*** South Australians wake up to a nightmare every day. Its hapless Labor government’s obsession with wind power has destroyed the reliability of its electricity grid and sent power prices through the roof. Here’s why. SA power: Gas generators ordered on as South Australia’s wind production peaked ABC News Nick Harmsen 26 April 2017 The … Continue reading South Australia’s Wind Power Crisis Continues: Gas Generators Forced to Fire Up to Prevent Another Statewide Blackout
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Being Powered 100% By Wind & Solar = 100% Total Fantasy
This piece is not just fun because it wallops the myth that the world is well on the way to being totally powered by sunshine and breezes, the merriment is multiplied because the study proving the bleeding obvious to be the case was put together by one group of climate catastrophists, who have drawn an … Continue reading Being Powered 100% By Wind & Solar = 100% Total Fantasy
AGL’s Renewables Ruse: The Solution to Australia’s Energy Crisis Isn’t More Subsidised Wind Turbines & Solar Panels
While choice remains an option, the adage that ‘when you’re in a hole stop digging’ obviously applies when you find yourself in the midst of a disaster of your very own doing. Australia’s unfolding energy calamity has turned what was once an energy superpower, into an international laughing stock. Blessed with abundant coal, gas and … Continue reading AGL’s Renewables Ruse: The Solution to Australia’s Energy Crisis Isn’t More Subsidised Wind Turbines & Solar Panels
Australians Duped by Constant Green Washing: Renewables Ain’t Cheap & Ain’t Reliable
The one thing we have to hand it to the wind and solar industry is how they've been able to convince so many, for so long about the 'wonders' of their massively subsidised, skittish wares. As Mark Twain put it: “It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” Getting the … Continue reading Australians Duped by Constant Green Washing: Renewables Ain’t Cheap & Ain’t Reliable
South Australia’s Ridiculous Wind Power Push Driving Business to Bankruptcy: Power Prices Triple (Again)
*** In Australia’s so-called wind power capital, South Australia, its hapless Labor government is crowing about having reached its ludicrous 50% renewable energy target. However, the cost of that vanity project is crippling what remains of South Australia’s productive enterprise. In our recent post - Economic Carnage: SA’s Rocketing Power Prices Crippling Miners, Bakers & … Continue reading South Australia’s Ridiculous Wind Power Push Driving Business to Bankruptcy: Power Prices Triple (Again)
Subsidised Suicide: Wind Power Delivers Nothing But Rocketing Power Prices & Blackouts
*** In this pair of pearlers, James Delingpole spans the globe: firstly detailing the growing and staggering cost of subsidised wind power in Britain; and then turning his attention Downunder to the disaster that is Australia's wind power capital, South Australia. Post-Brexit Britain Wants To Escape Its EU Renewables Targets. About Time Too Breitbart James … Continue reading Subsidised Suicide: Wind Power Delivers Nothing But Rocketing Power Prices & Blackouts
Australia’s Renewable Energy Disaster Was Both Predictable & Avoidable
*** In this collection from Quadrant, Jo Nova and The Australian one solid theme emerges: Australia's energy crisis is entirely self-inflicted and thus it was perfectly avoidable. Among those who saw it coming was Matt Zema - then chief of the Australian Energy Market Operator, who shuffled off this mortal coil way too soon. Before … Continue reading Australia’s Renewable Energy Disaster Was Both Predictable & Avoidable
Australia’s Runaway Renewable Energy Crisis: the Product of Government, Not Market Failure
*** Governments' renewable energy push to blame for crisis The Australian Financial Review Ben Potter 7 April 2017 The energy sector is in disarray because of government failure, not market failure, former Productivity Commission chairman Gary Banks says. He told Infrastructure Partnerships Australia the spectacle of South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill blaming the private sector … Continue reading Australia’s Runaway Renewable Energy Crisis: the Product of Government, Not Market Failure
Aboriginal Leader, Warren Mundine Demands End to the Madness: Australia’s Renewable Policy Punishing the Poorest & Most Vulnerable
A few weeks back we reported on a very timely call by an Australian Aboriginal leader, Warren Mundine for Australians to grow up and go Nuclear. Warren isn't about to let up. Clearly worried about the miserable future being laid out for the poorest and most vulnerable Australians, Warren is, quite rightly, demanding an end … Continue reading Aboriginal Leader, Warren Mundine Demands End to the Madness: Australia’s Renewable Policy Punishing the Poorest & Most Vulnerable
SA’s Wind Farms Guilty: 28 September ‘Black System’ Caused by Wind Power Output Collapse
*** Whichever way you slice it (and it's been cut from every possibly exculpatory angle), South Australia's infamous Statewide blackout on 28 September 2016 was due to the inability of its 18 wind farms to tough out a typically vigorous spring storm front. Where conventional generators have no difficulty chugging away in bad weather, 'systems' … Continue reading SA’s Wind Farms Guilty: 28 September ‘Black System’ Caused by Wind Power Output Collapse
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