What the wind industry hates most are facts; facts about rocketing power prices, massive subsidies, chaotic intermittency, incessant noise and consequent harm to neighbour's health, the destruction of birds and bats, the destruction of underground water supplies, turbines spontaneously combusting, disintegrating or throwing their blades to the four winds. We could go on. On this … Continue reading Fact Factory: Smashing Big Wind Starts & Ends With Data & Detail
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Wind Industry Uses Fake Numbers to Cover Up Mass Bird & Bat Slaughter
The wind industry will never be accused of transparency or honesty. Every new wind power project is going to power 100,000 homes and suck millions of tons of CO2 gas from the atmosphere [note to Ed, please check what plants will do with less CO2?] and create hundreds of new jobs. Notwithstanding that the occupants … Continue reading Wind Industry Uses Fake Numbers to Cover Up Mass Bird & Bat Slaughter
Hateful Eight: 8 Solid Reasons Why Subsidised Wind Power is Both Pointless & Harmful to Health & Wealth
If wind power was a horse, its owner would have shot it long ago. Instead, cheered on by ideological zealots and endlessly pumped up with performance enhancing subsidies it continues to lumber on regardless. Impossibly chaotic in its delivery, it never starts the race on time and continually fails to finish, even when it manages … Continue reading Hateful Eight: 8 Solid Reasons Why Subsidised Wind Power is Both Pointless & Harmful to Health & Wealth
Deep ‘Green’ Hypocrisy: Wind Power Cult Happily Ignores Bird and Bat Blood Bath
*** 'Cognitive dissonance' is the mental stress (discomfort) experienced by a person who simultaneously holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values; when performing an action that contradicts existing beliefs, ideas, or values; or when confronted with new information that contradicts existing beliefs, ideas, and values. As a twist on that concept, George Orwell … Continue reading Deep ‘Green’ Hypocrisy: Wind Power Cult Happily Ignores Bird and Bat Blood Bath
Wind Power: Economically, Socially & Environmentally Unsustainable
Craig Rucker is executive director of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow. In this brilliant and succinct piece of analysis, Craig lays out precisely why these things do not work, on any level: economic, social or environmental. Wind Power: Our Least Sustainable Resource? Master Resource Craig Rucker 25 October 2016 A single 1.7 MW wind turbine, … Continue reading Wind Power: Economically, Socially & Environmentally Unsustainable
Wind Power: Slaughters Millions of Birds & Bats – But Offers Nothing in Return
Wind farms fatal to wildlife, inefficient Knoxville News Michael Butler 18 June 2016 Recently, Tennessee Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander took to the floor of the United States Senate to discuss an important issue: a proposed wind farm that would be located in Cumberland County if approved. He was joined in opposition by U.S. Rep. Diane … Continue reading Wind Power: Slaughters Millions of Birds & Bats – But Offers Nothing in Return
Wind Industry’s Bird & Bat Slaughter: Canadians Expose the ‘Unhelpful’ Numbers
The wind industry and its parasites have – from the outset – pitched these things as a “planet saving, clean, green and environmentally friendly technology”; which doesn’t quite gel with the wholesale slaughter of birds and bats. Let’s call it an “inconvenient truth” (see our post here). Were anyone caught shooting eagles or other protected … Continue reading Wind Industry’s Bird & Bat Slaughter: Canadians Expose the ‘Unhelpful’ Numbers
Stop These Things & Stop the Slaughter of Endangered Brolgas
There are few campaigners who can match Victorian Western District farmer and grazier, Hamish Cumming for courage and sheer determination. Hamish is a true environmentalist – his love of endangered brolgas and his sterling efforts to prevent them being sliced and diced by these things, has made him a true Victorian legend. Hamish has served … Continue reading Stop These Things & Stop the Slaughter of Endangered Brolgas
The Wind Industry’s State-Sanctioned Global Killing Fields
**** In a few years to come, when the generation responsible for the current energy mess reaches its belated age of reason, and has to explain the Genesis and Armageddon of the great wind power fraud, one of the tougher questions for gramps and granny will be why did we build an utterly meaningless power … Continue reading The Wind Industry’s State-Sanctioned Global Killing Fields
Big ‘Green’ Wrecking Machines: The Wind Industry’s Woeful ‘Legacy’ – So Far ..
*** America’s big ‘green’ wrecking machines cfact.org Mary Kay Barton 19 August 2015 Politically connected industrial wind zealots are destroying rural America and electricity markets “If you have no conscience, no morals, no aesthetic sensibility, no understanding of free markets; if you hate wildlife, people and the natural landscape; if you loathe private property… then … Continue reading Big ‘Green’ Wrecking Machines: The Wind Industry’s Woeful ‘Legacy’ – So Far ..