Among the dwindling band of deluded wind and sun worshippers, no two words are more prone to send them into apoplexy than ‘South Australia’. Held up as the example of how to run an economy on sunshine and breezes (sprinkled with a liberal dose of pixie dust and batteries that cost $150 million to power … Continue reading Guilty: Subsidised Wind & Solar Drive Australia’s Rocketing Retail Power Prices
Germany’s Wind & Solar Obsession Pushes Power Grid to Brink of Total Collapse
If you’re looking for examples on how to deliberately destroy an economy, look no further than renewables obsessed Germany and its equally deranged doppelgänger Downunder, South Australia: both are attempting to run on sunshine and breezes; both suffer rocketing power prices; and both now have grids on the brink of collapse. South Australia has become … Continue reading Germany’s Wind & Solar Obsession Pushes Power Grid to Brink of Total Collapse
Ontario’s Wind Power Nightmare: More like a Drug-Fuelled Horror Movie
Ontario gothic The Times Editorial 6 October 2017 Mary Shelley is said to have conceived the story of Frankenstein, a manmade monster let loose upon the countryside, while under the influence of opium in the cold summer of 1816. The gothic horror story, it turns out, was the work of a dark imagination fuelled by … Continue reading Ontario’s Wind Power Nightmare: More like a Drug-Fuelled Horror Movie
Thinking About Welcoming Wind Turbines in your Community? Well, Think Again – An Avoidable Nightmare Awaits
Communities that were gullible and naïve enough to welcome wind turbines inevitably end up regretting being played for dupes. And it’s a regret that lasts a lifetime. Promises of money for jam; being led to believe that everyone involved is about to save the planet from imminent incineration; and being told these things are quieter … Continue reading Thinking About Welcoming Wind Turbines in your Community? Well, Think Again – An Avoidable Nightmare Awaits
Turnbull’s Trilemma: PM’s Power to Rise (or Fall) with National Energy Guarantee
The reason that Australian governments give for policies set to squander $60 billion in subsidies on wind and solar power is a three-way mission to deliver (1) reliable, (2) affordable and (3) low-CO2-emissions electricity. After the debacle that’s played out in Australia’s wind power capital, South Australia, the odds of that trifecta ever becoming a … Continue reading Turnbull’s Trilemma: PM’s Power to Rise (or Fall) with National Energy Guarantee
Australian-French Alliance Saves Battlefield Graveyard from Outrageous Wind Farm Plan
STT has already set out the background to what amounted to an appalling affront to the 11,000 Australians who were killed in France and Belgium and who have no known grave – here: Shameless: French Wind Power Outfit, Engie Determined to Desecrate Battlefield Graveyard And we covered the efforts of their Australian descendants fighting to keep … Continue reading Australian-French Alliance Saves Battlefield Graveyard from Outrageous Wind Farm Plan
National Energy Guarantee Spells Doom for Wind Power: Mere Threat of NEG Smashes Wind Power Outfits’ Share Prices
The wind industry in Australia is doomed, and it knows it. Power consumers who have received power bills since retail rates increased fully 20% in July, are furious; tens of thousands simply can’t pay them and have been put on ‘payment plans’, while thousands more have simply been disconnected from the grid, unable to pay … Continue reading National Energy Guarantee Spells Doom for Wind Power: Mere Threat of NEG Smashes Wind Power Outfits’ Share Prices
The Unhinged Unleashed: St Louis, Missouri Decrees City to Go 100% Renewable
The wild and wonderful claims about wind and solar power need to be taken with a liberal dose of pixie dust. The long-suffering power consumers of Australia’s wind power capital, South Australia have been told for more than a decade that wind power is free, and getting cheaper all the time. And yet, they suffer … Continue reading The Unhinged Unleashed: St Louis, Missouri Decrees City to Go 100% Renewable
Brits Squander £360 million Paying Wind Power Outfits to NOT Produce Power
Britain is suffering from the same diabolical wind turbine syndrome that wrecked South Australia, Germany, Spain and the like. However, with construction of the Hinkley Point nuclear power plant now underway, it seems that the Brits have finally worked out that you cannot hope to run an economy on wintery bluster and summer breezes. The … Continue reading Brits Squander £360 million Paying Wind Power Outfits to NOT Produce Power
Wind Farm Refugees: Turbine Noise Forces Highlander to Abandon Home & Sleep in her Car
What wind farm neighbours have to tolerate is nothing short of criminal: incessant turbine generated low-frequency noise and infrasound drives neighbours nuts and, where they have the option, out of their homes altogether. The most common adverse health effect caused by wind turbine noise emissions is sleep deprivation, which brings with it a grab bag … Continue reading Wind Farm Refugees: Turbine Noise Forces Highlander to Abandon Home & Sleep in her Car
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