**** 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 The Colossal Cost of Intermittent & Unreliable Wind Power
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South Australia – Wind Powered Train Wreck: Power Supply Chaos Strands Thousands of Commuters
South Australia's wind powered economy is a picture of reliability (see above and below). In its capital, Adelaide, for 2 days in row (28 and 29 April) thousands of hopeful commuters were left to their own devices, as wild variations in wind power output wrecked the power supply to its Seaford/Tonsley electric train line. We'll … Continue reading South Australia – Wind Powered Train Wreck: Power Supply Chaos Strands Thousands of Commuters
The Staggering Cost of Pointless Wind Power: Can Australia Avoid Economic Suicide?
South Australia has earned the unenviable title of Australia’s ‘Wind Power Capital’. For its sins it has seen power prices rocket (the forward price, at $90 per MWh is more than double its neighbour Victoria’s) and unemployment with it: worse is yet to come, on both scores. Then there’s the grid instability and state-wide blackouts … Continue reading The Staggering Cost of Pointless Wind Power: Can Australia Avoid Economic Suicide?
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
Bad Blood: Fatal Brawl Follows Pacific Hydro’s Desecration of Aboriginal Sacred Burial Site at Cape Bridgewater Wind Farm
**** Nothing divides a community like a wind farm. And that inviolable rule applies with equal force to Australia’s Aboriginal communities. To say that Australia’s Aboriginal history is both long and proud is mastery in understatement. Scientific estimates vary, but there have been Aboriginal footprints on this continent for somewhere between 40,000 and 60,000 years. … Continue reading Bad Blood: Fatal Brawl Follows Pacific Hydro’s Desecration of Aboriginal Sacred Burial Site at Cape Bridgewater Wind Farm
Denmark Slashes Wind Power Subsidies to Curb Runaway Power Costs
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. That the great wind power fraud was driven by Denmark’s struggling turbine maker, Vestas probably has a fair … Continue reading Denmark Slashes Wind Power Subsidies to Curb Runaway Power Costs
German Wind Farm Backlash Builds: Bavaria Slams Brakes On Wind Turbine Roll-Out
**** Germany's rural vistas of rolling hills, cloaked in pine, spruce, beech and oak, verdant valleys and delightful gothic homes, that fall from the pages of the Brothers Grimm, have been over-run with more than 20,000 of these things. If there was still a market for Picture Postcards, then the State of Bavaria would be … Continue reading German Wind Farm Backlash Builds: Bavaria Slams Brakes On Wind Turbine Roll-Out
Australian Power Retailers Give Renewable Energy Target 3 Years to Live
In this little piece from The Australian, keep an eye out for some truly desperate characters, who are having real trouble coming to terms with the fact that Australia’s electricity retailers have given the LRET no more than three years to live. Investment stalemate puts renewable energy target at risk The Australian Andrew White 16 … Continue reading Australian Power Retailers Give Renewable Energy Target 3 Years to Live
Spanish Wind Power Outfit – Iberdola – Pockets $2.2 BILLION in Taxpayer Funded Corporate Welfare
Wind and solar power subsidies are not just huge, they're massive and they're designed to be endless. In Australia, its Federal Government drew up the economic suicide pact also known as the Large-Scale Renewable Energy Target 15 years ago. Under the most colossal single industry subsidy scheme in the history of the Commonwealth, power consumers … Continue reading Spanish Wind Power Outfit – Iberdola – Pockets $2.2 BILLION in Taxpayer Funded Corporate Welfare
German Greens Turn Against Wind Power Too
**** German opposition to these things grows by the day. And, just like everywhere else, criminals, shysters and chancers cloak themselves in groovy 'green' credentials and help themselves to $billions in subsidies filched from power consumers and/or taxpayers: all for the 'good of the planet' - or, perhaps, not. Corruption, lies treachery and deceit are … Continue reading German Greens Turn Against Wind Power Too
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