Chaotic intermittency means wind and solar cannot, and will never, replace coal, gas or nuclear. The fact that wind and solar output plummets whenever the sun sets and/or calm weather sets in has been treated by RE zealots as (yet another) inconvenient truth, that just won’t go away. In the first few years of the … Continue reading Batteries Not Included: $Trillions Spent on Storage Won’t Save Intermittent Wind & Solar
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Worthless Wind Power: Why A Dollar Spent on Wind Power Capacity Is A Dollar Wasted
In the absence of subsidies there would not be a wind industry, period. As Warren Buffett said: “We get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That’s the only reason to build them. They don’t make sense without the tax credit.” Indeed! Every wind turbine on earth could be sucked into … Continue reading Worthless Wind Power: Why A Dollar Spent on Wind Power Capacity Is A Dollar Wasted
Batteries Included: Wind + Solar + Batteries = Insanely Expensive Power
Despite the hype from RE zealots, the chaotic and occasional delivery of wind and solar won’t be cured with batteries, large or small. Sure, at a technical level, it is possible to store large volumes of electricity for a period, such that it might be released when power consumers need it. However, were such … Continue reading Batteries Included: Wind + Solar + Batteries = Insanely Expensive Power
Labor’s Renewables Insanity Hits New High With Bill Shorten’s Million Battery Brain Fart
Despite the hype from RE zealots, the chaotic and occasional delivery of wind and solar won’t be cured with batteries, large or small. Sure, at a technical level, it is possible to store large volumes of electricity for a period, such that it might be released when power consumers need it. However, were such … Continue reading Labor’s Renewables Insanity Hits New High With Bill Shorten’s Million Battery Brain Fart
Time to Die: New PM Must Bury Turnbull’s $10bn Snowy 2.0 Pumped Hydro Boondoggle
Wind and large-scale solar are doomed, but the saviour is said to be pumped hydro; paid for, of course, with other people’s money. Touted by ex-PM Malcom Turnbull and his hapless sidekick, Josh Frydenberg as the Nation’s mega-battery, the heavily-hyped Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro scheme (shelved in the 1970s because it was uneconomic then) has … Continue reading Time to Die: New PM Must Bury Turnbull’s $10bn Snowy 2.0 Pumped Hydro Boondoggle
Insane $Trillion Cost Means Mega-Batteries Won’t Save Chaotically Delivered Wind & Solar
It didn't take power punters long to work out that wind power will never amount to a meaningful power generation source. Graphs like the one above - depicting the entire output of every wind turbine connected to Australia’s Eastern Grid (1,800 of them with a capacity of just under 5,000MW, spread across four states, NSW, … Continue reading Insane $Trillion Cost Means Mega-Batteries Won’t Save Chaotically Delivered Wind & Solar
Giant Battery Myth Offers Wind Industry No Salvation from its Ultimate Demise
*** One of the more hilarious moments that followed the aftermath of South Australia’s statewide blackout on 28 September (aka ‘Black Wednesday’), was when The Australian quoted the CEO of French wind power outfit Neoen - one of the wind power operators whose turbines were responsible for SA's date with the Dark Ages: Neoen Australia … Continue reading Giant Battery Myth Offers Wind Industry No Salvation from its Ultimate Demise
Batteries Necessary To Support Solar and Wind Power Don’t Exist
*** With the wind industry under siege around the Globe, in order to deflect attention from the unavoidable fact that wind power delivery is a matter of serendipity - rather than electrical engineering dictates (such as frequency control and grid balancing) and hoary old economic chestnuts (such as matching supply with demand) - the talk … Continue reading Batteries Necessary To Support Solar and Wind Power Don’t Exist
Bulk Battery Storage of Wind Power a Myth
In the fall-out over South Australia's wind powered economic and social calamity, the line has been repeatedly spun about fixing the mess with 'rapidly improving battery storage technology'. It is little more than a 'smoke and mirrors' pitch by the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers, designed to deflect attention from the fact that wind … Continue reading Bulk Battery Storage of Wind Power a Myth
Wind Power Obsession Sends South Australians Back to the Stone Age
Amidst the panic and chaos being experienced by the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers - due to the unfolding and inevitable wind power calamity in South Australia - one of the newly invented catchphrases is “transition”. It’s a term now employed by wind spinners, dimwitted politicians and gullible journalists; and is often coupled up … Continue reading Wind Power Obsession Sends South Australians Back to the Stone Age
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