**** Once upon a time, in a land far, far away there was a veritable manufacturing and industrial nirvana. Post WWII, its population grew at a phenomenal rate; and so too did the level of prosperity enjoyed by thousands of migrants fleeing to it from war ravaged Europe - cheap and abundant food, decent, affordable … Continue reading SA – Australia’s ‘Wind Power Capital’ – Pays the World’s Highest Power Prices and Wonders Why it’s an Economic Basket Case
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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
Casualties of South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle Mount: Thousands Can’t Afford Power
**** The new protectionism: renewable energy industry’s shameless self-promotion Catallaxy Files Alan Moran 5 December 2014 According to Christopher Flavin, the President emeritus of the Worldwatch Institute, in a few years’ time wind energy will not need to be subsidised. Oh wait! He said that back in 1984. And he was not alone, Booz, Allen … Continue reading Casualties of South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle Mount: Thousands Can’t Afford Power
Senator Matt Canavan: Australia’s RET Policy: “Robin Hood visits Bizarro World”
**** Labor’s energy policy nothing but wind The Australian Matt Canavan 4 December 2014 GEORGE Orwell once said that political language was designed to “give an appearance of solidity to pure wind”. Step forward exhibit A and the Labor Party’s explanation for refusing to fix the mess that is Australian renewable energy policy. Mark Butler … Continue reading Senator Matt Canavan: Australia’s RET Policy: “Robin Hood visits Bizarro World”
Want skyrocketing power prices? Just add Wind Power
**** With the Coalition’s review of the insanely expensive and utterly ineffective Renewable Energy Target (ineffective if the object was meant to be reducing CO2 emissions in the electricity sector) headed up by a team of hard-nosed economic rationalists, ready to take an axe to most ludicrous energy policy ever devised, the wind industry and … Continue reading Want skyrocketing power prices? Just add Wind Power
ETSA: Sir Tom Playford’s Ghost
**** Once upon a time, in a land far, far away there was a place called South Australia - and it enjoyed electricity delivered reliably and at retail prices amongst the lowest in the world (no, it wasn’t a dream). The brainchild of agrarian socialist, Liberal Premier, Sir Thomas Playford, the Electricity Trust of South … Continue reading ETSA: Sir Tom Playford’s Ghost