The proponents of a pointless power source, abandoned centuries ago for pretty obvious reasons, which exists, and only exists by reason of massive subsidies drawn from power consumers and/or taxpayers have, from the outset, engaged in a well-orchestrated PR campaign aimed at winning ‘hearts and minds’. An industry that wouldn’t survive a nanosecond without mandated … Continue reading Blackout Blues Continue: Australia’s Wind Industry Loses PR War for ‘Hearts & Minds’
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South Australia’s ‘Deluded’ Wind Power Policy a ‘Red-Flag’ for Wind Cult Zealots & Politicians Alike
*** There is nothing quite like being right in a public forum: especially when your opponents run as a rabid pack of deluded zealots, occupying a netherworld - altogether free of both fact and consequence - driven by ideology; and devoid of common sense, logic or reason. During the week just gone, the latest whole … Continue reading South Australia’s ‘Deluded’ Wind Power Policy a ‘Red-Flag’ for Wind Cult Zealots & Politicians Alike
Blackout Blues: Wind Power Obsession Makes South Australia an International Joke
The most recent grid collapse in South Australia (one that was not the first and which will, by no means, be the last) has left it the butt of jokes in its neighbouring States (not attempting to run on sunshine and breezes) and around the World. For a - 'don't say we didn't warn you' … Continue reading Blackout Blues: Wind Power Obsession Makes South Australia an International Joke
Another Statewide Blackout: South Australia’s Wind Power Disaster Continues
Thanks to its ludicrous attempt to run on sunshine and breezes, South Australia has just experienced yet another Statewide blackout. SA's vapid Premier, Jay Weatherill and what passes for media in this Country ran straight to the periphery, blaming everything except the bleeding obvious (see this piece of infantile doodling from wind cult central - the … Continue reading Another Statewide Blackout: South Australia’s Wind Power Disaster Continues
Why Wind Power Causes ‘Load-Shedding’ & Blackouts in SA: Power Generation for Dummies
There are 3 electricity essentials – that the power source and its delivery to homes and businesses be: 1) reliable; 2) secure; and 3) affordable. Which means that wind power – a wholly weather dependent power source, that can’t be stored and costs 3-4 times the cost of conventional power – scores NIL on all … Continue reading Why Wind Power Causes ‘Load-Shedding’ & Blackouts in SA: Power Generation for Dummies
SA’s Debacle Spreads: Wind Power Threatens to Wreck an Entire Power System
*** Things got serious in Australia's energy sector as soon as the wind power debacle in South Australia started making the front pages of Australia's metropolitan dailies. For a while, the happy citizens of states (other than SA) not wedded to the wind power delusion could quietly snigger at the mess South Australia's hapless Labor … Continue reading SA’s Debacle Spreads: Wind Power Threatens to Wreck an Entire Power System
South Australia’s Wind Power ‘Experiment’ Crushing its Unwilling Subjects
South Australia is, thanks to its attempt to run on sunshine and breezes, an international laughing stock. Its chaotic power supply and crippling power prices are driving its few remaining profitable businesses to the wall, with many of them contemplating packing up shop and leaving South Australia for good. The panic stricken members of the … Continue reading South Australia’s Wind Power ‘Experiment’ Crushing its Unwilling Subjects
SA’s Wind Power Debacle a ‘Poisoned Chalice’ for Federal Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg
The Federal Energy and Environment Minister seems to hold a belief that he can tiptoe around the toxic political quagmire that is South Australia's power supply and pricing calamity. As they say 'well, good luck with that!' Already the target of sniggering Australian satire, South Australia's wind power 'experiment' has turned it into an international … Continue reading SA’s Wind Power Debacle a ‘Poisoned Chalice’ for Federal Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg
South Australia: Proving Wind Power a Recipe for Social & Economic Disaster
The image above is taken from the Collins Picture Dictionary under the definition of 'chaos': complete confusion and disorder : a state in which behavior and events are not controlled by anything. To be fair, South Australia's power supply is 'controlled' ...... 'controlled' by the vagaries of the weather, that is. Renewables alone a recipe … Continue reading South Australia: Proving Wind Power a Recipe for Social & Economic Disaster
South Australia – Wind Powered Train Wreck: Power Supply Chaos Strands Thousands of Commuters
South Australia's wind powered economy is a picture of reliability (see above and below). In its capital, Adelaide, for 2 days in row (28 and 29 April) thousands of hopeful commuters were left to their own devices, as wild variations in wind power output wrecked the power supply to its Seaford/Tonsley electric train line. We'll … Continue reading South Australia – Wind Powered Train Wreck: Power Supply Chaos Strands Thousands of Commuters
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