**** 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 Weather Dependent, Intermittent & Unreliable Wind Power is as ‘Useful as a Chocolate Teapot’
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Britain’s Wind Power ‘Policy’: Betting on a Miracle
**** Britain’s energy policy: Betting on a miracle CAPX Rupert Darwall 1 December 2015 Ugly reality has broken into British energy policy. Last week’s speech by the climate and energy secretary Amber Rudd is a milestone that defines the end of the fantasy stage of the renewables fairy tale. Policy makers must now grapple with … Continue reading Britain’s Wind Power ‘Policy’: Betting on a Miracle
China’s Wind Power ‘Dream’ Wilts as Subsidies Wound Back
*** In recent times – with the wind industry taking a belting around the planet – its spruikers have taken to clinging to any vestige of hope, with the anxious zeal of shipwreck survivors happening upon a little fortuitous flotsam. One such “hope”, is their belief that China provides the perfect example of what wind … Continue reading China’s Wind Power ‘Dream’ Wilts as Subsidies Wound Back
Wind Power Dreamers Put Australians on Highway to Energy ‘Hell’
*** When Electricity Bill Shorten came out to announce Labor’s 50% renewable energy target, a month back back, Tony Abbott quite rightly jumped on it as an economy destroying policy, that would drive power prices through the roof; energy intensive businesses offshore; and households into a dim, dark electricity free future. And fair enough: Adam … Continue reading Wind Power Dreamers Put Australians on Highway to Energy ‘Hell’
Bill Gates says Subsidies for Wind Power a Pointless Waste: Time to Back Nuclear & R&D on Systems that Can Actually Work
**** Gates: Renewable energy can’t do the job. Gov should switch green subsidies into R&D ‘Only way to a positive scenario is innovation’ The Register Lewis Page 26 Jun 2015 Retired software kingpin and richest man in the world Bill Gates has given his opinion that today’s renewable-energy technologies aren’t a viable solution for reducing … Continue reading Bill Gates says Subsidies for Wind Power a Pointless Waste: Time to Back Nuclear & R&D on Systems that Can Actually Work
Europe’s Wind Powered Recipe for Economic Disaster
**** Lessons from Europe: Recipe for a high-cost energy system Communities Digital News Steve Goreham 26 May 2015 CHICAGO, May 26, 2015 — While President Obama promotes renewable energy and members of Congress argue about energy policy, a renewable energy disaster is unfolding in Europe. Driven by a desire to halt climate change, Europe has … Continue reading Europe’s Wind Powered Recipe for Economic Disaster
Deliverance for Brits: David Cameron Empties Subsidy Trough & 250 Wind Farms Get Scrapped
**** The wind industry isn’t powered by wind; it’s fuelled by massive and endless subsidies. If ever that proposition needed support, then events in the UK since David Cameron’s election win provide plenty. 250 onshore windfarms will be scrapped as taxpayer subsidies are axed Daily Express John Ingham 22 June 2015 LARGE swathes of the … Continue reading Deliverance for Brits: David Cameron Empties Subsidy Trough & 250 Wind Farms Get Scrapped
PSST! Want to Kill Prosperous Economies & Crush the Poorest? Then Keep Throwing $Billions at Wind Power
*** The so-called “Greens” are not just delusional, they’re dangerous. Full of hate for human beings, especially the poorest of them, their “policies” – if they can be called that? – are more like malign manifestos, of the kind that would have made the Generalissimo proud. In a brilliant essay, first published in the Wall … Continue reading PSST! Want to Kill Prosperous Economies & Crush the Poorest? Then Keep Throwing $Billions at Wind Power
Why Wind Power MWs Will Never Be Equal
All megawatts are not equal Judithcurry.com By Planning Engineer 11 December 2014 Some of the Climate Etc. denizens have requested a post on the generation planning process to help them better understand cost issues surrounding the large scale addition and integration of renewable resources. The major takeaway is that differing types of generating resources bring … Continue reading Why Wind Power MWs Will Never Be Equal
It’s the Poor Who Suffer Most from the Great Wind Power Fraud
**** In a number of posts we've covered Bjørn Lomborg's critical analysis of how runaway renewables policies - and the spiralling power costs they cause - are having a devastating (and disproportionate) impact on the poorest in developed economies - and how they threaten to lock the poorest billion or so of our planet's inhabitants … Continue reading It’s the Poor Who Suffer Most from the Great Wind Power Fraud
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