The net-zero scam is unravelling around the world, simply because power prices are rocketing out of control and the proles have worked out why. Much to the horror of the crony capitalist crowd, the connection between crushing power prices and chaotically intermittent and heavily subsidised wind and solar was made long ago. No amount of … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 30 November 2025
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Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 23 November 2025
Wind and solar scam rent-seekers are reeling, and the Climate Industrial Complex is imploding under the weight of its own internal hypocrisy. The latest COP was an unadulterated flop and the net-zero scam is unravelling everywhere that matters, despite the best efforts of the legacy press to resuscitate its lifeless corpse. Which brings us to … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 23 November 2025
Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 23 March 2025
Among rent-seeking wind and solar subsidy grifters and their spin masters, desperation is the new black. Donald Trump’s moves the throttle their so-called ‘industries’ on American soil has rattled investors and seen plans for dozens of large-scale wind and solar factories scrapped, around the globe. Which brings us to this week's roundup. Paul Brown gives … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 23 March 2025
Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 16 March 2025
As the wind and solar scam spirals into oblivion, the USA is pulling out all stops to restore reliable and affordable energy, for all. Reason being that energy isn't just part of the economy: it is the economy. Following that theme, Robert Bryce picks up on a speech given by US Energy Secretary, Chris Wright … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 16 March 2025
Reality Collides: Constant Blackout Threat Spells Doom For Wind & Solar ‘Transition’
A run of calm nights (particularly during very hot or very cold weather) reveals the utter pointlessness of intermittent wind and solar. And, so it is in the land Downunder. Australia’s hard Green-Left Federal government is doing its best to stare down reality, as its grand wind and solar ‘transition’ unravels. The so-called energy ‘policy’ … Continue reading Reality Collides: Constant Blackout Threat Spells Doom For Wind & Solar ‘Transition’
Talk’s Cheap: Why Wind & Solar Guarantee Rocketing Power Bills
The relationship between crushing power bills and increasing wind and solar capacity is crystal clear. Notwithstanding the persistent claims that the wind and sun are ‘free’. Maybe. But turning sunshine and breezes into meaningful electricity is a whole different (and very costly) exercise. There’s no such thing as a free lunch. And talk about wind … Continue reading Talk’s Cheap: Why Wind & Solar Guarantee Rocketing Power Bills
Shared Misery: Wind & Solar Transition Smashes Businesses and Families
As power prices rocket into orbit, thanks to an obsession with unreliable, subsidised wind and solar, businesses and households are finally waking up to the greatest economic and environmental fraud, of all time. Rural communities being treated as roadkill by industrial wind and solar outfits are furious; and every power consumer understand full well why … Continue reading Shared Misery: Wind & Solar Transition Smashes Businesses and Families
Wasted & Worthless: Mountains of Wind & Solar Power Dumped For Want of Buyers
In a theatre of the absurd, wind and solar generators get paid (with your taxes) to generate nothing at all (except subsidised profits for their shareholders). Producing no power when consumers really need it, and mountains of power when consumers don’t, is the very definition of chaos. And all that wanton waste comes with a … Continue reading Wasted & Worthless: Mountains of Wind & Solar Power Dumped For Want of Buyers
Life Support: Coal-Fired Power Plants Only Thing Keeping the Lights On
Thanks to their chaotic intermittency, any increase in wind and solar capacity brings with it their capacity to bring down whole power grids. In Australia, the only thing preventing a total system black are its remaining coal-fired power plants. The very plants that the massive subsidies, punitive mandates and ludicrous wind and solar targets are … Continue reading Life Support: Coal-Fired Power Plants Only Thing Keeping the Lights On
Truth in Numbers: Cheap ‘Renewables’ Claim Smashed by Crushing Power Bills
Subsidised wind and solar are the principal reason for rocketing power prices, and rocketing power prices are the principal reason for rocketing inflation. Branded as “cost of living pressures” the rapid doubling and tripling of retail power costs are always and everywhere about the market destruction caused by massive subsidies to intermittent and unreliable wind … Continue reading Truth in Numbers: Cheap ‘Renewables’ Claim Smashed by Crushing Power Bills