**** 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
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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
Wind Turbine Infrasound: an “Acoustic Trespasser”
**** Despite its best efforts to bury the adverse health impacts of incessant turbine generated low-frequency noise and infrasound, as a result of lots of continuous complaints from neighbours, and the dedicated work of a few ethical acousticians out to help them, the wind industry has lately been called to account. It's taken time - … Continue reading Wind Turbine Infrasound: an “Acoustic Trespasser”
Wind Power’s Toxic Embrace
**** Our Toxic Relationship with Wind Power The Valley Patriot Christine Morabito February, 2015 If clean, safe and efficient energy is to be our standard, then why use wind power at all? When we examine the entire process, the construction and operation of wind turbines is a dangerous and toxic affair. It begins with the … Continue reading Wind Power’s Toxic Embrace
Top US Energy Economist Takes the Scalpel to the Great Wind Power Fraud
**** One of the great mysteries behind the lunacy that is the great wind power fraud is how and why so many governments launched into mandating massive and endless subsidies (filched from unwitting power consumers and/or taxpayers) for an utterly meaningless power generation source - WITHOUT ever having carried out a cost/benefit analysis? You know, … Continue reading Top US Energy Economist Takes the Scalpel to the Great Wind Power Fraud
The Great Wind Power Fraud: Just the Tip of the Climate Change Hysteria Spending Iceberg
**** The tip of the climate spending iceberg CFACT Paul Driessen 31 March 2015 Lockheed Martin, a recent Washington Post article notes, is getting into renewable energy, nuclear fusion, “sustainability” and even fish farming projects, to augment its reduced defense profits. The company plans to forge new ties with Defense Department and other Obama initiatives, … Continue reading The Great Wind Power Fraud: Just the Tip of the Climate Change Hysteria Spending Iceberg
Wind Power Outfits in Meltdown: Michigan Moratorium Kills Projects to Protect its People
**** County OKs temporary halt to wind turbines Huron Daily Tribune Chris Aldridge 3 April 2015 BAD AXE — New wind projects will not be allowed in a majority of Huron County for up to six months, according to a moratorium county commissioners approved Thursday. The moratorium applies to 16 county-zoned townships, where about … Continue reading Wind Power Outfits in Meltdown: Michigan Moratorium Kills Projects to Protect its People