Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 6 April 2025

With Donald Trump’s tariff-led geopolitical strategy in train, watch countries rapidly ditch their obsession with chaotically intermittent wind and solar. Cheap and reliable energy is, always and everywhere, the key to competing in the global marketplace. That’s precisely why China dominates in manufacturing all of the stuff that the West consumes and uses. And within … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 6 April 2025

Cancelled: Investors Ditch Dozens of Mega-Offshore Wind Power Projects

The smart money is treating offshore wind power like the Ebola virus. Like that deadly contagion, the offshore wind industry's rapid and merciless collapse is spreading far and wide. Dozens of mega-offshore projects - that were once talked up with the reverence usually reserved for transcendental deities - are being quietly scrapped. Whereas the promised … Continue reading Cancelled: Investors Ditch Dozens of Mega-Offshore Wind Power Projects

Offshore Wind Farm Construction Noise Deafens Porpoises & Dolphins

https://youtu.be/km78wMHt9d8?si=bypmAKCZL3NpF9-n The offshore wind industry in Germany has just admitted that the noise it generates during construction deafens dolphins and porpoises. That the ultra-high-decibel sonar emitted by wind industry survey vessels during wind farm construction deafens marine mammals is yet another inconvenient truth, which wind power outfits and their government enablers would rather keep a … Continue reading Offshore Wind Farm Construction Noise Deafens Porpoises & Dolphins

Mounting Construction & Maintenance Costs Explode The Cheap Offshore Wind Fantasy

The fact that the offshore wind industry is screaming for more subsidies undermines their wilder claims about offshore wind power being ‘free’ and getting cheaper all the time. The true cost of wind power is staggering – the cost of offshore wind power is astronomical: the latter is more than six times the cost of … Continue reading Mounting Construction & Maintenance Costs Explode The Cheap Offshore Wind Fantasy

‘Green’ Energy Slaughter: Offshore Wind Turbines Wiping Out Puffins, Gulls, Gannets & More

The bird carcasses soon pile up wherever the wind industry plies its subsidy-soaked trade. When it comes to wholesale avian slaughter, the offshore industry sets the benchmark. Offshore wind is already meting out a phenomenal death toll on a whole range of seabirds in the waters surrounding Britain and across the North Sea. Puffins are … Continue reading ‘Green’ Energy Slaughter: Offshore Wind Turbines Wiping Out Puffins, Gulls, Gannets & More