Renewable energy rent-seekers are clearly rattled by the Supreme Court decision, that forced a wind farm operator to shut down all of its turbines at night-time and ordered substantial damages in favour of the plaintiffs for the pain and suffering, already caused to its victims. Being forced to limit the operation of wind turbines to … Continue reading Noise Torture Terminated: Wind Industry Panics After Supreme Court Orders Turbine Shutdown
Transition to Bankruptcy: Europe’s Wind Turbine Makers Face Massive Financial Collapse
Europe’s wind turbine makers are in financial freefall; with subsidies slashed, demand for turbines has collapsed, input costs are soaring and their Chinese competitors are benefiting from their cheap and reliable supplies of coal-fired power. Oh, the irony! The barely disguised panic in this article from ReCharge (one of Europe’s leading wind and solar propaganda … Continue reading Transition to Bankruptcy: Europe’s Wind Turbine Makers Face Massive Financial Collapse
Connection Made: Consumers Suffer Hidden Transmission Costs For Wind & Solar
The wind and solar industries spear turbines and plaster panels way beyond the back of beyond. Increasingly remote locations for wind and solar generators require serious upgrades to transmission infrastructure, adding hundreds of $millions to transmission costs, that would have otherwise been avoided, had Australia simply stuck with conventional generators and not squandered $60,000,000,000 in subsidies to … Continue reading Connection Made: Consumers Suffer Hidden Transmission Costs For Wind & Solar
Wind Farms Keep Being Wiped Out By Wild Weather: Tornadoes and Turbines Don’t Mix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AAHJs-j3uw These things are meant to save us from a changing climate but, when the weather turns wild, they can barely save themselves. 50-60m long blades, weighing in at 20 tonnes each, are usually the first item to be shredded and thrown in all directions (the wind industry uses the neutral term “component liberation”). … Continue reading Wind Farms Keep Being Wiped Out By Wild Weather: Tornadoes and Turbines Don’t Mix
Powering Down: Wind & Solar ‘Transition’ Mean End of Reliable & Affordable Power
Once upon a time, governments strived to ensure their citizens had access to reliable and affordable electricity. That was then. This is now. A cabal of wind and solar rent-seekers and their political enablers are determined to control every aspect of your daily life, by preventing you from having electricity, as and when you need … Continue reading Powering Down: Wind & Solar ‘Transition’ Mean End of Reliable & Affordable Power
Hype-Dream: World’s Renewable Energy Storage Capacity Destined to Remain Totally Trivial
When they’re not bursting into toxic fireballs, the contribution made by giant lithium-ion batteries remains utterly trivial. They are, after all, electricity storage devices and don’t add a lick to electricity generation capacity, anywhere. The cost of battery storage, at scale, is out of all proportion to the benefits returned and we wouldn’t be having … Continue reading Hype-Dream: World’s Renewable Energy Storage Capacity Destined to Remain Totally Trivial
Utter Madness: Trivial Energy Return For $Billions Squandered On Unreliable Wind Power
Despite the countless $billions in subsidies thrown at wind power, its contribution to world energy demand remains an accounting rounding error. Talk about wind power making a meaningful contribution to electricity supplies is pure delusion. And yet, those that pretend to govern us openly conspire with the rent-seekers stealing from us in their joint efforts … Continue reading Utter Madness: Trivial Energy Return For $Billions Squandered On Unreliable Wind Power
Routine Delivery Failures Renders Offshore Wind Power Utterly Meaningless
Despite overblown promises, offshore wind power is as meaningless as its onshore cousin. Centuries of sailing the high seas provided the clue: when the wind stops blowing, the boat ain’t going. So, if seafarers had nothing but curses for their days in the doldrums, why would offshore wind power be any different? Not only is … Continue reading Routine Delivery Failures Renders Offshore Wind Power Utterly Meaningless
Diesel Driven: World’s First “Net-Zero” Wind Power/Pumped Hydro System A Dismal Failure
The climate/RE cult’s latest mantra “net-zero”, apparently means wind and solar connected to batteries or pumped hydro. The notion has it that wind and solar’s hopeless intermittency can be overcome by a few TWh’s worth of giant lithium-ion batteries or, where geography and hydrology permit, pumped hydro systems. The latter model involves using wind and … Continue reading Diesel Driven: World’s First “Net-Zero” Wind Power/Pumped Hydro System A Dismal Failure
Crash Course: Industrial Wind Turbines Pose Deadly Threat to Light Aircraft
Industrial wind turbines create at least 2 critical dangers for flyers: 1) wake turbulence; 2) collision with blades and towers. The air turbulence generated by hundreds of 50-60m blades with their outer tips travelling at around 350km/h (wake turbulence) messes with the pilot's ability to control their aircraft (see our post here). Slamming into them, often … Continue reading Crash Course: Industrial Wind Turbines Pose Deadly Threat to Light Aircraft
