A little while back, the good Senator from Victoria, John “Marshall” Madigan launched an Exocet missile at the seedy world of hard-green-left politics and the wind power outfits that fund the Australian Greens (see our post here). The Greens have been particularly coy about where the hundreds of thousands of dollars used to fund … Continue reading The Wind Industry Pays “Green” Groups $millions to Chant for More Subsidies
Category: USA
Texas Blames Wind Power Slump on (you guessed it) … the Wind
**** The wind industry is the Great Pretender: always claiming to be a real match for conventional power generation sources, but never capable of delivering when it really counts (see our posts here and here). In Germany, the wind industry is left howling about a weather driven conspiracy against it; as wind power output routinely … Continue reading Texas Blames Wind Power Slump on (you guessed it) … the Wind
Wind Power’s True & Hidden Costs: A Dirty Big Secret
Clean Energy’s Dirty Secret National Review Online Rupert Darwall 23 September 2014 Renewable energy has become a potent rallying cry uniting Hollywood and the Beltway. “We can move our economy town by town, state by state to renewable energy and a sustainable future,” Leonardo DiCaprio says in his eight-minute climate movie Carbon, released in August. … Continue reading Wind Power’s True & Hidden Costs: A Dirty Big Secret
US Wind Industry Under Siege: Congress Set to Cut Subsidies as Communities Boil Over
Wind power opponents seek repeal of tax credit The Seattle Times Hal Bernton and Erin Heffernan 21 September 2014 FOREST, Wisconsin — When wind-power developers prospected the rolling hills around this small dairy town, they found plenty of gusty sites for turbines. In 2011, they proposed a $250 million project with up to 44 turbines … Continue reading US Wind Industry Under Siege: Congress Set to Cut Subsidies as Communities Boil Over
Robert Bryce: Want to live in Stone-Age Poverty? Then tie your future to Wind Power
**** Robert Bryce picked the wind power fraud for what it is from the very beginning. In his 2010 book “Power Hungry: The Myths of “Green” Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future” (Public Affairs), Bryce skewered every one of the myths relied upon by the wind industry to peddle its wares; and went … Continue reading Robert Bryce: Want to live in Stone-Age Poverty? Then tie your future to Wind Power
Why Intermittent Wind Power Increases CO2 Emissions in the Electricity Sector
The central, endlessly repeated lie (upon which the great wind power fraud rests) is that increasing wind power generation results in decreases in CO2 emissions. In Australia, the central object of the Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000 is for "renewable" energy to "reduce emissions of greenhouse gases in the electricity sector" (see s3). But, somewhere … Continue reading Why Intermittent Wind Power Increases CO2 Emissions in the Electricity Sector
Of Unicorns & Pink Elephants: “Reliance” on Wind Power is Pure “Green” Fantasy
When it comes to their demand for electricity, the power consumer has a couple of basic needs: when they hit the light switch they assume illumination will shortly follow and that when the kettle is kicked into gear it’ll be boiling soon thereafter. And the power consumer assumes that these – and similar actions in … Continue reading Of Unicorns & Pink Elephants: “Reliance” on Wind Power is Pure “Green” Fantasy
Oklahomans Launch Pre-Emptive Legal Action to Prevent Wind Farm Construction
**** For most non-Okies, their appreciation of the glories of life on the great prairies of Oklahoma comes from Gordon Macrae (as Curly) – bathed in “a bright golden haze on the meadow” and crooning from a fine looking mount about what was clearly a very “beautiful morning”. While Curly waxed lyrically about seeing stratospheric … Continue reading Oklahomans Launch Pre-Emptive Legal Action to Prevent Wind Farm Construction
Big Win for Big Thunder: Candian Fan Plan Canned
Contract scrapped Leith Dunick tbnewswatch.com 25 July 2014 Irene Bond, spokeswoman for the Nor'Wester Escarpment Protection Committee, says she's ecstatic to learn Horizon's contract with the OPA was terminated. A spokeswoman for the Nor’Wester Mountain Escarpment Protection Committee says she’s ecstatic that Horizon Wind Inc.’s planned turbine farm in Thunder Bay might be dead in … Continue reading Big Win for Big Thunder: Candian Fan Plan Canned
Australia Shoots Down Climate Lobby’s Scare Mongering
Australia shoots down climate lobby’s scare mongering Marita Noon cfact.org 21 July 2014 Thursday, July 17 was a big news day. The world was shocked to learn that a Russian-made missile shot down a Malaysian Airlines jet with 298 on board as it flew over Ukraine en route to Kuala Lumpur from Amsterdam. Though flight … Continue reading Australia Shoots Down Climate Lobby’s Scare Mongering
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