Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 21 September 2025

Desperation is a stinky cologne - it’s the stench the pervades America’s offshore wind industry these days - thanks to the game being played out by the Trump administration. The 47th President is no fan, to be sure - and there are plenty on his team who share his loathing for the greatest economic and … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 21 September 2025

Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 25 February 2025

Wind and solar sit at the heart of the net-zero CO2 emissions scam which, thanks to Donald J Trump, is in its terminal phase. Indeed, the climate cult and its beneficiaries are in more trouble the Ned Kelly and his bushranger brothers at Glenrowan. Kicking off this week’s roundup, Robert Bryce provides a delightful summary … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 25 February 2025

Wind Industry’s Share Prices Plummet As More Offshore Wind Projects Get Scrapped

The wind industry’s financial misery is spreading like the toxic junk from disintegrating turbine blades that’s covering vast tracts of the Atlantic coastline. Once bullish forecasts for giant offshore wind turbine projects these days sound like suicide pacts involving other people’s money. Loose talk about mega-offshore projects has been replaced by massive and mounting losses … Continue reading Wind Industry’s Share Prices Plummet As More Offshore Wind Projects Get Scrapped

Wind Cult Ready to Rage: Trump Targets America’s Offshore Wind Scam

That Donald Trump inflames passions on the left is an understatement, but his plan to scrap America’s wind industry on day one if he takes office has rent-seekers and the wind cult in well-practised apoplexy. How dare anyone criticise an ‘industry’ that soaks up an endless stream of subsidies and can’t deliver electricity as and … Continue reading Wind Cult Ready to Rage: Trump Targets America’s Offshore Wind Scam

Gravity Strikes Again: GE’s Mega-Turbine Collapse Kills Offshore Wind Industry

When your industry depends on mega-myths and hyped-up hubris, get ready for Armageddon-scale disappointment. GE’s rent-seeking wind power harm, Vernova pumped up its planned 18MW Haliade X offshore turbine with the kind of fanfare once reserved for NASA’s efforts to land men on the Moon. These things have a predilection for plummeting to earth with … Continue reading Gravity Strikes Again: GE’s Mega-Turbine Collapse Kills Offshore Wind Industry

Full-blown Financial Meltdown: Offshore Wind Industry’s Collapse Accelerates

America’s offshore wind industry is collapsing, both figuratively and literally. Offshore turbines have grown in capacity and size to the point where they simply collapse into the ocean. As do the financial prospects of those seeking to profit from them. One of the key players offshore - GE’s renewables division - backed up a solid … Continue reading Full-blown Financial Meltdown: Offshore Wind Industry’s Collapse Accelerates