**** Thanks to its ludicrous wind rush, Britain is reeling with a combination of skyrocketing power prices and a grid on the brink of total collapse: Another Wind Power Collapse has Britain Scrambling to Keep its Lights On (Again) Now, in the mother of all ironies, Brits are turning to the most inefficient and costly … Continue reading UK’s Wind ‘Powered’ Disaster: Britain to Roll Out Thousands of Diesel Generators for 1.5GW of Wind Farm ‘Back-Up’
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Bjørn Lomborg Counts the ‘Enormous’ Cost of the Wind Power ‘Mirage’
When it comes to assessing the costs, risks and benefits of environmental policy, Bjørn Lomborg is one of the very few that provide balanced, detailed analysis; properly supported by facts and evidence. The economic choices we make – about allocating scarce resources to unlimited wants – should – as Lomborg consistently points out – be … Continue reading Bjørn Lomborg Counts the ‘Enormous’ Cost of the Wind Power ‘Mirage’
Britain’s Insanely Expensive & Utterly Pointless Wind Power Fiasco Exposed
**** When it comes to their demand for electricity, the power consumer has a couple of basic needs: when they hit the light switch they assume illumination will shortly follow and that when the kettle is kicked into gear it’ll be boiling soon thereafter. And the power consumer assumes that these – and similar actions … Continue reading Britain’s Insanely Expensive & Utterly Pointless Wind Power Fiasco Exposed
Wind Power: Get Set to Return to the Dark Ages
**** Windmills and Sunbeams Won’t Keep the Lights On NewsMax Larry Bell 14 September 2015 The Obama administration’s global warming hell-bent “Clean Power Plan” which is supposed to regulate and tax our nation away from fossil fuels to heavily subsidized “renewable” energy sources is presently a transitional bridge to nowhere. And after all, as the … Continue reading Wind Power: Get Set to Return to the Dark Ages
Wind Power: Just an Ugly ‘Hood Ornament’ on the Conventional Power System
**** As time marches on, the ability of the wind industry to 'hood'-wink power punters is running into a deluge of 'unhelpful' facts: here's some more from Michigan Capitol Confidential's Jack Spencer. Renewables Just a Hood Ornament on Fossil Fuel Power System You can’t have renewable energy without fossil fuels backing it up CapCon Jack … Continue reading Wind Power: Just an Ugly ‘Hood Ornament’ on the Conventional Power System
The Wind Industry’s “Fossil-Fuel-Free” Fantasy Scotched
*** At STT we love scotching wind power myths – and all the more so when it can be done with pictures: The Wind Power Fraud (in pictures): Part 1 – the South Australian Wind Farm Fiasco The Wind Power Fraud (in pictures): Part 2 – The Whole Eastern Grid Debacle The ‘arguments’ pitched up … Continue reading The Wind Industry’s “Fossil-Fuel-Free” Fantasy Scotched
The Wind Power Fraud the same the World over: South Africans Rumble the Rort
**** STT expects that our followers’ Spidey-Senses have probably picked up that we’ve been going harder than ever in our efforts to belt the patent nonsense of attempting to rely upon a wholly weather dependent power generation source – smashing the infantile ‘logic’ employed by wind power’s proponents to sell their third-rate-wares, has been the … Continue reading The Wind Power Fraud the same the World over: South Africans Rumble the Rort
The Wind Power Fraud (in pictures): Part 2 – The Whole Eastern Grid Debacle
**** Yesterday, we laid out the wind power fraud in pictures, as it's perpetrated in, what's referred to as, 'Australia's wind power capital', South Australia: The Wind Power Fraud (in pictures): Part 1 – the South Australian Wind Farm Fiasco To call the 'performance' of SA's 17 wind farms (spread over a vast area of … Continue reading The Wind Power Fraud (in pictures): Part 2 – The Whole Eastern Grid Debacle
SA – Australia’s ‘Wind Power Capital’ – Pays the World’s Highest Power Prices and Wonders Why it’s an Economic Basket Case
**** Once upon a time, in a land far, far away there was a veritable manufacturing and industrial nirvana. Post WWII, its population grew at a phenomenal rate; and so too did the level of prosperity enjoyed by thousands of migrants fleeing to it from war ravaged Europe - cheap and abundant food, decent, affordable … Continue reading SA – Australia’s ‘Wind Power Capital’ – Pays the World’s Highest Power Prices and Wonders Why it’s an Economic Basket Case
Too Hot? Too Cold? Then Don’t Expect Wind Power to Help
**** What STT followers get in a heartbeat is the lunacy attached to reliance on a wholly weather dependent power 'system' - and we use that term in the wildest possible sense: power generation that only bursts into life with thumping breezes and disappears when things drop back to a zephyr can't sensibly be called … Continue reading Too Hot? Too Cold? Then Don’t Expect Wind Power to Help
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