Since the RET Review Panel delivered its coup de grâce to the Australian wind industry, the wind industry and its parasites - and the ABC and Fairfax press that run cover for them - have all tried to put a very different spin on the panel's recommendations - as to which, see our post here. … Continue reading RET Review Panel Head, Dick Warburton: “the RET should be ended now”
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Robert Bryce: Want to live in Stone-Age Poverty? Then tie your future to Wind Power
**** Robert Bryce picked the wind power fraud for what it is from the very beginning. In his 2010 book “Power Hungry: The Myths of “Green” Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future” (Public Affairs), Bryce skewered every one of the myths relied upon by the wind industry to peddle its wares; and went … Continue reading Robert Bryce: Want to live in Stone-Age Poverty? Then tie your future to Wind Power
Politicians & Business Finally Waking Up to the Massive Costs of the LRET
**** In this post we highlighted the political distinction between the small scale renewable energy scheme (SRES) – which doles out subsidies for rooftop solar – and the Large-Scale RET (LRET) - upon which the debacle that is the wind industry depends. While Greg Hunt and Ian “Macca” Macfarlane have been running around talking up … Continue reading Politicians & Business Finally Waking Up to the Massive Costs of the LRET
Professor Ross McKitrick: Wind turbines don’t run on wind, they run on subsidies.
As STT followers are acutely aware, wind power is an economic and environmental fraud. Because wind power can only ever be delivered at crazy, random intervals - and, therefore, never "on-demand" - it will never be a substitute for those generation sources which are - ie hydro, nuclear, gas and coal (see our posts here … Continue reading Professor Ross McKitrick: Wind turbines don’t run on wind, they run on subsidies.
How the Public Are Deceived About the True Cost of the Mandatory RET
**** The Australian Financial Review – as one of the lefty Fairfax stable – “drank the Kool Aid” early and happily ran with the wind industry’s narrative that having Australia bristle with giant fans is a sure-fire way of cooling mother Earth; that wind power is free; and that the mandatory RET is public policy … Continue reading How the Public Are Deceived About the True Cost of the Mandatory RET
Canada’s Wind Power Disaster Laid Bare
Ontario is about to boil over, as impacted and threatened communities unite in seething rage at what their political betters have done to energy policy (see our post here). The hard-green-left Liberals have created a wind power policy so insane as to beggar belief: sending power prices through the roof (referred to as “hydro bills”, … Continue reading Canada’s Wind Power Disaster Laid Bare
Australia’s Runaway Renewables Policy to Cost $Billions
**** Competitive structure best way to rein in costs The Australian Barry FitzGerald 20 August 2014 IT is a touch ironic that it has taken the abolition of the carbon tax to highlight just what a pernicious bit of work it was. More than even Tony Abbott’s labelling of it as a big, bad tax. … Continue reading Australia’s Runaway Renewables Policy to Cost $Billions
European Governments Rip Up Wind Power Contracts
**** In recent weeks there has been a cacophony of wind industry rent-seeker bleating. Turbine makers, like America's GE have been running hard in the press touting the "merits" of retaining the mandatory Renewable Energy Target - a scheme that will see $50 billion added to Australian power bills and directed to wind power outfits … Continue reading European Governments Rip Up Wind Power Contracts
Germany’s Unsustainable “Green” Jobs “Miracle” Collapses
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 purpose of the policy - CO2 emissions are rising fast (see our post … Continue reading Germany’s Unsustainable “Green” Jobs “Miracle” Collapses
The Wind Industry is based on a Central, Endlessly Repeated Lie
*** Lunacy on sea: As Ministers agree to the world’s biggest wind farm off Brighton, has Britain ever succumbed to a more catastrophic folly? The Daily Mail Christopher Booker 2 August 2014 What should be our reaction to daft stories like the one recently reported in the Daily Mail about the 60ft wind turbine put … Continue reading The Wind Industry is based on a Central, Endlessly Repeated Lie
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