**** STT expects that our followers’ Spidey-Senses have probably picked up that we’ve been going harder than ever in our efforts to belt the patent nonsense of attempting to rely upon a wholly weather dependent power generation source – smashing the infantile ‘logic’ employed by wind power’s proponents to sell their third-rate-wares, has been the … Continue reading The Wind Power Fraud the same the World over: South Africans Rumble the Rort
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The Patent Nonsense of ‘Storing’ Wind Power Smashed
**** The wind industry is the perpetual infant of power generation: always looking for the subsidies to last that little bit longer; always promising to improve its performance; always claiming it will outdo hydro, coal and gas – provided, of course, that the subsidies keep flowing. STT for one thinks the wind industry has had … Continue reading The Patent Nonsense of ‘Storing’ Wind Power Smashed
‘Greens’ Gamble on Your Future; while PM Stops CEFC from Laying Wind Power Bets
**** A little while back, that great philosopher, Kenny Rogers spelt out the rules for Gamblers in clear and simple terms: You got to know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em, Know when to walk away and know when to run. You never count your money when you’re sittin’ at the table. … Continue reading ‘Greens’ Gamble on Your Future; while PM Stops CEFC from Laying Wind Power Bets
ARREA Spears Wind Industry’s Parasites During Thumping Senate Appearance
**** The mandatory RET has seen the cost of around $9 billion worth of Renewable Energy Certificates added to retail power prices and recovered from all Australian power consumers. Under the Large-Scale Renewable Energy Target, a further $45 billion is designed to be transferred from power consumers to wind power outfits via the REC Tax/Subsidy … Continue reading ARREA Spears Wind Industry’s Parasites During Thumping Senate Appearance
Global Investment Collapses: Investors Wake Up to the Wind Power Delusion
*** The wind industry is in meltdown around the globe, simply because investors have woken up to the monumental RISKS. Risks like: - turbines falling apart in less than 2 years; under pressure from voters, governments pulling the plug on the massive subsidies essential to keep the scam rolling; neighbours suing the operators to obtain … Continue reading Global Investment Collapses: Investors Wake Up to the Wind Power Delusion
Larry Pickering: on the Quixotic Calamity of Wind
*** Larry Pickering is a four-time Walkley Award winning political commentator and Churchill Fellow, whose life's work has been irritating the loopy-left. Here he is slaying the great wind power fraud. It's more than a Quixotic Calamity Larry Pickering The Pickering Post 20 June 2015 **** The European Renewable Energy Foundation, a Green body supportive … Continue reading Larry Pickering: on the Quixotic Calamity of Wind
Wind Power Fraud Finally Exposed: Senator John Madigan Details LRET’s Astronomical 45 Billion Dollar Cost to Power Consumers
When the Chinese make the suggestion “may you live in interesting times” they don’t mean you well – it’s more of a veiled warning about the perils of what’s lurking over the horizon – and some even characterise it as a curse. Well, it seems that the wind industry is living in VERY interesting times. … Continue reading Wind Power Fraud Finally Exposed: Senator John Madigan Details LRET’s Astronomical 45 Billion Dollar Cost to Power Consumers
The Obscene, Hidden Costs of Wind Power
**** True costs of wind electricity Planning Engineer and Rud Istvan 12 May 2015 Climate Etc. Wind turbines have become a familiar sight in many countries as a favorite CAGW mitigation means. Since at least 2010, the US Energy Information Agency (EIA) has been assuring NGOs and the public that wind would be cost competitive … Continue reading The Obscene, Hidden Costs of Wind Power
German’s Top Daily – Bild – says Time to Chop Massive Subsidies for Wind Power
**** The Germans went into wind power harder and faster than anyone else – and the cost of doing so is catching up with a vengeance. The subsidies have been colossal, the impacts on the electricity market chaotic and – contrary to the environmental purpose of the policy – CO2 emissions are rising fast: if … Continue reading German’s Top Daily – Bild – says Time to Chop Massive Subsidies for Wind Power
Wind Power: an Insanely Costly Exercise in Pointless Futility
Robert Wilson is a PhD Student in Mathematical Ecology at the University of Strathclyde. Robert has a had a little stab at getting behind the greatest fraud of all time; although he's on the right track, he doesn't quite get there, as we'll explain below. Why wind farms can be relied on for almost zero power Robert … Continue reading Wind Power: an Insanely Costly Exercise in Pointless Futility