Tag: wind farms CO2 emissions

Wind Power: Get Set to Return to the Dark Ages

**** Windmills and Sunbeams Won’t Keep the Lights On NewsMax Larry Bell 14 September 2015 The Obama administration’s global warming hell-bent “Clean Power Plan” which is supposed to regulate and tax our nation away from fossil fuels to heavily subsidized “renewable” energy sources is presently a transitional bridge to nowhere. And after all, as the … Continue reading Wind Power: Get Set to Return to the Dark Ages

Wind Power: Just an Ugly ‘Hood Ornament’ on the Conventional Power System

**** As time marches on, the ability of the wind industry to 'hood'-wink power punters is running into a deluge of 'unhelpful' facts: here's some more from Michigan Capitol Confidential's Jack Spencer. Renewables Just a Hood Ornament on Fossil Fuel Power System You can’t have renewable energy without fossil fuels backing it up CapCon Jack … Continue reading Wind Power: Just an Ugly ‘Hood Ornament’ on the Conventional Power System

Europeans Lament their Wind Power Fiasco

**** Hurrah! Windfarms produce whopping ONE PERCENT of EU energy The Register Lewis Page 27 July 2015 The colossal, hugely expensive windfarms that are spread across huge areas of Europe's land and sea, which are projected to drive up household energy bills by more than 50 per cent in coming years, have achieved ... almost … Continue reading Europeans Lament their Wind Power Fiasco

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’

STT’s Take on the ‘Global Warming’ Story

**** Now and again, STT gets a comment that seeks to pin us down as “anti-wind”, “climate deniers”. Here’s one from Enough Already: I agree with your specific arguments against wind turbines, but even hosting AGW-denial articles puts me off. It perpetuates stereotypes of dumb bogans when we need all possible intelligence on this side! … Continue reading STT’s Take on the ‘Global Warming’ Story

Wind Industry’s Bogus CO2 Abatement Claims Smashed Again

**** Let’s assume (as STT does, for the sake of argument) that the global warming/climate change Chicken Littles are right: the sky really is falling, and it’s all CO2’s fault. Then what on Earth are we doing pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into subsidies for wind power? See our posts here and here and … Continue reading Wind Industry’s Bogus CO2 Abatement Claims Smashed Again

Wind Industry’s CO2 Abatement Claims Smashed by Top Physics Professor – Dr Joseph Wheatley

**** 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 to $55 billion will be transferred from power consumers to wind power outfits via the REC Tax/Subsidy … Continue reading Wind Industry’s CO2 Abatement Claims Smashed by Top Physics Professor – Dr Joseph Wheatley

Spotlight Thrown on the Regressive Costs that Subsidise UK’s Failed Wind Power Policy & Hammer the Poor

**** Our data shows that climate policies aren’t working. Why does that scare our opponents? The Telegraph Dr John Constable 2 Apr 2015 The solution to climate change lies in unleashing the ingenuity of the market - not in top-down subsidies which penalise the poor to prop up inadequate technologies Since 2004, the charity I … Continue reading Spotlight Thrown on the Regressive Costs that Subsidise UK’s Failed Wind Power Policy & Hammer the Poor

Germany’s Wind Power Disaster: An Economic & Environmental Failure

**** The Germans went into wind power harder and faster than anyone else – and the cost of doing so is catching up with a vengeance. The subsidies have been colossal, the impacts on the electricity market chaotic and – contrary to the environmental purpose of the policy – CO2 emissions are rising fast: if … Continue reading Germany’s Wind Power Disaster: An Economic & Environmental Failure

Google’s Top Engineers say: “Renewable Energy Simply Won’t Work”

**** Renewable energy ‘simply WON’T WORK’: Top Google engineers The Register Lewis Page 21 November 2014 Windmills, solar, tidal - all a ‘false hope’, say Stanford PhDs Two highly qualified Google engineers who have spent years studying and trying to improve renewable energy technology have stated quite bluntly that renewables will never permit the human … Continue reading Google’s Top Engineers say: “Renewable Energy Simply Won’t Work”