Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 3 August 2025

Donald J Trump’s Panzer-division onslaught against the wind industry picked up pace as he lambasted Keir Starmer and Ursula von der Leyen in front of the international media, smashing Europe and the UK for their totally insane obsession with ‘windmills’, as the President calls them. Calling out those behind the great wind power fraud is … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 3 August 2025

Grand Designs: Nuclear Saving the Environment From Wind & Solar’s Big Ugly

As the wind and solar industries destroy the scenery from coast to coast, wipeout pristine forests and flatten whole mountain ranges, there’s even more to be said for new-age nuclear. A nuclear plant that pumps out 1,000MW around-the-clock takes up an area no bigger than a city block. Whereas giant industrial wind turbines and endless … Continue reading Grand Designs: Nuclear Saving the Environment From Wind & Solar’s Big Ugly

If Your Country’s Not Backing Nuclear Power It’s Probably Going Backwards

Rent-seekers and the wind and solar cult have conniptions at the merest mention of nuclear power, principally because it works around-the-clock. No need for batteries. No need for back up. Wild claims about the purported benefits of wind and solar never survive the first contact with reality. So, acolytes have to defer and deflect on … Continue reading If Your Country’s Not Backing Nuclear Power It’s Probably Going Backwards

Why Subsidised Wind & Solar Are Sending South Africa’s Power Prices Into Orbit

Rocketing power prices and grid instability are two inescapable consequences of subsidised wind and solar. While sunshine and breezes might be free, attempting to run your power system using nature’s gifts, brings with it a raft of other costs which RE zealots tend to gloss over. The electricity generation and distribution system - which wind … Continue reading Why Subsidised Wind & Solar Are Sending South Africa’s Power Prices Into Orbit

South Africa Slams the Door on Wind Power: Nuclear Powered Future Beckons

*** STT followers might have tumbled to the fact that we’ve been pretty heavily focused on SA over the last month. However, in this post, we head a few thousand clicks, west across the Indian Ocean to another ‘SA’; this time South Africa, which appears entirely sensible enough to be able to avoid the power … Continue reading South Africa Slams the Door on Wind Power: Nuclear Powered Future Beckons