Private Property: Wind & Solar Outfits Have No Right to Destroy Your Community

That hard-working farmers and rural folk reject the ‘opportunity’ to be overrun by giant industrial wind turbines and endless seas of solar panels is no surprise. Why would anyone in their senses welcome the single most destructive force into their communities: subsidised wind and solar. Peaceful, prosperous and productive farming communities worked out long ago … Continue reading Private Property: Wind & Solar Outfits Have No Right to Destroy Your Community

Oil & Gas Producers Making Massive Profits From Intermittent Wind & Solar

Oil and gas producers are making a killing thanks to chaotically intermittent wind and solar, providing fuel to run gas and diesel generators as so-called ‘backup’. Mike Holly apparently doesn’t like monopolies and has a set against hydrocarbons. However, he makes a fair point targeting oil and gas producers making a killing every time wind … Continue reading Oil & Gas Producers Making Massive Profits From Intermittent Wind & Solar

Sunset & Calm Weather Reveal Wind and Solar’s Inherent & Fatal Flaw

If a 9-year-old proposed wind and solar as a generation system, you’d give her a gold star but tell her to do better next time. You’d go on to explain that electricity is needed around-the-clock, irrespective of the weather, and that households and businesses want to operate without interruption. Your tutorial on energy supply and … Continue reading Sunset & Calm Weather Reveal Wind and Solar’s Inherent & Fatal Flaw

Utterly Pointless Slaughter: Offshore Wind Industry’s Whale Carcass Count Mounts

Wind power is utterly pointless because it can’t be delivered on demand, which means there’s absolutely no justification for the offshore industry’s rampant whale slaughter. Anyone with a shred of empathy for charismatic marine mammals is entitled to consider what’s being done in the name of ‘saving the planet’ utterly criminal. And rightly so. The … Continue reading Utterly Pointless Slaughter: Offshore Wind Industry’s Whale Carcass Count Mounts

Disintegrating Offshore Turbine Blades Littering Coast With Shredded Toxic Fibreglass

These things have a nasty habit of self-destructing without notice - whether it’s shredding and/or throwing their blades for miles, or spontaneously combusting in toxic fireballs, the environmental damage done is immediate and often permanent. In a recent post - Fibreglass From Shredded Wind Turbine Blades Renders Farming Land Useless - we covered the story … Continue reading Disintegrating Offshore Turbine Blades Littering Coast With Shredded Toxic Fibreglass

Wind Power Subsidies Keep Rising But Total Wind Power Output Keeps Falling

The adage that ‘what goes up must come down’ doesn’t hold with wind power subsidies. And the idea that increasing those subsidies will naturally and inevitably result in more wind power output doesn’t hold water, either. We’re not talking about the daily - and day’s long - collapses in wind power output, but the total … Continue reading Wind Power Subsidies Keep Rising But Total Wind Power Output Keeps Falling

Total Disaster: Why Offshore Wind Power Is So Costly & Environmentally Destructive

Here’s everything you wanted to know about offshore wind power, and it’s all bad. The cost of generating occasional electricity offshore is positively insane, and getting worse. And that’s just to focus on the economics. Then there’s the mounting and irreparable environmental harm - ecologically destructive and deadly to marine mammals, as well as fishing … Continue reading Total Disaster: Why Offshore Wind Power Is So Costly & Environmentally Destructive

Battery Cost Blowout: No Economic Way of Storing Wind & Solar Power

The impossibility of storing wind and solar power to compensate for sunset and calm weather is pure arithmetic; the claims that it can be done economically, pure delusion. Sure, when they’re not exploding into toxic fireballs, giant lithium-ion batteries can store power generated (from any source) and release it on demand. However, the staggering cost … Continue reading Battery Cost Blowout: No Economic Way of Storing Wind & Solar Power

Cancelled: Investors Ditch Dozens of Mega-Offshore Wind Power Projects

The smart money is treating offshore wind power like the Ebola virus. Like that deadly contagion, the offshore wind industry's rapid and merciless collapse is spreading far and wide. Dozens of mega-offshore projects - that were once talked up with the reverence usually reserved for transcendental deities - are being quietly scrapped. Whereas the promised … Continue reading Cancelled: Investors Ditch Dozens of Mega-Offshore Wind Power Projects

Wind Cult Ready to Rage: Trump Targets America’s Offshore Wind Scam

That Donald Trump inflames passions on the left is an understatement, but his plan to scrap America’s wind industry on day one if he takes office has rent-seekers and the wind cult in well-practised apoplexy. How dare anyone criticise an ‘industry’ that soaks up an endless stream of subsidies and can’t deliver electricity as and … Continue reading Wind Cult Ready to Rage: Trump Targets America’s Offshore Wind Scam