Ontario wakes up to an energy policy debacle. Here’s http://www.thespec.com on the case. Ontario tilts against wind turbines as costs spiral http://www.thespec.com Ontario, Opinions Martin Regg Cohn 10 December 2013 Who would have imagined Ontario as Ground Zero for the global anti-wind movement, pitting people power against wind power? Instead of a low-carbon environment, the … Continue reading Wind Power Costs Catch Canadians Napping

All of the wind turbines, rooftop solar panels, hydroelectric and biogas plants in Germany have not reduced CO2 emissions in Europe by a single gram. Reality Check: Germany’s Defective Green Energy Game Plan Der Spiegel Alexander Neubacher 25 October 2013 Germany pretends to be a pioneer in the green revolution. But its massively expensive Energiewende … Continue reading German Energiewende a costly environmental disaster

The Corruption of Wind Energy energytribune Peter C Glover 1 February 2013 We always knew that wind power came with a heavy ‘social levy’. That social levy was the accepted high price that would ‘underpin’ the true initial cost of wind power until the industry ‘matured’. We would suffer its unreliability, its intermittence, its aesthetic … Continue reading The Corruption of Wind Energy

Australia faces a very dark and uncertain future – if there is any further increase in wind power generation capacity we can expect widespread power blackouts to become part of the daily routine. **** That flows from the inherently intermittent nature of wind and, in consequence, the utter unreliability and unpredictability of wind power. STT … Continue reading Where will you be when the lights go out for good?