**** In a “we can’t believe our luck moment”, Labor’s ‘Electricity’ Bill Shorten came out last week to announce that Australia’s Labor Party is now hell-bent on destroying the Australian economy, with a 50% renewable energy target. Shorten’s lurch to the outer reaches of the intellectual cosmos - to a policy position that only the … Continue reading Electricity Bill Shorten Signs Suicide Note marked ‘Labor’ & ‘the Australian Wind Industry’
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The Wind Power Fraud the same the World over: South Africans Rumble the Rort
**** STT expects that our followers’ Spidey-Senses have probably picked up that we’ve been going harder than ever in our efforts to belt the patent nonsense of attempting to rely upon a wholly weather dependent power generation source – smashing the infantile ‘logic’ employed by wind power’s proponents to sell their third-rate-wares, has been the … Continue reading The Wind Power Fraud the same the World over: South Africans Rumble the Rort
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
‘Greens’ Gamble on Your Future; while PM Stops CEFC from Laying Wind Power Bets
**** A little while back, that great philosopher, Kenny Rogers spelt out the rules for Gamblers in clear and simple terms: You got to know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em, Know when to walk away and know when to run. You never count your money when you’re sittin’ at the table. … Continue reading ‘Greens’ Gamble on Your Future; while PM Stops CEFC from Laying Wind Power Bets
The Wind Power Fraud (in pictures): Part 2 – The Whole Eastern Grid Debacle
**** Yesterday, we laid out the wind power fraud in pictures, as it's perpetrated in, what's referred to as, 'Australia's wind power capital', South Australia: The Wind Power Fraud (in pictures): Part 1 – the South Australian Wind Farm Fiasco To call the 'performance' of SA's 17 wind farms (spread over a vast area of … Continue reading The Wind Power Fraud (in pictures): Part 2 – The Whole Eastern Grid Debacle
The Wind Power Fraud (in pictures): Part 1 – the South Australian Wind Farm Fiasco
**** In today's post we lay out the wind power fraud in pictures, as it’s perpetrated in, what’s referred to as, ‘Australia’s wind power capital’, South Australia (we expand the net to capture the debacle on the entire Eastern Grid - see our post here). To call the ‘performance’ of SA’s 17 wind farms (spread … Continue reading The Wind Power Fraud (in pictures): Part 1 – the South Australian Wind Farm Fiasco
Wind Farms Even More Expensive And Pointless Than You Thought
**** Study: Wind Farms Even More Expensive And Pointless Than You Thought Breitbart.com James Delingpole 5 July 2015 The cost of wind energy is significantly more expensive than its advocates pretend, a new US study has found: available here. If you believe this chart produced by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), then onshore wind … Continue reading Wind Farms Even More Expensive And Pointless Than You Thought
Wind Power: ‘Shredding Birds and Mincing Logic’
**** Shredding Birds and Mincing Logic Quadrant Online Peter O'Brien 1 July 2015 That wind farms are ugly is the least of the problems their heavily subsidised, rent-seeking promoters are inflicting on the rest of us. Quite apart from their damage to avian populations, the very process of manufacturing them generates a vast tonnage of … Continue reading Wind Power: ‘Shredding Birds and Mincing Logic’
ARREA Spears Wind Industry’s Parasites During Thumping Senate Appearance
**** The mandatory RET has seen the cost of around $9 billion worth of Renewable Energy Certificates added to retail power prices and recovered from all Australian power consumers. Under the Large-Scale Renewable Energy Target, a further $45 billion is designed to be transferred from power consumers to wind power outfits via the REC Tax/Subsidy … Continue reading ARREA Spears Wind Industry’s Parasites During Thumping Senate Appearance
Germany’s Wind Power Debacle Escalates: Nation’s Grid on the Brink of Collapse
**** Calamitous Planning: German Wind Parks Overload Power Grid … “At Its Limits” … Record 50,000 Grid Interventions In May! NoTricksZone Pierre Gosselin 1 July 2015 Online German NDR public radio here wrote last week how northern Germany’s power grid had suffered a major bottleneck that led to the overload of the Flensburg-Niebüll power transmission … Continue reading Germany’s Wind Power Debacle Escalates: Nation’s Grid on the Brink of Collapse
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