The fact that every country that’s increased reliance on wind and solar is suffering rocketing power prices is incontrovertible. And that simple relationship puts paid to the myth that wind and solar are cheaper than coal and gas, principally because it’s heavily subsidised wind and solar that are (occasionally) displacing coal and gas-fired power. When … Continue reading Mythbusting: There’s No Way Wind & Solar Are Cheaper Than Coal & Gas
Why Wind & Solar ‘Transition’ Spells Inevitable Environmental Disaster
Spearing thousands of wind turbines into rural communities and carpeting them with endless seas of solar panels is only just the beginning. To connect those hopelessly intermittent power sources to market requires thousands of (otherwise unnecessary) kilometres of additional transmission lines. All of that environmental destruction could have readily been avoided had Australia simply maintained … Continue reading Why Wind & Solar ‘Transition’ Spells Inevitable Environmental Disaster
Vale Bill Quinn: Australia’s Most Fearless Anti-Wind Power Fraud Warrior
William Laurence Quinn passed on this week, leaving a legacy to all those aiming to protect their communities from the great wind power fraud. Bill left us last Tuesday, 15 August 2023. He was admitted to the Burra Hospital in the Mid-North of South Australia, where he was born on 31 May 1956 and died … Continue reading Vale Bill Quinn: Australia’s Most Fearless Anti-Wind Power Fraud Warrior
Bubble Bursts: Rising Costs Mean More Massive Offshore Wind Projects Scrapped
The spiralling cost of erecting ever-larger turbines at sea is matched by the spiralling costs of the raw inputs needed for the turbines themselves, which means the offshore wind power bubble has truly burst. The Sweden’s Vattenfall has just scotched a massive project proposed off the coast of Norfolk, moaning about rocketing turbine manufacturing and … Continue reading Bubble Bursts: Rising Costs Mean More Massive Offshore Wind Projects Scrapped
California’s Subsidised Solar Onslaught Threatens Total Grid Collpase
Solar has plenty of friends when the Sun’s up, but it's an orphan after Sunset. And it’s that point when solar-obsessed Californians smack into reality, with a very costly bang. Conventional generators - that were designed to run around-the-clock - get bumped off the grid as the output from solar panels peaks for a few … Continue reading California’s Subsidised Solar Onslaught Threatens Total Grid Collpase
Why Rural Communities Around the Globe Are Rioting Against Wind & Solar Invasion
While the wind and solar ‘industries’ are intent on wrecking rural communities, those communities are intent on fighting back - with all they’ve got. A decade ago, residents could often be heard saying that they were all in favour of renewable energy, but just not in their backyards - sounding like the classic NIMBY, thereby … Continue reading Why Rural Communities Around the Globe Are Rioting Against Wind & Solar Invasion
Why Wind & Solar’s Contribution To World Energy Demand Will Always Be Trivial
The vacuous ninnies promoting the line that the world can run without hydrocarbons are always rattled by news to the contrary. As much a symptom of ideological groupthink, as evidence of the West’s woefully inadequate system of general education, the Extinction Rebellion crowd would have it that coal, oil and gas are forms of toxic … Continue reading Why Wind & Solar’s Contribution To World Energy Demand Will Always Be Trivial
Consumers Carry Colossal Cost of Getting Wind & Solar From Nowhere to Somewhere
The grand wind and solar transition comes with a staggering pricetag, not least the $trillions required to connect far-flung wind turbines and solar panels to increasingly distant markets. Building a secondary network of high voltage transmission lines and interconnectors to carry the power occasionally generated by wind turbines and solar panels, spread far and wide, … Continue reading Consumers Carry Colossal Cost of Getting Wind & Solar From Nowhere to Somewhere
Last Chance Saloon: Nuclear Shift Offers Best Hope For Affordable & Reliable Power
Without doubt, coal-fired power remains the cheapest and most reliable form of power generation, bar none. Which is why hundreds of new plants are being built across China, India, Indonesia and elsewhere in Asia. However, in Australia, and elsewhere in the deindustrialising West, coal-fired power has been declared public enemy number one by a cult … Continue reading Last Chance Saloon: Nuclear Shift Offers Best Hope For Affordable & Reliable Power
Delusional Groupthink Drives Obsession With Chaotically Intermittent Wind & Solar
As in life, government policy is about trade-offs, which usually means plumping for the good rather than the perfect. However, in the de-industrialising West, energy policy is all about rejecting the good in favour of the unworkable. The notion that weather-dependent wind, and weather and sunshine-dependent solar (with or without pumped hydro or mythical mega-batteries) … Continue reading Delusional Groupthink Drives Obsession With Chaotically Intermittent Wind & Solar
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