*** Governments' renewable energy push to blame for crisis The Australian Financial Review Ben Potter 7 April 2017 The energy sector is in disarray because of government failure, not market failure, former Productivity Commission chairman Gary Banks says. He told Infrastructure Partnerships Australia the spectacle of South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill blaming the private sector … Continue reading Australia’s Runaway Renewable Energy Crisis: the Product of Government, Not Market Failure
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Australia’s Self-Inflicted Energy Crisis: Renewable Policies a Crime Against the People
Robert Gottliebsen is an economics columnist with The Australian, who has recently weighed into Australia's unfolding renewables driven energy calamity. Late to realise the cost and consequences of Australia's suicidal renewable policies, Gottliebsen is gobsmacked at what can properly be described as a crime against the Australian people. Energy crisis: time to invest in emergency … Continue reading Australia’s Self-Inflicted Energy Crisis: Renewable Policies a Crime Against the People
Australia’s Suicidal RET: Eastern States Soon to Follow South Australia Over its Wind Power Cliff
Maurice Newman was the former head of Deutsche Bank, the ABC and ASX so you’d be forgiven for thinking that he might know a thing or two about economics and business. Maurice doesn’t mince his words about these things: calling wind power “a crime against the people” (see our post here). Maurice has also previously … Continue reading Australia’s Suicidal RET: Eastern States Soon to Follow South Australia Over its Wind Power Cliff
Renewable Industry’s Giant Battery Claims Unplugged
*** With Californian carpet-bagger, Elon Musk swooping on South Australia to scoop up as much as he can of the $550 million its hapless Labor government is about to squander on non-fixes for its self-inflicted wind power disaster, it's time to put pen to paper to work out just how risible is SA's plan to … Continue reading Renewable Industry’s Giant Battery Claims Unplugged
SA’s Self-Inflicted Power Debacle: Instead of $550m on Diesel Generators & Batteries, $25m Could Have Saved Baseload Plant & the State
Good governance requires more than just a little common sense. The antithesis of good governance is arrogance, hubris and ideology. In Australia's so-called 'wind power capital', South Australia, its hapless Labor government could never be accused of letting common sense get in the way of its efforts to destroy any remaining economic advantage that the … Continue reading SA’s Self-Inflicted Power Debacle: Instead of $550m on Diesel Generators & Batteries, $25m Could Have Saved Baseload Plant & the State
Green Mythology: Sun, Wind, Waves & Tides Fail to Deliver the Goods
Perpetual motion machines, turning lead into gold and capturing moonbeams in a jar are just some of the fanciful notions that have attracted human attention over the eons. The last generation have been obsessed in their attempts to run whole economies on the weather. For those that launched all out efforts to run on sunshine … Continue reading Green Mythology: Sun, Wind, Waves & Tides Fail to Deliver the Goods
‘Reliance’ on Wind & Solar Pushes Germany’s Grid to the Brink of Collapse
Wind power in Germany doesn't just look chaotic, it is chaotic. Over the winter, Germany's weather dependent power system reached the very brink of collapse, as breezes became zephyrs and the sun spent the day-time hiding behind clouds and snow flurries. Germany Facing Mass Blackouts Because The Wind And Sun Won’t Cooperate The Daily Caller … Continue reading ‘Reliance’ on Wind & Solar Pushes Germany’s Grid to the Brink of Collapse
Nuclear Power: the ‘Grown Ups’ Option for Australia’s Unfolding Power Crisis
maturity, noun: the quality of behaving mentally and emotionally like an adult; a very advanced or developed form or state. If there is one attribute sorely missed in Australia’s energy debate it has to be ‘maturity’. Now that Australia’s suicidal renewable energy policies are starting to bite, destroying the viability of our cheapest and most … Continue reading Nuclear Power: the ‘Grown Ups’ Option for Australia’s Unfolding Power Crisis
Australian Wind Power Forecast: 75% Chance of More Blackouts Next Summer
*** When your power supply depends on the weather, it somehow seems fitting that the chances of having power should be forecast in much the same way. Robert Gottliebsen is a finance and economics columnist with The Australian who has been out and about, talking to engineers about Australia's energy crisis; and seeking to fine … Continue reading Australian Wind Power Forecast: 75% Chance of More Blackouts Next Summer
Snowy Pumped Hydro Scheme Set to Drain ‘Green’ Slush Funds & Starve the Wind Industry of Finance
*** Malcolm Turnbull's Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro plan has set nerves on edge among the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers and ruffled feathers among Labor politicians and their mates who have wedded their own financial futures to wind. Likely to cost in the order of $7-8 billion, Snowy 2.0 is set to starve the … Continue reading Snowy Pumped Hydro Scheme Set to Drain ‘Green’ Slush Funds & Starve the Wind Industry of Finance
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