**** What STT followers get in a heartbeat is the lunacy attached to reliance on a wholly weather dependent power 'system' - and we use that term in the wildest possible sense: power generation that only bursts into life with thumping breezes and disappears when things drop back to a zephyr can't sensibly be called … Continue reading Too Hot? Too Cold? Then Don’t Expect Wind Power to Help
Category: USA
Wind Power Subsidies: A Bottomless Money Pit
**** Way back in 1984, Christopher Flavin, the President emeritus of the Worldwatch Institute, ran a pitch that in a few years’ time wind energy would not need to be subsidised. Over 30 years later, and the wind industry the world over still keeps talking itself into circles: one minute it’s ready to take on … Continue reading Wind Power Subsidies: A Bottomless Money Pit
Texans Move to Slam Wind Power Subsidies
**** The great wind power fraud is in meltdown around the globe. In the US, ‘wind power’ states have cut their state based subsidies to wind power outfits (or are well on the path of doing so); and Republicans are out to prevent the extension of the Federal government’s PTC wind power subsidy: 2015: the … Continue reading Texans Move to Slam Wind Power Subsidies
The Obscene, Hidden Costs of Wind Power
**** True costs of wind electricity Planning Engineer and Rud Istvan 12 May 2015 Climate Etc. Wind turbines have become a familiar sight in many countries as a favorite CAGW mitigation means. Since at least 2010, the US Energy Information Agency (EIA) has been assuring NGOs and the public that wind would be cost competitive … Continue reading The Obscene, Hidden Costs of Wind Power
Hammering Wind Industry Myths: the ‘In-a-Nutshell’ Version
**** Here's a sold little wrap-up on the great wind power fraud from Mary Kay Barton - it's so clear and thumpingly sound for STT to add, would only detract. Hats off, Mary. Over to you. Wind energy myths spun by lobbyists and salesmen Principia Scientific Mary Kay Barton 13 May 2015 Industrial wind energy … Continue reading Hammering Wind Industry Myths: the ‘In-a-Nutshell’ Version
Black American Family Sues Wind Power Outfit for Wantonly Bulldozing their Home
**** The goons that people the wind industry are low – to be sure. This is an industry devoid of any moral compass or human empathy, and always quick to ride roughshod over the living: The Wind Industry’s Latest “Killing Fields”: Africans Just “Dying” to “Save the Planet” Farmer’s Fiery Suicide Attempt Follows Land Theft … Continue reading Black American Family Sues Wind Power Outfit for Wantonly Bulldozing their Home
Open Competition: What the Wind Industry Fears Most
**** Among the myriad fictions spread by the lunatics that spruik for the wind industry, is the claim that wind power is not only competitive with conventional power generation sources, it’s actually cheaper than the cheapest of them all: coal – see this ruin-economy piece for a trip to Alice’s world of make-believe. Coal-fired plant … Continue reading Open Competition: What the Wind Industry Fears Most
Top Acoustic Engineer – Malcolm Swinbanks – Experiences Wind Farm Infrasound Impacts, First Hand
**** Top Acoustic Engineer, Dr Malcolm Swinbanks has been at the forefront of investigating the impacts of infrasound and low-frequency noise for over 40 years; and has been on the wind industry’s stinky trail in Michigan since 2009. Last month, he delivered this technically brilliant paper: “Direct Experience of Low Frequency Noise and Infrasound … Continue reading Top Acoustic Engineer – Malcolm Swinbanks – Experiences Wind Farm Infrasound Impacts, First Hand
2015: the Wind Industry’s ‘Annus Horribilis’; or Time to Sink the Boots In
**** Any 'business' model or industry that is built around endless streams of government mandated subsidies - like Australia's REC Tax/Subsidy or the US's Production Tax Credit - pins its hopes of long-term survival on the whims of our political betters, which tend to ebb and flow with the economics that dictate the fortunes of … Continue reading 2015: the Wind Industry’s ‘Annus Horribilis’; or Time to Sink the Boots In
US Republicans Line Up to Can Subsidies for Wind Power
**** Americans have had enough: enough of the wind industry’s constant bleating for ‘special’ treatment; enough of its dogged efforts to permanently maintain noise standards that are little more than a sick joke; and enough of its constant demands for subsidies that will – to keep the Ponzi scheme afloat – need to outlast religion. … Continue reading US Republicans Line Up to Can Subsidies for Wind Power
