**** Windmills and Sunbeams Won’t Keep the Lights On NewsMax Larry Bell 14 September 2015 The Obama administration’s global warming hell-bent “Clean Power Plan” which is supposed to regulate and tax our nation away from fossil fuels to heavily subsidized “renewable” energy sources is presently a transitional bridge to nowhere. And after all, as the … Continue reading Wind Power: Get Set to Return to the Dark Ages
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US Wind Power Outfits Curse ‘El Niño’ for Massive & Mounting Losses
**** STT has likened it to the great corporate Ponzi schemes, pointing out, just once or twice, that the wind industry is little more than the most recent and elaborate effort to fleece gullible investors, in a list that dates back to “corporate investment classics”, like the South-Sea Bubble and Dutch tulip mania. In the … Continue reading US Wind Power Outfits Curse ‘El Niño’ for Massive & Mounting Losses
Wind Turbine Infrasound: What You Can’t Hear Can Really Harm You
Wind turbine noise, what you can’t hear can harm you Vermontbiz Brian Dubie 25 September 2015 What do you think of when you think of an industrial wind project? Wind developers want you to think of free, green electricity. People who live near industrial wind turbines think of noise. Let’s see why. An Industrial Wind … Continue reading Wind Turbine Infrasound: What You Can’t Hear Can Really Harm You
UK’s Wind Power Debacle to Dish Up Another ‘Winter of Discontent’
*** Electricity network in 'uncharted territory' as blackouts loom The Telegraph Andrew Critchlow 5 September 2015 As Britain loses one more power station, experts argue the grid has been left too exposed. Picture a cold and dark wintery evening in November and millions of householders across the country are switching on their kettles at the … Continue reading UK’s Wind Power Debacle to Dish Up Another ‘Winter of Discontent’
Incessant Wind Turbine Infrasound: An Acoustic Invader
Among the growing list of what’s getting to the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers is the fact that – despite their relentless efforts to cover up both the work and the results – highly skilled people are working flat out around the world to discover the precise mechanism that causes the adverse health effects … Continue reading Incessant Wind Turbine Infrasound: An Acoustic Invader
Wind Power: Just an Ugly ‘Hood Ornament’ on the Conventional Power System
**** As time marches on, the ability of the wind industry to 'hood'-wink power punters is running into a deluge of 'unhelpful' facts: here's some more from Michigan Capitol Confidential's Jack Spencer. Renewables Just a Hood Ornament on Fossil Fuel Power System You can’t have renewable energy without fossil fuels backing it up CapCon Jack … Continue reading Wind Power: Just an Ugly ‘Hood Ornament’ on the Conventional Power System
Let the Sun Shine In: Australia’s BIGGEST Power Retailer Determined to Kill Wind Power
**** STT has been pointing out for sometime now, the fact that Australia’s big 3 power retailers have been refusing to 'play ball' with beleaguered wind power cowboys, like near-bankrupt, Infigen and the union super fund backed disaster, Pacific Hydro. Commercial retailers have not entered any power purchase agreements with wind power outfits, since about … Continue reading Let the Sun Shine In: Australia’s BIGGEST Power Retailer Determined to Kill Wind Power
Brits Crush Plans for Huge Offshore Wind Power Disaster
Navitus Bay wind farm refused permission by government BBC News 11 September 2015 A proposed wind farm off the south coast of England has been refused consent by the government. Developers behind the Navitus Bay project - for up to 121 turbines off Dorset, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight - say it would have … Continue reading Brits Crush Plans for Huge Offshore Wind Power Disaster
Europeans Lament their Wind Power Fiasco
**** Hurrah! Windfarms produce whopping ONE PERCENT of EU energy The Register Lewis Page 27 July 2015 The colossal, hugely expensive windfarms that are spread across huge areas of Europe's land and sea, which are projected to drive up household energy bills by more than 50 per cent in coming years, have achieved ... almost … Continue reading Europeans Lament their Wind Power Fiasco
Wind Power Ponzi Scheme Running Out of Puff
*** Who would have thought, hey? That a wholly weather dependent power generation ‘system’, actually depended upon …. the weather? In the mother of all ironies, wind power outfits in the US - well, everywhere, really - are cursing the Wind Gods, as their puffed up promised profits plummet; and investors fume. The wind industry … Continue reading Wind Power Ponzi Scheme Running Out of Puff