**** 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. Back in January, The Economist reported on the INSANE cost of delivering offshore wind power – where generators are guaranteed obscene returns – being able to … Continue reading Brits Belted by Insanely Expensive and Utterly Unreliable Wind Power
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Senator Chris Back: Wind Industry must prove its CO2 abatement claims
**** In our last post we tipped a bucket on the central, endlessly repeated lie trotted out by the wind industry and its parasites, that Australia's great wind rush has resulted in substantial reductions of CO2 emissions in the electricity sector. In Australia, the central object of the Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000 is for … Continue reading Senator Chris Back: Wind Industry must prove its CO2 abatement claims
Why Intermittent Wind Power Increases CO2 Emissions in the Electricity Sector
The central, endlessly repeated lie (upon which the great wind power fraud rests) is that increasing wind power generation results in decreases in CO2 emissions. In Australia, the central object of the Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000 is for "renewable" energy to "reduce emissions of greenhouse gases in the electricity sector" (see s3). But, somewhere … Continue reading Why Intermittent Wind Power Increases CO2 Emissions in the Electricity Sector
Wind Power: The Parasitic Power Producer
**** Promoting Parasitic Power Producers carbon-sense.com Viv Forbes 17 July 2014 Wind and solar are parasitic power producers, unable to survive in a modern electricity grid without the back-up of stand-alone electricity generators such as hydro, coal, gas or nuclear. And like all parasites, they weaken their hosts, causing increased operating and transmission costs and … Continue reading Wind Power: The Parasitic Power Producer
Lost In Translation: How a CO2 Abatement Scheme Became “Corporate Welfare on Steroids”
**** Time to remember the original aim of the RET Australian Financial Review Danny Price 21 August 2014 The RET was intended to cut carbon. Opening it up to more forms of efficient generation would help get that result. The debate over the renewable energy target has ended up exactly where you would expect a … Continue reading Lost In Translation: How a CO2 Abatement Scheme Became “Corporate Welfare on Steroids”
Senator Chris Back: Time to Kill the Mandatory RET
**** WA Liberal Senator, Chris Back launched a stinging attack on the wind industry during a speech in the Federal Senate, yesterday. Responding to a cacophony of wind industry rent seeker bleating, Chris has smashed headlong into three of the wind industry’s greatest myths. The first is that any alteration to the mandatory Renewable Energy … Continue reading Senator Chris Back: Time to Kill the Mandatory RET
Joe Hockey keen to scrap Infigen’s “utterly offensive” Lake George Wind Farm
**** In our last post we covered the Alan Jone’s interview with Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey that’s sent the wind industry and its parasites into a tailspin. Apart from the fact that Joe detests the very sight of these things, the Treasurer made it abundantly clear that when the Coalition talks about ending the “age … Continue reading Joe Hockey keen to scrap Infigen’s “utterly offensive” Lake George Wind Farm
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