A decade from now, as grids collapse and businesses and households are driven into penury, because they can no longer afford their rocketing power bills, the current generation will have plenty of time to lament (albeit, sitting freezing or boiling in the dark). South Australians, with a deluded and dangerous Labor Premier, utterly obsessed with … Continue reading Risible Renewables: 30 Years and $Trillions in Subsidies – Wind & Solar’s Total Output Less than 1% of World Energy Demand
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Ian Plimer: How Australia’s Renewables Obsession Destroyed its Reliable & Cheap Power Supply
Australia’s suicidal renewable energy policies have all but destroyed what was once an energy superpower. Rocketing power prices and a grid on the brink of collapse are the consequence of an obsessive desire to run an entire country on sunshine and breezes. Lunacy doesn’t cover it. How we got there and what it means to … Continue reading Ian Plimer: How Australia’s Renewables Obsession Destroyed its Reliable & Cheap Power Supply
Australia’s Renewable Energy Disaster Sending Industries Offshore & Killing Thousands of Jobs
Australia’s industry leaders are screaming blue murder: power costs have doubled in less than three years and are set to do the same again. How they got that way is no mystery to STT followers: Guilty: Subsidised Wind & Solar Drive Australia’s Rocketing Retail Power Prices In fact, the culprits are so easy to identify … Continue reading Australia’s Renewable Energy Disaster Sending Industries Offshore & Killing Thousands of Jobs
Merry Christmas to Stop These Things’ Followers & Happy Fifth Birthday to STT
Merry Christmas and Season’s Greetings to all of our dedicated band of followers, all around the World. And it’s Happy Birthday to STT: Boxing Day 2017 marks 5 years of giving an embattled wind industry and its dwindling band of parasites and spruikers hell. We’ve clocked over 2,215,000 views and given our loyal readers 1,880 … Continue reading Merry Christmas to Stop These Things’ Followers & Happy Fifth Birthday to STT
Australia’s Power Crisis Generated by a Conspiracy of Incompetents
To destroy the cheapest and most reliable power supplies in the world in less than 20 years takes effort, but it can be done. Take South Australia, Australia’s so-called wind power capital as the prime example. Despite its Premier’s recent (nonsensical) claims about SA power prices plummeting, they are still the highest retail power prices … Continue reading Australia’s Power Crisis Generated by a Conspiracy of Incompetents
Turnbull’s Trilemma: PM’s Power to Rise (or Fall) with National Energy Guarantee
The reason that Australian governments give for policies set to squander $60 billion in subsidies on wind and solar power is a three-way mission to deliver (1) reliable, (2) affordable and (3) low-CO2-emissions electricity. After the debacle that’s played out in Australia’s wind power capital, South Australia, the odds of that trifecta ever becoming a … Continue reading Turnbull’s Trilemma: PM’s Power to Rise (or Fall) with National Energy Guarantee
PM’s Reliable Power Play Spells Disaster for Unreliable & Intermittent Wind Power
Politics is a cruel caper, at the best of times. And, in Australia, power politics is merciless. A decade and-a-half of government intervention in the power market has left Australia with the highest power prices in the world and a grid on the brink of collapse. The disaster is largely down to distortions caused by … Continue reading PM’s Reliable Power Play Spells Disaster for Unreliable & Intermittent Wind Power
Australia’s Massive Power Price Hike Caused by Intermittent Wind & Solar
The Australian Labor Party is funded by the Union Super funds that its faithful band of apparatchiks control. The likes of Bill Shorten, Greg Combet and Garry Weaven are all heavily invested in maintaining Australia’s Renewable Energy Target, because Union Super money, under their control, has been thrown into wind and solar power outfits like … Continue reading Australia’s Massive Power Price Hike Caused by Intermittent Wind & Solar
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
SOS: Kill the Renewable Energy Target Before It’s All Too Late
Starting next week, hard-pressed households and battered businesses will start receiving power bills which will be between 16 and 20% higher than the same time last year. In Australia, the underlying rate of inflation is around 1.5%. Punitive power bills have left 25% of households unable to heat their homes during the depth of an … Continue reading SOS: Kill the Renewable Energy Target Before It’s All Too Late
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