**** Here's a sold little wrap-up on the great wind power fraud from Mary Kay Barton - it's so clear and thumpingly sound for STT to add, would only detract. Hats off, Mary. Over to you. Wind energy myths spun by lobbyists and salesmen Principia Scientific Mary Kay Barton 13 May 2015 Industrial wind energy … Continue reading Hammering Wind Industry Myths: the ‘In-a-Nutshell’ Version
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Open Competition: What the Wind Industry Fears Most
**** Among the myriad fictions spread by the lunatics that spruik for the wind industry, is the claim that wind power is not only competitive with conventional power generation sources, it’s actually cheaper than the cheapest of them all: coal – see this ruin-economy piece for a trip to Alice’s world of make-believe. Coal-fired plant … Continue reading Open Competition: What the Wind Industry Fears Most
The Fossil Fuel-Free Fantasy: Robert Bryce Hammers Harvard’s Human-Hating Ecofascist Hit Squad
**** Robert Bryce picked the wind power fraud for what it is from the very beginning. In his 2010 book “Power Hungry: The Myths of “Green” Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future” (Public Affairs), Bryce skewered every one of the myths relied upon by the wind industry to peddle its wares; and went … Continue reading The Fossil Fuel-Free Fantasy: Robert Bryce Hammers Harvard’s Human-Hating Ecofascist Hit Squad
Why Coal Miners, Oil and Gas Producers Simply Love Wind Power
**** The wind industry parades as an “alternative” energy source. Which begs the question: “alternative” to what? The lunatics from the hard-green left (like "Greens" head-muppet, Christine Milne) continually whine that "coal is DEATH"; and wax lyrical about the fantasy of going "100% renewable" - all the while pocketing $millions in campaign funding from the … Continue reading Why Coal Miners, Oil and Gas Producers Simply Love Wind Power
Wind Power: an Insanely Costly Exercise in Pointless Futility
Robert Wilson is a PhD Student in Mathematical Ecology at the University of Strathclyde. Robert has a had a little stab at getting behind the greatest fraud of all time; although he's on the right track, he doesn't quite get there, as we'll explain below. Why wind farms can be relied on for almost zero power Robert … Continue reading Wind Power: an Insanely Costly Exercise in Pointless Futility
Power Punters to Pay Double for Wind Power “FAILS” – REAL Power Generators Paid to Cover Wind Power Fraud
**** The hackneyed myth that wind power “powers” millions of homes with wonderful “free” wind energy is taking a beating around the globe (see our posts here and here). The idea that a wholly weather dependent power generation source can ever be – as is touted endlessly by the wind industry and its parasites – … Continue reading Power Punters to Pay Double for Wind Power “FAILS” – REAL Power Generators Paid to Cover Wind Power Fraud
Australian Senator – Matt Canavan – Slams “Greens” Hypocrisy & Skewers the Great Wind Power Fraud
**** Queensland National’s Senator, Matt Canavan gets it. An economist by trade, having worked for the Productivity Commission, he’s got a head for facts and figures. Matt’s reasoned musings have graced the pages of STT a couple of times: Senator Matt Canavan: mandatory RET is an Enormous Wind Industry Protection Racket Senator Matt Canavan: Australia’s … Continue reading Australian Senator – Matt Canavan – Slams “Greens” Hypocrisy & Skewers the Great Wind Power Fraud
More on Germany’s Wind Power Fiasco
**** The Germans went into wind power harder and faster than anyone else – and the cost of doing so is catching up with a vengeance. The subsidies have been colossal, the impacts on the electricity market chaotic and – contrary to the environmental purpose of the policy – CO2 emissions are rising fast: if … Continue reading More on Germany’s Wind Power Fiasco
Greens Simply ‘Clueless’: Miners say “Wind Power NO ‘Alternative’ to REAL Power”
**** Greens clueless on energy The Australian Brendan Pearson 16 January 2015 DURING his formative years, the legendary 20th-century American journalist Walter Lippman spent a lot of time with revolutionaries, radical intellectuals and others with a weak grip on reality. But Lippman soon grew tired of “dilettante rebels, he who would rather dream 10 dreams … Continue reading Greens Simply ‘Clueless’: Miners say “Wind Power NO ‘Alternative’ to REAL Power”
Why Wind Power Will Never be a Serious Alternative to Conventional Power Generation
Study: Wind Turbines are ‘Expensive, Unreliable and Inefficient’ Breitbart.com Donna Rachel Edmunds 27 October 2014 Wind power is too variable and too unpredictable to provide a serious alternative to fossil fuels, a new study by the Scientific Alliance and the Adam Smith Institute has confirmed. The researchers concluded that, although it is true that the … Continue reading Why Wind Power Will Never be a Serious Alternative to Conventional Power Generation