Germany has long been the poster-child for the wind-cult, the World over. But the way things have panned out, wind worshippers will soon need another pin-up girl. The cost of its maniacal rush into massively subsidised wind and solar to German businesses and households has been astronomical and, in the mother of all ironies, CO2 … Continue reading Wind Power Sends German Power Prices Rocketing as CO2 Emissions Continue to Rise
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Germany’s Wind Powered Transition: a Policy in Chaos
It’s not easy being green: Even with new reforms, doubts remain about Germany’s energy transition The Economist 13 August 2016 Brandenburg used to be called the sandbox of the Holy Roman Empire for its poor soil and marginal geography. Today a more appropriate moniker might be “the wind farm of the European Union” for all … Continue reading Germany’s Wind Powered Transition: a Policy in Chaos
Europe Squanders $1.2 Trillion on Wind/Solar Subsidies & Still CO2 Emissions Soar
If “saving” the planet is – as we are repeatedly told – all about reducing man-made emissions of an odourless, colourless, naturally occurring trace gas, essential for all life on earth – then European energy/environmental policy has manifestly failed. And what an expensive failure it is. In the following pieces, the delicious term 'irony' springs … Continue reading Europe Squanders $1.2 Trillion on Wind/Solar Subsidies & Still CO2 Emissions Soar
Desperate Salvage Mission: Europeans Slash Wind & Solar Subsidy Schemes
Europe’s Energy Crisis Poses Warning for the U.S. Breitbart Terry Jarret 14 April 2016 Europe has a problem that may soon become ours. Countries including Germany, Spain, and England are finding that their recent “green energy” experiments are proving too costly to continue. Between 2005—when the European Union adopted its emissions trading scheme—and 2014, residential … Continue reading Desperate Salvage Mission: Europeans Slash Wind & Solar Subsidy Schemes
Wind Power in Germany: the Perfect Example of an Energy Fiasco
**** STT followers may wonder at our recent focus on Germany. The reason we pick on Deutschland is simply that - in making any point - it's best done with examples. Readily identifiable examples. But that doesn't mean the scenario in question is one worth following. Oh no. There are plenty of bad examples, used … Continue reading Wind Power in Germany: the Perfect Example of an Energy Fiasco
Wind Power Costs Crush the Poor
The rush to 'power' modern economies with a Medieval 'technology', abandoned Centuries ago for pretty obvious reasons, has brought with it a banquet of consequences: not least, 'energy poverty'. That term is one that has only come into common parlance with the soaring cost of electricity, caused by throwing $billions at a wholly weather dependent … Continue reading Wind Power Costs Crush the Poor
Germans Face Wind Powered Economic Nightmare: €Billions Squandered on Subsidies, as CO2 Emissions Rise
**** 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 and the impacts on the electricity market chaotic. Some 800,000 German homes have been disconnected from the grid – victims of what is euphemistically … Continue reading Germans Face Wind Powered Economic Nightmare: €Billions Squandered on Subsidies, as CO2 Emissions Rise
Germany’s Wind Power Disaster: the Perfect Lesson on How to Simultaneously Wreck an Economy & the Environment
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 “saving” … Continue reading Germany’s Wind Power Disaster: the Perfect Lesson on How to Simultaneously Wreck an Economy & the Environment
Europe’s ‘Colossal Energy Disaster’: €5.7 trillion ‘Completely Wasted’ on Wind Power ‘Wishes’
**** When the wind industry and its worshippers start chanting their mantras about the ‘wonders’ of wind, it isn’t long before they start preaching about the examples purportedly set by the Europeans; and, in particular, the Nordic nations. The latter have seen economics hit back with a vengeance; wind power investment has thoroughly collapsed: Wind … Continue reading Europe’s ‘Colossal Energy Disaster’: €5.7 trillion ‘Completely Wasted’ on Wind Power ‘Wishes’
Germans Spend 100s of €Billions on their “Energiewende” & Get Only 3% of their Power in Return
The Germans are rueing the day the bought into the great wind power fraud. 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 … Continue reading Germans Spend 100s of €Billions on their “Energiewende” & Get Only 3% of their Power in Return
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