**** Way back in 1984, Christopher Flavin, the President emeritus of the Worldwatch Institute, ran a pitch that in a few years’ time wind energy would not need to be subsidised. Over 30 years later, and the wind industry the world over still keeps talking itself into circles: one minute it’s ready to take on … Continue reading Wind Power Subsidies: A Bottomless Money Pit
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The Obscene, Hidden Costs of Wind Power
**** True costs of wind electricity Planning Engineer and Rud Istvan 12 May 2015 Climate Etc. Wind turbines have become a familiar sight in many countries as a favorite CAGW mitigation means. Since at least 2010, the US Energy Information Agency (EIA) has been assuring NGOs and the public that wind would be cost competitive … Continue reading The Obscene, Hidden Costs of Wind Power
Hammering Wind Industry Myths: the ‘In-a-Nutshell’ Version
**** Here's a sold little wrap-up on the great wind power fraud from Mary Kay Barton - it's so clear and thumpingly sound for STT to add, would only detract. Hats off, Mary. Over to you. Wind energy myths spun by lobbyists and salesmen Principia Scientific Mary Kay Barton 13 May 2015 Industrial wind energy … Continue reading Hammering Wind Industry Myths: the ‘In-a-Nutshell’ Version
Want to Help the Poorest? Then It’s Time to Ditch Wind Power
**** The only reason that Western economies have entertained the infantile nonsense of wind power, is that the rich world can afford (at least in the short term) to throw $billions in subsidies at a wholly weather dependent "system", that will never stump up as an "alternative", unless your starting point is sitting freezing (or … Continue reading Want to Help the Poorest? Then It’s Time to Ditch Wind Power
Brits Waking Up to the Insane Cost of its Wind Power Disaster
**** Green targets 'cost £214 a year': Report says rush for renewable energy has been 'most expensive policy disaster in modern British history' Jack Doyle Daily Mail 18 March 2015 Shifting to wind and solar power has increased costs to consumers Ditching green energy targets would save households £214 a year Report into renewable energy … Continue reading Brits Waking Up to the Insane Cost of its Wind Power Disaster
Top US Energy Economist Takes the Scalpel to the Great Wind Power Fraud
**** One of the great mysteries behind the lunacy that is the great wind power fraud is how and why so many governments launched into mandating massive and endless subsidies (filched from unwitting power consumers and/or taxpayers) for an utterly meaningless power generation source - WITHOUT ever having carried out a cost/benefit analysis? You know, … Continue reading Top US Energy Economist Takes the Scalpel to the Great Wind Power Fraud
UK Election: Brit’s Insane Wind Power Policy the “Elephant in the Room”
**** Britain's insane wind power policy is, like elsewhere, the invisible policy-pachyderm. No-one with skin in the political game dares to speak about its true costs, its full impacts on power punters, or on how it threatens the very ability of a grid designed for on-demand generation sources to function, with the addition of an … Continue reading UK Election: Brit’s Insane Wind Power Policy the “Elephant in the Room”
STOP PRESS: Highlanders Seek Help to Save Loch Ness from Wind Farm Insanity
**** From the web site Save Loch Ness Please help save Loch Ness and the Great Glen the world’s most famous loch and Glen. The Highland and national planning systems fail to protect the World’s most famous loch and Glen. Loch Ness is under threat from over 500 wind turbines approved and in the planning … Continue reading STOP PRESS: Highlanders Seek Help to Save Loch Ness from Wind Farm Insanity
Wind Power: an Insanely Costly Exercise in Pointless Futility
Robert Wilson is a PhD Student in Mathematical Ecology at the University of Strathclyde. Robert has a had a little stab at getting behind the greatest fraud of all time; although he's on the right track, he doesn't quite get there, as we'll explain below. Why wind farms can be relied on for almost zero power Robert … Continue reading Wind Power: an Insanely Costly Exercise in Pointless Futility
PSST! Want to Kill Prosperous Economies & Crush the Poorest? Then Keep Throwing $Billions at Wind Power
*** The so-called “Greens” are not just delusional, they’re dangerous. Full of hate for human beings, especially the poorest of them, their “policies” – if they can be called that? – are more like malign manifestos, of the kind that would have made the Generalissimo proud. In a brilliant essay, first published in the Wall … Continue reading PSST! Want to Kill Prosperous Economies & Crush the Poorest? Then Keep Throwing $Billions at Wind Power
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