The political lunatics in charge of Ireland's wind powered energy debacle are about to reap the reality of what they have sown. Despite all that puff and guff about wind power being free, and getting cheaper all the time, the Irish have just been told that the Public Service Obligation (a levy tacked on power bills … Continue reading Irish Eyes Ain’t Smiling: Wind Power Push Sends Power Prices Into Orbit
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Robert Bryce: New York’s Wind Power-Play Smacks Into Reality
New York State's Governor is grappling with a confirmed case of 'Wind Turbine Syndrome', the obvious signs of which are that he's hell-bent on following the path set by the Germans and South Australians on the road to economic and social disaster. However, unlike the lunatics in charge of those energy calamities, before he has … Continue reading Robert Bryce: New York’s Wind Power-Play Smacks Into Reality
SA’s Wind Power Debacle Escalates as Australian Wind Power Subsidies Hit $3 Billion a Year
Renewables’ subsidies put sting into power bills The Australian Michael Owen 26 July 2016 Renewable energy output in Australia is subsidised by almost $3 billion a year, more than 19 times the amount for generation from fossil fuels, a report by an economic consultancy says. The report by Principal Economics found renewable energy subsidies added … Continue reading SA’s Wind Power Debacle Escalates as Australian Wind Power Subsidies Hit $3 Billion a Year
No Salvation: South Australian Businesses Being Crushed by Wind Power Costs
Arrium Steel's Gerard Mahoney: SA's power play the last roll of the dice. *** South Australia’s unfolding energy calamity, has drawn all sorts of self-professed experts out of the woodwork; desk-bound boffins, who all seem to have ready-made answers to SA’s self-inflicted power supply and pricing disaster. However, most of their “solutions” involve spending hundreds … Continue reading No Salvation: South Australian Businesses Being Crushed by Wind Power Costs
‘Green’ Epiphany: Environmentalists Join Fight Against the Great Wind Power Fraud
The death of the wind industry didn’t come about because BIG Coal felt ‘threatened‘ and set out in some kind of John Grisham conspiracy to wreck it by fair means or foul. No. What kills it is the fact that a growing band of ‘eco-travellers’ – of the kind who once placed their faith in … Continue reading ‘Green’ Epiphany: Environmentalists Join Fight Against the Great Wind Power Fraud
US Wind Industry ‘Built’ on $176 Billion of Other Peoples’ Money
If recycling is an environmental 'good', then the wind industry can proudly wear its ability to recycle hundreds of $Billions of other peoples' money as a badge of honour. Take a product which - as it can only ever be delivered at crazy random intervals and can't be economically stored - has NO commercial value … Continue reading US Wind Industry ‘Built’ on $176 Billion of Other Peoples’ Money
Freefall: Wind Power Investment Collapses in Europe
In a 'what goes around comes around' kind of way, it's fitting that the great wind power fraud is taking European 'investors' - of the Energreen mold - to the cleaners. The subsidies have run out and, as night follows day, investors are racing to the exits - which brings the greatest Ponzi scheme of … Continue reading Freefall: Wind Power Investment Collapses in Europe
Out to Curb Rocketing Power Prices Denmark Slashes Subsidies for Offshore Wind Power
**** In what could pass for another episode of Danish Crime Thriller, 'Follow the Money', the Danish government has pulled the plug on 5 offshore wind farms; a move that will, no doubt, have the boys from Energreen & Co scribbling out hurried suicide notes. With power prices escalating out of control, Europe's wind power … Continue reading Out to Curb Rocketing Power Prices Denmark Slashes Subsidies for Offshore Wind Power
Denmark Slashes Wind Power Subsidies to Curb Runaway Power Costs
When the wind industry and its worshippers start chanting their mantras about the ‘wonders’ of wind, it isn’t long before they start preaching about the examples purportedly set by the Europeans; and, in particular, the Nordic nations. That the great wind power fraud was driven by Denmark’s struggling turbine maker, Vestas probably has a fair … Continue reading Denmark Slashes Wind Power Subsidies to Curb Runaway Power Costs
Why Intermittent Wind Power Can Never Match Power Dispatched On Demand
**** There are 3 electricity essentials – that the power source and its delivery to homes and businesses be: 1) reliable; 2) secure; and 3) affordable. Which means that wind power – a wholly weather dependent power source, that can’t be stored and costs 3-4 times the cost of conventional power – scores NIL on … Continue reading Why Intermittent Wind Power Can Never Match Power Dispatched On Demand
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