New York’s RE Debacle Deepens: Offshore Wind Power All-at-Sea Without Massive Subsidies

Where the cost of onshore wind power is staggering, the cost of offshore wind power is astronomical. Of course, in either case, in the absence of massive and perpetual subsidies, there would never have been a single turbine constructed on land or at sea, ever, period. New York State’ Governor, Andrew Cuomo is just the … Continue reading New York’s RE Debacle Deepens: Offshore Wind Power All-at-Sea Without Massive Subsidies

RE Fails During Heatwave: Wind & Solar Obsession Leaves Californians Sweltering in the Dark

  Plug your energy needs into the sun and wind and expect plenty of disappointment, especially when it counts. Renewable energy zealots always talk a ‘big game’ - perpetually raving about how this wind farm or that sea of solar panels will ‘power’ hundreds of thousands of homes, for free, forever. Then the sun sets … Continue reading RE Fails During Heatwave: Wind & Solar Obsession Leaves Californians Sweltering in the Dark

US Wind Power Fraud: It’s Coal, Gas & Nuclear That Powers the Land of the Free

America’s resurgent prosperity is partly the product of its recent shale oil and gas revolution. From sea to shining sea, the US is awash with cheap gas; adding to its already abundant supplies of coal. With electricity prices around one third the cost paid in wind and solar obsessed Australia, anyone promoting that pair in … Continue reading US Wind Power Fraud: It’s Coal, Gas & Nuclear That Powers the Land of the Free

Delusion & Fantasy Drives RE Advocates’ Bizarre Claims of All-Wind & Solar Powered Future

Anyone pumping wind and solar in 2018 is rightly regarded as a little ‘touched’, but those still suggesting an all wind and sun powered future are positively ‘certifiable’. Millions of solar panels have been strewn around the planet; and hundreds of thousands of wind turbines have been speared in every corner of both hemispheres. And … Continue reading Delusion & Fantasy Drives RE Advocates’ Bizarre Claims of All-Wind & Solar Powered Future

Cuomo’s Curse: Wind Power Obsession Leaves New Yorkers with Rocketing Power Bills

If wind power really is cheap and getting cheaper all the time, why is it that every State or Nation ‘powered’ by the weather is suffering power prices magnitudes higher than those that continue merrily chugging away on coal, gas or nuclear power? South Australia, Denmark and Germany suffer the highest power prices in the … Continue reading Cuomo’s Curse: Wind Power Obsession Leaves New Yorkers with Rocketing Power Bills

America’s Wind Industry Squeals as Republicans Slash Massive Wind Power Subsidies

The wind industry is a lot like Peter Pan – the perpetual infant, hard-wired to fight, kick and scream to avoid the stark reality of adulthood. How often have we heard the yarn about wind power needing those life-giving subsidies (filched in their hundreds of $billions from taxpayers and power consumers) to continue for just … Continue reading America’s Wind Industry Squeals as Republicans Slash Massive Wind Power Subsidies

If You’re Fighting the Wind Industry: Keep Fighting, Because Fighters Win

The wind industry is always and everywhere about subsidies. The punitive cost of those subsidies are starting to appear in retail power bills, infuriating householders and driving businesses to the wall. Panicked politicians, who enabled the greatest economic and environmental fraud of all time, are reacting. Their inevitable response is to cut the subsidies that … Continue reading If You’re Fighting the Wind Industry: Keep Fighting, Because Fighters Win

American Backlash Against Big Wind: States Cut Subsidies & Ban New Wind Power Projects

If your understanding of the world is limited to what’s printed in the mainstream press, you’d be forgiven for thinking that rural folk can’t wait to nuzzle up to 300 tonne Vestas, with 70m blades towering 180m above them. Step out of the inner-city comfort zone, and the picture is just a little different. In … Continue reading American Backlash Against Big Wind: States Cut Subsidies & Ban New Wind Power Projects

The Appalling Delusion of 100 Percent Renewables, Exposed

  For STT followers Robert Bryce needs no introduction. Here he is exposing the delusional belief that whole nations can be entirely powered by sunshine and breezes. The Appalling Delusion of 100 Percent Renewables, Exposed National Review Robert Bryce 24 June 2017 The National Academy of Science refutes Mark Jacobson’s dream that our economy can … Continue reading The Appalling Delusion of 100 Percent Renewables, Exposed

Wind Industry Thugs Sue for Subsidies: NextEra’s Reign of Legal Terror Escalates

Having lost the battle for hearts and minds, the wind industry is revealing its true character: a rabid wolf in sheep's clothing; or, perhaps, an axe-wielding psychopath masquerading as a smarmy second-hand car salesman? Now that communities are armed with the knowledge that wind power is the greatest economic and environmental fraud of all time, … Continue reading Wind Industry Thugs Sue for Subsidies: NextEra’s Reign of Legal Terror Escalates