Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 14 January 2025

Happy New Year to all our loyal followers. We hope you had a fabulous Christmas. With Donald J Trump returning to the White House next week, 2025 promises to deliver unprecedented pain and suffering to wind and solar rent seekers, wherever they ply their subsidy-soaked trade. In this week’s roundup, we have articles on the … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 14 January 2025

Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 15 December 2024

Our weekly roundup has articles smashing the myth that wind, solar plus giant batteries are perfectly designed to power first world economies - with one drawing focus on the disaster that unfolded in Broken Hill, NSW, and another on “demand management”, a policy that involves telling power consumers to stop consuming power because wind and … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 15 December 2024

Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 8 December 2024

This week’s roundup leads with South Australia's return to dirty diesel generators. SA is touted as Australia's wind and solar capital, and its quiet effort to increase diesel generation capacity stands as one almighty embarrassing admission of failure. In other news, Peter Dutton (Australia's Federal opposition leader) is channelling Donald J Trump with an announcement … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 8 December 2024

Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 1 December 2024

This week’s roundup kicks off with Australia’s wind and solar driven power supply calamity, when a couple of mildly warm days (30°C) had the NSW Premier demanding householders turn off their air conditioners, pool pumps and other appliances to avoid a complete grid collapse. Third World stuff, to be sure. South Australia, touted as the … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 1 December 2024

Energy No-Brainer: The Nuclear-Powered Path to Permanent Prosperity

The anti-carbon dioxide squad comes undone the moment they start ranting against nuclear power generation. The only stand-alone power generation system that does not generate CO2 during the process, that delivers power 24 x 365 - irrespective of the weather or time-of-day - with no need for batteries and no need for back up. The … Continue reading Energy No-Brainer: The Nuclear-Powered Path to Permanent Prosperity

Failed Wind & Solar Transition Heralds Shift to New-Age Nuclear Power

Every country with an eye on the future is switching to new-age nuclear power generation, joining plenty of other that have had the benefits of safe, reliable and affordable nuclear power for generations. The French long-ago set the benchmark, with a disorderly queue forming across Europe to join them as nuclear energy superpowers. Then there’s … Continue reading Failed Wind & Solar Transition Heralds Shift to New-Age Nuclear Power

Grand Tour: Anti-Nuclear Cult Should Visit France, Finland, South Korea, Canada & China Etc

The first rule of propaganda is never admit defeat, the next is denying the existence of your true enemy. It’s the reason the subsidised wind and solar 'industries' - and the cult that supports them - refuse to engage with the reality that nuclear power is already the premier power generation source of choice in … Continue reading Grand Tour: Anti-Nuclear Cult Should Visit France, Finland, South Korea, Canada & China Etc

Naturally Nuclear: Why Government Owned Nuclear Plants Make Perfect Sense

In a growing, energy-starved world nuclear power generation makes perfect sense, at every level. While carpet bagging, crony capitalists rant and rave against nuclear - in an effort to protect their investments in subsidised wind and solar - the rest of the world is moving towards nuclear as the natural energy source of the future, … Continue reading Naturally Nuclear: Why Government Owned Nuclear Plants Make Perfect Sense

Let’s Get Serious: Ever-Reliable Nuclear Crushes Hopelessly Intermittent Wind and Solar

Claiming wind and solar betters nuclear power for price and reliability is like turning up to a machine-gun fight with a butter knife. The delusional and courageous are getting slaughtered at every turn. After all, this is an existential fight for the carpet bagging, crony capitalists - who have done so very well out of … Continue reading Let’s Get Serious: Ever-Reliable Nuclear Crushes Hopelessly Intermittent Wind and Solar

Adults Take Charge: Critical Need For Reliable & Affordable Drives Nuclear Power Policy

Chaotic and only occasional wind and solar generation is what you get when infants run the show. Now in a ‘wait til your father gets home’ moment, governments of an adult bent are taking a firm grip on energy policy. Ditching the suicidal renewable energy targets and plumping for nuclear power, principally because it works. … Continue reading Adults Take Charge: Critical Need For Reliable & Affordable Drives Nuclear Power Policy