**** The wind industry parades as an “alternative” energy source. Which begs the question: “alternative” to what? The lunatics from the hard-green left (like "Greens" head-muppet, Christine Milne) continually whine that "coal is DEATH"; and wax lyrical about the fantasy of going "100% renewable" - all the while pocketing $millions in campaign funding from the … Continue reading Why Coal Miners, Oil and Gas Producers Simply Love Wind Power
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Top US Energy Economist Takes the Scalpel to the Great Wind Power Fraud
**** One of the great mysteries behind the lunacy that is the great wind power fraud is how and why so many governments launched into mandating massive and endless subsidies (filched from unwitting power consumers and/or taxpayers) for an utterly meaningless power generation source - WITHOUT ever having carried out a cost/benefit analysis? You know, … Continue reading Top US Energy Economist Takes the Scalpel to the Great Wind Power Fraud
Wind Power: an Insanely Costly Exercise in Pointless Futility
Robert Wilson is a PhD Student in Mathematical Ecology at the University of Strathclyde. Robert has a had a little stab at getting behind the greatest fraud of all time; although he's on the right track, he doesn't quite get there, as we'll explain below. Why wind farms can be relied on for almost zero power Robert … Continue reading Wind Power: an Insanely Costly Exercise in Pointless Futility
Power Punters to Pay Double for Wind Power “FAILS” – REAL Power Generators Paid to Cover Wind Power Fraud
**** The hackneyed myth that wind power “powers” millions of homes with wonderful “free” wind energy is taking a beating around the globe (see our posts here and here). The idea that a wholly weather dependent power generation source can ever be – as is touted endlessly by the wind industry and its parasites – … Continue reading Power Punters to Pay Double for Wind Power “FAILS” – REAL Power Generators Paid to Cover Wind Power Fraud
German Wind Power Goes Completely AWOL 11 Times in the Last 80 Days
**** German Wind Power Goes Completely AWOL For The 11th Time This Year … Fossils, Nuclear Again To The Rescue! Pierre Gosselin NoTricksZone 20 March 2015 It’s a good thing Germany still has a lot of conventional power supply from coal and nuclear on line. Otherwise the entire country would have blacked out this morning … Continue reading German Wind Power Goes Completely AWOL 11 Times in the Last 80 Days
James Delingpole: UK’s Wind Power Debacle Reaches “High Farce”
**** The great wind farm farce The Telegraph James Delingpole 22 February 2015 Ed Davey’s plan for 400 turbines to be erected off the Yorkshire coast will be a heinous burden on the taxpayer If ever there’s a competition for the most spectacularly pointless and wasteful project in engineering history, you’d be hard pressed to … Continue reading James Delingpole: UK’s Wind Power Debacle Reaches “High Farce”
More on Germany’s Wind Power Fiasco
**** 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 More on Germany’s Wind Power Fiasco
Why Wind Power MWs Will Never Be Equal
All megawatts are not equal Judithcurry.com By Planning Engineer 11 December 2014 Some of the Climate Etc. denizens have requested a post on the generation planning process to help them better understand cost issues surrounding the large scale addition and integration of renewable resources. The major takeaway is that differing types of generating resources bring … Continue reading Why Wind Power MWs Will Never Be Equal
European Government Support for Wind Power Collapses
**** Europe winds back the clock on windmills The Sunday Times Danny Forston 23 November 2014 Lured by subsidies, the power companies went green. But to keep the lights on they have to burn coal Sixty miles northeast of Düsseldorf, outside the town of Hamm in northwest Germany, workers are giving a final tune-up to … Continue reading European Government Support for Wind Power Collapses
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