The generation that have come to worship wind and solar power operate in a fact and consequence free zone, where logic and reason were bound and gagged from the beginning.

Their finest trait is their ability to shift the narrative, when troublesome facts – like blackouts caused by wind power output collapses and rocketing power bills – hit the headlines. Blame Tony Abbott, blame a right-wing conspiracy, blame STT, blame the weather, but never ever shall thy speak a word in anger against wind and solar power.

This collection of facts is of the kind that would make the heads of these precious snowflakes explode. The analysis is from the UK, but the fundamentals are applicable wherever the wind industry plies its subsidy soaked trade. Be sure to share them with wind and sun worshippers, wherever they congregate.

Wind Power–Some Basic Facts
Not a Lot of People Know That
Paul…

His business couldn’t afford the ‘wonderful’ feeling of SA’s ‘green’ power.

As that great frog-philosopher, Kermit reckoned, it isn’t easy being ‘green’. It is even harder when the cost of attempting to do so is, quite literally, crippling.

Back in July, a family-owned specialist plastics recycling company in South Australia was forced to close its doors for good, with the loss of 35 jobs, after its electricity bills soared from $80,000 a month to $180,000 a month in less than 18 months.

At the time, Plastic Granulating Services managing director Stephen Scherer said power price hikes, driven by the closure of the state’s last coal-fired power station and a more than 40 per cent green energy mix, were the “final straw” for a company founded by his father 38 years ago. “I am absolutely devastated,” Mr Scherer said. “I literally kept a close daily monitor on electricity prices and at the…

It’s said that you can’t keep a good man down and, in that respect, Ian Plimer is simply irrepressible. His latest book, The Climate Delusion and The Great Electricity Rip-off is jumping off the shelves. A précis (and where to purchase it) appears in our post here: Ian Plimer: The Climate Change Delusion and The Great Electricity Ripoff

STT is presently devouring the text, and enjoying every minute of it (not to mention that STT gets a pretty favourable plug from Ian in his Acknowledgements). Drowning in facts and dripping in common sense every page is a pleasure and well worth a measly A$39.95.

To educate the willing and infuriate the ignorant, STT bought a case of them, and has sent them to all corners of the Commonwealth. It is a must have for anybody tackling the wind cult, wherever they are.

Here’s an op-ed Ian did for The Australian…

Australia’s diabolically destructive renewable energy policies have led to rocketing power prices and a grid on the brink of collapse. Australian power consumers currently connected to the Eastern Grid (that connects Queensland, New South Wales, ACT, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania) have no idea just how close they are to watching their first total ‘system black’.

What occurred in South Australia on 1 November 2015 and on 28 September 2016 (see above) and on 8 February 2017 is a foretaste of things to come, across the Eastern Grid (Tasmania excepted – it can pull the plug on Basslink and go it alone with ample hydro power, and gas-fired plant in reserve).

In Australia’s so-called wind power capital, South Australia, during September and early October, the grid manager was forced to intervene five times in six weeks – ordering the owners of idle gas-fired plant to fire them up and run them…

Gradually, painfully, the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers are coming to the realisation that Malcolm Turnbull’s National Energy Guarantee means the end of the greatest subsidy-soaked rort of all time.

Among renewables rent-seekers, a few deluded souls are still kidding themselves that it will all blow over (so to speak), while, at the other end of the spectrum, others are frothing at the mouth, like crazed demons.

STT thinks they’re just working through the 5 stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.

In our analysis of the NEG, we came to the conclusion that the policy – which requires retailers to enter contracts with conventional generators to guarantee the supply of electricity to their customers in the worst-case scenario (eg a breathless week of +40°C weather across the Continent), irrespective of whether the sun is up or the wind is blowing – spelt the end for worthless…

Australia’s self-inflicted energy ‘crisis’ is the consequence of considered and deliberate action that promoted weather dependent wind power and time-dependent solar power at the expense of the secure, reliable and affordable stuff.

As the political panic spreads, it’s quite apparent, that those who created the disaster have almost no idea how resolve it.

The PM, Malcolm Turnbull’s National Energy Guarantee (NEG) has no hope of reducing crippling power prices, and is all about attempting to restore stability to an ailing electricity grid.

With the help of JoNova, we’ll go back in time a week or two, to recount the moment when Australia’s political betters recognised just how serious Australia’s power crisis is.

Politicians “shocked” at the power crisis waiting in the Australian electricity grid
Jo Nova Blog
Jo Nova
19 October 2017

Did some politicans just wake up? The news today is that our Energy Minister may realize Australia is…

When called upon the think of certainties, gravity springs to mind (at least on earth). Although, for the wind industry it does tend to deliver harsh results – see above, yet another fatal collapse, this time in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Another certainty, is that once people tackle the facts, they turn against wind power with a vengeance. Tom Brewer is a Senator from Nebraska who has not just turned on the wind industry, he is determined to destroy it. Here he is doing just that, a couple of months ago.

Brewer at the Legislature: Wind energy is testament to greed  
North Platte Bulletin
Sen. Tom Brewer
22 August 2017

I went to a meeting about Wind Energy in Mitchell, S.D. this week. There, I met representatives from more than a dozen South Dakota counties, a member of the South Dakota legislature, county commissioners and nearly that many people from Nebraska.

While…

In the war against the greatest economic and environmental fraud of all time, few individuals come close to South Australia’s Mary Morris.

Mary’s knowledge of acoustics and understanding of how the wind industry rigged the so-called noise ‘guidelines’ in its favour with the aid of its pet acoustic consultants, is second to none. Here’s Mary being interviewed on ABC radio (bear in mind that Australia’s public broadcaster is wind cult central and its members would rather wash their mouths out with soap, than ever utter a harsh word about their beloveds). The podcast is here, with transcript below:

Transcript:

David Bevan (ABC announcer): Now, in a moment, we are going to talk to a lady, Mary Morris, and she lives at Eudunda. She sent us some emails a while back, concerned about another batch of wind farms north of Adelaide. This if from the Barossa area up through to the…

Malcolm Turnbull’s attempt to save Australia’s electricity grid from imminent collapse has been tagged the National Energy Guarantee. Whether or not it guarantees that the lights stay on and the economy can keep limping along, is anybody’s guess. However, it is a guarantee of controversy. When the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers finally tumble to what the NEG means for them there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. And those who want to kill off the Renewable Energy Target (like STT) will never rest easy, until the greatest policy disaster in Australian history is just that: history.

Probably because 99% of power consumers (in States other than SA) assume that Australia’s electricity grid is fine and will keep ticking along forever, forestalling state-wide ‘system blacks’ (of the kind routinely suffered in South Australia) isn’t high on their priorities.

Until New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria start suffering load…

That a government decides to entertain a moment of self-congratulation – simply because the lights might stay on – would be understandable, if the Country in question was North Korea or Cuba. However, the primary purpose of Malcolm Turnbull’s National Energy Guarantee is just that: allowing the Federal government to claim ‘mission accomplished’, if Australia avoids mass load shedding or blackout events this Summer, when the wind stops blowing and/or the sun goes down.

Quite reasonably, however, Australian households and businesses have formed a dogged expectation that, not only will power be delivered to them as and when they need it, but that they will also be able to afford the bill when it is presented by their retail provider.

For as long as the Large-Scale RET is in place, the NEG is unlikely to do anything to reduce power prices. At least in the short term. Which tends to…