The chaotic intermittency of daylight-dependent solar and weather-dependent wind mean neither amount to meaningful power sources; not now, not ever. Electricity that can’t be delivered as and when it’s needed has no natural commercial value; the only reason we’re talking about this pathetic pair at all, is the subsidies that brought them into existence. Once … Continue reading High Energy Fusion: New Age Nuclear Promises Real Clean Energy Future
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Europe’s Energy Crisis: Counting the Staggering Cost of Subsidising Unreliable Wind & Solar
Adding inherently unreliable and heavily subsidised wind and solar to your grid is a guarantee of rocketing power prices. Every place in the world that got serious about wind and solar is being belted with serious increases in electricity costs. Wind and solar ‘powered’ Germany and wind ‘powered’ Denmark pay Europe’s highest power prices, by … Continue reading Europe’s Energy Crisis: Counting the Staggering Cost of Subsidising Unreliable Wind & Solar
Wind Industry Lies About Falling Costs Backfire: MPs Demand End to Subsidies for Wind Power
The moral of the story of ‘The Boy Who Cried Wolf’ isn’t don’t lie, it’s don’t tell the same lie twice. Renewables rent-seekers continue to stick with the same grab bag of lies, myths and furphies, despite mountains of evidence revealing their marketing pitch is just so much polished propaganda. South Australia (Australia’s so-called ‘wind … Continue reading Wind Industry Lies About Falling Costs Backfire: MPs Demand End to Subsidies for Wind Power
Government Mandated Theft: The Great Scottish Wind Power Racket Unwrapped
Dr John Constable is Director of the Renewable Energy Foundation. Matt Ridley is a journalist and author. In this well-crafted piece they pair up to unwrap the greatest State sponsored fraud in history; this time as it's playing out in Scotland. The Scottish wind-power racket CAPX John Constable and Matt Ridley 10 August 2017 Imagine … Continue reading Government Mandated Theft: The Great Scottish Wind Power Racket Unwrapped
UK Government Conceals Staggering Cost of Wind Power Subsidies
As STT keeps pointing out, it is the staggering cost of subsidising intermittent and unreliable wind power (for which there is no market in the absence of Soviet era mandates) that ultimately destroys the wind industry. Quite apparently aware of that fact, the UK government has sought to keep the lid on the figures which … Continue reading UK Government Conceals Staggering Cost of Wind Power Subsidies