Microsoft Buys Tons Of Wind Power, Complete With Back Up Generators The Daily Caller Andrew Follett 14 November 2016 Tech giant Microsoft announced Monday that it has signed a deal to power its American data centers with wind energy, despite the inherent unreliability of the technology. The tech company announced two new contracts representing 237 megawatts … Continue reading It’s Really a ‘Gas’: Microsoft Caught Pretending to Run its Servers on Wind Power
Category: USA
Great Scott: New Republican Governor Blown to Power Promising to Kill Subsidised Wind Power in Vermont
*** Vermont is one of America’s key battlegrounds in the fight to preserve peace and prosperity in the USA. Donald Trump comfortably rode to presidential victory, thanks to a “basket of deplorables”. In Vermont, Republican Phil Scott strode into the Governor’s office thanks to his pledge to crush subsidised wind power before it crushes Vermont. … Continue reading Great Scott: New Republican Governor Blown to Power Promising to Kill Subsidised Wind Power in Vermont
Spanish Wind Developer’s Attempt to Bribe Vermont Voters Generates Local Outrage
A few posts back we covered the story of how a Spanish wind power outfit is attempting to bribe its way into Vermonter's hearts and minds, with fat piles of the cash it filches from taxpayers as subsidies. STT clearly underestimated the locals' sense of outrage: here are another couple of pieces on the efforts … Continue reading Spanish Wind Developer’s Attempt to Bribe Vermont Voters Generates Local Outrage
Wind Power: Economically, Socially & Environmentally Unsustainable
Craig Rucker is executive director of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow. In this brilliant and succinct piece of analysis, Craig lays out precisely why these things do not work, on any level: economic, social or environmental. Wind Power: Our Least Sustainable Resource? Master Resource Craig Rucker 25 October 2016 A single 1.7 MW wind turbine, … Continue reading Wind Power: Economically, Socially & Environmentally Unsustainable
Astroturfing ‘Greens’ Destroy Viable Power Sytems & Pocket Obscene ‘Profits’ at Taxpayers’ Expense
*** Americans have got a long way to go to catch up with South Australians. While there is a well-organised band of eco-fascists pushing America towards a wind powered future, the penetration of wind power in the US is minuscule by comparison with Australia’s so-called “wind powered capital”. South Australians, blessed with the highest power … Continue reading Astroturfing ‘Greens’ Destroy Viable Power Sytems & Pocket Obscene ‘Profits’ at Taxpayers’ Expense
Trump’s ‘Basket of Deplorables’ Deliver Lesson on Energy Policy: Politicians Ignore Workers at their Political Peril
After America’s “basket of deplorables” banded together to send Donald Trump to the White House and Hillary Clinton to the Dog House, everything politicians and pundits thought they knew about politics is patently wrong. Ignoring the working class is one thing, but condescending, denigrating and ridiculing those who plump for people like Trump as ‘idiots’, … Continue reading Trump’s ‘Basket of Deplorables’ Deliver Lesson on Energy Policy: Politicians Ignore Workers at their Political Peril
Clinton ‘Trumped’: Vestas’ Shares in Freefall & Wind Industry in Full Scale Panic
The election of Donald Trump has caused conniption fits amongst the hard green-left in the United States and elsewhere. Pundits predicted, with supreme confidence, that Hillary Clinton would take the White House and that all would be well in the politically correct garden. However, America’s “basket of deplorables” had other ideas: a brash and vulgar … Continue reading Clinton ‘Trumped’: Vestas’ Shares in Freefall & Wind Industry in Full Scale Panic
Wind Power Outfits Reduced to Bribing Vermont Locals to Win Support
*** Hated wherever it plies its filthy, subsidy-soaked trade, the wind industry is renowned world-wide for ‘greasing’ political palms, in order to garner the influence needed to obtain dodgy, rubber-stamped planning applications and to maintain massive subsidy streams until kingdom come. With rural communities alive to the greatest economic and environmental fraud of all time … Continue reading Wind Power Outfits Reduced to Bribing Vermont Locals to Win Support
US Study Finds Wind Farms Slaughtering Local & Migrating Eagles Alike
*** Wind turbines killing more than just local birds, study finds Purdue University Brian Wallheimer 28 September 2016 EST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Wind turbines are known to kill large birds, such as golden eagles, that live nearby. Now there is evidence that birds from up to hundreds of miles away make up a significant portion … Continue reading US Study Finds Wind Farms Slaughtering Local & Migrating Eagles Alike
Wind Power – Guaranteed to Double Power Prices & Destroy Once Reliable Grids
The one thing that South Australia’s vapid Premier, Jay Weatherill and his hapless sidekick, Tom Koutsantonis can never complain about from here on is a lack of attention. South Australia’s internationally renowned power pricing and supply calamity is driven by a maniacal obsession with wind power. The circumstances that led to the events on 28 … Continue reading Wind Power – Guaranteed to Double Power Prices & Destroy Once Reliable Grids