Five reasons why it is folly to adopt wind power as an energy source The Irish Examiner 23 January 2015 While the arguments for wind power seem straightforward and compelling, Wind power would reduce our dependency on foreign oil, wind power is clean and would allow for the shut down of dirty fossil fuel fired … Continue reading A Fine Irish Take on the Great Wind Power Fraud
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Top Canadian Energy Engineer – Eric Jelinski – Slams the Great Wind Power Fraud
Provided they haven't got their trotters in the wind industry subsidy trough, engineers are quicker than most, when it comes to rumbling the great wind power fraud. Practically minded, and with heads for real numbers, engineers are able to pick apart the complete pointlessness of trying to rely on an energy source that will NEVER … Continue reading Top Canadian Energy Engineer – Eric Jelinski – Slams the Great Wind Power Fraud
It Don’t Take Sherlock to Know; When the Wind Don’t Blow, The Power Don’t Flow
**** STT has - just once or twice - smashed the myth that wind power can provide a meaningful supply of electricity (ie power "on-demand") - and relegated to the fiction aisle the the wind industry's "playbook", where you'll find, in bold print, the oft-told furphy about wind farms "powering" 10s of thousands of homes. … Continue reading It Don’t Take Sherlock to Know; When the Wind Don’t Blow, The Power Don’t Flow
Greens Simply ‘Clueless’: Miners say “Wind Power NO ‘Alternative’ to REAL Power”
**** Greens clueless on energy The Australian Brendan Pearson 16 January 2015 DURING his formative years, the legendary 20th-century American journalist Walter Lippman spent a lot of time with revolutionaries, radical intellectuals and others with a weak grip on reality. But Lippman soon grew tired of “dilettante rebels, he who would rather dream 10 dreams … Continue reading Greens Simply ‘Clueless’: Miners say “Wind Power NO ‘Alternative’ to REAL Power”
Parker Gallant: Wind Power Outfits’ Christmas Bonanza in Ontario
**** More wind energy means higher costs to power punters, pure and simple. If you're looking for obscene examples of the great wind power fraud in action, you need look no further than Ontario. Ontario is the place where the most bizarre energy policy in the world has seen thousands of giant fans speared into … Continue reading Parker Gallant: Wind Power Outfits’ Christmas Bonanza in Ontario
Why Wind Power MWs Will Never Be Equal
All megawatts are not equal Judithcurry.com By Planning Engineer 11 December 2014 Some of the Climate Etc. denizens have requested a post on the generation planning process to help them better understand cost issues surrounding the large scale addition and integration of renewable resources. The major takeaway is that differing types of generating resources bring … Continue reading Why Wind Power MWs Will Never Be Equal
Bye-Bye Barnyard: Mike Barnard’s Boss – IBM – Shuts Down the Wind Industry’s Most Rabid & Nasty Propaganda Parrot
**** Mike Barnard - “Barnyard”, as he’s affectionately known - is easily the most vicious, vile and virulent of the wind industry’s beleaguered band of propagandists, spruikers, parasites and media manipulators. Along with other members of his dwindling pack of marauding-media-manipulators, Barnyard stalks internet sites and Twitter like a starving hyaena – venting spleen; denigrating … Continue reading Bye-Bye Barnyard: Mike Barnard’s Boss – IBM – Shuts Down the Wind Industry’s Most Rabid & Nasty Propaganda Parrot
Germany’s Wind Power Disaster: An Economic & Environmental Failure
**** 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 the environmental purpose of the policy – CO2 emissions are rising fast: if … Continue reading Germany’s Wind Power Disaster: An Economic & Environmental Failure
Senator Matt Canavan: Australia’s RET Policy: “Robin Hood visits Bizarro World”
**** Labor’s energy policy nothing but wind The Australian Matt Canavan 4 December 2014 GEORGE Orwell once said that political language was designed to “give an appearance of solidity to pure wind”. Step forward exhibit A and the Labor Party’s explanation for refusing to fix the mess that is Australian renewable energy policy. Mark Butler … Continue reading Senator Matt Canavan: Australia’s RET Policy: “Robin Hood visits Bizarro World”
The Guardian Caught Out Pumping Dale Vince’s Bogus Wind Power Propaganda
**** The Guardian (both in its home territory, the UK and in its doppelganger Australian version) is the ecofacists’ megaphone – and is duly lapped up with relish by the intellectual pygmies of the hard-‘green’-left or – as James Delingpole aptly dubbed them; “greentards”. Both here and in the UK, The Guardian has been the … Continue reading The Guardian Caught Out Pumping Dale Vince’s Bogus Wind Power Propaganda