It took the wind power disaster to unfold in South Australia before mainstream media started to notice the bleeding obvious: these things don't work - on any level. Slowly, but surely the press have pounced - attacking the causes and consequences of pouring $billions in subsidies at a power generation system which can only be … Continue reading South Australian Debacle Shows Wind Power a ‘Proven Failure’
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Ross McKitrick: Wind Power Subsidies Triple Power Prices in Ontario
One of the favourite smoke-and-mirrors lines pulled by the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers is that wind power lowers power prices. Among the 'tiny' little omissions in that pitch are that: 1) they're only ever talking about spot prices when the wind is blowing; and 2) they skate over the massive subsidies that get … Continue reading Ross McKitrick: Wind Power Subsidies Triple Power Prices in Ontario
Believe in Unicorns & Pixies? Why Not Believe in the Fantasy of Wind Power, Too?
The wind-cultist is a special breed: long on starry-eyed belief; short on our good friends 'logic' and 'reason' - occupying a fact-and-consequence-free netherworld, in which their favoured form of power generation arrives as a result of meteorological serendipity and, when it doesn't, the power still appears, as if by magic. Except that the 'magic' was … Continue reading Believe in Unicorns & Pixies? Why Not Believe in the Fantasy of Wind Power, Too?
Irish Eyes Ain’t Smiling: Wind Power Push Sends Power Prices Into Orbit
The political lunatics in charge of Ireland's wind powered energy debacle are about to reap the reality of what they have sown. Despite all that puff and guff about wind power being free, and getting cheaper all the time, the Irish have just been told that the Public Service Obligation (a levy tacked on power bills … Continue reading Irish Eyes Ain’t Smiling: Wind Power Push Sends Power Prices Into Orbit
SA’s Wind Power Debacle Escalates as Australian Wind Power Subsidies Hit $3 Billion a Year
Renewables’ subsidies put sting into power bills The Australian Michael Owen 26 July 2016 Renewable energy output in Australia is subsidised by almost $3 billion a year, more than 19 times the amount for generation from fossil fuels, a report by an economic consultancy says. The report by Principal Economics found renewable energy subsidies added … Continue reading SA’s Wind Power Debacle Escalates as Australian Wind Power Subsidies Hit $3 Billion a Year
Wind Power: The Greatest Swindle Ever Known
Australia is in election mode, with the battle for Federal political supremacy being won and lost on television and on the airwaves. The one broadcaster a political hopeful doesn't want off-side is 2GB's Alan Jones. AJ's followers number in the millions across 77 stations across the Country. Last week, Alan picked up on the cost … Continue reading Wind Power: The Greatest Swindle Ever Known
South Australia’s Wind Power Chaos: Victoria’s Coal-Fired Plant its Only Salvation
Wind cultists have been making the brazen claim that the rampant proliferation of these things in South Australia led to the demise of Alinta's coal-fired plant at Port Augusta. The perverse economics of the LRET (and the market distortions of directing RECs - currently worth $80 - to a 'product' with NO commercial value) is … Continue reading South Australia’s Wind Power Chaos: Victoria’s Coal-Fired Plant its Only Salvation
Kathleen Wynne’s Ontario Wind Power Fantasy Doubles Power Prices
**** Ontario was, once upon a time, an agricultural and manufacturing power house. Alas, the former pursuit has been smashed by plummeting property values and sonic torture, making thousands of farm homes uninhabitable; the latter endeavour has been demolished by power costs that have risen 108% due to the fantasy of trying to rely on … Continue reading Kathleen Wynne’s Ontario Wind Power Fantasy Doubles Power Prices
Out to Curb Rocketing Power Prices Denmark Slashes Subsidies for Offshore Wind Power
**** In what could pass for another episode of Danish Crime Thriller, 'Follow the Money', the Danish government has pulled the plug on 5 offshore wind farms; a move that will, no doubt, have the boys from Energreen & Co scribbling out hurried suicide notes. With power prices escalating out of control, Europe's wind power … Continue reading Out to Curb Rocketing Power Prices Denmark Slashes Subsidies for Offshore Wind Power
Robert Bryce: the Insane Cost of Renewable Pipe Dreams – a Banquet of Consequences
Robert Bryce gets it. In the video above and the article below, Robert details the insane cost of attempting to power economies with sunshine and breezes; and does what policy makers have failed or refused to do: he connects the bitter consequences, born by the many, with the follies of the feckless few. Issues 2016: … Continue reading Robert Bryce: the Insane Cost of Renewable Pipe Dreams – a Banquet of Consequences
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