A week or so back, ex-Department of Energy and Climate Change apparatchik, and now head of RenewableUK, Hugh McNeal dropped the mother of all clangers, when talking about the “future” of wind power in Britain (see our post here). The subsidies for wind power have been slashed and the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers … Continue reading Wind Power Scandal Explodes & ‘Heads Must Roll’: James Delingpole Lists Britain’s ‘Most Wanted’
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Lessons from the UK & SA – How to Destroy Power Supplies & Economies: Start with Subsidised Wind Power
Pinning its hopes to a wholly weather dependent power source – that requires 100% of its capacity to be backed up 100% of the time by conventional generation sources – Britain’s energy ‘policy’ was never going to end well. Already faced with an unstable grid and rocketing power prices thanks to its gamble on wind … Continue reading Lessons from the UK & SA – How to Destroy Power Supplies & Economies: Start with Subsidised Wind Power
US Wind Power Output Collapse: What Happens When the Wind Don’t Blow
Rock-a-bye baby, on the treetop, When the wind blows, the cradle will rock, When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall, And down will come baby, cradle and all. When your power generation 'system' depends on the whim of the Wind Gods, results can differ from the operators' professed claims. In the US, the Gods … Continue reading US Wind Power Output Collapse: What Happens When the Wind Don’t Blow
Climate Change Probably Won’t Kill You, But Having No Power Certainly Will
**** When we see the term 'AGW', we understand those that propound it to hold “global warming” as an irrefutable fact. It is, however, a theory with which there is only one problem: and that’s the evidence. Even the most hysterical have been forced to accept the fact that global surface temperatures have not budged … Continue reading Climate Change Probably Won’t Kill You, But Having No Power Certainly Will
Common Sense Prevails: Poland to Ban Wind Power
Over-run by these things, faced with thousand of furious neighbours demanding an end to the onslaught, and spiralling power costs, Poland has mounted an enormous about face: where wind power was the flavour of the month for a year or two, it's about to be targeted with an outright ban. WARNING: in following this piece … Continue reading Common Sense Prevails: Poland to Ban Wind Power
The Colossal Cost of Intermittent & Unreliable Wind Power
**** There are 3 electricity essentials – that the power source and its delivery to homes and businesses be: 1) reliable; 2) secure; and 3) affordable. Which means that wind power – a wholly weather dependent power source, that can’t be stored and costs 3-4 times the cost of conventional power – scores NIL on … Continue reading The Colossal Cost of Intermittent & Unreliable Wind Power
South Australia – Wind Powered Train Wreck: Power Supply Chaos Strands Thousands of Commuters
South Australia's wind powered economy is a picture of reliability (see above and below). In its capital, Adelaide, for 2 days in row (28 and 29 April) thousands of hopeful commuters were left to their own devices, as wild variations in wind power output wrecked the power supply to its Seaford/Tonsley electric train line. We'll … Continue reading South Australia – Wind Powered Train Wreck: Power Supply Chaos Strands Thousands of Commuters
The Staggering Cost of Pointless Wind Power: Can Australia Avoid Economic Suicide?
South Australia has earned the unenviable title of Australia’s ‘Wind Power Capital’. For its sins it has seen power prices rocket (the forward price, at $90 per MWh is more than double its neighbour Victoria’s) and unemployment with it: worse is yet to come, on both scores. Then there’s the grid instability and state-wide blackouts … Continue reading The Staggering Cost of Pointless Wind Power: Can Australia Avoid Economic Suicide?
Wind Power: Dangerous, Expensive, Pointless, Bird, Bat & Community Killer
Producing power with NO commercial value (save the massive taxpayer/power consumer subsidies it attracts); at a cost 3-4 times that of the reliable and secure stuff; spontaneously bursting into flame, throwing 10 tonne blades to the four winds or crashing to Earth in fits of vertical surrender, and along the way prematurely taking more than … Continue reading Wind Power: Dangerous, Expensive, Pointless, Bird, Bat & Community Killer
The Wind Industry’s Myth of Storing Mass Volumes of Power Busted (Again)
Desperation is a stinky cologne: and the wind industry is drenched in it. Having been rumbled over the fact that wind power depends on ... wait for it ... the WIND, the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers have resorted to wild claims about building giant batteries - that could soak up their product at … Continue reading The Wind Industry’s Myth of Storing Mass Volumes of Power Busted (Again)
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