Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 17 August 2025

The wind industry hates Donald J Trump with a passion and the feeling is mutual. Never in the field of rent-seeker conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. Smashing the myth upon which the whole scam is predicated, and then smashing wind power outfits, one by one, Trump has done more … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 17 August 2025

Zombie Apocalypse: Wind Industry Faces Total Collapse With More Projects Scrapped

The wind industry is looking a lot like a zombie apocalypse; evidently dead on its feet, but refusing to accept its mortality and die with dignity. The offshore wind industry in the US looks like a bloodbath, with dozens of major projects scrapped outright. Investors have pulled the plug, never to return. In Australia dozens … Continue reading Zombie Apocalypse: Wind Industry Faces Total Collapse With More Projects Scrapped

Unions Backing Sinking Solar & Wind Playing Russian Roulette With Retirement Savings

Clever investors have already pulled their cash out of wind and solar outfits, as projects get scrapped and turbine and panel makers lose $billions. A complete Enron-style collapse is on the cards. Companies like Shell are walking away from multi-billion-dollar projects, big players like Orsted, Vestas and Siemens Gamesa are in structural financial crisis - … Continue reading Unions Backing Sinking Solar & Wind Playing Russian Roulette With Retirement Savings

Enron All Over Again: Wind & Solar Industries Become Total Financial Train Wrecks

Ponzi schemes last only as long as their creators can draw in fresh suckers. The wind and solar industries are fast running out of suckers. America’s Enron set the standards early, parading manufactured financial statements that never reflected the fact that Enron was a worthless house of cards. Gullible investors kept piling in, which helped … Continue reading Enron All Over Again: Wind & Solar Industries Become Total Financial Train Wrecks

Rent-Seekers Retreat: Grand Wind & Solar Transition Faces Total Collapse

The smart money is banking on the wind and solar industries’ total collapse; the smartest money was never invested in the greatest Ponzi scheme of all time. With subsidised wind and solar looking more like a house of cards, dozens of grand standing projects are being unceremoniously dumped. The potential investors targeted by their proponents … Continue reading Rent-Seekers Retreat: Grand Wind & Solar Transition Faces Total Collapse

Global Wind Industry’s Sudden Collapse Proves Physics Beats Platitudes, Every Time

The wind and solar industry’s sales pitch has been exemplary, but their product delivery and after-sales service is pure rubbish. Incapable of delivering electricity on demand, wind and solar will never amount to anything other than an effort in pointless vanity signalling. It’s late 2023, and the wind industry’s glory days are long gone: investment … Continue reading Global Wind Industry’s Sudden Collapse Proves Physics Beats Platitudes, Every Time

Reality Bites: Europe’s Wind & Solar Disaster Forces Serious Reversal On ‘Green’ Transition

Eventually, order emerges from chaos. Thanks to the chaos of Europe’s self-inflicted wind and solar disaster, reality is starting to take hold, with the promise of order on the horizon. Investment in new wind turbines and solar panels has plummeted across Europe. Coal-fired power is back in vogue and nuclear plants are the next must-have. … Continue reading Reality Bites: Europe’s Wind & Solar Disaster Forces Serious Reversal On ‘Green’ Transition

Wind Turbine Makers Demand Taxpayer Bailout For Mounting Billion-Dollar Losses

Wind turbine makers are bleeding cash, and several are terminal. Siemens Gamesa has been axing hundreds of jobs in Europe and America. Vestas, Nordex and Enercon are also on the ropes. The cause of all this corporate misery is down to a collapse in wind factory investment, which is down to a collapse in wind … Continue reading Wind Turbine Makers Demand Taxpayer Bailout For Mounting Billion-Dollar Losses

It’s-A-Knockout: European Wind Industry’s Total Collapse: Firms Bankrupt & Thousands Sacked

The wholesale collapse of Europe’s wind industry suggests that so-called ‘sustainable’ energy ain’t so sustainable, after all. Big turbine manufacturers are sacking workers in droves, watching their share prices plummet and pulling out all stops to stave off bankruptcy. Accumulating hundreds of €millions in losses, turbine maker Senvion entered into self-administered bankruptcy/liquidation in April. Danish … Continue reading It’s-A-Knockout: European Wind Industry’s Total Collapse: Firms Bankrupt & Thousands Sacked

Wind Turbines Totally Suck, When the Wind Really Blows & When It Doesn’t

**** When the wind is “the thing”, that’s supposed to be your business - when it’s what makes the revenue (or, rather a massive pile of taxpayer and power consumer subsidies) flow - it seems a bit rich for wind power outfits to start whining about there being too much or too little. **** But, … Continue reading Wind Turbines Totally Suck, When the Wind Really Blows & When It Doesn’t