In America, Trump’s ‘deplorables’ have crushed the wind industry’s hopes of carpeting the United States in millions of these things; shares in wind turbine makers, like Denmark’s Vestas have plummeted.
In Australia, the wind industry is like a wandering zombie; quite apparently lifeless, but unwilling to yield to death’s strengthening grip. The Large-Scale RET on which it depends is bound to be scrapped, as it will never be met and the political cost of lumping $1.5 billion each year in a Federal penalty tax on top of all Australian power consumers’ retail power bills will force the Liberal Coalition and the Labor opposition to slash the annual target, once again.
In the UK, David Cameron went to an election promising to scrap subsidies to onshore wind power and to give a right of veto to…
Here’s one ‘Greens’ prepared earlier: Adelaide, SA 28 September 2016.
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Americans have got a long way to go to catch up with South Australians. While there is a well-organised band of eco-fascists pushing America towards a wind powered future, the penetration of wind power in the US is minuscule by comparison with Australia’s so-called “wind powered capital”.
South Australians, blessed with the highest power prices in the Nation (by a factor of two), if not the world on a purchasing power parity basis, routine load shedding (ie regional blackouts) and State-wide blackouts are acutely aware of the price paid for blindly following ideology, rather than economics and engineering. Its attempt to run on sunshine and breezes has turned into a fiasco and it, therefore, provides the perfect example of what not to do.
How and why South Australia (and countries like Spain, Germany, Denmark and the UK) ended up…
Britain went into wind power almost as fast and hard as Germany: the costs have been colossal and the effects on its power grid chaotic.
Fortunately, however, David Cameron’s Conservatives followed an election manifesto, slashed subsidies to onshore wind power and gave planning veto rights back to communities. Inevitably, the construction of proposed onshore wind farms ground to a halt.
But that is little consolation for British power consumers, who now face rocketing power prices and looming blackouts. The wind power disaster playing out in Britain is like a giant python swallowing a goat: it committed to the task a decade ago and it will take a very long time for the evident impact of its initial commitment to pass through the system.
In the absence of any further subsidies there will be no new wind power capacity added and, eventually, turbines…
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Physiological effects of wind turbine noise on sleep
Swedish study into wind turbine noise suggests that it can have an effect on sleep – even in young fit healthy subjects.
“The presence of beats and strong amplitude modulation contributed to sleep disturbance, reflected by more electrophysiological awakenings, increased light sleep and wakefulness, and reduced REM and deep sleep.”
By Michael G. Smith(a), Mikael Ögren(b), Pontus Thorsson(c), Eja Pedersen(d) and Kerstin Persson Waye(e)
In accordance with the EU energy policy, wind turbines are becoming increasingly widespread throughout Europe, and this trend is expected to continue globally. More people will consequently live close to wind turbines in the future, and hence may be exposed to wind farm noise. Of particular concern is the potential for nocturnal noise to contribute towards sleep disturbance of nearby residents. To examine the issue, we are implementing a project titled Wind Turbine Noise Effects on Sleep (WiTNES). In a pilot study described in this paper, we performed an initial investigation into the particular acoustical characteristics of wind turbine noise that might have the potential to disturb sleep. Six young, healthy individuals spent 5 nights in our sound exposure laboratory. During the final 3 nights of the study, the participants were exposed to wind turbine noise, which was synthesised based on analysis of field measurements. Exposures involved periods of different amplitude modulation strengths, the presence or absence of beats, different blade rotational periods, and outdoor LAEq,8h = 45 or 50 dB with indoor levels based on the windows being fully closed or slightly open. Physiological measurements indicate that nights with low frequency band amplitude modulation and LAEq,8h = 45 dB, slightly open window (LAEq,8h = 33 dB indoors) impacted sleep the most. The presence of beats and strong amplitude modulation contributed to sleep disturbance, reflected by more electrophysiological awakenings, increased light sleep and wakefulness, and reduced REM and deep sleep. The impact on sleep by these acoustic characteristics is currently the focus of interest in ongoing studies.
The video above and the pieces from the Financial Post below give a pretty fair rundown on why Ontario suffers the highest power costs in North America and what its Liberal government’s obsession with wind power has done to destroy not only its once competitive industry, but also its once peaceful and prosperous rural communities. The first is by Lawrence Solomon, executive director of Energy Probe.
Lawrence Solomon: Ontario is headed for a fatal future and only ending the renewable deals can prevent it
Financial Post
Lawerence Solomon
28 October 2016
Ontario was once the engine of the Canadian economy, a Triple-A-rated powerhouse commanding more than 40 per cent of the country’s GDP. Today this once-proud place is a have-not province whose credit rating is near the bottom of the pack, a loser that collects subsidies from the rest of the country.
Ontario lost its lustrous Triple-A credit rating when…
The election of Donald Trump has caused conniption fits amongst the hard green-left in the United States and elsewhere. Pundits predicted, with supreme confidence, that Hillary Clinton would take the White House and that all would be well in the politically correct garden.
However, America’s “basket of deplorables” had other ideas: a brash and vulgar businessmen, more famed for his line “you’re fired” on the reality TV show, The Apprentice, Trump not only won convincingly, the Republican Party increased its majority in the House and retained its majority in the Senate. Oops!
Donald Trump has made no secret of his plans to scrap a raft of “job destroying” policies invented by climate change Chicken Littles; and his hatred of these things goes back a decade to the bitter feud he has been in with a wind farm developer attempting to spear 11 turbines off the coast adjacent to his…
After America’s “basket of deplorables” banded together to send Donald Trump to the White House and Hillary Clinton to the Dog House, everything politicians and pundits thought they knew about politics is patently wrong.
Ignoring the working class is one thing, but condescending, denigrating and ridiculing those who plump for people like Trump as ‘idiots’, or worse, is quite another; as teary Clintonestas have learnt with disastrous (for them) consequences.
The political/media class which spawned and sustained people like Hillary Clinton is now so out of touch with the electorate, that results like Brexit and the election of Donald Trump as President of the USA come as gut-wrenching ‘shocks’.
In the lead up to the Presidential election, STT had the fortune of speaking to a number of Americans, who made it plain that Donald Trump was a serious contender and that Hillary Clinton was more detestable than deplorable.
In the wind industry it’s called cultivating support…
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Hated wherever it plies its filthy, subsidy-soaked trade, the wind industry is renowned world-wide for ‘greasing’ political palms, in order to garner the influence needed to obtain dodgy, rubber-stamped planning applications and to maintain massive subsidy streams until kingdom come.
With rural communities alive to the greatest economic and environmental fraud of all time – and universally furious about the manner in which the wind industry’s goons treat them with utter contempt, wind power outfits have, more than once, had to resort to outright bribery in their attempt to ‘win hearts and minds’.
The irony is, of course, that wind developers offering cash for votes are simply engaging in enviro-friendly ‘recycling’ – handing back a fraction of the massive subsidies filched from taxpayers and/or power consumers in order to buy the votes they need to get another subsidy-soaked project up…
In Ridley Scott’s 1991 feminist version of the classic American road film, Thelma and Louise, the protagonists hit the road in a 1966 Ford Thunderbird convertible, hoping to escape the dropkick men in their dreary lives.
Thelma, in resisting the unwanted advances of a would-be rapist, pumps her assailant full of lead and the pair of flawed heroines head off on a booze-filled Odyssey to the Wild West in an effort to evade police. The heart-racing denouement has Thelma and Louise (momentarily) thundering across the Grand Canyon, as they avoid capture by a small army of heavily armed and trigger happy police.
The Thunderbird almost appears to hover in space and, for a while at least, Thelma and Louise appear oblivious to their inevitable fate.
And so it is with Australia’s obsession with heavily subsidised wind power. Australia’s economic competitiveness is fundamentally based on…
SA’s vapid Premier, Jay Weatherill about to suffer another power shock.
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The Federal Large-Scale RET has just claimed another scalp in the shape of 1,600MW of reliable base-load plant at Hazelwood, Victoria – as well as more than 1,000 well-paid blue-collar jobs and an entire regional community.
That loss follows hot on the heels of the breathtakingly stupid decision by South Australia’s hapless Labor government to reject, out of hand, offers by Alinta to keep its Port Augusta plant up and running.
Alinta shut its plant as a direct result of the REC subsidies paid to wind power outfits under the Federal government’s LRET (the value of which underpins the guaranteed fixed prices in their PPAs with retailers of around $110 per MWh), whenever the wind blows in South Australia, wind power outfits were able to underbid Alinta (on plenty of occasions paying the grid manager to take their…
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