While discovering electricity was part insight, superstition and serendipity, harnessing it for good came down to the laws of physics and sound engineering. Exciting as it might be, feeling your hair stand up during an electrical storm was never going to alter the course of human affairs. Whereas the ability to generate and then deliver … Continue reading Devil’s Work: Weather-Dependent Wind Power Generation Simply Impossible to Control
Tag: Canadian power prices
Trudeau’s Politics of Pain: Canadians Suffer Rocketing Power Prices Due to Subsidised Wind Power
*** A couple of weeks ago, former Australian PM, Tony Abbott went to press, slamming Australia's business and family killing Renewable Energy Target and calling for an end to subsidised wind power. Abbott quite properly observed that: "The first rule of government should be to do no harm. Right now, the government must avoid all … Continue reading Trudeau’s Politics of Pain: Canadians Suffer Rocketing Power Prices Due to Subsidised Wind Power
Ontario’s Wind Powered Energy Poverty
**** Around the globe, the true cost of the great wind power fraud is catching up with a vengeance. The phrase "energy poverty" is now synonymous with the insane (and utterly pointless) costs of subsidising the 'production' of electricity, using a wholly weather dependent 'system', that has to have 100% of its capacity, backed up … Continue reading Ontario’s Wind Powered Energy Poverty
Ontario’s Power Consumers Being Fleeced by Wind Industry Subsidies
How green energy is fleecing Ontario electricity consumers Financial Post Ross McKitrick and Tom Adams 29 October 2014 Adding renewable generating capacity triggers changes throughout the system that multiply costs for consumers Ontario’s green energy transformation – initiated a decade ago under then-Premier Dalton McGuinty – is now hitting consumers. The Nov 1 increase for … Continue reading Ontario’s Power Consumers Being Fleeced by Wind Industry Subsidies
Wind Turbines: “Don’t run on wind, they run on subsidies”
Ontario is about to boil over, as impacted and threatened communities unite in seething rage at what their political betters have done to energy policy (see our post here). The hard-green-left Liberals have created a wind power policy so insane as to beggar belief: sending power prices through the roof (referred to as “hydro bills”, … Continue reading Wind Turbines: “Don’t run on wind, they run on subsidies”
Ontario’s Progressive Conservative’s Leader Tim Hudak – Didn’t Drink the Kool-Aid
**** Jim Jones was a charismatic cult leader with a colourful past who - amid allegations that he’d been physically, emotionally, and sexually abusing his acolytes at his San Francisco compound - fled the US and set up a new camp at “Jonestown”, Guyana. Close to 1,000 of his “disciples” followed him South - lured … Continue reading Ontario’s Progressive Conservative’s Leader Tim Hudak – Didn’t Drink the Kool-Aid
You can fill your boots with Wind Weasel “Manure”
“Futureye” calls it “billable units”; Nick Valentine aka “Frank Bestic” calls wallowing in it "a great day at the office"; but those whose boots are covered in it on a daily basis, call it for what it is: "wind industry bullshit". Our Canadian cousins - renowned for their politeness and good manners - call it … Continue reading You can fill your boots with Wind Weasel “Manure”
What was all THAT about? The Great Wind Rush Hangover
Remember country primary school Christmas concerts when you were 5? *** Performer anxiety as you stood up to recite Banjo Paterson’s the Man from Snowy River, off the cuff, to the whole town. A strangely familiar Father Christmas doling out presents to all the kids in the school. Gorging on gallons of raspberry cordial, gutsing … Continue reading What was all THAT about? The Great Wind Rush Hangover
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