No industrial economy ever powered itself on wind and solar; no such country ever will. Sunset and calm weather are very real things; whereas grid-scale storage electricity is a myth. As subsidies for wind and solar are drying up, rent-seekers hoping to cash in are running a mile. There has been an almost total collapse … Continue reading Monumental Fail: Why Intermittent & Unreliable Wind & Solar Can Never Work
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Code Black: Wind & Solar Chaos Guarantee Mass Summer Blackouts (Again)
As Summer approaches, Australia's wind and solar obsession means more mass blackouts are guaranteed. During January 2018, load shedding caught power consumers short in South Australia, Victoria and NSW. Energy hungry businesses such as aluminium smelters and even hospitals were forced to power down during a run of scorching days and nights, when temperatures … Continue reading Code Black: Wind & Solar Chaos Guarantee Mass Summer Blackouts (Again)
Emerging From Darkness: Britain’s Mass Blackout Drives Push For Ever-Reliable Nuclear Power
It’s amazing how quickly millions of minds left freezing or boiling in the dark focus on the importance of having power as and when it’s needed. Wind and solar obsessed South Australians set the benchmark for blackouts and mass load shedding. Now the UK and had its first taste of the kind of grid chaos … Continue reading Emerging From Darkness: Britain’s Mass Blackout Drives Push For Ever-Reliable Nuclear Power
Lights Out: Millions of Brits Come to Grips With Wind ‘Powered’ Future – In the Dark!!
Pinning your power needs on the weather? Then expect mixed results. South Australians living in Australia’s wind power blackout capital, know the drill, well-enough. And now their cousins in the UK have had a taste of what it is to be suddenly living in the Dark Ages, after a sudden output collapse at an … Continue reading Lights Out: Millions of Brits Come to Grips With Wind ‘Powered’ Future – In the Dark!!
Fatal Attraction: America’s Big Freeze Reveals Deadly Danger of Unreliable Renewables
Relying on intermittent wind and solar requires a kind of blind faith that power might be delivered when needed most, such as the Big Freeze that hit America’s Mid-west last month, and the heatwave that hit Victoria and South Australia, the month before that. On that score, STT’s post - Minnesota Madness: Big Freeze Exposes … Continue reading Fatal Attraction: America’s Big Freeze Reveals Deadly Danger of Unreliable Renewables
Australia’s Obsession With Hopelessly Intermittent Wind & Solar Wrecking Entire Power Grid
Australians once enjoyed affordable power, reliably delivered: the chaotic delivery of wind and solar changed all that. Australian power prices have rocketed out-of-control: its wind and solar power capital, South Australia pays the highest electricity prices, in the world. Mass power cuts (aka load shedding and demand management) and mass blackouts are the new normal. … Continue reading Australia’s Obsession With Hopelessly Intermittent Wind & Solar Wrecking Entire Power Grid
Renewable Energy ‘Transition’: More Wind Power, Higher Prices, More Blackouts
The chaos that comes with intermittent wind and solar get serious in summer, when demand surges, the sun sets and/or calm weather sets in. This summer, the barbecue stopper will literally be another round of what’s euphemistically called “demand management”: Soviet era power rationing, an integral part of Australia’s ludicrous attempt to run on sunshine … Continue reading Renewable Energy ‘Transition’: More Wind Power, Higher Prices, More Blackouts
India Rumbles Wind Power as Fake Electricity: Output Collapses During Dead-Calm Monsoon
It never takes them long to work out that wind power is the greatest economic and environmental fraud of all time. Eco-zealots have attempted to ram wind and solar power down the throats of Third World governments under the auspices of saving the planet and purportedly with the purpose of dragging millions out of … Continue reading India Rumbles Wind Power as Fake Electricity: Output Collapses During Dead-Calm Monsoon
Renewables Reality Bites: Wind & Solar Power Chaos Threatens Complete Grid Collapse
The Australian summer is a few weeks away and with it comes the threat of mass blackouts, caused by the chaotic delivery of wind and solar. As temperatures soar, so does the demand for electricity, as businesses and households crank up their air conditioners to make life more tolerable indoors. When demand spikes in Australia … Continue reading Renewables Reality Bites: Wind & Solar Power Chaos Threatens Complete Grid Collapse
Game Over: Australia’s Energy Minister Slams Chaos Delivered by Subsidised Wind & Solar
The reason Australia’s renewable energy rent seekers are suicidal has a name: Angus Taylor. The Federal Energy Minister hates subsidised wind and solar with a passion. Taylor was elevated to the position in late July, and since then he’s been giving those involved in the greatest fraud of all time hell. Last week, Taylor appeared … Continue reading Game Over: Australia’s Energy Minister Slams Chaos Delivered by Subsidised Wind & Solar
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