How Much CO2 Gets Emitted to Build a Wind Turbine?
The ONLY justification for wind power – the massive subsidies upon which it entirely depends (see our post here); spiralling power prices (see our post here); and the suffering caused to neighbours by...
View ArticleEuropean 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...
View ArticleLost In Translation: How a CO2 Abatement Scheme Became “Corporate Welfare on...
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...
View ArticleSenator 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...
View ArticleMandatory RET Just Another Form of Punishment for the Poor
The mandatory RET has seen around $9 billion worth of Renewable Energy Certificates issued to wind power outfits, so far; the cost of which has been added to retail power prices and recovered from all...
View ArticleProfessor Ian Plimer Slams the Great Wind Power Fraud
Greens’ silence on folly of wind and solar power News Weekly Ian Plimer 25 October 2014 A simple evaluation of ideological electricity shows that it is unsustainable. The answer is certainly not...
View ArticleMaurice Newman: Green’s RET Rhetoric Just Hysterical Hectoring
Inconvenient truths ignored by the climate propaganda machine The Australian Maurice Newman 7 November 2014 “LEAVE fossil fuels in the ground,” Greens leader Christine Milne says. “Renewable energy is...
View ArticleAustralian Senate to Turn Up the Blowtorch on the Great Wind Power Fraud
The Senate is about to launch into a full-blown attack on the wind industry and the fictions which have sustained it. Until now. We’ll open the batting with some moaning from the greentard’s favourite...
View Article20 Reasons Why the Wind Industry’s “Case” Doesn’t Stack Up
Here’s a great little take on the great wind power fraud from the US. Twenty Bad Things About Wind Energy, and Three Reasons Why By John Droz, Jr. — October 24, 2012 Editor note: This is an updated...
View ArticleGoogle’s Top Engineers say: “Renewable Energy Simply Won’t Work”
Renewable energy ‘simply WON’T WORK’: Top Google engineers The Register Lewis Page 21 November 2014 Windmills, solar, tidal – all a ‘false hope’, say Stanford PhDs Two highly qualified Google engineers...
View ArticleGermany’s Wind Power Disaster: An Economic & Environmental Failure
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...
View ArticleSpotlight Thrown on the Regressive Costs that Subsidise UK’s Failed Wind...
**** Our data shows that climate policies aren’t working. Why does that scare our opponents? The Telegraph Dr John Constable 2 Apr 2015 The solution to climate change lies in unleashing the ingenuity...
View ArticleWind Industry’s CO2 Abatement Claims Smashed by Top Physics Professor – Dr...
**** The mandatory RET has seen the cost of around $9 billion worth of Renewable Energy Certificates added to retail power prices and recovered from all Australian power consumers. Under the...
View ArticleWind Industry’s Bogus CO2 Abatement Claims Smashed Again
**** Let’s assume (as STT does, for the sake of argument) that the global warming/climate change Chicken Littles are right: the sky really is falling, and it’s all CO2’s fault. Then what on Earth are...
View ArticleSTT’s Take on the ‘Global Warming’ Story
**** Now and again, STT gets a comment that seeks to pin us down as “anti-wind”, “climate deniers”. Here’s one from Enough Already: I agree with your specific arguments against wind turbines, but even...
View ArticleWind Power: ‘Shredding Birds and Mincing Logic’
**** Shredding Birds and Mincing Logic Quadrant Online Peter O’Brien 1 July 2015 That wind farms are ugly is the least of the problems their heavily subsidised, rent-seeking promoters are inflicting...
View ArticleEuropeans Lament their Wind Power Fiasco
**** Hurrah! Windfarms produce whopping ONE PERCENT of EU energy The Register Lewis Page 27 July 2015 The colossal, hugely expensive windfarms that are spread across huge areas of Europe’s land and...
View ArticleWind Power: Just an Ugly ‘Hood Ornament’ on the Conventional Power System
**** As time marches on, the ability of the wind industry to ‘hood’-wink power punters is running into a deluge of ‘unhelpful’ facts: here’s some more from Michigan Capitol Confidential’s Jack Spencer....
View ArticleWind Power: Get Set to Return to the Dark Ages
**** Windmills and Sunbeams Won’t Keep the Lights On NewsMax Larry Bell 14 September 2015 The Obama administration’s global warming hell-bent “Clean Power Plan” which is supposed to regulate and tax...
View ArticleCanada’s Wind Power Debacle: $Billions Wasted with CO2 Emissions to Double
Ontario is the place where the most bizarre energy policy in the world has seen thousands of these things speared into the backyards of homes – in the most agriculturally productive part of Canada....
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