Australia’s impoverished power consumers looking to their political leaders for solutions and/or respite can expect no relief. A collective form of insanity - let’s call it the madness of herds - has overcome both sides of politics in Australia. The Liberal/National Coalition is headed by a pair of wind worshipping lunatics, Malcolm Turnbull and his … Continue reading Lunatics Paradise: Australia’s Renewables Fiasco Like Living in a Madhouse
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Wind ‘Powered’ South Australia Pays $14,000 per MWh for Power that Coal-Fired Plants Can Deliver for $50
The cost of accommodating the chaos delivered by wind power is utterly staggering. And provides half the explanation as to why South Australia, Australia’s 'wind power capital' and the world's 'renewables leader', pays the highest retail power prices in the world. The massive subsidies included in the cost paid by retailers for wind power, provides … Continue reading Wind ‘Powered’ South Australia Pays $14,000 per MWh for Power that Coal-Fired Plants Can Deliver for $50
Insane Cost of Ontario’s Wind Power Obsession Killing Thousands of Manufacturing Jobs Forever
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’, South … Continue reading Insane Cost of Ontario’s Wind Power Obsession Killing Thousands of Manufacturing Jobs Forever
‘Green’ Premiers Red-Faced: Wind Power Fiasco Ends in Dirty Diesel Debacle
Australia’s ludicrous attempt to run on sunshine and breezes sometimes reads like the farcical plot of an episode of Blackadder or Fawlty Towers. In a ‘you couldn’t make this up if you tried’ moment, Australia’s ‘greenest’ States, Victoria and South Australia (which has been forced to wear its mantle as ‘Australia’s wind power capital’, … Continue reading ‘Green’ Premiers Red-Faced: Wind Power Fiasco Ends in Dirty Diesel Debacle
PM’s Reliable Power Play Spells Disaster for Unreliable & Intermittent Wind Power
Politics is a cruel caper, at the best of times. And, in Australia, power politics is merciless. A decade and-a-half of government intervention in the power market has left Australia with the highest power prices in the world and a grid on the brink of collapse. The disaster is largely down to distortions caused by … Continue reading PM’s Reliable Power Play Spells Disaster for Unreliable & Intermittent Wind Power
Australia’s Monumental Wind Power Fail: Rocketing Prices & Mass Blackouts Here to Stay
As an entry-level primer on the causes and consequences of Australia’s self-inflicted energy calamity, this article by The Australian’s Graham Lloyd is a pretty fair effort. However, as usual, Graham allows his instinct for journalistic ‘balance’ to take the edge off his own analysis. Wind fail: blow me down The Australian Graham Lloyd 8 September … Continue reading Australia’s Monumental Wind Power Fail: Rocketing Prices & Mass Blackouts Here to Stay
Australia’s Self-Inflicted Energy Crisis: Federal Government’s Renewable Obsession Cripples Country
Australia’s self-inflicted energy crisis is the product of an obsessive ideology, wedded to the nonsensical belief that modern economies can be powered by sunshine and breezes. The Federal Energy and Environment Minister, Josh Frydenberg never ceases to disappoint. His ignorance is only matched by his lack of shame. In the week just gone, Josh put … Continue reading Australia’s Self-Inflicted Energy Crisis: Federal Government’s Renewable Obsession Cripples Country
Dirty Deeds: How the ‘Green’ Energy Cult Stole the English Language
Following the theme of yesterday’s post, Alan Carlin is also hot on the trail of so-called ‘green’ activists and their hypocritical push for so-called ‘clean’ energy. The Climate Alarmists’ Gross Perversion of the Word Clean Carlin Economics & Science Alan Carlin 20 July 2017 Climate alarmists have gone to endless efforts to gain public … Continue reading Dirty Deeds: How the ‘Green’ Energy Cult Stole the English Language
Green Delusions: On the Origin of the Wind Power Cult
In 17th-century Europe, the Dark Ages were swept away by a group of characters obsessed with logic, reason and rationality - during a period later described as ‘The Enlightenment’. Science replaced superstition; reason replaced passion; and science allowed steam power to replace the wind. However, in a veritable blink of an eye, the world has … Continue reading Green Delusions: On the Origin of the Wind Power Cult
South Australia: Sublime One Day, Ridiculous the Next – Premier Set to Squander $1.2bn on Solar-Thermal Boondoggle
South Australians must wake each morning not knowing whether to laugh or cry. With unemployment already the worst in the Nation and soon to rise fast - when General Motors Holden shuts the door on SA’s last motor manufacturing plant in October - the highest power prices in the world (with worse to come) … Continue reading South Australia: Sublime One Day, Ridiculous the Next – Premier Set to Squander $1.2bn on Solar-Thermal Boondoggle
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