It’s possible to turn an energy superpower into an economic disaster: Australia did it in less than a decade. Its energy policy was hijacked by eco-zealots and handed to wind and solar rent-seekers, on a platter. A combination of witless and corrupt politicians meant that the mission was accomplished with the sort of split-second timing … Continue reading Mission Possible: Runaway Renewable Energy Policy = Australia’s Economic Suicide Pact
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Wind Power: World’s Greatest Joke – UK Left Powerless During the ‘Big Calm’
The greatest joke ever played on the world is the idea that the wind can - and will soon completely - power modern economies. When the wind disappears for days and even weeks on end, those that promote it tend to get twitchy and change the subject. Sometimes it’s mutterings about mega-batteries (that don’t exist) … Continue reading Wind Power: World’s Greatest Joke – UK Left Powerless During the ‘Big Calm’
Australia Enters Third World: Chaotic Delivery of Wind & Solar Forces Industrial Users Off Grid
Dictating when and if power consumers get electricity was once the preserve of communist dictatorships (think the USSR, North Korea and Cuba). Thanks to a maniacal obsession with intermittent wind and solar, Australia now sits comfortably in the same dismal ranks. No longer can industrial users expect to have power according to their business plans … Continue reading Australia Enters Third World: Chaotic Delivery of Wind & Solar Forces Industrial Users Off Grid
If Wind and Sunshine are Free, Why Is It That Wind & Solar Power Are So Expensive?
Facts tend to flummox renewable energy zealots, especially the way adding wind and solar sends power prices into orbit (see above). After all, they keep telling us that the wind and sun are absolutely free, and getting cheaper all the time. Here’s America’s top green, Michael Shellenberger taking an axe to another RE furphy. A … Continue reading If Wind and Sunshine are Free, Why Is It That Wind & Solar Power Are So Expensive?
State Sanctioned Theft: Australia’s Renewable Energy Subsidies a $60bn Wealth Transfer
Selling electricity is a complex caper, permitting a sharp and mercenary few to make out like bandits, at the expense of the gullible many. In Australia, the power market was hijacked around 20 years ago, with the creation of the National Electricity Market. Then the game changed entirely, as chaotic wind and solar were added … Continue reading State Sanctioned Theft: Australia’s Renewable Energy Subsidies a $60bn Wealth Transfer
Coal-Hard Facts: Australia’s Energy Minister Gripped by Renewables Delusion
Where General Sir John Monash built Victoria’s electricity system, Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg is determined to destroy it. When the aptly named Monash Forum (a group of 30 Liberal and National MPs) formed a few months ago, all hell broke loose in Canberra. Armed with common sense and compassion, this group is out to … Continue reading Coal-Hard Facts: Australia’s Energy Minister Gripped by Renewables Delusion
Affordable Energy Wars: Australian MPs Determined to End Subsidies to Wind & Solar
The solution to Australia’s self-inflicted energy calamity involves a battle between deluded zealots and pragmatic realists. In the former camp sits Audrey Zibelman (head of AEMO) and Kerry Schott (head of the Energy Security Board), along with a band of equally deluded fellow travellers. In the latter, it’s the 30 or so Liberal and … Continue reading Affordable Energy Wars: Australian MPs Determined to End Subsidies to Wind & Solar
Big-Apple Blackouts Loom: Rush to Unreliable Renewables Threatens New York Power Grid
New Yorkers are about to reap what their wind and solar obsessed Governor, Andrew Cuomo has sown. As South Australians and Germans are acutely aware, adding utterly unreliable and inherently intermittent wind and solar to a power grid, designed entirely around dispatchable sources, leads to chaos. That wind and solar superpower, South Australia, has … Continue reading Big-Apple Blackouts Loom: Rush to Unreliable Renewables Threatens New York Power Grid
Wind Power Fraud: Wind Industry’s Greatest ‘Capacity’ is for Total Delusion
Those pumping wind and solar only ever talk about capacity, which is like being told that the cheque is in the mail. The kind of fantastic promise made by those who hope it never collides with reality. But, like the cheque that never arrives (and bounces when it does), promises that wind power delivers are … Continue reading Wind Power Fraud: Wind Industry’s Greatest ‘Capacity’ is for Total Delusion
Chaos Reigns Supreme: Erratic Wind and Solar Destroy Australia’s Once Reliable Power Grid
The natural result of plugging into wind and solar power is absolute chaos. It’s like inviting the Hells Angels to your daughter’s 21st birthday party and not expecting mayhem. Those that kid themselves otherwise, fall into roughly 2 camps: dreamy, eco-zealots, happy to ignore everything the real world throws at them (especially facts antithetical … Continue reading Chaos Reigns Supreme: Erratic Wind and Solar Destroy Australia’s Once Reliable Power Grid
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