Australia’s enviable prosperity isn’t due to sunshine and glinting solar panels or windmills flailing in the breeze, it’s down to iron ore, coal and a bevy of other minerals including copper and uranium of the kind being gouged out of the ground by BHP Billiton at Roxby Downs in South Australia’s North (see above). How … Continue reading Australia’s Desperate Miners Demand End to Renewable Energy Madness: RET Must Go Now
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Australia’s Renewable Energy Debacle: Policy Insanity Overtakes ‘Green’ Hypocrisy
Australian politics is often a feast of the bizarre. And one of the more bizarre dishes on the menu was watching Al Gore (the original global warming alarmist profiteer) stand side-by-side with big Clive Palmer (the original overstuffed windbag, cum-political buffoon) back in June 2014. Back then, big Clive was at the top of his … Continue reading Australia’s Renewable Energy Debacle: Policy Insanity Overtakes ‘Green’ Hypocrisy
California’s 100% Renewables Claim ‘Lies, Damned Lies & Statistics’
*** On a train bound for nowhere, I met up with a Gambler… A little while back, that great philosopher, Kenny Rogers spelt out the rules for Gamblers in clear and simple terms: You got to know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em, Know when to walk away and know when to … Continue reading California’s 100% Renewables Claim ‘Lies, Damned Lies & Statistics’
Shock, Horror! Wind Power Output Depends on Wind: Infigen Blames ‘Lack of Wind’ for Losses
*** Australia's publicly funded, green-left megaphone, the ABC has a hard time dealing with tough things like facts and consequences. So it must've been a rude shock to find out that the fortunes of wind power outfits depend upon ... ahem ... the weather. Lack of wind a big blow for Infigen ABC News Stephen … Continue reading Shock, Horror! Wind Power Output Depends on Wind: Infigen Blames ‘Lack of Wind’ for Losses
Finkel’s Fantasyland: Report to ‘Save’ Australia’s Power Grid From Renewables Chaos a Death Sentence for Business
*** In yesterday's post we described Alan Finkel's report on Australia's power market fiasco as a mixture of Lewis Carroll’s ‘Through the Looking-Glass’ – residing in a place where the fundamentals of physics and economics, logic and reason are playfully and permanently suspended – and Goldilocks – the story about an infantile quest to make sure … Continue reading Finkel’s Fantasyland: Report to ‘Save’ Australia’s Power Grid From Renewables Chaos a Death Sentence for Business
Being Powered 100% By Wind & Solar = 100% Total Fantasy
This piece is not just fun because it wallops the myth that the world is well on the way to being totally powered by sunshine and breezes, the merriment is multiplied because the study proving the bleeding obvious to be the case was put together by one group of climate catastrophists, who have drawn an … Continue reading Being Powered 100% By Wind & Solar = 100% Total Fantasy
America Set to Cut Subsidies to Wind Power & Prevent Grid Chaos
Donald Trump is not the wind industry's biggest fan. And now that the damage done to once reliable and affordable power supplies by the intermittent and chaotic delivery of wind power is plain for all to see (look no further than South Australia), the US is out to avoid the inevitable. Starting with an investigation … Continue reading America Set to Cut Subsidies to Wind Power & Prevent Grid Chaos
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