Baseball Player, Manager and great American philosopher, Yogi Berra was famous for his in-eloquent, but somehow prescient and folksy quips. Lines such as “If you come to a fork in the road, take it” and “If the people don’t want to come out to the ballpark, nobody’s going to stop them”, might leave many scratching … Continue reading Déjà Vu (All Over Again): Yet Another Wind Power Output Collapse Plunges 200,000 South Australian Homes into the Dark Ages
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It’s Really a ‘Gas’: Microsoft Caught Pretending to Run its Servers on Wind Power
Microsoft Buys Tons Of Wind Power, Complete With Back Up Generators The Daily Caller Andrew Follett 14 November 2016 Tech giant Microsoft announced Monday that it has signed a deal to power its American data centers with wind energy, despite the inherent unreliability of the technology. The tech company announced two new contracts representing 237 megawatts … Continue reading It’s Really a ‘Gas’: Microsoft Caught Pretending to Run its Servers on Wind Power
‘Green’ Energy Chaos: Wind & Solar Power Puts Europe at Total Blackout Risk
*** South Australia’s obsession with wind power has brought with it a grab bag of calamitous results - including retail power prices more than double the cheapest state in Australia, Victoria and its globally ‘acclaimed’ habit of “Australia’s wind power capital”: routine load shedding and statewide blackouts. The most notorious of which occurred on 28 … Continue reading ‘Green’ Energy Chaos: Wind & Solar Power Puts Europe at Total Blackout Risk
Doomed to the Dark Ages: No Solution for South Australia’s Wind Power Blackouts
When a mass blackout thrusts your State onto the international stage, as an outrageous possibility, there just could be a little something wrong with your energy policy. Here's the view from the USA. Australia Has Serious Problems With Green Energy Triggering Blackouts The Daily Caller Andrew Follett 23 November 2016 South Australia is still struggling … Continue reading Doomed to the Dark Ages: No Solution for South Australia’s Wind Power Blackouts
Irish Fury Mounts: Protesters Mob Dáil Éireann Demanding an End to Pointless, Subsidised Wind Power
Easter uprising, Dublin, April 2014. *** Over the millennia, the Irish have suffered their fair share of merciless oppression. But, whatever the agent of their misery, their antagonists are guaranteed of one thing: the Irish fight. And so it is with the wind industry, as it brazenly attempts to carpet every last inch of the … Continue reading Irish Fury Mounts: Protesters Mob Dáil Éireann Demanding an End to Pointless, Subsidised Wind Power
Blackouts Beckon as Cost of Britain’s Wind Powered Energy ‘Transition’ Rockets
*** Britain went into wind power almost as fast and hard as Germany: the costs have been colossal and the effects on its power grid chaotic. Fortunately, however, David Cameron’s Conservatives followed an election manifesto, slashed subsidies to onshore wind power and gave planning veto rights back to communities. Inevitably, the construction of proposed onshore … Continue reading Blackouts Beckon as Cost of Britain’s Wind Powered Energy ‘Transition’ Rockets
Litigators Set to Recover $Millions in Blackout Losses Caused by SA’s Wind Power Shutdown
South Australia’s ludicrous attempt to run on sunshine and breezes hit a ‘black spot’ on 28 September this year, when - yet another - totally unpredictable collapse in wind power output plunged the entire state into Stone Age darkness: ‘GUILTY’: South Australia’s Statewide Blackout Caused by Deliberate Wind Farm Shutdown Many parts of the State … Continue reading Litigators Set to Recover $Millions in Blackout Losses Caused by SA’s Wind Power Shutdown
Subsidised Wind & Solar Power Wrecking California’s Power Grid
While it's probably little consolation to South Australians, now well-accustomed to routine load-shedding and Statewide blackouts, every-time wind power output collapses on a total and totally unpredictable basis, the Golden State, California is in the same boat. These Off-The-Books Government Regs Are Propping Up Wind And Solar Daily Caller Andrew Follett Off-the-books government regulations heavily … Continue reading Subsidised Wind & Solar Power Wrecking California’s Power Grid
Intermittent & Unreliable ‘Delivery’ Makes Wind Power Pointless
*** Intermittent Renewables Can’t Favorably Transform Grid Electricity Our Finite World Gail Tverberg 31 August 2016 Many people are hoping for wind and solar PV to transform grid electricity in a favorable way. Is this really possible? Is it really feasible for intermittent renewables to generate a large share of grid electricity? The answer increasingly looks … Continue reading Intermittent & Unreliable ‘Delivery’ Makes Wind Power Pointless
UK Losing Patients: Hospitals Face Power Cuts When Wind Power Output Drops
*** In a ‘you couldn’t make it up if you tried’ moment, Britain is demanding that hospitals turn off their lights and air-conditioners and turn on their emergency diesel generators to pump power back into the grid, every time British breezes turn to zephyrs. The wind industry, its parasites and spruikers call it “demand management”. … Continue reading UK Losing Patients: Hospitals Face Power Cuts When Wind Power Output Drops
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