*** America’s big ‘green’ wrecking machines cfact.org Mary Kay Barton 19 August 2015 Politically connected industrial wind zealots are destroying rural America and electricity markets “If you have no conscience, no morals, no aesthetic sensibility, no understanding of free markets; if you hate wildlife, people and the natural landscape; if you loathe private property… then … Continue reading Big ‘Green’ Wrecking Machines: The Wind Industry’s Woeful ‘Legacy’ – So Far ..
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How Wind Farm Subsidies are Used to Steal People’s Homes
*** In two well-drawn pieces, Jamin Hübner throws light on the greatest economic and environmental fraud of all time. His insight and clarity of expression are notable; and so is his particular focus on the fact that the massive and endless subsidies being thrown at wind power outfits (to make 'possible', the otherwise impossible) has … Continue reading How Wind Farm Subsidies are Used to Steal People’s Homes
Wind Industry Pockets Lion’s Share of Subsidies for Commercially Generated Power
**** STT followers are painfully aware that the wind industry exists - and ONLY exists - to wallow in an endless stream of subsidies filched from power consumers and/or taxpayers: The Wind Industry: Always and Everywhere the Result of Massive & Endless Subsidies (Part 1) The Wind Industry: Always and Everywhere the Result of Massive … Continue reading Wind Industry Pockets Lion’s Share of Subsidies for Commercially Generated Power
Germany’s Wind Power Surges Plunge Their Neighbours Into Darkness
**** The economics of Germany's “Energiewende” are so bizarre, that you’d think it had been put together by the GDR’s ‘brains trust’, before the Berlin Wall took its tumble in 1989. In Germany, around €100 billion has already been burnt on renewable subsidies; currently the green energy levy costs €56 million every day. And, the … Continue reading Germany’s Wind Power Surges Plunge Their Neighbours Into Darkness
Germans Spend 100s of €Billions on their “Energiewende” & Get Only 3% of their Power in Return
The Germans are rueing the day the bought into the great wind power fraud. The Germans went into wind power harder and faster than anyone else – and the cost of doing so is catching up with a vengeance. The subsidies have been colossal, the impacts on the electricity market chaotic and – contrary to … Continue reading Germans Spend 100s of €Billions on their “Energiewende” & Get Only 3% of their Power in Return
Labor’s Renewable Target is Pure Insanity: the Coalition’s Target is Simply Madness
**** When Electricity Bill Shorten came out to announce Labor’s 50% renewable energy target, a couple of weeks back, Tony Abbott quite rightly jumped on it as an economy destroying policy, that would drive power prices through the roof; energy intensive businesses offshore; and households into a dim, dark electricity free future. And fair enough: … Continue reading Labor’s Renewable Target is Pure Insanity: the Coalition’s Target is Simply Madness
South Australia’s Unbridled Wind Power Insanity: Wind Power Collapses see Spot Prices Rocket from $70 to $13,800 per MWh
**** 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 South Australia’s Unbridled Wind Power Insanity: Wind Power Collapses see Spot Prices Rocket from $70 to $13,800 per MWh
Got ‘Mercenary Sociopath’ on your CV? Then why not join the Wind Turbine ‘Taliban’
**** The wind industry attracts a very 'special' kind of person, as James Delingpole details below. The SNP has done for Scotland's landscape what ISIS have done to Palmyra Breitbart James Delingpole 23 July 2015 Dear Mr Delingpole, I am just completing my BA joint honours degree in Candy Crush and Rape Culture studies and … Continue reading Got ‘Mercenary Sociopath’ on your CV? Then why not join the Wind Turbine ‘Taliban’
UK’s Wind Power Debacle Deepens: Widespread Winter Blackouts Forecast
**** The lunatics that push wind power are being forced to face up to the fact that it is - and will always be - meaningless as a power generation source. Which to the sane and rational is no surprise: a 'system' that relies on the vagaries of the weather isn't a 'system' - it's … Continue reading UK’s Wind Power Debacle Deepens: Widespread Winter Blackouts Forecast
Adam Creighton: Labor’s Ludicrous Wind Power Policy to Squander more than $100 Billion
**** In Sunday’s post, we detailed Labor’s descent into wind power madness – with its impossible push for a 50% renewable energy target. One of the immediate responses has come from the press-pack; who have now turned on the great wind power fraud with a vengeance. Journalists with a modicum of common sense have woken … Continue reading Adam Creighton: Labor’s Ludicrous Wind Power Policy to Squander more than $100 Billion