South Australia’s Economy the Victim of a Wind Power ‘Suicide Pact’

**** South Australia - Australia’s ‘Wind Power Capital’ - is like the cooking show moment where - through the magic of clever editing - a perfect soufflé is slid in front of the camera and the grinning, self-satisfied cook announces ‘here’s one I prepared earlier’. Except that, in SA’s case, what’s been plated up is … Continue reading South Australia’s Economy the Victim of a Wind Power ‘Suicide Pact’

‘Saving’ South Australia from its Self-Inflicted Wind Power Disaster Needs $1 Billion Right NOW!

**** Wind and solar create headaches for energy market operator Australian Financial Review Mark Ludlow 19 February 2016 State governments may have to spend billions of dollars to duplicate the electricity network to cope with the unreliability of renewable energy sources such as wind and solar, according to the national energy forecaster. As the Australian … Continue reading ‘Saving’ South Australia from its Self-Inflicted Wind Power Disaster Needs $1 Billion Right NOW!

How a Band of Criminals, Shysters & Chancers Conjured Up the Wind Industry in Australia

Now and again you just get lucky. STT makes no bones about its mission: to destroy the wind industry. So it was with more than just a little delight, that we received a bundle of highly incriminating documents from one of our top-level operatives. At the risk of sounding a little like the showboats behind … Continue reading How a Band of Criminals, Shysters & Chancers Conjured Up the Wind Industry in Australia

Vermont’s Wind Farm Rebellion Rolls & Builds: Bogus Charge Against Top Community Defender – Annette Smith – Dropped

**** STT has been delighted to report on the full-scale open rebellion that's erupted in Vermont - as nearly a hundred separate communities take up arms against chancers like David Blittersdorf - the recipient of a dead deer's head on his doorstep - and a band of bent political enablers that give oxygen to the … Continue reading Vermont’s Wind Farm Rebellion Rolls & Builds: Bogus Charge Against Top Community Defender – Annette Smith – Dropped

India’s Quest for ‘24/7 Reliable Power’ Means Munching More Coal, Not Praying for the Wind to Blow

**** Among the selfish conceits peddled by the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers is the notion that a wholly weather dependent power source - which is 4 times the cost of coal-fired power and which will always require 100% of its capacity to be backed up 100% of the time by conventional generation sources … Continue reading India’s Quest for ‘24/7 Reliable Power’ Means Munching More Coal, Not Praying for the Wind to Blow

Wind Power Will Never Keep the Lights On: Propaganda Obscures Truth About Where Your Power Really Comes From

Claims and delivery are a gulf apart, when what's put up by the wind and solar crowd is measured up against the hard cold facts that reside in 'reality-land'. With every new wind farm proposal we're told how this operation would 'power' a hundred thousand homes (for 'free') - although these days it's a line … Continue reading Wind Power Will Never Keep the Lights On: Propaganda Obscures Truth About Where Your Power Really Comes From

Wind Power Disaster: South Australians Grapple with Rocketing Power Prices, an Unstable Grid & Rolling Blackouts

**** In Australia's wind farm capital, South Australia the terms ‘chaos’ and ‘crisis’ are used to describe the aftermath of an energy policy ‘designed’ on desktops by dimwits, who haven’t got the faintest clue about how power generation works (or much else, for that matter). Wind power collapses and blackouts are now part of South … Continue reading Wind Power Disaster: South Australians Grapple with Rocketing Power Prices, an Unstable Grid & Rolling Blackouts

Could the Wind Industry Get Any More Ridiculous?!?!

Sometimes, a picture is worth more than a thousand words: it's 'priceless'! Saturday Silliness – wind turbine photo of the year WattsUpWithThat Anthony Watts 23 January 2016 The entire rationale for wind turbines is to stop global warming by reducing the amount of CO2 being returned to the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels. … Continue reading Could the Wind Industry Get Any More Ridiculous?!?!

Bjørn Lomborg: Why Africa Needs Fossil Fuels, Not Wind Power & Wishes

**** Why Africa Needs Fossil Fuels Project Syndicate Bjørn Lomborg 22 January 2016 SANTIAGO – Africa is the world’s most “renewable” continent when it comes to energy. In the rich world, renewables account for less than a tenth of total energy supplies. The 900 million people of Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding South Africa) get 80% of their … Continue reading Bjørn Lomborg: Why Africa Needs Fossil Fuels, Not Wind Power & Wishes

Wind Industry Loses Support of Lunatic Fringe: Green-Left Blog ‘New Matilda’ Turns Against the Wind Power Fraud

**** When the following piece crossed STT’s inbox, the editor thought it to be some kind of April fool’s joke, delivered a few months early. But, no. Knock us down with a feather, the article that follows did, in fact, appear on ‘New Matilda’ - a politically correct, hard-‘green’-left bastion for all things cuddly and … Continue reading Wind Industry Loses Support of Lunatic Fringe: Green-Left Blog ‘New Matilda’ Turns Against the Wind Power Fraud