Wind & Sun Undone: 100% Renewables Claims Complete Fantasy

In their sillier moments, wind and sun worshippers claim that, if only fossil fuel guzzling, climate-deniers would get out of their way, nature’s ‘wonder fuels’ could provide 100% of everybody’s energy needs, now and until kingdom come. However, in the global scheme of things, the contribution from wind and solar power barely registers, and amounts … Continue reading Wind & Sun Undone: 100% Renewables Claims Complete Fantasy

Wind Power Fantasy: 100% Renewable Claims a Mixture of Magic & Pixie Dust

The Magic Pudding’s ability to return to his original form – no matter how many times he was eaten – is the stuff of delicious fantasy. Those pretending that whole economies can run on sunshine and breezes operate under similar economic parameters: summoning up beneficial breezes, when and where needed; conjuring up mythical mega-batteries; and … Continue reading Wind Power Fantasy: 100% Renewable Claims a Mixture of Magic & Pixie Dust

Dirty Deeds: How the ‘Green’ Energy Cult Stole the English Language

  Following the theme of yesterday’s post, Alan Carlin is also hot on the trail of so-called ‘green’ activists and their hypocritical push for so-called ‘clean’ energy. The Climate Alarmists’ Gross Perversion of the Word Clean Carlin Economics & Science Alan Carlin 20 July 2017 Climate alarmists have gone to endless efforts to gain public … Continue reading Dirty Deeds: How the ‘Green’ Energy Cult Stole the English Language

Green Delusions: On the Origin of the Wind Power Cult

In 17th-century Europe, the Dark Ages were swept away by a group of characters obsessed with logic, reason and rationality - during a period later described as ‘The Enlightenment’. Science replaced superstition; reason replaced passion; and science allowed steam power to replace the wind. However, in a veritable blink of an eye, the world has … Continue reading Green Delusions: On the Origin of the Wind Power Cult

Renewable Energy Policy in South Australia & Ontario: ‘Simply Murder’

STT is not sure whether it’s just an Australian thing, but about 30 years ago capital cities around the country set out to find an international doppelgänger somewhere else in the world, willing to be referred to as their ‘Sister City’. Adelaide, the capital of that beleaguered economic backwater, South Australia has four of them: … Continue reading Renewable Energy Policy in South Australia & Ontario: ‘Simply Murder’

Debunking the 100% Renewables Fantasy: Running on Sunshine & Breezes – Pure Nonsense

  In the heavy metal mockumentary, This is Spinal Tap, the band’s himbo front man, Nigel Tufnel struggles with almost everything, including bringing his grating, 8 minute guitar solos to an end. For Nigel, 10 isn’t enough - his Marshall amp has to go one better (see the video above). The painful exchange between Tufnel … Continue reading Debunking the 100% Renewables Fantasy: Running on Sunshine & Breezes – Pure Nonsense

The Appalling Delusion of 100 Percent Renewables, Exposed

  For STT followers Robert Bryce needs no introduction. Here he is exposing the delusional belief that whole nations can be entirely powered by sunshine and breezes. The Appalling Delusion of 100 Percent Renewables, Exposed National Review Robert Bryce 24 June 2017 The National Academy of Science refutes Mark Jacobson’s dream that our economy can … Continue reading The Appalling Delusion of 100 Percent Renewables, Exposed

German Study Proves Its Combined Wind & Solar Capacity Must be 100% Backed by Coal/Gas/Nuclear 100% of the Time

  Amongst wind and sun worshippers, Germany is held in a kind of reverent awe. However, like everything held dear by the renewables cult, the ideal and the real are worlds apart. For years we were told that if you kept spearing wind turbines into the countryside and spread them far and wide, we could … Continue reading German Study Proves Its Combined Wind & Solar Capacity Must be 100% Backed by Coal/Gas/Nuclear 100% of the Time

California’s 100% Renewables Claim ‘Lies, Damned Lies & Statistics’

*** On a train bound for nowhere, I met up with a Gambler… A little while back, that great philosopher, Kenny Rogers spelt out the rules for Gamblers in clear and simple terms: You got to know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em, Know when to walk away and know when to … Continue reading California’s 100% Renewables Claim ‘Lies, Damned Lies & Statistics’

Being Powered 100% By Wind & Solar = 100% Total Fantasy

This piece is not just fun because it wallops the myth that the world is well on the way to being totally powered by sunshine and breezes, the merriment is multiplied because the study proving the bleeding obvious to be the case was put together by one group of climate catastrophists, who have drawn an … Continue reading Being Powered 100% By Wind & Solar = 100% Total Fantasy