Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 23 November 2025

Wind and solar scam rent-seekers are reeling, and the Climate Industrial Complex is imploding under the weight of its own internal hypocrisy. The latest COP was an unadulterated flop and the net-zero scam is unravelling everywhere that matters, despite the best efforts of the legacy press to resuscitate its lifeless corpse. Which brings us to … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 23 November 2025

Renewable Energy Batteries: Toxic Timebombs, Delivering Truly Trivial Output

The grand wind and solar ‘transition’ looks ridiculous enough, but claims about giant batteries fixing the grand intermittency problem look positively idiotic. The cost of storing meaningful volumes of power is staggering, accordingly the volumes actually available for release into the grid are positively trivial. Then there’s the battle that giant lithium-ion batteries have with … Continue reading Renewable Energy Batteries: Toxic Timebombs, Delivering Truly Trivial Output

French Lithium Battery Warehouse Explodes In Terrifying Toxic Fireball

Self-immolating lithium-ion batteries spewing toxic smoke is just another part of our grand wind and solar transition. And it’s not just those in service providing deadly pyrotechnic displays (see above the giant Tesla that burned for days in Victoria). Those past their use by dates are also giving thrilling thermal displays, as they turn their … Continue reading French Lithium Battery Warehouse Explodes In Terrifying Toxic Fireball

Unscheduled Battery Blowups Turning Electric Vehicles Into Mobile Time Bombs

The transition to electric vehicles is hardly going to plan: sales have collapsed in the US, EV manufacturers are bleeding cash and insurers are cranking up premiums to account for an uptick in the number of unscheduled battery blowups – aka ‘thermal runaways’. The vehicle doesn’t go anywhere, it simply self-immolates in a plume of … Continue reading Unscheduled Battery Blowups Turning Electric Vehicles Into Mobile Time Bombs