SA 75% renewable target – STOP THESE THINGS

Want Rocketing Power Prices & Grid Chaos? Wind Power’s Your Answer

March 18, 2018 by stopthesethings 4 Comments

Deranged and delusional, those that promote wind power come up with all manner of falsehoods to protect their beloved. One of the latest is that conventional generators, namely coal-fired power plants ‘fail all the time’. When presented with images like the one above from Aneroid Energy – depicting the output every wind turbine connected to […]

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Avoiding Disaster: Australia’s Renewable Energy Debacle Signals Warning to Energy Rich Americans

March 15, 2018 by stopthesethings 2 Comments

Laconic crocodile hunters aside, Australia doesn’t often register in the US of A, but its self-inflicted renewable energy fiasco has clearly placed it on the American radar. News of wind ‘powered’ South Australia’s statewide blackout in September 2016 rendered it an international laughing stock. It also set it up as an example of what […]

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System Reboot Required: Undoing Australia’s Self-Inflicted Renewable Energy Disaster

February 27, 2018 by stopthesethings 2 Comments

For some strange reason, wind ‘powered’ Victoria and South Australia suffer wholesale prices around double what’s paid in coal-fired Queensland and NSW? Could it be that massively subsidised, intermittent and unreliable wind power has wrecked power markets in Daniel Andrew’s Victoria and Jay Weatherill’s SA? The graphic above appeared in The Australian, a few […]

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SA Premier Promises to Double Power Prices & Destroy Grid: 75% RET = 100% Lunacy

February 26, 2018 by stopthesethings 4 Comments

Looking for an example of how to destroy an economy? Look no further than wind ‘powered’ South Australia. Where Australia’s other capital cities are growing so fast that they look like bursting, Adelaide’s population is shrinking; the best and brightest exit as fast their Commodores can carry them, leaving an ageing population and a […]

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