Malcolm’s Muddle: Liberals Face Political Nightmare Over SA’s Power Crisis

*** STT can't recall political columnist, Niki Savva penning a single piece on Australia's wind industry or the Federal subsidies that brought it into existence - like a economic blood-sucking parasite. With this sharply crafted piece, Niki has set the tone among the previously indifferent press-pack. Renewable energy faces stormy weather The Australian Niki Savva … Continue reading Malcolm’s Muddle: Liberals Face Political Nightmare Over SA’s Power Crisis

Australia’s Federal RET Blown Away by South Australia’s Wind Power Disaster

Renewable strategy blowing in the spin The Australian Graham Lloyd 6 October 2016 The nation’s renewable energy strategy has officially blown a fuse. Everything is back on the table after an interim report found last week’s storm-induced statewide blackout in South Australia was the result of a dramatic, sudden loss of wind power generation. The … Continue reading Australia’s Federal RET Blown Away by South Australia’s Wind Power Disaster

South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle: Blackout Spells the End for Wind Power

*** Time for tilting at windmills is at an end (SA blackout shows need for energy security instead of windmills) The Australian Chris Kenny 8 October 2016 By plunging itself into darkness and flailing itself with prohibitive, self-imposed electricity costs, South Australia provides the nation with a critical warning about energy policy. It also demonstrates … Continue reading South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle: Blackout Spells the End for Wind Power

‘GUILTY’: South Australia’s Statewide Blackout Caused by Deliberate Wind Farm Shutdown

For STT, laying out the facts that disclose the greatest environmental and economic fraud of all time has been a labour of love. When we kicked off on Boxing Day 2012, STT was a lone voice in a vast wilderness: almost every man or woman claiming the mantle ‘journalist’ had ‘drunk the Kool-Aid’ - and … Continue reading ‘GUILTY’: South Australia’s Statewide Blackout Caused by Deliberate Wind Farm Shutdown

When It’s All Over: Millions of Rusting Wind Turbines to stand as Signs of Mass Stupidity

Wind Turbines, Rusting Giants Of The Environmental ‘Green’ Religion Freedom Outpost Ileana Johnson 14 September 2016 I saw the once verdant wheat fields of Eastern Europe covered with ugly wind turbines, slowly spinning their huge blades into the wind. A few funnel dust swirls were blowing the topsoil into the air. They did not appear to … Continue reading When It’s All Over: Millions of Rusting Wind Turbines to stand as Signs of Mass Stupidity

Brits Blow Hundreds of £Millions Paying Wind Power Outfits Not to Deliver Unwanted Power

*** Britain is suffering from the same diabolical wind turbine syndrome that wrecked South Australia, Germany, Spain and the like. However, with the long-awaited announcement that the planned Hinkley Point nuclear power plant is to go ahead, it seems that Brits have finally worked out that you cannot hope to run an economy on wintery … Continue reading Brits Blow Hundreds of £Millions Paying Wind Power Outfits Not to Deliver Unwanted Power

America’s Wind Power Cult: Hitler-Like Hypocrites Out to Wreck the Environment & the Economy

*** The wind power zealot is a psychoanalyst’s nightmare. Driven by infantile ideology, fuelled by hypocritical passion for a technology abandoned centuries ago for obvious reasons and drowning in the delusion that the world can run on benevolent breezes, what makes members of the dwindling wind cult tick would leave the ghost of Sigmund Freud … Continue reading America’s Wind Power Cult: Hitler-Like Hypocrites Out to Wreck the Environment & the Economy

Germany’s ‘Energiewende’ Close to Kaput: Wind Power Fails to Deliver

More Headaches Than Power: Germany’s Wind Energy Fails To Deliver! “Energiewende Finished?” No Tricks Zone Pierre Gosselin 18 September 2016 The greatest obstacle to wind energy is its unreliable, weather-dependent supply. If the wind stops blowing, then it’s lights out! Yet, proponents often claim the solution is offshore, for example out in the tempestuous North … Continue reading Germany’s ‘Energiewende’ Close to Kaput: Wind Power Fails to Deliver

South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle Killing Miners, Mineral Processors & Scarce Jobs

*** In the aftermath of South Australia's 'Black' Wednesday, its biggest miner - BHP Billiton - and last two mineral processors - Whyalla steel maker, Arrium and Port Pirie lead and zinc smelter, Nyrstar, were left powerless and thoroughly crippled as a result. We'll start with a couple of pieces that appeared the day after. … Continue reading South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle Killing Miners, Mineral Processors & Scarce Jobs

Blackout Blues Continue: Australia’s Wind Industry Loses PR War for ‘Hearts & Minds’

The proponents of a pointless power source, abandoned centuries ago for pretty obvious reasons, which exists, and only exists by reason of massive subsidies drawn from power consumers and/or taxpayers have, from the outset, engaged in a well-orchestrated PR campaign aimed at winning ‘hearts and minds’. An industry that wouldn’t survive a nanosecond without mandated … Continue reading Blackout Blues Continue: Australia’s Wind Industry Loses PR War for ‘Hearts & Minds’