Rent-Seeking Wind & Solar Scammers Stealing From Taxpayers

The great wind and solar scam has allowed crony capitalists to make out like bandits. While they couldn’t care less about delivering reliable and affordable power, try standing between them and a bucket of subsidies and they’ll soon respond. When depression era bank robber, Willie Sutton was asked by a journo why he robbed banks, … Continue reading Rent-Seeking Wind & Solar Scammers Stealing From Taxpayers

Microsoft, Google & Amazon Back New-Age Nuclear Power

The serious money is backing new-age nuclear - a truly serious power generation source, which delivers power on demand, irrespective of the weather, with no need for batteries and no need for back up. In the US, tech giants, Microsoft, Amazon and Google are leading the charge. Backing research into small-scale nuclear plants, planning to … Continue reading Microsoft, Google & Amazon Back New-Age Nuclear Power

Power For The People: Communities Revolt Against Great Wind Industry Scam

The wind industry lost the battle for hearts and minds, years ago. No one buys the lies anymore, and anyone who has given energy a moment’s consideration recognises this grand government-backed fraud for what it is. No sentient being believes that we will obtain anything like meaningful power from a chaotic system, entirely dependent upon … Continue reading Power For The People: Communities Revolt Against Great Wind Industry Scam

Talk’s Cheap: Why Wind & Solar Guarantee Rocketing Power Bills

The relationship between crushing power bills and increasing wind and solar capacity is crystal clear. Notwithstanding the persistent claims that the wind and sun are ‘free’. Maybe. But turning sunshine and breezes into meaningful electricity is a whole different (and very costly) exercise. There’s no such thing as a free lunch. And talk about wind … Continue reading Talk’s Cheap: Why Wind & Solar Guarantee Rocketing Power Bills

Power Shock: Maine’s Power Users Being Smashed By Massive Solar Subsidy Cost

In a - they didn’t really think solar is free moment - power users in Maine are being belted with crushing power bills and told by the powers that be to expect much more of the same. Where numerous businesses are being driven to the wall, thousands of householders are being hit especially hard, with … Continue reading Power Shock: Maine’s Power Users Being Smashed By Massive Solar Subsidy Cost

Not Cheap: Offshore Wind Power 4 Times the Cost of Gas and Nuclear Power

New Yorkers are paying a huge price of offshore wind power, which is 4 times the cost of their conventional supplies from gas and nuclear. So much for all that loose talk about wind power being cheap, clean and green. As Willis Eschenbach points out below, for an industry that brags about cost, wind power … Continue reading Not Cheap: Offshore Wind Power 4 Times the Cost of Gas and Nuclear Power

Never-Ending Story: Why Wind & Solar Wouldn’t Exist Without Massive Subsidies

The combined cost of renewable energy certificates, tax credits, soft loans and other subsidies is staggering. The total cost of which always lands with the power consumer and/or taxpayer, with the wholly unjustified benefits pocketed by crony capitalists, carpetbaggers and rent-seekers. The subsidised wind and solar scam has been running full throttle for more than … Continue reading Never-Ending Story: Why Wind & Solar Wouldn’t Exist Without Massive Subsidies

Fahrenheit Rising: Why Wind Turbines Increase Local Average Temperatures

Apart from the tendency of these things to self-incinerate and set the country ablaze, there’s their ability to wreck local weather patterns and, in the mother of all ironies, raise local temperatures - beyond those of the surrounding areas unaffected by these whirling wonders. Spear hundreds of 300m high wind turbines into ocean environments and … Continue reading Fahrenheit Rising: Why Wind Turbines Increase Local Average Temperatures

Offshore Wind Power Carries Colossal Cost and Delivers Zero Benefits

Never capable of delivering power on demand, offshore wind is as pointless as pushing on string. As the most expensive way of (occasionally) generating electricity, only the terminally insane would consider investing a nickel. Which is why rent-seekers rigged the game with massive subsidies, mandates and tax breaks from the get go. The value of … Continue reading Offshore Wind Power Carries Colossal Cost and Delivers Zero Benefits

Hurricane Havoc: Next Big Blow Set to Destroy America’s Offshore Wind Turbines

If brand-new offshore wind turbines are liberating their 100m blades and distributing their toxic entrails along the Atlantic coastline during perfectly calm weather, imagine what a blistering Hurricane might do to the tens of thousands of blades that now flap above the ocean waves. In the video above, a vicious little twister makes short work … Continue reading Hurricane Havoc: Next Big Blow Set to Destroy America’s Offshore Wind Turbines