Since December 2012, Stop These Things has been slugging away, exposing the grand subsidised wind and solar scam. When the site was fired up by a handful of dedicated volunteers 12 years ago, it was one of a very few tackling the greatest economic and environmental fraud of all time. Not quite an orphan, but … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Roundup: 3 November 2024
Tag: Atlantic coast offshore wind power projects
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
Not For Profit: Offshore Wind Power Projects Wiped Out By Rising Costs
Want to make a small fortune in the offshore wind industry? Then start with a large one. In the absence of endless subsidies and guaranteed, fixed-price contracts (set at ludicrously high prices), the purported economic case for wind power never, ever stacks up. And the numbers are far worse out at sea. Take a machine … Continue reading Not For Profit: Offshore Wind Power Projects Wiped Out By Rising Costs
Atlantic Fishery Under Threat: Offshore Wind Farm Substations Secret, Silent Killers
The offshore wind industry is wiping out thousands of marine mammals and fish are its next victims. While plenty has been written about whales, dolphins, porpoises and seals being deafened by wind turbine construction activities (they don’t respond well to sonar and seismic blasting), less notice has been given to fish, crabs and other critters … Continue reading Atlantic Fishery Under Threat: Offshore Wind Farm Substations Secret, Silent Killers
Cash Inferno: Offshore Wind Power Fastest Way to Squander Countless $Billions
In the absence of endless subsidies and guaranteed, fixed-price contracts (set at ludicrously high prices), the purported economic case for wind power never, ever stacks up. And the metrics are far worse out at sea. Notwithstanding the $billions in subsidies - gouged from taxpayers and/or lumped on power consumers’ crushing power bills - proposed projects … Continue reading Cash Inferno: Offshore Wind Power Fastest Way to Squander Countless $Billions
Radar Off-line: How Offshore Wind Turbines Have Wrecked America’s Defence Capability
Giant industrial wind turbines with the tips of their 50-80m blades clocking 350 kph play havoc with radar systems, giving false images and distorting real ones. The result is unnecessary danger for pilots dependent upon accurate weather reports, and air-traffic guidance, both essential for safe takeoffs and landings. In a number of States, the US military … Continue reading Radar Off-line: How Offshore Wind Turbines Have Wrecked America’s Defence Capability
Crashed & Burned: Soaring Construction & Maintenance Costs Make Offshore Wind Power Projects ‘Unbackable’
The wind industry is moaning about the soaring cost of spearing these things into the seafloor, miles offshore. Rent-seekers are backing away from dozens of touted projects - as if they’d never thought about the insane costs and low energy returns. Any seafaring soul could have easily explained that the operating cost of maintaining any … Continue reading Crashed & Burned: Soaring Construction & Maintenance Costs Make Offshore Wind Power Projects ‘Unbackable’
Bird Brained: Grand Offshore Wind Power Plans Threaten Endangered Species Wipeout
Planting 300 tonne whirling juggernauts out to sea has a variety of endangered species on a greasy path to extinction. One of them is the South-east Australia’s Orange-bellied Parrot - a timid and migratory species - at last count, its remaining numbers would struggle to fill a symphony orchestra. The North Atlantic Right Whale’s numbers … Continue reading Bird Brained: Grand Offshore Wind Power Plans Threaten Endangered Species Wipeout
No Upside: Wind Developers Pull Plug On Massive Offshore Projects Deemed ‘Uneconomic’
Some of America’s biggest planned offshore wind projects have recently been axed, with more to follow. Deemed ‘uneconomic’, potential investors and financiers are running a mile from what portend to be enormous white elephants. Where the true cost of onshore wind power is phenomenal, the cost of the offshore stuff is astronomical. Going offshore brings … Continue reading No Upside: Wind Developers Pull Plug On Massive Offshore Projects Deemed ‘Uneconomic’
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