Destined For Failure: Wind & Solar Transition Depends on (Impossible) Battery Storage Miracle

As 2023 slips by, it’s getting harder for wind and solar ‘industries’ to claim any other purpose than raking in massive subsidies. Europe’s wind and solar rollout is at a complete standstill; wind turbine manufacturers are laying off staff in droves and losing hundreds of millions of euros. The French are backing a massive increase … Continue reading Destined For Failure: Wind & Solar Transition Depends on (Impossible) Battery Storage Miracle

Storage Stories: Why Giant Batteries Can’t Solve Wind & Solar Power’s Natural Intermittency

It only takes a moment’s reckoning to appreciate that the grid-scale storage electricity generated by wind or solar is a perfect nonsense. It hasn’t occurred anywhere in the world; nor will it. The combined capacity of all of the batteries on Earth would store a trivial 10 minute’s worth of the World’s electricity needs. The … Continue reading Storage Stories: Why Giant Batteries Can’t Solve Wind & Solar Power’s Natural Intermittency

Fantasyland Fiction: Batteries Will Never Solve Wind & Solar’s Hopeless Intermittency

For almost a century, electricity generation and distribution were treated as a tightly integrated system: it was designed and built as one, and is meant to operate as designed. However, the chaotic delivery of wind and solar have all but trashed the electricity generation and delivery system, as we know it. Germany, South Australia, Texas … Continue reading Fantasyland Fiction: Batteries Will Never Solve Wind & Solar’s Hopeless Intermittency

Wind Power Battery Storage Myth Battered: Total Annual Global Battery Production Would Power Germany for 30 Minutes

*** Wind industry hucksters, and their wind worshipping political enablers, like Josh Frydenberg, continue to chant the ‘battery technology is rapidly improving’ mantra, as if truckloads of giant batteries will soon magically rain down from heaven; and, thereby, save the wind industry from its imminent and inevitable demise. Not only is there NO grid-scale storage … Continue reading Wind Power Battery Storage Myth Battered: Total Annual Global Battery Production Would Power Germany for 30 Minutes

11 Fatal Flaws with Wind Power

The wind industry is copping a flogging all over the World. Increasingly, as the industry's lies and propaganda are replaced by facts, more and more are coming to the obvious conclusion: THESE THINGS DON'T WORK - on any level. Getting there was only a matter of time. What has surprised STT is not that journos, … Continue reading 11 Fatal Flaws with Wind Power

The Patent Nonsense of ‘Storing’ Wind Power Smashed

**** The wind industry is the perpetual infant of power generation: always looking for the subsidies to last that little bit longer; always promising to improve its performance; always claiming it will outdo hydro, coal and gas – provided, of course, that the subsidies keep flowing. STT for one thinks the wind industry has had … Continue reading The Patent Nonsense of ‘Storing’ Wind Power Smashed