*** In this collection from Quadrant, Jo Nova and The Australian one solid theme emerges: Australia's energy crisis is entirely self-inflicted and thus it was perfectly avoidable. Among those who saw it coming was Matt Zema - then chief of the Australian Energy Market Operator, who shuffled off this mortal coil way too soon. Before … Continue reading Australia’s Renewable Energy Disaster Was Both Predictable & Avoidable
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Renewables Retreat: China Slaps Ban on New Wind Power Projects
Plenty of what Westerners know about the Middle Kingdom is more marvellous myth than solid fact. Fitting squarely within that category is the idea peddled by wind worshippers that China is working at a furious pace to carpet itself with millions of these things. In truth, instead of squandering billions on a technology that was … Continue reading Renewables Retreat: China Slaps Ban on New Wind Power Projects
Australia’s PM Fiddles While Rome Burns: Keeping Federal RET a Recipe for a National Energy Disaster
*** ‘inertia’: noun a tendency to do nothing or to remain unchanged; “the bureaucratic inertia of the various tiers of government” synonyms: inactivity, inaction, inactiveness, inertness, passivity, apathy, accidie, malaise, stagnation, dullness, enervation, sluggishness, lethargy, languor, languidness, listlessness, torpor, torpidity, idleness, indolence, laziness, sloth, slothfulness. If STT was called upon to provide a single word … Continue reading Australia’s PM Fiddles While Rome Burns: Keeping Federal RET a Recipe for a National Energy Disaster
Green Mythology: Sun, Wind, Waves & Tides Fail to Deliver the Goods
Perpetual motion machines, turning lead into gold and capturing moonbeams in a jar are just some of the fanciful notions that have attracted human attention over the eons. The last generation have been obsessed in their attempts to run whole economies on the weather. For those that launched all out efforts to run on sunshine … Continue reading Green Mythology: Sun, Wind, Waves & Tides Fail to Deliver the Goods
South Australia’s Risible RET Rescue: Giant $150m Tesla Battery to Power SA for 4 Minutes
*** South Australia’s wind powered energy calamity hit high farce in the week just gone. Its vapid Premier, Jay Weatherill proved the adage that when you’re in a hole it’s best to stop digging; except that he didn’t - and, instead, determined to dig into taxpayers’ empty pockets. Faced with a looming electoral disaster 12 … Continue reading South Australia’s Risible RET Rescue: Giant $150m Tesla Battery to Power SA for 4 Minutes
Power Costs Crippling Business: Australia’s Renewable Target is an Economic Suicide Pact
In much the same way that a multiple truck and car pileup on a freeway draws a growing throng of gawping onlookers, Australia’s energy debacle is attracting a whole new class of journalist to the mounting carnage. The latest to join them is the dour and humourless Paul Kelly. Kelly, Editor-at-Large for The Australian has … Continue reading Power Costs Crippling Business: Australia’s Renewable Target is an Economic Suicide Pact
Australia’s Power Policy FAIL: Runaway Renewable Energy Target Destroying Business, Industry & Jobs
*** In the, ‘it seemed like a good idea at the time’ category, Australia’s Renewable Energy Target has turned toxic. Costly and pointless at the same time, the massive subsidies directed to wind and solar power have not only destroyed once affordable and reliable power supplies, they are inevitably destroying not just otherwise viable businesses, … Continue reading Australia’s Power Policy FAIL: Runaway Renewable Energy Target Destroying Business, Industry & Jobs
Why the ‘Transition’ to Wind & Solar is Nothing More than a Cruel Marketing Myth
*** The propaganda wings of the wind and solar industry have a lot to answer for, not least repeated and violent abuses of the English language. We are repeatedly beguiled by tales about our 'transition' to an all renewable future; and about how wind power is 'free' and getting cheaper all the time. However, the … Continue reading Why the ‘Transition’ to Wind & Solar is Nothing More than a Cruel Marketing Myth
Turnbull Turns: Australia’s Federal Government Backs HELE Coal-Fired Power Plants
*** Australia’s Federal government is led by the patrician and aloof, Malcolm Turnbull. A former investment banker and, before that, trusted Consigliere to media heavyweight, the late Kerry Packer, Turnbull is grappling with a renewable energy target that is set to destroy once profitable and productive Australian businesses and punish Australian families for generations to … Continue reading Turnbull Turns: Australia’s Federal Government Backs HELE Coal-Fired Power Plants
Cuomo Curses New York to the Dark Ages with $360m on Subsidised Wind Power
*** In 2017, with examples like Germany, Ontario and South Australia on file, any political leader still pushing subsidised wind power on his or her people is either a certifiable lunatic or is in on it. Andrew Cuomo, the Governor of New York State simply leaves that question begging with his move to throw $360 … Continue reading Cuomo Curses New York to the Dark Ages with $360m on Subsidised Wind Power
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