**** What STT followers get in a heartbeat is the lunacy attached to reliance on a wholly weather dependent power 'system' - and we use that term in the wildest possible sense: power generation that only bursts into life with thumping breezes and disappears when things drop back to a zephyr can't sensibly be called … Continue reading Too Hot? Too Cold? Then Don’t Expect Wind Power to Help
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Wind Power Subsidies: A Bottomless Money Pit
**** Way back in 1984, Christopher Flavin, the President emeritus of the Worldwatch Institute, ran a pitch that in a few years’ time wind energy would not need to be subsidised. Over 30 years later, and the wind industry the world over still keeps talking itself into circles: one minute it’s ready to take on … Continue reading Wind Power Subsidies: A Bottomless Money Pit
Texans Move to Slam Wind Power Subsidies
**** The great wind power fraud is in meltdown around the globe. In the US, ‘wind power’ states have cut their state based subsidies to wind power outfits (or are well on the path of doing so); and Republicans are out to prevent the extension of the Federal government’s PTC wind power subsidy: 2015: the … Continue reading Texans Move to Slam Wind Power Subsidies
The Obscene, Hidden Costs of Wind Power
**** True costs of wind electricity Planning Engineer and Rud Istvan 12 May 2015 Climate Etc. Wind turbines have become a familiar sight in many countries as a favorite CAGW mitigation means. Since at least 2010, the US Energy Information Agency (EIA) has been assuring NGOs and the public that wind would be cost competitive … Continue reading The Obscene, Hidden Costs of Wind Power
Hammering Wind Industry Myths: the ‘In-a-Nutshell’ Version
**** Here's a sold little wrap-up on the great wind power fraud from Mary Kay Barton - it's so clear and thumpingly sound for STT to add, would only detract. Hats off, Mary. Over to you. Wind energy myths spun by lobbyists and salesmen Principia Scientific Mary Kay Barton 13 May 2015 Industrial wind energy … Continue reading Hammering Wind Industry Myths: the ‘In-a-Nutshell’ Version
Origin’s Grant King Spells Out the Inevitable Demise of the LRET & the Wind Industry
**** In last night’s post we took a look at China’s wind power debacle, where grid operators are refusing to hook up wind farms to the grid – due the uneconomic cost of doing so in remote locations – with the result that more than 20% of its wind power capacity sits idle – and … Continue reading Origin’s Grant King Spells Out the Inevitable Demise of the LRET & the Wind Industry
China’s Wind Power Ponzi Scheme Collapsing: Grid Operators Refusing to Connect Wind Farms
**** In recent times – with the wind industry taking a belting around the planet – its spruikers have taken to clinging to any vestige of hope, with the anxious zeal of shipwreck survivors happening upon a little fortuitous flotsam. One such “hope”, is their belief that China provides the perfect example of what wind … Continue reading China’s Wind Power Ponzi Scheme Collapsing: Grid Operators Refusing to Connect Wind Farms
Open Competition: What the Wind Industry Fears Most
**** Among the myriad fictions spread by the lunatics that spruik for the wind industry, is the claim that wind power is not only competitive with conventional power generation sources, it’s actually cheaper than the cheapest of them all: coal – see this ruin-economy piece for a trip to Alice’s world of make-believe. Coal-fired plant … Continue reading Open Competition: What the Wind Industry Fears Most
Out to Save their Wind Industry Mates, Macfarlane & Hunt Lock-in $46 billion LRET Retail Power Tax
**** Wind industry front men, Ian "Macca" Macfarlane and, his youthful ward, young Gregory Hunt are out to defy all-comers: the Liberal's core constituency (of conservative voters); their colleagues, Joe Hockey and Mathias Cormann; boss, Tony Abbott; and political, economic and environmental common sense - as they pump up a deal with Labor to salvage … Continue reading Out to Save their Wind Industry Mates, Macfarlane & Hunt Lock-in $46 billion LRET Retail Power Tax
Want to Help the Poorest? Then It’s Time to Ditch Wind Power
**** The only reason that Western economies have entertained the infantile nonsense of wind power, is that the rich world can afford (at least in the short term) to throw $billions in subsidies at a wholly weather dependent "system", that will never stump up as an "alternative", unless your starting point is sitting freezing (or … Continue reading Want to Help the Poorest? Then It’s Time to Ditch Wind Power
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