The only businesses which are bouncing along in South Australia are those selling portable diesel generators, candles and LED headlamps. The sort of staple items you might find on a Doomsday Prepper's list. However, in Australia's so-called wind power capital, BYO and DIY power and lighting are everyday essentials. SA's vapid Premier, Jay Weatherill pretends … Continue reading Wind Power Chaos Promises to Deliver Mass Summer Blackouts Across Australia
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Industrial-Scale Battery Storage of Wind & Solar Power Does Not Exist & May Never Exist
With the world now alive to the fact that entirely weather dependent wind and solar power will never stand on their own 2 feet; and that intermittency really does matter, renewables rent-seekers have been banging on about mega-batteries saving the day. Australia's 'wind power capital', South Australia - having destroyed its once reliable and affordable … Continue reading Industrial-Scale Battery Storage of Wind & Solar Power Does Not Exist & May Never Exist
Renewables Disaster Sees Australian Power Prices Jump Another 20% – With Worse to Come
Life coaches and self-help manuals talk about dreaming the life and living the dream. In Australia, as elsewhere, wind and solar power were touted as promising not only an end to the pesky habit of the Earth's climate to change (a selfish obsession that our planet has been hard at for 4.5 billion years), but … Continue reading Renewables Disaster Sees Australian Power Prices Jump Another 20% – With Worse to Come
Renewables Rent-Seekers Panic as Wind Power Operators Forced to Pay Back-Up Costs
If there is one thing that renewables-rent-seekers dread more than calm and cloudy weather, it has to be uncertainty. Always keen to preach about how cheap wind power has become, but always reticent to release their grip on the subsidy teat, the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers are now in a flat panic after … Continue reading Renewables Rent-Seekers Panic as Wind Power Operators Forced to Pay Back-Up Costs
If Wind Power Really is Cheap, Why Not Slash the Massive Subsidies?
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Businesses Belted by Australia’s Renewable Energy Target: Power Prices Spiral Out of Control
Australia’s Renewable Energy policy is an economic suicide pact, from which there is no escape. The result of that winning combination of greed, ignorance and downright stupidity, the Renewable Energy Target has destroyed businesses and is set to destroy whole industries. Manufacturers, miners and mineral processors are screaming blue murder as they watch once reliable … Continue reading Businesses Belted by Australia’s Renewable Energy Target: Power Prices Spiral Out of Control
South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle Destroying Jobs: Unemployment Rockets (Again)
*** The principles of economics are not hard, nor are they a mystery. Jobs require viable businesses, viable businesses require cheap and reliable electricity. Deprive businesses of cheap and reliable power and those businesses will very soon cease to exist. Those truisms, however, continue to fall on deaf ears in Australia's so-called 'wind power capital', … Continue reading South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle Destroying Jobs: Unemployment Rockets (Again)
Industrial Scale Battery Storage of Wind & Solar Would Cause Surge in CO2 Emissions
Californian carpet-bagger, Elon Musk has been threatening South Australia with a plan to scoop up at least $150 million of the $550 million its hapless Labor government is about to squander on non-fixes for its self-inflicted wind power disaster. So no time like the present to reflect on just how 'green' is SA's plan to … Continue reading Industrial Scale Battery Storage of Wind & Solar Would Cause Surge in CO2 Emissions
Australia’s Failed Wind Power ‘Experiment’ Makes it an International Joke: Wind Power Output Totally Collapses (Again)
Where the wind industry’s propaganda machine has spent the best part of 20 years trying to reinvent the facts, giving perceived substance to myth and fantasy - what American comedian Stephen Colbert defines as “truthiness”, assertions emanating ‘from the gut’ which are made because they just ‘feel right’ - STT has spent its entire existence … Continue reading Australia’s Failed Wind Power ‘Experiment’ Makes it an International Joke: Wind Power Output Totally Collapses (Again)
South Australia’s Wind Power Crisis Continues: Gas Generators Forced to Fire Up to Prevent Another Statewide Blackout
*** South Australians wake up to a nightmare every day. Its hapless Labor government’s obsession with wind power has destroyed the reliability of its electricity grid and sent power prices through the roof. Here’s why. SA power: Gas generators ordered on as South Australia’s wind production peaked ABC News Nick Harmsen 26 April 2017 The … Continue reading South Australia’s Wind Power Crisis Continues: Gas Generators Forced to Fire Up to Prevent Another Statewide Blackout
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