Slash & Burn: The Cult Hates Coal-Fired Power But Loves Whole Forest-Fired Power

The cult demonises coal for the CO2 it releases, but without a hint of irony reckons that the CO2 released from wood is a completely different molecule. Adding the term ‘biomass’ to the millions of tonnes of timber stripped from the forests of the northern hemisphere apparently makes all the difference. Whereas the term ‘dirty’ … Continue reading Slash & Burn: The Cult Hates Coal-Fired Power But Loves Whole Forest-Fired Power

The Real Climate Crisis: Relying Upon Weather-Dependent Wind & Solar

Frozen wind turbines and solar panels buried under piles of snow and ice produce nothing at all, except photo opportunities. When the weather conspires against the ‘unreliables’, somewhere there will be a coal, or gas or diesel powered generator ready to swing into action and prevent you from freezing in the dark. However, if the … Continue reading The Real Climate Crisis: Relying Upon Weather-Dependent Wind & Solar

Real ‘Green’ Energy: Germany Bulldozes Ancient Fairytale Forest For Wind Turbines

If the wilderness being turned into smouldering ash is used as a platform for hundreds of 260m high/300 tonne industrial juggernauts, it’s all for the greater good (as in the case above, where huge areas of pristine tropical rainforest is being wiped out in Far North Queensland to make way for hundreds of these things). … Continue reading Real ‘Green’ Energy: Germany Bulldozes Ancient Fairytale Forest For Wind Turbines

Massive Wind & Solar Subsidies Principal Cause of Your Rocketing Power Bills

It takes more than just your average leap of logic to contend that the grand wind and solar ‘transition’ constitutes rational energy policy. That so-called ‘policy’ means doling out massive subsidies to wind and solar generators for weather-dependent occasional power; then subsidising coal-fired power plants to stay operating to fill the ‘gaps’ caused by sunset … Continue reading Massive Wind & Solar Subsidies Principal Cause of Your Rocketing Power Bills

Licence Cancelled: Top French Court Strikes Down Unlawful Wind Farm Planning Rules

Wind farm noise ‘guidelines’ (written by the industry’s pet consultants) never survive first contact with careful legal scrutiny. In the Victorian Bald Hills case, Justice Richards of the Victorian Supreme Court not only ordered the wind farm operator to shut down its turbines at night to limit the noise nuisance they created, her Honour slammed … Continue reading Licence Cancelled: Top French Court Strikes Down Unlawful Wind Farm Planning Rules

Critically Endangered Great Indian Bustard Wind & Solar Industries’ Next Victim

With fewer than 250 Great Indian bustards in existence, every individual counts. And, thanks to the expansion of the wind and solar industries across India, those remaining individuals will soon be counted on one hand (or none). As Vijay Jayaraj explains below. Wind and solar are slaughtering India's iconic bird American Thinker Vijay Jayaraj 11 … Continue reading Critically Endangered Great Indian Bustard Wind & Solar Industries’ Next Victim

Mega-Battery Owners Rolling in Cash Whenever Wind & Solar Output Collapse

Sunset and calm weather provides the perfect opportunity for rent-seekers profiting from the market chaos that follows. The owners of fast-start diesel and gas-generators make out like bandits, as the spot price for power goes from less than $100 per MWh to tens of thousands of dollars per MWh. Couple a sudden collapse of wind … Continue reading Mega-Battery Owners Rolling in Cash Whenever Wind & Solar Output Collapse

Europe’s Wind Industry Collapse Leaves Wind Power Cult Searching For New False Idols

Wind power acolytes exhibit all the hallmarks of a cult. 20 years on, and anyone with critical faculties can explain in a sentence why wind power will never amount to meaningful power generation source. But the cultist still believes - running on a mix of blind faith, ignorance and blissful stupidity. Cults are never big … Continue reading Europe’s Wind Industry Collapse Leaves Wind Power Cult Searching For New False Idols

UK’s Wind Industry Gets £1 Billion in ‘Constraint Payments’ For Producing Nothing At All

By December 2019, British wind power outfits had already collected over £650,000,000 in “constraint payments” for doing nothing at all; the cost to power consumers was almost £1 billion over the last five years and that figure is expected to soar. By 2030, wind power outfits across the UK (principally in Scotland) are predicted to … Continue reading UK’s Wind Industry Gets £1 Billion in ‘Constraint Payments’ For Producing Nothing At All

Mounting Losses Mean Sweden’s Wind Industry Faces Total Financial Collapse

Notwithstanding €billions in subsidies, Sweden’s embattled wind industry is on the brink of total financial collapse. The majority of Swedish wind power outfits are underwater, bleeding cash and have no hope of recovery. In the piece below, Carl Deconinck reports on the work of two economists, Christian Sandström and Christian Steinbeck, who conclude that the … Continue reading Mounting Losses Mean Sweden’s Wind Industry Faces Total Financial Collapse