This week’s roundup includes articles detailing Donald Trump’s overwhelming victory and what the political shift means for the Climate Industrial Complex; how efforts by America’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to gaslight Atlantic coastal communities about the devastating environmental harm caused by offshore wind power; how so-called ‘green’ energy drives the demand for coal, … Continue reading Stop These Things Weekly Roundup: 10 November 2024
Stop These Things’ Weekly Roundup: 3 November 2024
Since December 2012, Stop These Things has been slugging away, exposing the grand subsidised wind and solar scam. When the site was fired up by a handful of dedicated volunteers 12 years ago, it was one of a very few tackling the greatest economic and environmental fraud of all time. Not quite an orphan, but … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Roundup: 3 November 2024
Destination Blackout: Wind & Solar ‘Transition’ Wrecking Reliable Power Supplies
Because electricity demand is a here and now kind of thing, intermittent wind and solar will never amount to meaningful generation sources. Ever. The game has been all smoke and mirrors for more than 20 years. When the sun is up and the wind reaches a constant bluster, you can’t shut them up. But you … Continue reading Destination Blackout: Wind & Solar ‘Transition’ Wrecking Reliable Power Supplies
Burn, Baby Burn: Why Firefighters Can’t Extinguish Wind Turbine Fires
Hundreds of these things have spontaneously self-incinerated around the world, with the real potential to destroy life and property for miles around. But the wind industry and its government enablers, couldn’t care less. When turbines erupt in toxic fireballs, firefighters can only stand back and watch. When and wherever these things explode into balls of … Continue reading Burn, Baby Burn: Why Firefighters Can’t Extinguish Wind Turbine Fires
Brits Count Mounting & Staggering Wind Power Subsidy Cost
Unbeknownst to taxpayers and power consumers, the wind industry has engineered the most outrageous raft of subsidies, mostly hidden and all massively generous. These include being paid hundreds of $millions to produce nothing at all, with what are called “constraint payments”. In Britain, taxpayers have stumped up £1 billion in constraint payments to wind power … Continue reading Brits Count Mounting & Staggering Wind Power Subsidy Cost
No Hopers: Inability to Deliver On Demand Makes Wind & Solar Utterly Pointless
Part-time power has no commercial value, which is why wind and solar are utterly pointless. Every single MW of wind or solar has to be “backed up” with another MW from a dispatchable source, which in the main means coal, gas, nuclear or hydro. Contemplate where your power comes from on a calm night, and … Continue reading No Hopers: Inability to Deliver On Demand Makes Wind & Solar Utterly Pointless
Rent-Seeking Wind & Solar Scammers Stealing From Taxpayers
The great wind and solar scam has allowed crony capitalists to make out like bandits. While they couldn’t care less about delivering reliable and affordable power, try standing between them and a bucket of subsidies and they’ll soon respond. When depression era bank robber, Willie Sutton was asked by a journo why he robbed banks, … Continue reading Rent-Seeking Wind & Solar Scammers Stealing From Taxpayers
Investors Cut Mounting Losses By Ditching Grand ‘Green’ Hydrogen Scam
Seems like only yesterday that billionaires backing ‘green’ hydrogen were falling over themselves to gouge subsidies out of taxpayers in order to create the next ‘big thing’ in energy. Then, all of a sudden, the big players started treating their ‘green’ hydrogen plans like diseased strangers. One of Australia’s early movers, Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest talked … Continue reading Investors Cut Mounting Losses By Ditching Grand ‘Green’ Hydrogen Scam
Wind & Solar Cult Apoplectic Over Big Tech’s Nuclear Power Move
After Microsoft, Amazon and Google unveiled their plans to back nuclear power, hysteria amongst wind and solar rent-seekers hit unprecedented levels. And the wind and sun cult are positively apoplectic. When the smart money, including Big Tech backs ever-reliable nuclear over hopelessly unreliable wind and solar, you know the game is over. Fatuous claims about … Continue reading Wind & Solar Cult Apoplectic Over Big Tech’s Nuclear Power Move
Blade-Runners Busted: State Sues Fake ‘Recycler’ For Dumping Wind Turbine Blades
Millions of toxic wind turbine blades have already been dumped in landfill, with millions more to follow. The wind industry is filled with shysters of all shapes and sizes, and has managed to spawn a peculiar a sub-species that spends their days telling everyone about their wonderful plans to recycle turbine blades, and their nights … Continue reading Blade-Runners Busted: State Sues Fake ‘Recycler’ For Dumping Wind Turbine Blades