Claims and delivery are a gulf apart, when what's put up by the wind and solar crowd is measured up against the hard cold facts that reside in 'reality-land'. With every new wind farm proposal we're told how this operation would 'power' a hundred thousand homes (for 'free') - although these days it's a line … Continue reading Wind Power Will Never Keep the Lights On: Propaganda Obscures Truth About Where Your Power Really Comes From
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Wind Power Disaster: South Australians Grapple with Rocketing Power Prices, an Unstable Grid & Rolling Blackouts
**** In Australia's wind farm capital, South Australia the terms ‘chaos’ and ‘crisis’ are used to describe the aftermath of an energy policy ‘designed’ on desktops by dimwits, who haven’t got the faintest clue about how power generation works (or much else, for that matter). Wind power collapses and blackouts are now part of South … Continue reading Wind Power Disaster: South Australians Grapple with Rocketing Power Prices, an Unstable Grid & Rolling Blackouts
Wind Industry Loses Support of Lunatic Fringe: Green-Left Blog ‘New Matilda’ Turns Against the Wind Power Fraud
**** When the following piece crossed STT’s inbox, the editor thought it to be some kind of April fool’s joke, delivered a few months early. But, no. Knock us down with a feather, the article that follows did, in fact, appear on ‘New Matilda’ - a politically correct, hard-‘green’-left bastion for all things cuddly and … Continue reading Wind Industry Loses Support of Lunatic Fringe: Green-Left Blog ‘New Matilda’ Turns Against the Wind Power Fraud
The Economy Crushing Consequences of Massively Subsidised Wind Power
Reaping the carbon policy harvest Catallaxy Files Alan Moran 18 January 2016 For five years, Tata, the Indian firm that owns what used to be British Steel has been warning that energy costs in Britain are squeezing competitiveness. Previous reductions have accelerated in 2015 with a 15 per cent cut in jobs. Successive UK governments … Continue reading The Economy Crushing Consequences of Massively Subsidised Wind Power
The More People Learn About Wind Power – The More They Hate It!
**** Remember all those glowing stories about wind power outfits being welcomed into rural communities with open arms? You know, tales about how farmers are dying to have turbines lined up all over their properties? How locals can’t wait to pick up some of the thousands of permanent, high paying jobs on offer? How developers … Continue reading The More People Learn About Wind Power – The More They Hate It!
The Cost of Wind Power: Killing Jobs and Crushing Families – SA’s Biggest Smelter Under Threat with 750 Jobs at Risk
**** To call what South Australia’s Labor government has ‘gifted’ their constituents an energy ‘policy’, is to flatter it as involving some kind of genuine ‘design’. It’s an economic debacle, pure and simple. The current mess started under former Premier, Mike Rann – a former spin-doctor, whose relatives lined up at the wind power subsidy … Continue reading The Cost of Wind Power: Killing Jobs and Crushing Families – SA’s Biggest Smelter Under Threat with 750 Jobs at Risk
Bjørn Lomborg: Wind Power ‘Tree’ Symbolises Futility of Paris Climate Jamboree
**** As a baggage train of some 40,000 climate-cultists get set to jet their way home from Paris - burning up a gazillion gallons of (what they normally rail about as being atmosphere incinerating) kerosene - the fair question has to be asked: ‘and all for what?’ The belief that China and India were going … Continue reading Bjørn Lomborg: Wind Power ‘Tree’ Symbolises Futility of Paris Climate Jamboree
Cost of Wind Power Outstrips Coal, Gas, Hydro & Nukes by a Country Mile
Wind worshippers continue to make wild claims about wind power already being “free” – and, apparently, getting cheaper all the time. Although, it appears that 'selling' a product with no commercial value (apart from the massive subsidies it attracts) is an unwinnable battle. Even the merest mention of a cut to subsidies has the wind … Continue reading Cost of Wind Power Outstrips Coal, Gas, Hydro & Nukes by a Country Mile
UK Wind Farms Get to Pocket £Millions Without Producing a Single Spark
**** Britain’s wind power disaster is a debacle, to be sure. However, paying wind power outfits for electricity that’s never produced is nothing short of criminal. This Daily Express piece, which uncovers the scandal in Scotland, is a little confused on its facts, but we’ll sort that out below. Wind farms get £5million handout because … Continue reading UK Wind Farms Get to Pocket £Millions Without Producing a Single Spark
Another Wind Power Collapse has Britain Scrambling to Keep its Lights On (Again)
**** There's an old adage about 'bad luck' coming in threes. For the wind industry its rotten 'luck' seems to run in endless crashing waves. Here's another board-snapping set from the UK. National Grid uses ‘last resort’ measures to keep UK lights on The Telegraph Emily Gosden 4 November 2015 Coal plant breakdowns and low … Continue reading Another Wind Power Collapse has Britain Scrambling to Keep its Lights On (Again)