Happy New Year to all our fans and followers, and what promises to be a very miserable 12 months for wind and solar scammers. In America, the US President is smashing the wind industry with relish. And elsewhere voters are waking up to the unassailable fact that chaotically intermittent and massively subsidised wind and solar … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 4 January 2026
Tag: Developing countries renewables
COP27 That!: African Leaders Reject ‘Renewables Reset’ & Press For Fossil-Fuelled Future
Once again, well-fed cynical Western elites are berating developing countries about their energy use, hoping to prevent them from using the very sources that drove the Industrial Revolution and dragged millions of Europeans out of agrarian poverty, two centuries ago. Pontificating windbags are railing against the prospect of real development in the poorer parts of … Continue reading COP27 That!: African Leaders Reject ‘Renewables Reset’ & Press For Fossil-Fuelled Future
“Juice: How Electricity Explains The World” or ‘Why Economic Development Depends on Reliable & Affordable Power’
Want to know how important electricity is to modern life? Try living a comfortable and civilised life without it. More than a billion humans struggle through daily life without access to power at all, and two billion more are limited to a meagre trickle, because in developing countries it's both unreliable and too expensive for … Continue reading “Juice: How Electricity Explains The World” or ‘Why Economic Development Depends on Reliable & Affordable Power’
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
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