Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 11 May 2025

Desperate and increasingly defenceless, the carpetbaggers profiting from the great wind and solar scam are struggling to quell a popular revolt against rocketing power bills and blackouts. Spaniards and Portuguese, among them. And as the utterly obscene hidden costs of net-zero insanity bubble to the surface, the outrage is palpable. Which brings us to this … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 11 May 2025

Litigation Only Way to Protect Communities & Environments From Wind Turbine Rollout

Holding hands and waving placards just doesn’t cut it. If you want to protect the environment or your community from the industrial wind power onslaught, then litigate. In this post, we contrast a community off the coast of New South Wales, Australia where a rally of surfers gathered to stave off the threat of an … Continue reading Litigation Only Way to Protect Communities & Environments From Wind Turbine Rollout

Danes Dissemble: Offshore Wind Farm Operator Covers Up Cause of Long-Term Shut Down

The wind industry was built on lies and myth and runs on subsidies.  So, if you’re looking for a straight answer, don’t bother quizzing a wind farm operator. Sure, the usual corporate PR spin can be expected from any commercial outfit.  But, as David Collins is quickly learning, if you’re trying to elicit information from … Continue reading Danes Dissemble: Offshore Wind Farm Operator Covers Up Cause of Long-Term Shut Down

Transmission Break: Frequently Faulty Cables Costing Offshore Wind Power Generators Hundreds of $Millions

Turns out offshore wind power is more financial heartbreak than cash cow. Thanks to the phenomenal cost of repairing its undersea cables, Denmark’s Orsted is literally bleeding cash. The cost of fixing faulty cables connecting their turbines to each other and transmission facilities onshore is already in the hundreds of $millions, and set to rise … Continue reading Transmission Break: Frequently Faulty Cables Costing Offshore Wind Power Generators Hundreds of $Millions

Offshore Wind Power All at Sea: Danish Wind Farm Operator Suffers Massive Financial Losses

Apart from literally burning cash, there is no faster way to squander money than by piling it into an offshore wind power project. It’s hardly news that the true cost of generating electricity using wind power is staggering; the cost of doing so offshore is astronomical. Instead of producing ‘free’ energy with purportedly ‘endless’ sea breezes, offshore … Continue reading Offshore Wind Power All at Sea: Danish Wind Farm Operator Suffers Massive Financial Losses

Guilty: Giant UK Wind Farm Forced to Pay £4.5 Million to Compensate Its Blackout Victims

If unreliable, weather-dependent wind power isn’t a recipe for disaster, it’s most certainly a recipe for chaos. Electricity grids are complex critters, designed around strict tolerances to allow what’s dispatched to them by generators (supply) to perfectly match what’s taken out of them by customers (demand aka ‘the load’). For an explanation of what a … Continue reading Guilty: Giant UK Wind Farm Forced to Pay £4.5 Million to Compensate Its Blackout Victims