*** 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)
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Former PM – John Howard Calls Australia’s Renewables Policy a ‘National Scandal’
*** John Howard was seen by many as the underdog of Australian conservative politics, who took more than two decades as a Federal MP to reach the position of Prime Minister, the victim of bitter internal political wrangling and intrigue within the Liberal Party. After he was deposed as Liberal opposition leader by Andrew Peacock … Continue reading Former PM – John Howard Calls Australia’s Renewables Policy a ‘National Scandal’
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)
Top Sleep Specialist Slams ‘Nocebo’ Nonsense: Wind Turbine Noise Obvious Cause of Sleep Deprivation
Dr Wayne Spring is a sleep specialist with a lifetime’s experience of dealing with those suffering from sleep deprivation from all manner of causes. Recently, Dr Spring went into print, slamming those from the wind-cult who spend their time deriding the wind industry’s victims, rather than listening. One of its victims, who will never be … Continue reading Top Sleep Specialist Slams ‘Nocebo’ Nonsense: Wind Turbine Noise Obvious Cause of Sleep Deprivation
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
Being Powered 100% By Wind & Solar = 100% Total Fantasy
This piece is not just fun because it wallops the myth that the world is well on the way to being totally powered by sunshine and breezes, the merriment is multiplied because the study proving the bleeding obvious to be the case was put together by one group of climate catastrophists, who have drawn an … Continue reading Being Powered 100% By Wind & Solar = 100% Total Fantasy
AGL’s Renewables Ruse: The Solution to Australia’s Energy Crisis Isn’t More Subsidised Wind Turbines & Solar Panels
While choice remains an option, the adage that ‘when you’re in a hole stop digging’ obviously applies when you find yourself in the midst of a disaster of your very own doing. Australia’s unfolding energy calamity has turned what was once an energy superpower, into an international laughing stock. Blessed with abundant coal, gas and … Continue reading AGL’s Renewables Ruse: The Solution to Australia’s Energy Crisis Isn’t More Subsidised Wind Turbines & Solar Panels
Renewables Relief: Brexit Brings End to Britain’s Staggering Wind Power Subsidies
As Britain begins to untangle itself from the web of subsidies, regulations and mandates set by green-left lunatics in Europe, its rent-seeking wind power outfits must be feeling as anxious as ever. The cost of intermittent and unreliable renewables can no longer be concealed (despite the climate cults' best efforts) and, with that in mind, … Continue reading Renewables Relief: Brexit Brings End to Britain’s Staggering Wind Power Subsidies
Subsidised Suicide: Wind Power Delivers Nothing But Rocketing Power Prices & Blackouts
*** In this pair of pearlers, James Delingpole spans the globe: firstly detailing the growing and staggering cost of subsidised wind power in Britain; and then turning his attention Downunder to the disaster that is Australia's wind power capital, South Australia. Post-Brexit Britain Wants To Escape Its EU Renewables Targets. About Time Too Breitbart James … Continue reading Subsidised Suicide: Wind Power Delivers Nothing But Rocketing Power Prices & Blackouts
Australia’s Renewable Energy Disaster Was Both Predictable & Avoidable
*** In this collection from Quadrant, Jo Nova and The Australian one solid theme emerges: Australia's energy crisis is entirely self-inflicted and thus it was perfectly avoidable. Among those who saw it coming was Matt Zema - then chief of the Australian Energy Market Operator, who shuffled off this mortal coil way too soon. Before … Continue reading Australia’s Renewable Energy Disaster Was Both Predictable & Avoidable