For a populous detached from the realities of power generation (or similarly detached from reality, in general) the concept of running on 'free' breezes and sunbeams has an almost natural attraction. In much the same way that infants fixate on the colourful, the shiny and the new. But, most infants tend to eventually grow up: … Continue reading Base-Load Matters: America Waking Up to its Wind Power Fantasy
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The Lunacy of Trying to Run on Wind Power
The Lunacy of Pledging to Eliminate Fossil Fuel Use since Wind and Solar Are Not the Answer to Much of Anything Carlin Economics and Science Alan Carlin 5 August 2016 Greatly increased human prosperity in some areas of the world over the last 150 years can be traced in large part to progressively greater access … Continue reading The Lunacy of Trying to Run on Wind Power
Wind Power Obsession Sends South Australians Back to the Stone Age
Amidst the panic and chaos being experienced by the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers - due to the unfolding and inevitable wind power calamity in South Australia - one of the newly invented catchphrases is “transition”. It’s a term now employed by wind spinners, dimwitted politicians and gullible journalists; and is often coupled up … Continue reading Wind Power Obsession Sends South Australians Back to the Stone Age
Believe in Unicorns & Pixies? Why Not Believe in the Fantasy of Wind Power, Too?
The wind-cultist is a special breed: long on starry-eyed belief; short on our good friends 'logic' and 'reason' - occupying a fact-and-consequence-free netherworld, in which their favoured form of power generation arrives as a result of meteorological serendipity and, when it doesn't, the power still appears, as if by magic. Except that the 'magic' was … Continue reading Believe in Unicorns & Pixies? Why Not Believe in the Fantasy of Wind Power, Too?
Robert Bryce: New York’s Wind Power-Play Smacks Into Reality
New York State's Governor is grappling with a confirmed case of 'Wind Turbine Syndrome', the obvious signs of which are that he's hell-bent on following the path set by the Germans and South Australians on the road to economic and social disaster. However, unlike the lunatics in charge of those energy calamities, before he has … Continue reading Robert Bryce: New York’s Wind Power-Play Smacks Into Reality
SA’s Wind Power Debacle: Opportunity Knocks for More Subsidy-Sucking Rent Seekers
Investment is not always good Catallaxy files Judith Sloan 29 July 2016 Since the return of the Labor-lite Turnbull government – or should that just be Labor – the rent-seekers in the renewable energy space have been out and about. No doubt, the South Australian debacle has thrown a spanner in the works, but the … Continue reading SA’s Wind Power Debacle: Opportunity Knocks for More Subsidy-Sucking Rent Seekers
South Australia’s Wind Power Obsession an Economic Suicide Pact
Alan Moran gets it. Setting a cult-like feel-good power policy, obsessed with wind power isn't just fanciful nonsense, it's nothing short of an economic suicide pact. Here's how things are playing out in Australia's "wind power capital", South Australia. Renewable energy demanding a high price for unreliability The Australian Financial Review Alan Moran 29 July … Continue reading South Australia’s Wind Power Obsession an Economic Suicide Pact
Bulk Battery Storage of Wind Power a Myth: With No Storage California Dumps Mountains of Wind & Solar Power
As the wind power debacle unfolds in South Australia - leaving it with an erratic power supply and rocketing power prices - one of the mythical solutions being peddled is that South Australia need only pop out to the shops and pick up a few terawatt/hours worth of battery storage. The way it is being … Continue reading Bulk Battery Storage of Wind Power a Myth: With No Storage California Dumps Mountains of Wind & Solar Power
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’s Lessons for the World: Subsidised Wind Power The Fastest Route to Social & Economic Disaster
Judith Sloan: lays out a lesson on avoiding economic & social disaster. **** In a week when the mainstream media have been (finally) laying out the catastrophic results of South Australia’s ludicrous attempt to power itself on sunshine and breezes, it would be rude not to include this cracking article penned by The Australian's top-flight … Continue reading South Australia’s Lessons for the World: Subsidised Wind Power The Fastest Route to Social & Economic Disaster
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