Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 14 January 2025

Happy New Year to all our loyal followers. We hope you had a fabulous Christmas. With Donald J Trump returning to the White House next week, 2025 promises to deliver unprecedented pain and suffering to wind and solar rent seekers, wherever they ply their subsidy-soaked trade. In this week’s roundup, we have articles on the … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 14 January 2025

Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 15 December 2024

Our weekly roundup has articles smashing the myth that wind, solar plus giant batteries are perfectly designed to power first world economies - with one drawing focus on the disaster that unfolded in Broken Hill, NSW, and another on “demand management”, a policy that involves telling power consumers to stop consuming power because wind and … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 15 December 2024

Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 8 December 2024

This week’s roundup leads with South Australia's return to dirty diesel generators. SA is touted as Australia's wind and solar capital, and its quiet effort to increase diesel generation capacity stands as one almighty embarrassing admission of failure. In other news, Peter Dutton (Australia's Federal opposition leader) is channelling Donald J Trump with an announcement … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 8 December 2024

Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 1 December 2024

This week’s roundup kicks off with Australia’s wind and solar driven power supply calamity, when a couple of mildly warm days (30°C) had the NSW Premier demanding householders turn off their air conditioners, pool pumps and other appliances to avoid a complete grid collapse. Third World stuff, to be sure. South Australia, touted as the … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 1 December 2024

All Hail Nuclear: Because Solar Panels Can’t Survive Hailstorms or Hurricanes

Solar panels deliver power for around 6 hours a day, struggle during wet/cloudy weather and a decent hailstorm or hurricane wipes them out completely. Anyone recommending solar power as a solution to our growing need for electrical energy needs their head read. Certain parts of the world suffer regular, violent hailstorms, where hailstones outsize golf … Continue reading All Hail Nuclear: Because Solar Panels Can’t Survive Hailstorms or Hurricanes

Follow The Money: Wind & Solar Rort Driven By Cynical Self-Interest

In the race of life always back the horse named ‘self-interest’ and to get the bottom of any scam, simply follow the money. In Australia, the Australian Labor Party is running an energy policy so delusional it’s dangerous. Nominally in charge of the Federal government, the ALP is doing everything in its power to wreck … Continue reading Follow The Money: Wind & Solar Rort Driven By Cynical Self-Interest

Critical Energy: Europe’s Voters Reject Greens’ Pro-Wind & Solar/Anti-Human Policies

Human civilisation is all about harnessing energy. Which is why the so-called ‘Green’ is hell-bent on destroying the system that provides cheap and reliable energy - be it electricity, gas, coal or oil. And they especially hate nuclear power generation. They promote hopelessly unreliable wind and solar not because they want you to have power … Continue reading Critical Energy: Europe’s Voters Reject Greens’ Pro-Wind & Solar/Anti-Human Policies

Adults Take Charge: Critical Need For Reliable & Affordable Drives Nuclear Power Policy

Chaotic and only occasional wind and solar generation is what you get when infants run the show. Now in a ‘wait til your father gets home’ moment, governments of an adult bent are taking a firm grip on energy policy. Ditching the suicidal renewable energy targets and plumping for nuclear power, principally because it works. … Continue reading Adults Take Charge: Critical Need For Reliable & Affordable Drives Nuclear Power Policy

Snookered: Global Nuclear Embrace Destroys Case For Subsidised Wind & Solar

The wind and sun cult have no sensible answer to ever-reliable nuclear power and are terrified at the threat nuclear poses to the greatest economic and environmental fraud of all time: hence the fits of rage and apoplexy amongst cultists, carpetbaggers and their political enablers. The nuclear power embrace across Europe has been sudden, swift, … Continue reading Snookered: Global Nuclear Embrace Destroys Case For Subsidised Wind & Solar

Code Red: Wind & Solar Rent-Seekers Suffer Full Nuclear Meltdown

The so-called wind and solar ‘industries’ turn apoplectic at the very mention of safe, reliable and affordable nuclear power. The wind and sun cult claim wind and solar are the only way of producing power without emitting carbon dioxide gas. Leaving aside the benefits of naturally occurring plant food, let’s take them at their word … Continue reading Code Red: Wind & Solar Rent-Seekers Suffer Full Nuclear Meltdown