How to squander ₤4 billion of other peoples’ money. **** If policy is driven by petulant, infantile ideology, instead of cool-headed economics, the result is, without exception, an unmitigated disaster. Here's a nice little wrap-up based on the latter policy approach, that unpicks the falsehoods of the former. (Guaranteed) power to the people Scientific … Continue reading Why Squander $Billions on Wind Power? If CO2 is the Threat, Nukes is the Answer
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How a Band of Criminals, Shysters & Chancers Conjured Up the Wind Industry in Australia
Now and again you just get lucky. STT makes no bones about its mission: to destroy the wind industry. So it was with more than just a little delight, that we received a bundle of highly incriminating documents from one of our top-level operatives. At the risk of sounding a little like the showboats behind … Continue reading How a Band of Criminals, Shysters & Chancers Conjured Up the Wind Industry in Australia
How South Australia’s Wind Farm Gamble Led to a Power Crisis
**** South Australians dwell in Australia’s economically dismal ‘wind power capital’. Their attempt to rely on these things as a ‘meaningful’ power source sees them not only paying the highest power prices in the Nation by a mile (if not the world, on a purchasing power parity basis) – but sees them glaring at each … Continue reading How South Australia’s Wind Farm Gamble Led to a Power Crisis
Rocketing Prices AND Blackouts: South Australians Lament Their Dark & Dismal Wind ‘Powered’ Future
**** A week back we covered the unfolding calamity in South Australia – where a sudden wind power output collapse plunged 110,000 homes into darkness, across most of the State, without warning: Wind Industry’s Armageddon: Wind Farm Output Collapse Leaves 110,000 South Australian Homes & Businesses Powerless What’s become painfully clear to the general populace … Continue reading Rocketing Prices AND Blackouts: South Australians Lament Their Dark & Dismal Wind ‘Powered’ Future
Looking for Safe, Affordable, CO2 Free Power? Then it’s Nukes or Nothing
**** 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? The Wind Power Fraud (in pictures): Part … Continue reading Looking for Safe, Affordable, CO2 Free Power? Then it’s Nukes or Nothing
Wind Industry’s Armageddon: Wind Farm Output Collapse Leaves 110,000 South Australian Homes & Businesses Powerless
**** STT could be forgiven for being just a little smug after events unfolded last Sunday night (1 November 2015) in Australia’s “Wind Farm Capital”, South Australia. As our post - Wind Power Disaster Unfolds: SA Facing Total Blackouts, Rocketing Power Prices & Thousands More Chopped from the Grid - was being put together for … Continue reading Wind Industry’s Armageddon: Wind Farm Output Collapse Leaves 110,000 South Australian Homes & Businesses Powerless
Wind Power Disaster Unfolds: SA Facing Total Blackouts, Rocketing Power Prices & Thousands More Chopped from the Grid
**** 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 Wind Power Disaster Unfolds: SA Facing Total Blackouts, Rocketing Power Prices & Thousands More Chopped from the Grid
Who Needs Wind When Massive Subsidies Will Do the Trick?
**** WHO NEEDS WIND WHEN YOU’VE GOT SUBSIDIES Pickering Post Larry Pickering 25 September 2015 A unique set of circumstances gave Turnbull the keys to Kirribilli House, but he didn’t want them, he decided to stay in his far nicer house at Point Piper while he does his filthy global warming deals with the Greens … Continue reading Who Needs Wind When Massive Subsidies Will Do the Trick?
Casualties of South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle Mount: Thousands Can’t Afford Power
**** The new protectionism: renewable energy industry’s shameless self-promotion Catallaxy Files Alan Moran 5 December 2014 According to Christopher Flavin, the President emeritus of the Worldwatch Institute, in a few years’ time wind energy will not need to be subsidised. Oh wait! He said that back in 1984. And he was not alone, Booz, Allen … Continue reading Casualties of South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle Mount: Thousands Can’t Afford Power
Bjørn Lomborg: Wind Power is a Vanity Project
*** When it comes to assessing the costs, risks and benefits of environmental policy Bjørn Lomborg has always tried to provide balanced, detailed analysis supported by facts and evidence. The economic choices we make - about allocating scarce resources to unlimited wants – should – as Lomborg consistently points out - be made taking into … Continue reading Bjørn Lomborg: Wind Power is a Vanity Project