Dr John Constable is Director of the Renewable Energy Foundation. Matt Ridley is a journalist and author. In this well-crafted piece they pair up to unwrap the greatest State sponsored fraud in history; this time as it's playing out in Scotland. The Scottish wind-power racket CAPX John Constable and Matt Ridley 10 August 2017 Imagine … Continue reading Government Mandated Theft: The Great Scottish Wind Power Racket Unwrapped
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The Sum of All Costs: Counting the True Costs of Intermittent Wind & Solar Power
Researchers have been underestimating the cost of wind and solar Our Finite World Gail Tverberg 22 July 2017 How should electricity from wind turbines and solar panels be evaluated? Should it be evaluated as if these devices are stand-alone devices? Or do these devices provide electricity that is of such low quality, because of its intermittency … Continue reading The Sum of All Costs: Counting the True Costs of Intermittent Wind & Solar Power
Debunking the 100% Renewables Fantasy: Running on Sunshine & Breezes – Pure Nonsense
In the heavy metal mockumentary, This is Spinal Tap, the band’s himbo front man, Nigel Tufnel struggles with almost everything, including bringing his grating, 8 minute guitar solos to an end. For Nigel, 10 isn’t enough - his Marshall amp has to go one better (see the video above). The painful exchange between Tufnel … Continue reading Debunking the 100% Renewables Fantasy: Running on Sunshine & Breezes – Pure Nonsense
SOS: Kill the Renewable Energy Target Before It’s All Too Late
Starting next week, hard-pressed households and battered businesses will start receiving power bills which will be between 16 and 20% higher than the same time last year. In Australia, the underlying rate of inflation is around 1.5%. Punitive power bills have left 25% of households unable to heat their homes during the depth of an … Continue reading SOS: Kill the Renewable Energy Target Before It’s All Too Late
Australia’s Renewable Energy Experiment a Monumental Disaster
Experience is the most expensive teacher there is. For those gifted with our good friends, logic and reason, the principal lesson learned from failures suffered is to avoid their repetition at all costs. Not so, when it comes to energy policy in Australia. Despite monumental and irreversible failures such as Australia’s so-called wind power capital, … Continue reading Australia’s Renewable Energy Experiment a Monumental Disaster
The Fantasy of Running On Sunshine & Breezes: Why Wind & Solar Power Are So Utterly Pointless
After a generation of claiming to be not only competitive with, but cheaper than, every form of conventional generation there is, wind and large-scale solar generators are still unable to wean themselves off the massive stream of subsidies that created their so-called ‘industries’ - simply because, without those subsidies - coupled with mandated targets … Continue reading The Fantasy of Running On Sunshine & Breezes: Why Wind & Solar Power Are So Utterly Pointless
Liberal MPs Demand End to RET: Crippling Power Costs Leaves Thousands of Australian Families Totally Powerless
What happens next in Australian politics will determine the proportion of the next generation that grows up in households knowing the benefits of having electricity, as against those children who will enter life and grow up in homes deprived of what is properly considered a necessary component of a decent, civil society. Right now … Continue reading Liberal MPs Demand End to RET: Crippling Power Costs Leaves Thousands of Australian Families Totally Powerless
Renewables Disaster Deepens: Power Costs to Australian Businesses Triple
It’s almost as if Australia’s rocketing power prices, unstable grid, load-shedding and blackouts were an unexpected surprise, something that must’ve been introduced by intergalactic forces. Here’s an extract from a Press Release STT put out back before the Wind Power Fraud Rally in Canberra in June 2013: PRESS RELEASE: 7 MAY 2013 Wind Power … Continue reading Renewables Disaster Deepens: Power Costs to Australian Businesses Triple
South Australia’s Wind Power Obsession Leads to Highest Power Prices in the World
By reason of its maniacal obsession with wind power, South Australia has become the butt of international jokes, and the object of plenty of sniggering from those occupying neighbouring states. These days, it’s almost impossible to read an article about South Australia’s economic misfortunes in which there is no mention of routine load-shedding and mass … Continue reading South Australia’s Wind Power Obsession Leads to Highest Power Prices in the World
Renewable Energy Debacle: Alan Finkel’s Report a Lost Chance to End Australia’s Self-Inflicted Wind Power Calamity
*** Australia's self-inflicted power market calamity has resulted in power prices which are now the highest in the world (as of 1 July 2017, South Australia officially tops the international list on that score, and by a comfortable margin) - a disaster for businesses and households in a country which once, not so very long … Continue reading Renewable Energy Debacle: Alan Finkel’s Report a Lost Chance to End Australia’s Self-Inflicted Wind Power Calamity
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