Macfarlane cops Miskelly Mauling
Ian Macfarlane is now the Minister for Industry, which includes the Energy portfolio. STT receives quite a lot of mail about Macca running way too close to wind weasel outlaws, Infigen (aka Babcock and...
View ArticlePaul’s Epistle to the Australian Electricity Consumer
By popular demand – here’s Paul’s Epistle to Australian power punters. In our last post, Paul Miskelly gave Ian Macfarlane an almighty serve over his apparent sympathy for wind weasels. We’ve been...
View ArticleAustralian Senator – Matt Canavan – Slams “Greens” Hypocrisy & Skewers the...
**** Queensland National’s Senator, Matt Canavan gets it. An economist by trade, having worked for the Productivity Commission, he’s got a head for facts and figures. Matt’s reasoned musings have...
View ArticleGlobal Investment Collapses: Investors Wake Up to the Wind Power Delusion
*** The wind industry is in meltdown around the globe, simply because investors have woken up to the monumental RISKS. Risks like: – turbines falling apart in less than 2 years; under pressure from...
View ArticleGermany’s Wind Power Surges Plunge Their Neighbours Into Darkness
**** The economics of Germany’s “Energiewende” are so bizarre, that you’d think it had been put together by the GDR’s ‘brains trust’, before the Berlin Wall took its tumble in 1989. In Germany, around...
View ArticleUK’s Wind Power Gamble Ends in Power Supply Bankruptcy
Until David Cameron’s Conservatives took full control of the UK Parliament, Britain had lumped every last chip on wind power: apparently hoping that a wholly weather dependent power source, that...
View ArticleMIT Study Shows Wind Power Can NEVER Compete with Conventional Sources
In their sillier moments, the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers pitch the line that their pointless product is not only getting cheaper all the time, but go so far as to claim that wind power...
View ArticleBase-Load Matters: America Waking Up to its Wind Power Fantasy
For a populous detached from the realities of power generation (or similarly detached from reality, in general) the concept of running on ‘free’ breezes and sunbeams has an almost natural attraction....
View ArticleBlackout Blues Continue: Australia’s Wind Industry Loses PR War for ‘Hearts &...
The proponents of a pointless power source, abandoned centuries ago for pretty obvious reasons, which exists, and only exists by reason of massive subsidies drawn from power consumers and/or taxpayers...
View ArticleTrump’s War on Wind Power: Access to Cheap & Reliable Power an Economic...
If the election of Donald Trump holds any lesson at all, it’s that energy costs and the security of its supply determine the economic and social health of any Nation, and ignoring that fact – by...
View ArticleChaotic Wind & Solar Power: A Pair of Guaranteed Grid Wreckers
There’s no place on the planet where wind and solar power perform anything like the overblown rhetoric that surrounds them. [Note to Ed: has it got something to do with the weather and the Earth’s...
View ArticleRenewable Energy’s Dirty Dozen: 12 Reasons Why Chaotically Intermittent &...
It takes a special brand of delusion to believe that the world can run on sunshine and breezes. For wind and sun worshippers, disastrous examples like South Australia – where mass blackouts and load...
View ArticleLiving in Australia? Then You’re Being Powered By Coal – So Deal With It!
If you’re reading this post in Australia, you’re doing so thanks to coal-fired power. Don’t like it? Then get off the internet. And, while you’re at it, turn off your lights, your air-conditioner, let...
View ArticlePure Unbridled Chaos: Why Unreliable and Intermittent Wind & Solar...
The more intermittent wind and solar get added to the grid, the greater the risk that their chaotic delivery of power will wreck it. By which we mean the delivery of an entire ‘system black’ – of the...
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