re Going through Wind Farm Hell, Then Keep Going
How Massively Subsidised Wind Power Destroys Power Markets & Economies
Wind and solar have destroyed the ability of the market to signal price The Telegraph Rupert Darwall 7 March 2016 Before the election, high electricity prices made the Big Six energy companies everyone’s favourite whipping boys. A report by the competition watchdog exonerated them. Government-driven social, environmental and network costs were the main drivers of … Continue reading How Massively Subsidised Wind Power Destroys Power Markets & Economies
Britain’s Wind Power Debacle: Wind Power Outfits Paid £200 Million a Year for Producing NO Power at All
**** Pinning its hopes to a wholly weather dependent power source - that requires 100% of its capacity to be backed up 100% of the time by conventional generation sources - Britain's energy 'policy' was never going to end well. Already faced with an unstable grid and rocketing power prices thanks to its gamble on … Continue reading Britain’s Wind Power Debacle: Wind Power Outfits Paid £200 Million a Year for Producing NO Power at All
Britain’s Wind Power ‘Leap of Faith’
The dimwits from DECCs, that coupled Britain's energy future to wind power, are calling on Britons to trust them in an almighty 'Leap of Faith'. With aging, beyond their use by date, coal-fired power plants being closed this year, British power punters are being promised, by the very idiots that created the mess, that everything … Continue reading Britain’s Wind Power ‘Leap of Faith’
Why Squander $Billions on Wind Power? If CO2 is the Threat, Nukes is the Answer
How to squander ₤4 billion of other peoples’ money. **** If policy is driven by petulant, infantile ideology, instead of cool-headed economics, the result is, without exception, an unmitigated disaster. Here's a nice little wrap-up based on the latter policy approach, that unpicks the falsehoods of the former. (Guaranteed) power to the people Scientific … Continue reading Why Squander $Billions on Wind Power? If CO2 is the Threat, Nukes is the Answer
Doomed & Desperate: UK Wind Industry Attempts to Engineer Backdoor Subsidies
David Cameron's Conservatives strode to outright power on the back of a 'crystal clear' manifesto to cut subsidies to wind power and to give locals the right to veto wind farm projects at the planning stage. But, in a 'never-say-die' last ditch attempt to obtain 'backdoor' access to the perpetual subsidies that are the only … Continue reading Doomed & Desperate: UK Wind Industry Attempts to Engineer Backdoor Subsidies
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