Bitcoiners come to where the power is: Redbank, NSW

For power consumers searching for the cheapest and most reliable power, coal is the only answer. Crypto-currencies, like Bitcoin, have been a bonanza; not only for risk-hungry techie investors (not to mention risk-averse drug smugglers and money launderers), they’ve been a windfall for power generators – provided those generators can deliver it reliably and at 1970s prices.

The servers used to run the block-chain programs upon which these virtual currencies depend, chew up veritable mountains of electricity. Hence their operator’s interest in sourcing the cheapest power there is. And, in Australia, that means coal-fired power.

The 151 MW Redbank Power Station, located near Singleton, in the Hunter Region, NSW, was built using private money by Babcock & Brown, started operating in 2001 and was mothballed in October 2014, after a messy liquidation of the entity in control, Redbank Project Pty Ltd.

Now, power…

The next generation of Australians will be eager to string up those responsible for turning an energy superpower into an international joke.

Coal, gas and uranium rich Australia shouldn’t be paying the highest power prices in the world; and it shouldn’t be cutting power to businesses and hospitals during hot weather, when demand spikes and the wind stops blowing. The renewable energy cult calls that ‘demand management’ or even ‘demand resources’, as if chopping your business or home from the grid is like striking oil or gas.

All those dismal features of Australia’s self-inflicted power pricing and supply calamity are the natural product of an obsession with sunshine and breezes.

Peter Mitchell, one of the founding members of the Waubra Foundation, is eager to start the roundup early, with a name and shame list of the renewables rent seekers, and those in government who pander to them, most…

For those pumping the perceived merits of wind and solar power, the laws of nature can be a real bitch. Meteorology, physics, economics have all conspired against nature’s wonder fuels: the sun and wind.

The disasters that are playing out in RE superpowers like South Australia and Germany, provide the perfect ‘how not to’ examples. Unless, of course, your objective is rocketing power prices and the destruction of once stable and reliable electricity supplies?

Sooner or later, we all sit down to a banquet of consequences.

Let’s take a look and see what’s on the menu in Germany?

Germany’s Green Energy Transition is Losing its Risk Buffer
The Global Warming Policy Forum
24 April 2018

Renewable energy can no longer rely on the protection of conventional power plant, Germany’s electricity sector has warned. To avert a shortfall, the government must act immediately. Otherwise, Germany’s network stability is endangered.

In the…

And we’d love to thank Katy for the unexpected invite.

The natural result of plugging into wind and solar power is absolute chaos. It’s like inviting the Hells Angels to your daughter’s 21^st birthday party and not expecting mayhem.

Those that kid themselves otherwise, fall into roughly 2 camps: dreamy, eco-zealots, happy to ignore everything the real world throws at them (especially facts antithetical to their narrative); and the professional kind, whose own personal financial success demands their undying loyalty to the same ideological cause.

Falling into the latter category, is the head of Australia’s Energy Market Operator (AEMO), Audrey Zibelman.

Audrey is part of a Yankee invasion, that includes AGL head, Andrew Vesey.

Zibelman drank the Kool-Aid years ago, when she joined the wind cult in New York State, and did her best to destroy its electricity supply. Now she’s running propaganda for the wind industry, Downunder; and…

A generation or so back, the ‘green’ was a well-meaning tree-hugger. Then along came CO2 gas which resulted in a new shade of ‘green’.

Gone was any vestige of human empathy, let alone compassion, both replaced by a maniacal belief that humans are literally ‘cockroaches’, devouring planet Earth.

Instead of hoping to improve the environment to benefit fellow humans, the new ‘green’ is determined to destroy free-market democracy, from within. The key is always and everywhere, energy. Want to destroy an economy in a generation, then the deprive it of reliable and affordable power.

Australia, hitherto an energy superpower, blessed with enormous reserves of coal, gas and uranium, now pays the highest power prices in the world and is – through the wind ‘powered’ State of South Australia – also renowned for routine blackouts, when wind power output collapses – which have affected tens of thousands and even blacked out…

German ‘greens’ can’t see the forest for the …

The wind industry is hypocrisy defined: merrily wrecking the environment under the auspices of ‘saving’ it. Slaughtering millions of birds and bats (and lying about it) is all in a day’s work.

In Germany, its eco-zealots are having a harder time than usual, in their dogged efforts to cover up the inevitable environmental destruction caused by their beloveds. Ancient forests are being clear felled; rare and endangered species driven to the point of extinction.

Here’s No Tricks Zone revealing the kind of story that troubles their sanctimonious and moralistic narrative, most.

6 New Papers Unsheathe A Hushed-Up ‘Green’ Reality: Habitats Are Being Destroyed By Wind Turbines
No Tricks Zone
Kennith Richard
15 March 2018

Scientists (Krekel and Zerrahn, 2017) report that the installation of wind turbines near human populations “exerts significant negative external effects on residential well-being” and…

It takes a ‘special’ kind of person to still believe that a country can run itself on sunshine and breezes.

Idolatry, zealotry, and good old-fashioned pig ignorance are worn like badges of honour amongst the wind and sun cult.

Claims range from the ‘wind is always blowing somewhere’, ‘wind power is cheaper than coal’, and ‘competitive’ with everything under the sun blah, blah, blah.

Another mantra is that, either wind power receives no subsidies at all or, if that’s grudgingly conceded, then the subsidies to wondrous wind dwarf those shoveled out to evil fossil fuels. (On the latter they struggle to come up with a shred of evidence to support their case, and ignore the fact that coal miners and gas extractors and pay very substantial sums in royalties to governments.)

True it is that the manner in which subsidies are filched from unwitting power consumers and siphoned off to…

Children as young as five are now taught to fear global warming in the way their mean uncles once terrified them with tales of ghosts and bogeymen, in days gone past.

Hysterical and overblown claims that runaway climate change is about to kill your granny are only half wrong: what’s likely to do the old dear in, isn’t a change in the weather; it’s climate change policies that are going to freeze her solid and send her to an early grave.

Cold weather is, indeed, a killer.

In Britain, as elsewhere, up to now the antidote has been affordable energy. However, an obsession with massively subsidised, weather dependent wind power has removed that remedy from the reach of all too many on low and fixed incomes; especially old age pensioners.

Over the last few summers, Australians have watched the elderly suffer and perish, unable to afford to run air-conditioners during…