Litigation is where the rubber hits the road: myths get replaced with facts; evidence overtakes spin and propaganda. Court rooms (and where they determine the facts, juries) strike fear into the (ordinarily icy) hearts of those that stand behind or run with wind power outfits. Wherever in the world civil actions have been pursued in … Continue reading Wind Farm Noise Victims Sue Developer & Noise Consultant for $Millions
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Lessons from Denmark: Danes Slash Wind Power Subsidies to Salvage Economy
The wind industry is mounted on myth and fuelled by fantasy. In Australia, its parasites and spruikers must believe that we are still cut off from the known world (suffering from what was referred to as the “tyranny of distance”) when they peddle stories about Europeans still being wedded to wind power. On that score, … Continue reading Lessons from Denmark: Danes Slash Wind Power Subsidies to Salvage Economy
Wind Power Investors Fleeced: Teenage Turbines Falling Apart in Donegal
**** Wind power outfits still make wild claims about these things running on the smell of an oily rag and lasting for 25 years or more, needing little more than a hug from time to time. However, the operations and maintenance cost of these things is around $25 per MWh - hardly the zero marginal … Continue reading Wind Power Investors Fleeced: Teenage Turbines Falling Apart in Donegal
US Wind Industry ‘Built’ on $176 Billion of Other Peoples’ Money
If recycling is an environmental 'good', then the wind industry can proudly wear its ability to recycle hundreds of $Billions of other peoples' money as a badge of honour. Take a product which - as it can only ever be delivered at crazy random intervals and can't be economically stored - has NO commercial value … Continue reading US Wind Industry ‘Built’ on $176 Billion of Other Peoples’ Money
Panic Erupts: Infigen Set to Offload Worn-Out Australian Wind Farms to Even ‘Greater Fools’
**** In the hard-hitting Danish docu-drama, Follow the Money, the Armani-suited executives of Energreen play a game of cat and mouse with the Fraud Squad, pumping up the value of their wind farm ‘assets’, while erasing anything from their books that investors might reasonably conclude were liabilities. Some viewers might call it ‘creative accounting’, others … Continue reading Panic Erupts: Infigen Set to Offload Worn-Out Australian Wind Farms to Even ‘Greater Fools’
Europe Delivers Wind Industry Nothing But Doom & Gloom
And the trend continues.... WARNING: in considering the content of this post you may feel an overwhelming sense of schadenfreude. Gone with the wind: Nordic alternative energy turns stagnant Sputnik news 6 May 2016 Despite renewable energy sources being heavily hyped as a sustainable solution to humanity's growing energy problem, actual support for the green power … Continue reading Europe Delivers Wind Industry Nothing But Doom & Gloom
Robert Bryce: the Insane Cost of Renewable Pipe Dreams – a Banquet of Consequences
Robert Bryce gets it. In the video above and the article below, Robert details the insane cost of attempting to power economies with sunshine and breezes; and does what policy makers have failed or refused to do: he connects the bitter consequences, born by the many, with the follies of the feckless few. Issues 2016: … Continue reading Robert Bryce: the Insane Cost of Renewable Pipe Dreams – a Banquet of Consequences
Australian Power Retailers Snub Wind & Turn to the Sun
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 November … Continue reading Australian Power Retailers Snub Wind & Turn to the Sun
PSST! Want to Make a Small Fortune? Throw a Large One at Wind Turbines
FAIL: Busted Wind Turbines Give College Whopping Negative 99.14% Return On Investment Watts up with that? Anthony Watts 27 April 2016 From the “it’s OK, we used other people’s money” department and Andrew Follet at The Daily Caller: *** Lake Land College recently announced plans to tear down broken wind turbines on campus, after the … Continue reading PSST! Want to Make a Small Fortune? Throw a Large One at Wind Turbines
Labor to Throw $200bn to the Wind: Electricity Bill Shorten’s Economic Suicide Pact Unpacked
**** In the cutting British satire, Extras, the hapless Andy Millman (Ricky Gervais) is always foiled by his gormless but lovable side-kick, Maggie Jacobs (Ashley Jensen). Maggie, when she’s not inadvertently ruining Andy’s romantic hopes and/or acting career prospects, poses puzzling rhetoricals such as “would you rather be trampled by elephants or eaten by lions?” … Continue reading Labor to Throw $200bn to the Wind: Electricity Bill Shorten’s Economic Suicide Pact Unpacked
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