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Big Freeze Failures: Time to Put Intermittent Subsidised Wind Power On Ice Forever

March 12, 2021 by stopthesethings 2 Comments

Intermittent wind power doesn’t make any sense: never has, never will. A power generation source that can’t be cranked up to meet demand and which repeatedly fails to deliver when demand soars – eg freezing, dead-calm weather and 42°C breathless days and nights – doesn’t count as a power source, at all. A decade or […]

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For Peat’s Sake: CO2 Emissions Rise as Wind Turbines Destroy Europe’s Ancient Bog Lands

August 21, 2020 by stopthesethings 5 Comments

Endless subsidies for wind turbines are said to be justified by the CO2 emissions they purportedly save. Europe’s peat bogs – natural CO2 sinks – are being ripped up, drained and destroyed to make way for these things, all in an effort to reduce CO2 emissions. Gouging 30m deep pits and filling them with 400-500 […]

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Massive & Endless Subsidies: The Only Thing That Makes Wind Power ‘Sustainable’

September 26, 2019 by stopthesethings 2 Comments

Cut the subsidies and the wind industry would disappear overnight. Warren Buffett put it best: “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.” Precisely!! Wind power makes absolutely no sense at any level: environmental, social or […]

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Cost-Effective ‘Renewable’ Energy Is Like Unobtanium: A Fictional Construct

September 18, 2019 by stopthesethings 9 Comments

Wind power sits comfortably alongside Alchemy and perpetual motion machines: ideas that were both superficially attractive and utterly impossible. No country has ever powered itself entirely with wind power, and no country ever will. Putting aside their unreliability and chaotic intermittency, the amount of energy and resources that go into building a single wind turbine […]

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Stung: Minnesota Counts the Staggering Cost of Subsidised Wind Power

December 5, 2017 by stopthesethings 1 Comment

As 2017 draws to a close, with examples like Australia’s wind power capital, South Australia in mind, it takes a special brand of delusion to still believe that a country can run on sunshine and breezes. The cost of subsidised wind power is staggering, the effects on the grid chaotic. The peaceful and prosperous places […]

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The True & Staggering Environmental Cost of Wind & Solar Power: Unsustainable Energy Defined

July 23, 2017 by stopthesethings 14 Comments

For the uninitiated, the sight of snow white wind turbines flailing in the breeze in some green field reinforces that feel-good notion that wind power is the crème de la crème of ‘green energy’. For those in the know, whenever the term ‘green energy’ is trotted out by some starry-eyed hipster or sandal wearing […]

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