The election of Donald Trump has caused conniption fits amongst the hard green-left in the United States and elsewhere. Pundits predicted, with supreme confidence, that Hillary Clinton would take the White House and that all would be well in the politically correct garden. However, America’s “basket of deplorables” had other ideas: a brash and vulgar … Continue reading Clinton ‘Trumped’: Vestas’ Shares in Freefall & Wind Industry in Full Scale Panic
Wind Power Outfits Reduced to Bribing Vermont Locals to Win Support
*** Hated wherever it plies its filthy, subsidy-soaked trade, the wind industry is renowned world-wide for ‘greasing’ political palms, in order to garner the influence needed to obtain dodgy, rubber-stamped planning applications and to maintain massive subsidy streams until kingdom come. With rural communities alive to the greatest economic and environmental fraud of all time … Continue reading Wind Power Outfits Reduced to Bribing Vermont Locals to Win Support
‘Peak Lunacy’: Australia’s Unfolding Energy Fiasco Cripples SA – Victoria to Follow
*** In Ridley Scott’s 1991 feminist version of the classic American road film, Thelma and Louise, the protagonists hit the road in a 1966 Ford Thunderbird convertible, hoping to escape the dropkick men in their dreary lives. Thelma, in resisting the unwanted advances of a would-be rapist, pumps her assailant full of lead and the … Continue reading ‘Peak Lunacy’: Australia’s Unfolding Energy Fiasco Cripples SA – Victoria to Follow
South Australia Set for Higher Power Prices & More Blackouts Post Hazelwood Closure
SA's vapid Premier, Jay Weatherill about to suffer another power shock. *** The Federal Large-Scale RET has just claimed another scalp in the shape of 1,600MW of reliable base-load plant at Hazelwood, Victoria - as well as more than 1,000 well-paid blue-collar jobs and an entire regional community. That loss follows hot on the heels … Continue reading South Australia Set for Higher Power Prices & More Blackouts Post Hazelwood Closure
Giant Battery Myth Offers Wind Industry No Salvation from its Ultimate Demise
*** One of the more hilarious moments that followed the aftermath of South Australia’s statewide blackout on 28 September (aka ‘Black Wednesday’), was when The Australian quoted the CEO of French wind power outfit Neoen - one of the wind power operators whose turbines were responsible for SA's date with the Dark Ages: Neoen Australia … Continue reading Giant Battery Myth Offers Wind Industry No Salvation from its Ultimate Demise
Australia’s Renewable Target Kills 2,000 Victorian Jobs at Hazelwood & Portland
*** To call what Australian politicians refer to as energy “policy” is to flatter it as involving some kind of deliberate design. As things have panned out in South Australia, and are fast panning out in neighbouring Victoria, there is only one fair description: “total chaos”. South Australia lost 784MW of reliable, affordable base-load power … Continue reading Australia’s Renewable Target Kills 2,000 Victorian Jobs at Hazelwood & Portland
REC Price Surge Signals Doom for Australia’s Renewable Target & its Wind Industry
When a policy is unsustainable its failure is inevitable: Australia’s Large-Scale Renewable Energy Target is just such a policy. STT has been spelling it out since December 2012. It was around then, when Australia’s commercial power retailers determined that there was no bankable certainty attached to the LRET; since then, no commercial retailer has entered … Continue reading REC Price Surge Signals Doom for Australia’s Renewable Target & its Wind Industry
US Study Finds Wind Farms Slaughtering Local & Migrating Eagles Alike
*** Wind turbines killing more than just local birds, study finds Purdue University Brian Wallheimer 28 September 2016 EST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Wind turbines are known to kill large birds, such as golden eagles, that live nearby. Now there is evidence that birds from up to hundreds of miles away make up a significant portion … Continue reading US Study Finds Wind Farms Slaughtering Local & Migrating Eagles Alike
Germany’s €Trillion Euro Disaster: Wind Power ‘Transition’ Destroys its Industrial Heartland
STT has a ‘thing’ for the English language. In the hands of adept practitioners, our mother tongue is capable of conveying all manner of complex concepts and ideas, and doing so with verve and wit. However, in the hands of the well-paid spin doctors and useful political idiots that run with, and run cover for, … Continue reading Germany’s €Trillion Euro Disaster: Wind Power ‘Transition’ Destroys its Industrial Heartland
How South Australia’s Wind Power Obsession Sent Power Prices Rocketing & Killed Grid Reliability
*** For over 15 years, the Australian wind industry, its parasites and spruikers held up South Australia as the perfect example of what a wind powered future would look like: the economic basket case even earned the mantle of ‘Australia’s wind power capital’. Now that their dreams have become a daily South Australian nightmare, it’s … Continue reading How South Australia’s Wind Power Obsession Sent Power Prices Rocketing & Killed Grid Reliability
