**** 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 Why Weather Dependent, Intermittent & Unreliable Wind Power is as ‘Useful as a Chocolate Teapot’
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290 Tonne Vestas Wind Turbines Dropping Like Giant Wounded Flies
**** Our post - Happenstance or Enemy Action? Giant Wind Turbines Collapsing with Alarming Regularity - was barely up a week, and yet another story of a 290 tonne whirling juggernaut crashing back to Earth popped up in Sweden. This time, another vertically vulnerable Vestas hit the deck – a V112 with three 54.7m blades, … Continue reading 290 Tonne Vestas Wind Turbines Dropping Like Giant Wounded Flies
Happenstance or Enemy Action? Giant Wind Turbines Collapsing with Alarming Regularity
**** The number of cases involving collapsing turbines and flying blades (aka “component liberation”) has become so common that, if we were a tad cynical, we would go so far to suggest the possibility of some kind of pattern, along the lines proffered by Mr Bond’s nemesis, Goldfinger: “Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three … Continue reading Happenstance or Enemy Action? Giant Wind Turbines Collapsing with Alarming Regularity
Wanton Criminal Destruction: Wind Developers Killing Birds & Destroying Forest Habitats
Remember all that guff about wind power being 'clean', 'green' and like a big cuddly toy, hugging a welcoming environment right back? This is the crowd that tells us that carpeting the planet with bat-chomping, bird slicing, blade-chucking, pyrotechnic, sonic-torture devices is all for the 'greater good': despite these things - as a wholly weather … Continue reading Wanton Criminal Destruction: Wind Developers Killing Birds & Destroying Forest Habitats
The Insane Cost of Ontario’s Energy Calamity: Consumers Forced to Pay $170 Billion for Pointless Wind Power
Ontario is the place where the most bizarre energy policy in the world has seen thousands of these things speared into the backyards of homes – in the most agriculturally productive part of Canada. When we say “bizarre” we mean completely bonkers. Canada has one of the “cleanest” power generation mixes on the planet, with … Continue reading The Insane Cost of Ontario’s Energy Calamity: Consumers Forced to Pay $170 Billion for Pointless Wind Power
The Cost of Wind Power: Killing Jobs and Crushing Families – SA’s Biggest Smelter Under Threat with 750 Jobs at Risk
**** To call what South Australia’s Labor government has ‘gifted’ their constituents an energy ‘policy’, is to flatter it as involving some kind of genuine ‘design’. It’s an economic debacle, pure and simple. The current mess started under former Premier, Mike Rann – a former spin-doctor, whose relatives lined up at the wind power subsidy … Continue reading The Cost of Wind Power: Killing Jobs and Crushing Families – SA’s Biggest Smelter Under Threat with 750 Jobs at Risk
Climate Chicken Littles Nuzzle up to Nukes as Wind Power Love Affair Ends in Divorce
**** Let’s assume (as STT does, for the sake of argument) that the global warming/climate change Chicken Littles are right: the sky really is falling and it’s all CO2’s fault. So what the HELL are we doing pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into subsidies for wind power? By no stretch of the imagination can … Continue reading Climate Chicken Littles Nuzzle up to Nukes as Wind Power Love Affair Ends in Divorce
What Kills the Australian Wind Industry: A $45 Billion Federal Power Tax
**** The wind industry in Australia is doomed. Australia’s commercial lending institutions know it (calling in their loans and refusing to lend for any new wind farms). The wind industry knows it – hence the big players’ frantic efforts to ditch their wind farms, cut and run – although these fire sales are as much … Continue reading What Kills the Australian Wind Industry: A $45 Billion Federal Power Tax
Want Insane Power Prices & Mass Blackouts? Then Wind Power’s your ‘Answer’
**** The true cost of wind power is insane. Californians – victims of an early burst of ‘wind’ pay fully 40% more than the US average for power: California’s Wind ‘Powered’ Dream Turns to Nightmare: Power Prices 40% Higher than US Average South Australians dwell in Australia’s economically dismal ‘wind power capital’. Their attempt to … Continue reading Want Insane Power Prices & Mass Blackouts? Then Wind Power’s your ‘Answer’
Wind Industry’s CO2 Emission Reduction Claims a ‘Cloak of Deception’
**** Vermont Renewable Energy Program Increases State’s Carbon Footprint Littleton Record Dr. Ron Holland 17 September 2015 In 2005 the Vermont Legislature passed renewable energy legislation establishing the SPEED program. SPEED was repealed in 2015 with legislation initially called RESET. The name RESET has been dropped as leaders thought that the name implied that SPEED … Continue reading Wind Industry’s CO2 Emission Reduction Claims a ‘Cloak of Deception’
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