Wind power is utterly pointless because it can’t be delivered on demand, which means there’s absolutely no justification for the offshore industry’s rampant whale slaughter. Anyone with a shred of empathy for charismatic marine mammals is entitled to consider what’s being done in the name of ‘saving the planet’ utterly criminal. And rightly so. The … Continue reading Utterly Pointless Slaughter: Offshore Wind Industry’s Whale Carcass Count Mounts
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Disintegrating Offshore Turbine Blades Littering Coast With Shredded Toxic Fibreglass
These things have a nasty habit of self-destructing without notice - whether it’s shredding and/or throwing their blades for miles, or spontaneously combusting in toxic fireballs, the environmental damage done is immediate and often permanent. In a recent post - Fibreglass From Shredded Wind Turbine Blades Renders Farming Land Useless - we covered the story … Continue reading Disintegrating Offshore Turbine Blades Littering Coast With Shredded Toxic Fibreglass
Licenced to Kill: Wind Industry’s Atlantic Whale Slaughter Gets New Govt. Greenlight
The wind industry’s licence to kill whales and other marine mammals is the perfect example of institutional corruption. As the cetacean carnage continues, one might think that the US government might pause (just for a moment) and consider revoking their ‘take permits’ - rather than simply continuing to green light the wind industry’s wholesale whale … Continue reading Licenced to Kill: Wind Industry’s Atlantic Whale Slaughter Gets New Govt. Greenlight
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
US Government Sued For Concealing Wind Industry’s Wholesale Whale Slaughter
Courts have a tendency to get the unvarnished truth out, such as the US government’s cover-up of wind industry’s wholesale whale slaughter. Everyone expects the wind industry to lie - it’s in its interest to do so, indeed its very existence depends upon a series of falsehoods - but governments are usually held to slightly … Continue reading US Government Sued For Concealing Wind Industry’s Wholesale Whale Slaughter
Permanently Cancelled: No Way Back For Embattled Offshore Wind Industry
As the offshore wind industry implodes in the US, UK and Northern Europe it’s worth noting the class of villains responsible. Pitching the most insanely expensive method of occasionally generating electricity on a random and entirely chaotic basis took audacity; taking investors for a ride with them took a special kind of malice; and pretending … Continue reading Permanently Cancelled: No Way Back For Embattled Offshore Wind Industry
America’s Wind Industry Implodes: More Offshore Projects Scrapped
In the US the offshore wind industry is completely underwater, in every sense. The insane cost of attempting to (occasionally) generate electricity with no commercial value in hostile marine environments has finally caught up. Projects are being scrapped in the same way that punters rip up their betting slips when their long-shot nag fails to … Continue reading America’s Wind Industry Implodes: More Offshore Projects Scrapped
Wind Industry Outraged at Government Refusal to Deliver Even More Subsidies
It takes real audacity for the most heavily subsidised ‘industry’ on earth, to demand even more. And it takes real courage for the governments who have been handing out massive subsidies, without question, to reject demands for more of the same. Which is where the New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) comes in. Led … Continue reading Wind Industry Outraged at Government Refusal to Deliver Even More Subsidies
Cost of Fixing Faulty Undersea Cables Makes Offshore Wind Even More (Insanely) Expensive
Who would have thought that trying to operate sophisticated machinery in hostile marine environments would require constant, costly repairs and maintenance? Apparently, the wind industry missed that memo, and only now are starting to calculate the true, and truly staggering, cost of operating wind turbines miles offshore. Then there’s the cost of connecting them; criss-crossing … Continue reading Cost of Fixing Faulty Undersea Cables Makes Offshore Wind Even More (Insanely) Expensive