Reading this in Australia? Then you’re doing so, thanks to coal. You might be doing so thanks to nuclear power, if only the dimwits that profess to run this country hadn’t banned it. On any given day, between 70 and 80% of what flows through Australia’s Eastern Grid comes from coal-fired power plants. Of course, … Continue reading Hypocrites Playground: Australian Renewable Energy Policy Driven By Virtue Signalling Halfwits
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Australia’s Giant Renewables Rip-Off: Counting The Colossal Cost of Pointless Virtue Signalling
Australia’s obsession with chaotically intermittent wind and solar has absolutely nothing to do with the climate. Although, you could be forgiven for thinking the $70 billion in subsidies set to be squandered on that pathetic pair must have some kind of environmental benefit. Otherwise, what’s the point? When the sun sets and/or calm weather sets … Continue reading Australia’s Giant Renewables Rip-Off: Counting The Colossal Cost of Pointless Virtue Signalling
Mission Possible: Australia’s Renewable Energy Scam Destroying Reliable & Affordable Baseload Power
Australia is in the process of destroying what was the world’s most reliable and affordable power supply. The destruction is all down to heavily subsidised and chaotically intermittent wind and solar. Meanwhile, our major Asian trading partners, China and Japan are chewing up Australian coal and uranium as fast as we can ship it – … Continue reading Mission Possible: Australia’s Renewable Energy Scam Destroying Reliable & Affordable Baseload Power
Eve of Destruction: Australia’s Economy First Victim of Renewable Energy Fiasco
If the objective of Australia’s energy policy is destroying its economy, we’re well on the way. With more than $70,000,000,000 squandered on subsidies to wind and solar, both large-scale and domestic, power prices rocketing out of control, routine, mass power cuts, whenever the sun sets and/or calm weather sets in, and the destruction of … Continue reading Eve of Destruction: Australia’s Economy First Victim of Renewable Energy Fiasco
100% Lunacy: Australia’s Power Policy Becomes Playground for Deranged Virtue Signallers
Australia’s energy policy crisis is like Game of Thrones starring complete idiots - every crazy plot twist is matched by something crazier still. The latest comes from New South Wales. NSW Labor opposition leader, Michael Daley isn’t the first, and he won’t be the last, maniac to suggest the world can be powered entirely … Continue reading 100% Lunacy: Australia’s Power Policy Becomes Playground for Deranged Virtue Signallers
Labor’s 50% RET: Rocketing Power Prices Bring Guaranteed Economic Destruction
Australia’s renewable energy policy is already a disaster. But Labor’s Bill Shorten promises total catastrophe with his National 50% RET. In yesterday’s post, STT picked up on economic analysis put forward by Dr Brian Fisher, which provided a wake-up call to Australians. The economic cost of current so-called ‘climate and energy policy’ is in … Continue reading Labor’s 50% RET: Rocketing Power Prices Bring Guaranteed Economic Destruction
National Suicide: Australia’s Self-Inflicted Energy Crisis Driven by Wind & Solar Obsession
Australia’s energy policy reads like a National suicide note: power prices went from the lowest in the world to the highest, in little over a decade. Plotting the path to destruction is pretty easy: start by throwing $60 billion in subsidies at wind and large-scale solar, demonise cheap and reliable coal-fired power and put lunatics … Continue reading National Suicide: Australia’s Self-Inflicted Energy Crisis Driven by Wind & Solar Obsession
How Subsidised Wind & Solar Destroyed Australia’s Economic Competitiveness
Chaotically intermittent and heavily subsidised wind and solar have sent power prices soaring in Australia. Barely a generation ago, Australians enjoyed the lowest power prices in the world, now they suffer the highest. And it took a little over a decade - see above. In a helpful exposition of Australia’s self-inflicted power pricing and supply … Continue reading How Subsidised Wind & Solar Destroyed Australia’s Economic Competitiveness
Scoundrel’s Paradise: Subsidised Wind & Solar The Greatest Scam on Earth
The only way of explaining the push for subsidised wind and solar is money. And when we say money, we mean hundreds of billions of dollars of other people’s money. In Australia alone, the Federal Government’s Large-Scale Renewable Energy Target will redirect over $60 billion in subsidies to wind and large-scale solar operators (all … Continue reading Scoundrel’s Paradise: Subsidised Wind & Solar The Greatest Scam on Earth
RET Regrets: Nothing to Show for Wind & Solar Surge Except Rocketing Prices & Supply Chaos
Thanks to an obsession with wind and solar Australians now pay retail power prices among the highest in the world. The wind and solar capital, South Australia suffers the highest, bar none. The reasons it got that way are hardly a mystery. Dr Michael Crawford’s graphic should help the uninitiated. The staggering cost of the … Continue reading RET Regrets: Nothing to Show for Wind & Solar Surge Except Rocketing Prices & Supply Chaos
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