Nothing Sustainable About Wind & Solar Power Generation – Except Massive Government Subsidies

After 30 years of operation, enterprises that would collapse overnight without massive subsidies ain’t “industries” - which is what wind and large-scale solar outfits spuriously claim to be. And when RE rent seekers talk about their “sustainable” business model, that’s just code for ensuring that those massive subsidies outlast religion. Following that theme, Robert Bradley … Continue reading Nothing Sustainable About Wind & Solar Power Generation – Except Massive Government Subsidies

BP’s ‘Green’ Hypocrisy: Why Big Oil Promotes Chaotically Intermittent Wind & Solar

Remember all that talk a few years back about wind and solar replacing fossil fuels, forever? No? That’s because they can’t, and never will. Sunset and calm weather mean wind and solar can and will never replace conventional power generators. By ‘conventional’ we mean coal, gas, nuclear and, where geography and geology permit, stored hydro … Continue reading BP’s ‘Green’ Hypocrisy: Why Big Oil Promotes Chaotically Intermittent Wind & Solar

Renewables Work Just Fine – Provided There’s a Diesel in the Shed

A Diesel in the Shed Pickering Post Viv Forbes 14 April 2017 You can have your solar panels and your turbines on the hills; You can use the warmth of sunshine to reduce your heating bills. You can dream you’re self-sufficient as you weed your vegie bed; As long as you make sure to keep … Continue reading Renewables Work Just Fine – Provided There’s a Diesel in the Shed

Base-Load Matters: America Waking Up to its Wind Power Fantasy

For a populous detached from the realities of power generation (or similarly detached from reality, in general) the concept of running on 'free' breezes and sunbeams has an almost natural attraction. In much the same way that infants fixate on the colourful, the shiny and the new. But, most infants tend to eventually grow up: … Continue reading Base-Load Matters: America Waking Up to its Wind Power Fantasy

Wind is ‘Free’: It’s Wind Power That Has Cost Us $BILLIONS

The wind cult keeps telling us that the wind is 'free' and, limited to that, there could be no quibble. However, what their tortured meaning extends to is the claim that electricity generated by allowing these things to caress the breeze is also free; or if not literally 'free', so cheap as to be truly … Continue reading Wind is ‘Free’: It’s Wind Power That Has Cost Us $BILLIONS

The Wind Industry’s Myth of Storing Mass Volumes of Power Busted (Again)

Desperation is a stinky cologne: and the wind industry is drenched in it. Having been rumbled over the fact that wind power depends on ... wait for it ... the WIND, the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers have resorted to wild claims about building giant batteries - that could soak up their product at … Continue reading The Wind Industry’s Myth of Storing Mass Volumes of Power Busted (Again)

Wind & Solar Power can NEVER Replace Conventional Power Generation

**** 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 … Continue reading Wind & Solar Power can NEVER Replace Conventional Power Generation

SA’s Wind Farm Fiasco: $Millions in Subsidies Thrown at GDF Suez to Reopen Mothballed Gas-Fired Power Plant

South Australia has the dubious honour of being referred to as “Australia’s wind farm capital”. That ‘accolade’ has brought with it rocketing power prices, an unstable grid and routine blackouts. As to the latter, South Australians are learning to live with daily ‘load-shedding’, that even its premier academic institutions have to suffer, along with thousands … Continue reading SA’s Wind Farm Fiasco: $Millions in Subsidies Thrown at GDF Suez to Reopen Mothballed Gas-Fired Power Plant

Wind Industry Loses Support of Lunatic Fringe: Green-Left Blog ‘New Matilda’ Turns Against the Wind Power Fraud

**** When the following piece crossed STT’s inbox, the editor thought it to be some kind of April fool’s joke, delivered a few months early. But, no. Knock us down with a feather, the article that follows did, in fact, appear on ‘New Matilda’ - a politically correct, hard-‘green’-left bastion for all things cuddly and … Continue reading Wind Industry Loses Support of Lunatic Fringe: Green-Left Blog ‘New Matilda’ Turns Against the Wind Power Fraud

11 Fatal Flaws with Wind Power

The wind industry is copping a flogging all over the World. Increasingly, as the industry's lies and propaganda are replaced by facts, more and more are coming to the obvious conclusion: THESE THINGS DON'T WORK - on any level. Getting there was only a matter of time. What has surprised STT is not that journos, … Continue reading 11 Fatal Flaws with Wind Power