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

False Dawn: Big Talk About Millions of Groovy ‘Green’ Jobs Evaporates

The Neo-Marxists driving the energy agenda are always quick to promise a workers’ paradise, lined with millions of groovy jobs that are meant to fall like fruit from trees as part of the grand wind and solar transition. The problem with Utopia, of course, is that it’s always over the horizon and always just out … Continue reading False Dawn: Big Talk About Millions of Groovy ‘Green’ Jobs Evaporates

Soft Targets: Giant Lithium-ion Batteries Perfect For Enemy Hacker Attacks

The remote targeting and detonation of the pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah terrorists has shaken security experts around the globe. What else might be targeted, they muse? Well, obviously enough, distributed wind and solar power generation systems which are all connected to the Internet (in one way or another) provide pretty decent targets for … Continue reading Soft Targets: Giant Lithium-ion Batteries Perfect For Enemy Hacker Attacks

Disposable Power Plants: Wind and Solar Industries’ Junk Headed For Landfills Near You

Millions of ageing wind turbines and solar panels have passed their use by dates and are on their way to landfills near you. While steel, aluminium, copper and other metals can be scavenged from what’s left of a wind turbine carcass, the 10-30 tonne blades (filled with toxic Bisphenol-A) are simply cut up, crushed and … Continue reading Disposable Power Plants: Wind and Solar Industries’ Junk Headed For Landfills Near You

Microsoft, Google & Amazon Back New-Age Nuclear Power

The serious money is backing new-age nuclear - a truly serious power generation source, which delivers power on demand, irrespective of the weather, with no need for batteries and no need for back up. In the US, tech giants, Microsoft, Amazon and Google are leading the charge. Backing research into small-scale nuclear plants, planning to … Continue reading Microsoft, Google & Amazon Back New-Age Nuclear Power