There are good reasons for serious and responsible players in the wind industry to be concerned about the industry’s future, and perhaps even more about corporate and personal liabilities. Liabilities there are, but for whom and when will they come visiting, are in the process of being established. Encouraged by now seen to be ignorant … Continue reading The Dangerous Road Ahead: The Wind Industry – Status Report
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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
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
Back to the Future: Wind ‘Powered’ South Australia to Run on Diesel Generators
*** There will be STT followers old enough to remember when country towns and regional centres relied upon an enormous diesel generator as their sole power supply. No doubt better than nothing, local diesel generators were soon replaced by coal-fired power plant and extensive distribution grids; reliability increased, power prices fell and the rest, as … Continue reading Back to the Future: Wind ‘Powered’ South Australia to Run on Diesel Generators
Australian Wind Lobby Joins Massive Opposition to Threatened Jupiter Wind Farm
*** Nothing generates more hatred and bitter community division than a wind farm. While all eyes are on Australia's brewing energy catastrophe and the Large-Scale RET that caused it, it's easy to forget that the battle against the great wind power fraud is still being fought town by town and community by community, in the … Continue reading Australian Wind Lobby Joins Massive Opposition to Threatened Jupiter Wind Farm
Australia’s Power Policy FAIL: Runaway Renewable Energy Target Destroying Business, Industry & Jobs
*** In the, ‘it seemed like a good idea at the time’ category, Australia’s Renewable Energy Target has turned toxic. Costly and pointless at the same time, the massive subsidies directed to wind and solar power have not only destroyed once affordable and reliable power supplies, they are inevitably destroying not just otherwise viable businesses, … Continue reading Australia’s Power Policy FAIL: Runaway Renewable Energy Target Destroying Business, Industry & Jobs
Economic Carnage: SA’s Rocketing Power Prices Crippling Miners, Bakers & Brewers Alike
*** With the exception of the wind industry, South Australia's hapless Labor government will never be accused of economic favouritism: it treats all of its business owners with utter contempt. Rocketing power prices, routine load shedding and blackouts affect miners, bakers and brewers, alike. BHP Billiton warns for crisis in power market The Australian Matt … Continue reading Economic Carnage: SA’s Rocketing Power Prices Crippling Miners, Bakers & Brewers Alike
James Delingpole Dumps on the Great Wind Power Fraud
James Delingpole has been slugging it out with lunatics from the Greenblob for more than a decade. Now, as the world wakes up to the scale and scope of the great wind power fraud, Slim Jim finds himself on the right side of history. Here he is letting the world know about it. Why Renewables … Continue reading James Delingpole Dumps on the Great Wind Power Fraud
South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle: Supermarkets Sacking Staff, While Sales of Portable Generators Boom
Reliable, secure and affordable electricity is one of those things that the last few generations of Australians have largely taken for granted. Not so in Australia’s so-called ‘wind power capital’, South Australia. These days, Croweaters count their blessings if power is delivered at all and count their pennies every time they’re hit with a power … Continue reading South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle: Supermarkets Sacking Staff, While Sales of Portable Generators Boom