Australia’s self-inflicted power pricing and supply calamity lunges from the patently absurd to the utterly ridiculous. In the week just gone, Australia’s patrician and aloof PM, Malcolm Turnbull dragged the heads of Australia’s electricity retailers to Canberra for a shellacking that was supposed to impress Australia’s battered and beleaguered power consumers. To STT though, … Continue reading RET Protection Racket: PM Puts Retailers on ‘Double Secret Probation’ for Price ‘Gouging’
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Debunking the 100% Renewables Fantasy: Running on Sunshine & Breezes – Pure Nonsense
In the heavy metal mockumentary, This is Spinal Tap, the band’s himbo front man, Nigel Tufnel struggles with almost everything, including bringing his grating, 8 minute guitar solos to an end. For Nigel, 10 isn’t enough - his Marshall amp has to go one better (see the video above). The painful exchange between Tufnel … Continue reading Debunking the 100% Renewables Fantasy: Running on Sunshine & Breezes – Pure Nonsense
Australia’s Desperate Miners Demand End to Renewable Energy Madness: RET Must Go Now
Australia’s enviable prosperity isn’t due to sunshine and glinting solar panels or windmills flailing in the breeze, it’s down to iron ore, coal and a bevy of other minerals including copper and uranium of the kind being gouged out of the ground by BHP Billiton at Roxby Downs in South Australia’s North (see above). How … Continue reading Australia’s Desperate Miners Demand End to Renewable Energy Madness: RET Must Go Now
Australia’s Renewable Energy Debacle: Policy Insanity Overtakes ‘Green’ Hypocrisy
Australian politics is often a feast of the bizarre. And one of the more bizarre dishes on the menu was watching Al Gore (the original global warming alarmist profiteer) stand side-by-side with big Clive Palmer (the original overstuffed windbag, cum-political buffoon) back in June 2014. Back then, big Clive was at the top of his … Continue reading Australia’s Renewable Energy Debacle: Policy Insanity Overtakes ‘Green’ Hypocrisy
Senator Calls Australia’s Renewable Energy Debacle a National Emergency
Whether it’s the looming threat of mass blackouts and load shedding this coming summer, the 140% increase in the number of homes disconnected from the grid (families unable to pay power bills increasing at 20%, year-on-year) or thousands of pensioners freezing in the dark, Australia’s decade-long dalliance with sunshine and breezes just got serious. Hitherto … Continue reading Senator Calls Australia’s Renewable Energy Debacle a National Emergency
South Australia’s Wind Power Nightmare Contagious: Power Pricing & Supply Calamity Spreads
Among other descriptions, the power pricing and supply calamity that is South Australia has been referred to as the ‘canary in the coal mine’, the consequence of its hell-for-leather renewable energy experiment. The ‘canary in the coal mine’ was, of course, destined to be sacrificed in order to save underground miners from the perils of … Continue reading South Australia’s Wind Power Nightmare Contagious: Power Pricing & Supply Calamity Spreads
Renewable Energy Train Wreck: Australian Power Prices Set to Rocket (Again)
The moral of the story of ‘The Boy Who Cried Wolf’ isn’t don’t lie, it’s don’t tell the same lie twice. Renewables rent-seekers continue to stick with the same grab bag of lies, myths and furphies, despite mountains of evidence revealing their marketing pitch is just so much polished propaganda. South Australia (Australia’s so-called ‘wind … Continue reading Renewable Energy Train Wreck: Australian Power Prices Set to Rocket (Again)
Australia’s Renewable Energy Experiment a Monumental Disaster
Experience is the most expensive teacher there is. For those gifted with our good friends, logic and reason, the principal lesson learned from failures suffered is to avoid their repetition at all costs. Not so, when it comes to energy policy in Australia. Despite monumental and irreversible failures such as Australia’s so-called wind power capital, … Continue reading Australia’s Renewable Energy Experiment a Monumental Disaster
Australia’s Great Shame: Renewable Energy Obsession Leaves Pensioners Freezing in the Dark
Australia’s maniacal obsession with attempting to power itself on sunshine and breezes has led to ‘The Great Shame’: a 140% increase in the number of homes disconnected from the grid, no longer able to afford power prices rocketing, year-on year, at 16 to 20%, leaving 25% of households unable to heat their homes during … Continue reading Australia’s Great Shame: Renewable Energy Obsession Leaves Pensioners Freezing in the Dark
Clueless: Australia’s Renewable Energy Disaster Deepens as Energy Minister, Josh Frydenberg Fudges & Fumbles
On the battlefield for Australia’s wealth and future economic prosperity, the forces have been divided between those pushing for the retention of the suicidal renewable energy policies that have all but crippled Australian business - particularly energy hungry businesses, like mining, manufacturing and mineral processing - and those hoping to bring an end to … Continue reading Clueless: Australia’s Renewable Energy Disaster Deepens as Energy Minister, Josh Frydenberg Fudges & Fumbles