It took the proletariat a nanosecond to work out that wind power cannot, and will never, work as a meaningful power generation source.

Graphs like the one above – depicting the entire output of every wind turbine connected to Australia’s Eastern Grid (spread across four states, NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia) – quickly gave the game away.

Challenged with the inherent unreliability and obvious intermittency of wind power, those pushing it have been reduced to chanting mantras about mega-batteries saving the day.

The way they tell it, it’s as if they simply left grid-scale battery storage off their shopping lists – like some muddle-headed shopper returning home without milk and bread – and all they needed to do was pop back to the shops to collect some.

A bargain struck by economic vandals: $150,000,000 for 4 minute’s power.

The world’s largest battery cuts a lonely figure in a paddock…

As Australia’s Energy Minister’s gathered for a panicked attempt to keep the subsidised renewable energy scam rolling for just that bit longer, the Wind Gods conspired to deflate their pumped-up rhetoric about Australia’s ‘inevitable transition’ to nature’s wonder fuels: sunshine and breezes.

What’s depicted above, courtesy of Aneroid Energy, is the output from every wind turbine (with a notional ‘capacity’ of 4,675 MW) spread across four states and connected to the Eastern Grid on 18 April.

Here’s Terry McCrann taking the wind out of the wind cult’s sails (with a little more help from STT and Aneroid Energy).

Wind turbines delivering next nothing to grid despite hysteria
Herald Sun
Terry McCrann
19 April 2018

Are we completely insane? Well, almost our entire political class and the overwhelming majority of — self-believing — “clever people” seemingly certainly are.

As I write this Wednesday evening, all those wonderful “clean” wind turbines…

Craig Kelly: a man with a plan.

In a little over 15 years, Australia has gone from an energy superpower to an international joke. Power prices are rocketing, and its Eastern Grid is on the brink of collapse. All for the sake of a pointless, ideological obsession with wind and solar power.

Thankfully, a solid rump of 30 Liberal and National Federal MPs are determined to turn the mess around. Their Monash Forum has started with a plan to restore affordable and reliable power which, up to now, Australians have justifiably seen as their birthright. As that baseballer/philosopher, Yogi Bera put it: “If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up some where else.” Here’s Alan Moran with a little roadmap on where the Monash Forum is headed.

Energy policy takes center stage
Catallaxy Files
Alan Moran
9 April 2018

The action is getting hotter on…

Wind power outfits often claim that their particular operation ‘powers’ 30,000 homes; RE zealots even claim that South Australians get 50% of their power from the sun and wind.

Whacked with the obvious retort of ‘when?’, the wind cultist changes tack and starts mumbling about mega-batteries (non-existent and insanely costly), pumped hydro (non-existent and costly) and then starts ranting about an evil fossil fuel conspiracy.

South Australia is the shining example of the true cost and absolute chaos that comes with attempting to run on sunshine and breezes.

Set out above, courtesy of Aneroid Energy, is the output from every wind turbine in SA during the merry month of March (with a notional capacity of 1,810 MW).

Even if you add in the piddling 100 MW capacity of its $150,000,000 Elon Musk special, it’s pretty clear that collapses in the order of 700 to 1,200 MW (which occur…

Germany’s wind power obsession has turned picture postcard landscapes into alien, industrial war zones – of the kind dreamt up by futurist HG Wells.

In the beginning, carpetbaggers, rent seekers and their eco-zealot, shock troops sold the ‘transition’ to an all wind and sun powered future as an ecological idyll. Except, the reality has fallen well short of the original pitch.

German communities, just like those everywhere else, are angry at watching their property values plummet; homes made unlivable, due to the constant bombardment of wind turbine generated low-frequency noise and infrasound; and real environmentalists are furious at the destruction of ancient forests, and the carnage meted out to a menagerie of birds, bats and other critters, made homeless by the destruction of their habitats. All, of course, to ‘save’ the planet.

In short, what seemed like a good idea at the time, has turned into a daily nightmare for…

Renewables rent seekers keep telling us how cheap wind and solar are, compared to those ‘evil’ fossil fuels, coal and gas.

But ‘price’ and ‘value’ are not the same animals. What we pay for something, and what it’s worth depends entirely upon what we get. And, in relation to the consumption of electricity, whether or not we get it, at all.

Wind power might be ‘free’, but try purchasing it, at any price, when the wind stops blowing.

Comparing weather dependent wind generation with sources available, around-the-clock, irrespective of the weather, is a game played by intellectual pygmies. There is, of course, no comparison.

So when you’re faced with a pile of numbers said to show how wind stacks up against the big boys, the obvious retort is, ‘when’? When I need it, or when the wind is just right?

Donn Dears picks up that thread quite neatly in this…

Any state or country thinking about running on sunshine and breezes has enough disastrous examples to make them think twice.

Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: massively subsidised, unreliable and intermittent wind power undercuts reliable coal-fired power plants; some of those plants close; power prices rocket; and grid managers suffer conniptions as they chop customers from the grid, trying to prevent a complete ‘system black’ when the wind stops blowing, as it does almost every single day.

You’ve all heard the story about how wind power obsessed South Australia wrecked its grid and drove power prices through the roof.

Well, here’s pretty much the same tale from Texas, as told by Larry Bell.

Larry is an endowed professor of space architecture at the University of Houston where he founded the Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture (SICSA) and the graduate program in space…

Coming to grips with a revolt against his beloved renewables.

Politics is a cruel caper and, in Australia, the politics of power is merciless.

Malcolm Turnbull has just lost 30 Newspolls in a row; the apparently fatal number that gave him licence to knife a sitting PM, Tony Abbott in September 2015.

In an election fought on Labor’s ‘Carbon Tax’ (a monstrously expensive tax on CO2 gas which applied to all energy production) Abbott promised to scrap the Tax and thereby led his Coalition to a thumping 17 seat majority victory in 2013.

In launching his coup d’état, the patrician and aloof Turnbull pointed to the polls and claimed he could do a whole lot better than Abbott. He didn’t.

At his first electoral outing in July 2016, Turnbull ran an underwhelming campaign (seemingly centred on his own personal brilliance – and sounding like a Marvel comic series – its…

Craig Kelly: peoples’ Champion fights for affordable & reliable power.

Australia’s mainstream media occupy a fact and consequence free zone, where the sun always shines and the wind always blows. How else can their cult-like veneration of wind and solar power be explained?

With a growing group of National and Liberal MPs joining the Monash Forum, and dictating the terms about Australia’s energy future, those wedded to the idea that you can power an entire country, entirely on sunshine and breezes, have just had their comfy confidence in their intellectual and moral superiority, permanently shattered.

Here’s Alan Moran helping to smash their esteemed, and hitherto entrenched, sense of smugness.

Can the backbench energy revolt steer us back low cost electricity?
Catallaxy Files
Alan Moran
4 April 2018

It all came so suddenly.

Over the Easter break a ginger group of Coalition backbenchers, the Monash Forum, was announced.  Chaired…