Tasmania’s LRET Inflicted Power Crisis: its 308 MW of Wind Power Capacity Deemed Utterly Worthless

**** Lunatics, like those that people Australia’s Labor Party and the so-called ‘Greens’, continue to delude themselves that, not only is wind power a ‘meaningful’ power generation source, but also that, if we would all simply have faith and ‘believe’, our modern, first world economies could be run entirely upon the whims of the Wind … Continue reading Tasmania’s LRET Inflicted Power Crisis: its 308 MW of Wind Power Capacity Deemed Utterly Worthless

Ireland’s Battle Against Wind Farm Rollout Escalates: Vestas Workers Receive Death Threats

On the Centenary of the 1916 Easter Uprising - its causes and consequences - soon became the hot topic in Ireland: for the Irish, deliberating and celebrating its underdog status (whether at arms, through its history, or trade) is almost a National pastime. Underdogs or not, let there be no doubt about it: the Irish … Continue reading Ireland’s Battle Against Wind Farm Rollout Escalates: Vestas Workers Receive Death Threats

PM Hopes to Salvage LRET & Wind Industry by Reviving Renewables Slush Fund

**** In Australia, the fact that the Large-Scale RET was slashed once (from a 41,000 GWh annual target to 33,000GWh) guarantees that no commercial retailer will enter a long-term Power Purchase Agreement with a wind power outfit; and, accordingly, that no commercial banker will lend money for any new wind farms (see our post here). … Continue reading PM Hopes to Salvage LRET & Wind Industry by Reviving Renewables Slush Fund

Australian Senators Demand Wind Farm Moratorium: NHMRC (finally) Decides to Conduct Actual Health Research

Australia’s National Health and Medical Research Council long ago disqualified itself as a body fit, willing, or even able to investigate and report on the known and obvious consequences to human health and well-being caused by incessant turbine generated low-frequency noise and infrasound. From the get go, it’s been infiltrated by wind industry consultants, such … Continue reading Australian Senators Demand Wind Farm Moratorium: NHMRC (finally) Decides to Conduct Actual Health Research

The Wind Might be ‘Free’, but Utterly Pointless Wind Power Costs a King’s Ransom

**** In their sillier moments, the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers pitch the line that their pointless product is not only getting cheaper all the time, but go so far as to claim that wind power is already cheaper than gas and coal-fired power. Risible PR antics aside, the wind industry has always had … Continue reading The Wind Might be ‘Free’, but Utterly Pointless Wind Power Costs a King’s Ransom

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

German Doctors Spell Out the Serious Harm Caused by Wind Turbine Infrasound

**** The wind industry has known about, attempted to cover up and lied about the adverse health effects caused by incessant turbine generated low-frequency noise and infrasound for over 30 years; and knowing full-well that the dB(A) weighting is irrelevant to measuring the low-frequency noise spectrum, wrote their own ‘rules’ that even make the risible … Continue reading German Doctors Spell Out the Serious Harm Caused by Wind Turbine Infrasound

Irish High Court Slams Cork Wind Farm

High Court overturns permission for Cork wind farm The Irish Times Mary Carolan 25 February 2016 Judge says process used by An Bord Pleanála did not comply with Irish law The High Court has overturned a grant of planning permission for a wind farm near Inchigeelagh, Co Cork. Mr Justice Bernard Barton ruled the permission … Continue reading Irish High Court Slams Cork Wind Farm

Typically Bogus ‘Green’ Jobs Promise sees Texan Wind Power Outfit Sued for $2.7M

**** As the wind industry hoodwinked its way around the globe, one of the standard promises (well, more like bait for the more gullible fish in the pond), used to sucker in politicians was that, if (and only if) those in power were ready to sign over their constituents’ hard-won property rights, as well as … Continue reading Typically Bogus ‘Green’ Jobs Promise sees Texan Wind Power Outfit Sued for $2.7M

Australia’s Wind Industry Under Siege: LRET Subsidy Set to be Slashed (Again)

**** Subsidy won't generate target Australian Financial Review Ben Potter 10 March 2016 Less than a 10th of the wind and solar generation capacity required by the renewable energy target this decade is under construction, which could force the Turnbull government to renegotiate the controversial scheme with the opposition. Significant shortfalls under the cross-subsidy scheme … Continue reading Australia’s Wind Industry Under Siege: LRET Subsidy Set to be Slashed (Again)