Australia is in election mode, with the battle for Federal political supremacy being won and lost on television and on the airwaves. The one broadcaster a political hopeful doesn't want off-side is 2GB's Alan Jones. AJ's followers number in the millions across 77 stations across the Country. Last week, Alan picked up on the cost … Continue reading Wind Power: The Greatest Swindle Ever Known
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Wind Farms: A Guarantee of Hatred & Community Division
*** The following pieces - the first from Lancashire, England, the second from Charlotte, upstate New York - are permeated with a sense of seething rage. While the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers still attempt the line that rural communities are falling over themselves to get in on some wind farm action, as usual, … Continue reading Wind Farms: A Guarantee of Hatred & Community Division
Poles Apart: New Turbine Setback Rules Threaten Doom for Polish Wind Industry
Over-run by these things, faced with thousand of furious neighbours demanding an end to the onslaught, and spiralling power costs, Poland has mounted an enormous about face: where the wind industry was the flavour of the month for a year or two, it’s just been hit with the first salvo in an effort to give … Continue reading Poles Apart: New Turbine Setback Rules Threaten Doom for Polish Wind Industry
Wind Turbine Noise Terrorising Whales
Once upon a time, 'Save the Whales' was a mantra swiped onto T-Shirts and bumper stickers by environmentalists to exhibit their moral righteousness. Now, as signed up members of the wind-cult, the hemp-shirt and nose ring squad have a tiny hypocritical dilemma on their hands. The wholesale slaughter of birds and bats has been quickly … Continue reading Wind Turbine Noise Terrorising Whales
Lessons from Denmark: Danes Slash Wind Power Subsidies to Salvage Economy
The wind industry is mounted on myth and fuelled by fantasy. In Australia, its parasites and spruikers must believe that we are still cut off from the known world (suffering from what was referred to as the “tyranny of distance”) when they peddle stories about Europeans still being wedded to wind power. On that score, … Continue reading Lessons from Denmark: Danes Slash Wind Power Subsidies to Salvage Economy
South Australians Locked in Wind Power Price Disaster: Retail Prices Jump Another 12%
*** South Australia is an economic basket case, thanks, in no small part, to its obsession with wind power. Power prices are spiralling out of control. Back in March SA’s businesses were belted with a 90% hike in their bills, that left manufacturers, miners and other power hungry businesses reeling: Wind Power Costs Crushing South … Continue reading South Australians Locked in Wind Power Price Disaster: Retail Prices Jump Another 12%
Wind Industry Makes Absurd Claim that Wind Power Lowers Retail Power Prices
The latest wind industry wheeze is to turn black into white, by claiming that occasionally adding wind power to an electricity grid (weather permitting, of course) lowers retail power prices. Here’s Alan Moran unpacking the latest furphy. Black is white: and wind generators drive down electricity prices, too … Catallaxy Files Alan Moran 8 June … Continue reading Wind Industry Makes Absurd Claim that Wind Power Lowers Retail Power Prices
Wind Power Investors Fleeced: Teenage Turbines Falling Apart in Donegal
**** Wind power outfits still make wild claims about these things running on the smell of an oily rag and lasting for 25 years or more, needing little more than a hug from time to time. However, the operations and maintenance cost of these things is around $25 per MWh - hardly the zero marginal … Continue reading Wind Power Investors Fleeced: Teenage Turbines Falling Apart in Donegal
UK’s Wind Power Nightmare Hits High Farce: Having Wrecked Everything, Wind Industry Now Says ‘Britain Not Windy Enough’
Wind is an occasional ally in all sorts of recreational pursuits: sailing, kite surfing, puffing on a ready-to-burst dandelion and watching their parasol seeds drift skywards, and the childish delight of sending kites aloft. But it's taken a special breed of Muppet to turn a source of sporadic fun into a ridiculously expensive, sometime source … Continue reading UK’s Wind Power Nightmare Hits High Farce: Having Wrecked Everything, Wind Industry Now Says ‘Britain Not Windy Enough’
US Wind Industry ‘Built’ on $176 Billion of Other Peoples’ Money
If recycling is an environmental 'good', then the wind industry can proudly wear its ability to recycle hundreds of $Billions of other peoples' money as a badge of honour. Take a product which - as it can only ever be delivered at crazy random intervals and can't be economically stored - has NO commercial value … Continue reading US Wind Industry ‘Built’ on $176 Billion of Other Peoples’ Money
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