**** Australia has spent $billions propping up wind weasels with cheap money (read unsecured loans which are, in effect, interest free) from the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (see our post here); the benefit of the mandatory Renewable Energy Target, which forces retailers to purchase wind power on pain of a fine - aka the “shortfall … Continue reading Origin’s Grant King: Giant Fans Fail to Reduce CO2 At All
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Europe Ditches Crazy Wind Power Targets
**** It seems the European member states are fast catching up with the insane costs of their efforts to cover every inch of their turf in giant fans. Now they want out. As Oxford don, Dieter Helm pointed out (see this post) “wind power is staggeringly expensive” and “among the most expensive ways of marginally … Continue reading Europe Ditches Crazy Wind Power Targets
Alan Moran: Wind Power’s a Costly Failure
**** Alan Moran has been out to “terminate” Australia's pointless and ludicrously expensive Renewable Energy Target for some time (see our post here). Well, you can’t keep a good man down and Alan’s back - this time dishing it up in the lefty business rag, the Australian Financial Review. Renewables are just a power failure … Continue reading Alan Moran: Wind Power’s a Costly Failure
When The Party’s Over
Built on a fat pile of subsidies filched from unwitting taxpayers and power consumers - and forced on customers by Stalinist edicts so outrageous that they would've surprised George Orwell with their reach and audacity - wind power is all set to get the boot in Europe. But the fan scamming leeches that have grown … Continue reading When The Party’s Over
How to Steal Someone’s Home – with Government help
A few posts back we looked at how Scottish wind weasels are all set for another round of Highland Clearances - effectively stealing Scots’ homes before their very eyes. Well, it seems weasels south of the Scottish border are all set to do the same. Here’s the Exeter Express and Echo providing a template on … Continue reading How to Steal Someone’s Home – with Government help
German Wind Power does what the Dambusters couldn’t do
**** On the night of 16/17 May 1943, RAF No. 617 Squadron aka the “Dambusters” set out in 19 Avro Lancaster MKIII bombers armed with Barnes Wallis’s revolutionary bouncing bomb - in what was called Operation Chastise. The purpose of the famous raid was to attack 3 major dams on the Ruhr in Germany: the … Continue reading German Wind Power does what the Dambusters couldn’t do
Now That Ain’t Workin’, That’s the Way You Do It
**** British wind weasels have taken Mark Knopfler’s ode to indolent, but loaded, rock stars quite literally and are clearly out to “Get their money for nothing and their chicks for free.” Here’s The Telegraph on the latest UK wind scam. Wind farms handed £5 million to switch off turbines as thousands of homes left … Continue reading Now That Ain’t Workin’, That’s the Way You Do It
Wind Power: Britain’s Supersized Gamble with its Future
**** Britain’s political betters have set it up for one enormous gamble. Britain is wagering its entire economic future on its - out of control - wind power boondoggle. The Economist reports on the INSANE cost of delivering offshore wind power - where generators are guaranteed obscene returns - being able to charge “three times … Continue reading Wind Power: Britain’s Supersized Gamble with its Future
Why South Australians Pay the World’s Highest Power Prices
**** South Australia is "blessed" with energy market gurus like Labor's Mark Butler - who loves giant fans and is currently fighting a rear-guard action to save the RET (or, more to the point, the huge wind farm investments held by Union Super funds run by his mates, like Greg Combet and Gary Weaven). His … Continue reading Why South Australians Pay the World’s Highest Power Prices
Wind Power: the “Joke” that just isn’t funny anymore
**** South-Eastern Australia enjoyed a few typically warm summers days last week and the weather pattern saw wind power output collapse - as it does more than 100 times every year. In our post yesterday we covered the resulting spike in wholesale power prices and “load-shedding” that saw small business owners in Victoria’s coastal tourist … Continue reading Wind Power: the “Joke” that just isn’t funny anymore
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