Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 28 September 2025

Donald J Trump’s address to the UN caused wind and sun cultists' heads to explode around the Globe. In a few short minutes, the US President spelt out the beginning of the end for the greatest economic and environmental fraud, of all time. Brutally targeting the utter pointlessness of massively subsidised wind and solar - … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 28 September 2025

Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 24 November 2024

This week’s roundup includes articles on the obscene and staggering cost of subsidies to wind power outfits born by every taxpayer and power consumer; how power prices are rocketing in every US state that’s backed chaotically intermittent wind and solar; how wind power never makes sense and taking it offshore is positively insane; how Donald Trump’s … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 24 November 2024

Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 17 November 2024

This week’s roundup includes articles on how wind and solar's hopeless intermittency is wrecking power grids in the UK and Germany - in a version of energy Russian roulette; the insane mortal danger faced by construction workers dealing with giant 80m blades weighing close to 30 tonnes - with one man killed in Victoria, adding … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 17 November 2024

Stop These Things Weekly Roundup: 10 November 2024

This week’s roundup includes articles detailing Donald Trump’s overwhelming victory and what the political shift means for the Climate Industrial Complex; how efforts by America’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to gaslight Atlantic coastal communities about the devastating environmental harm caused by offshore wind power; how so-called ‘green’ energy drives the demand for coal, … Continue reading Stop These Things Weekly Roundup: 10 November 2024

Power Shock: Maine’s Power Users Being Smashed By Massive Solar Subsidy Cost

In a - they didn’t really think solar is free moment - power users in Maine are being belted with crushing power bills and told by the powers that be to expect much more of the same. Where numerous businesses are being driven to the wall, thousands of householders are being hit especially hard, with … Continue reading Power Shock: Maine’s Power Users Being Smashed By Massive Solar Subsidy Cost

Simply Insatiable: Wind & Solar Keep Devouring & Demanding Massive Subsidies

For almost 40 years, wind and solar proponents have been telling us that the subsidies they rely on are only temporary. Which most understood to mean a few years, at most. Back in 1983 the American Wind Industry Association claimed that wind power would be “competitive and self-supporting on a national level by the end … Continue reading Simply Insatiable: Wind & Solar Keep Devouring & Demanding Massive Subsidies

Budget Blowout: Escalating Cost of Subsidising Wind & Solar Simply Staggering

Now they’re talking in $trillions, the mere $billions in wind and solar subsidies pocketed so far sounds like chump change. When we’re talking about subsidies to wind and solar,  we are including all the thoroughly unnecessary associated costs, like new pumped-hydro schemes; giant lithium-ion batteries; additional fast-start peaking plants (either diesel or gas); and tens … Continue reading Budget Blowout: Escalating Cost of Subsidising Wind & Solar Simply Staggering

Talk’s Cheap: Wind & Solar The Most Expensive Power Sources

The only way wind and solar look cheap is by ignoring every associated cost attached to generating power using sunshine and breezes. For the last 20 years, the wind industry has presented numbers that never add up. Its accounting ‘methods’ include vastly overstating output (revenue) and grossly understating generating costs (including Operations and Maintenance) (expenses); … Continue reading Talk’s Cheap: Wind & Solar The Most Expensive Power Sources