Education is the only cure for “government-induced climaphobia”…
Hawkesbury River Study: CO2 improves tree growth, drought tolerance
CO2 is Good for our Environment…Improves tree growth, and drought tolerance.
Aussie Senator, Chris Back, Demands Moratorium on New Wind Farms….
Liberal Senator – Chris Back – Demands Moratorium on New Wind Farms
October 17, 2015 by
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Over bitter opposition from Labor and the Greens, and following almost 6 months of solid graft, 8 hearings in 4 States and the ACT, dozens of witnesses and almost 500 submissions, the Senate Inquiry into the great wind power fraud delivered its ‘doorstop’ final report, which runs to some 350 pages – available here: Senate Report
The first 200 pages are filled with facts, clarity, common sense and compassion; the balance, labelled “Labor’s dissenting report”, was written by the wind industry’s parasites and spruikers – including the Clean Energy Council (these days a front for Infigen aka Babcock & Brown); theAustralian Wind Alliance; and Leigh Ewbank from the Enemies of the Earth.
One of the hard-working Senators on the Inquiry was Chris Back – a Liberal from WA – the ‘Liberals’ are meant to be Australia’s free-market Conservatives. True to his colours, Chris is still in there fighting for a ‘fair go’ for rural communities and Australian power consumers, everywhere.
But it’s not just the lunatic left that Chris is up against. He faces dogged efforts to kill off the Senate’s recommendations by Patrick Gibbons – the wind industry’s ‘Mr Fix It’; who ‘controls’ traffic in order to protect his wind industry mates, from within the (notionally) ‘Liberal’ Environment Minister, young Gregory Hunt’s office.
Notwithstanding rats in his own ranks, Chris Back is determined to see the benefits of 6 months of hard work get delivered. Here’s a taste of what Chris is all about.
Senate Select Committee on Wind Turbines
In November 2014, I sponsored the motion in the Senate to establish the Senate Select Committee on Wind Turbines. The Committee concluded its Inquiry and reported to the Senate on 3 August 2015, making a number of important recommendations. The government has committed to responding actively and in good faith to the findings.
The Committee has recommended that:
The government sets up an Independent Expert Scientific Committee on Industrial Sound (IESC). This is in response to the large number of reports of ill-health from witnesses living near turbines.
A pilot acoustic study of the low frequency sound and infrasound produced by large industrial turbines has indicated that there is a link between sound and sensations damaging to human health. This recommendation has been accepted by the Minister for the Environment, Greg Hunt. I have made recommendations to the Minister regarding membership of the Committee.
The IESC develop a single national acoustic standard for the operation of wind turbines and reports to the relevant Health, Environment and Planning Ministers.
The IESC forms National Wind Farm Guidelines.
The government establish a National Wind Farm Ombudsman in response to community complaints. Minister Hunt has recently begun the process of establishing a Wind Farm Commissioner. I have recommended Terms of Reference to the Minister.
Eligibility to receive Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) will be made subject to compliance with the national acoustic standard and the wind farm guidelines.
The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) conduct a performance audit of the Clean Energy Regulator’s (CER) compliance with its role under the legislation.
The Government directs the Productivity Commission to conduct research into the impact of electricity generated by wind turbines on retail electricity prices.
All State Governments consider shifting responsibility for monitoring wind farms away from local councils to the State Environmental Protection Authority and failing that, a national regulatory body be established.
That all new wind farms will be eligible to receive RECs for a period of no more than five years (under current legislation they would be receiving subsidy until 2030).
These recommendations are required because:
In the absence of a known safe distance between wind turbines and occupied residences, the government must adopt a precautionary approach to protect people. The best precautionary approach is a moratorium on new wind farms.
In an industry that has operated with little regulation to date, strict regulation of noise compliance is necessary to protect people living in proximity to wind turbines.
Wind turbines are not reducing emissions in the electricity sector by the same amount that the industry is claiming and being subsidised.
The federally issued subsidy to wind farms (RECs) are paid for in the retail price of electricity which is paid by families, schools and hospitals. The retail price is set by power purchase agreements (PPAs) and amounts to billions every year. The subsidy issued to wind farms amounts to half a million dollars per turbine per year.
The new Renewable Energy Target (RET) of 33,000 GWh will require upwards of 2,500 new wind turbines to be built in rural areas across Australia.
Rural communities are caught unaware when they are canvassed to sign ‘Landholder Agreements’ and ‘Neighbour Benefit Schemes’ which sign away their personal and property rights.
Labor is vehemently in denial of the current issues, taking a completely unaffordable 50% RET to the next election. Furthermore, in their dissenting report, Labor refused to accept the evidence pointing to adverse health effects of industrial wind turbines.
The Greens refused to participate in the Inquiry at all.
I appreciate the support and interest by many State Councillors, especially Robyn Nolan, on this long term challenge.
Kind regards
Dr Chris Back
Liberal Senator for Western Australia
Wind Turbines Rely More On Subsidies, Than They Do On Wind…
Who Needs Wind When Massive Subsidies Will Do the Trick?
October 16, 2015 by
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WHO NEEDS WIND WHEN YOU’VE GOT SUBSIDIES
Pickering Post
Larry Pickering
25 September 2015
A unique set of circumstances gave Turnbull the keys to Kirribilli House, but he didn’t want them, he decided to stay in his far nicer house at Point Piper while he does his filthy global warming deals with the Greens in exchange for economic reform.
The first of his deals will be what he takes to the Paris Conference on Climate Change with the support of the diminutive Green global warmist, Greg Hunt and the UN besotted, NWO convert, Julie Bishop.
Tony Abbott may not have been able to change his spots after a near death experience in February of this year and you can rest assured Malcolm Turnbull has no intention to change his.
It is now clear that Turnbull’s grab for leadership was always planned prior to the IPCC Paris Conference but a Canning by-election suddenly emerged and looked certain to favour the Libs so it became imperative that he move early.
Turnbull was left in the luxurious position of having more than 30 terrified Lib backbenchers in marginal electorates who were prepared to do anything to save their seats and they looked to Malcolm Turnbull as their saviour.
Despite this unique political windfall Turnbull won the leadership by a mere ten votes (only five were needed to switch back to Abbott and Turnbull was gone to Gowings). But the urgent gamble paid off and he is now able to bury Abbott’s objection to inefficient windmills and the global warming myth and present Australia as a willing participant in the IPCC’s warming hoax.
Mr Turnbull has no problem finding the money for his electricity bills and the Greens care only for their ideology and they all must have sore hands from either high-fiving each other or masturbating over Turnbull’s exciting intentions.
Abbott said warming was crap and windmills were an eyesore, he was right, but now it’s too late, there were enough Judas backbenchers with nothing to lose to save the day.
Greg Hunt’s thousands of magic windmills, that can add nothing to the essential base load, are costing between one and two million bucks each with between $200,000 and $400,000 paid for by the taxpayer and a mere $10,000 going to the landholder, many of whom now wish they had never seen the bloody things.
We can now see why our electricity bills have gone through the roof and the Turnbull Government intends to ensure they keep climbing?
The UK Tory Government under Cameron has signalled it will end subsidies to onshore wind farms from April 1 next year.
The onshore wind industry executives have attacked the move as “political intervention”, while the trade body “RenewableUK” called for an urgent meeting with the new energy secretary, Amber Rudd (gord there’s another one) to discuss the implications of the announcement.
Scottish energy minister Fergus Ewing claimed that British consumers could end up paying between £2bn and £3bn more in bills because Scotland would now be home to 70 per cent of all future wind farms. (I can only presume he really meant to say bn.)
Conservative governments and windmills make poor bedfellows except when an erstwhile conservative government is led by Turnbull and a few UN sycophants.
These outrageous subsidies must soon stop but windmills will not survive without them. These inefficient, million dollar monstrosities only have an average life of 11 years before they need replacing. (No, industry advice is not reconditioning but replacing… they say replacement would be cheaper.)
The urgency with which Greg Hunt threw taxpayer funds at windmill construction companies meant that they will need replacing in a very short time… and all at the same time!
But who in their right mind would replace them without up to a half million dollar subsidy on each one? And if the subsidies continue under the Turnbull Government that half million subsidy becomes one million when it’s for the same replaced windmill.
The fact is no-one will ever construct a windmill without being heavily subsidised! What we are doing is replacing power that costs 3 to 5 cents per kilowatt hour to generate with windmill power that costs at least 13 1/2 cents per kilowatt hour.
“And these bastards know exactly what the sums are!”
So, even a Lefty Government led by Turnbull and a windmill addicted Greg Hunt cannot continue forever with subsidies that support inefficient power! So what must be the end result?
Thousands and thousands of these noisy, visually polluting bird killers will become land fill. And who will be forking out the brass to dismantle these eyesores? Yep, again it will be we the poor taxpayers.
Only the limited brain of a Green gopher could conceive that a windmill could be an efficient producer of power. And only a Green will argue that it actually is.
So if the Green gopher is right, why the bloody subsidies?
Pickering Post
Nice work, Larry!
But the subsidy figure he notes of a mere $400,000 per turbine, per year – paid in renewable energy certificates (RECs) – is a tad light on.
Pickering’s target, young Gregory Hunt has locked-in a $45 billion electricity tax, that’s designed to funnel every last cent of that sum to wind power outfits:
At $3 billion per year until 2031, Greg’s efforts to look after his mates, Vesta’s, Ken McAlpine and Infigen’s Miles George, amounts to the single, greatest industry subsidy scheme in the history of the Commonwealth.
As to what a single turbine can reap from the rort, under the ludicrously generous the REC Subsidy, consider a single 3 MW turbine.
If it operated 24 hours a day, 365 days a year – its owner would receive 26,280 RECs (24 x 365 x 3). Assuming, generously, a capacity factor of 35% (the cowboys from wind power outfits often wildly claim more than that) that single turbine will receive 9,198 RECs annually. At $93 per REC (the value at which they are designed to trade), that single turbine will, in 12 months, rake in $855,414 in REC Subsidy.
But wait, there’s more: that subsidy doesn’t last for a single year. Oh no. A turbine operating now will continue to receive the REC subsidy for 16 years, until 2031 – such that a single 3 MW turbine spinning today can pocket a total of $13,686,624 over the remaining life of the LRET. Not a bad little rort – considering the machine and its installation costs less than $3 million; and that being able to spear it into some dimwit’s back paddock under a landholder agreement costs a piddling $10-15,000 per year. State-sponsored theft never looked easier or more lucrative!
The REC Tax/Subsidy, including that associated with domestic solar under the original RET scheme, has already added more than $9 billion to Australian power bills, so far.
But, apart from that minor quibble, Larry is otherwise on the money.
It’s a subsidy rort, pure and simple.
Turbine Shut Down Order Instantly Restores Victims’ Health: Neighbours Rejoice at 1st Decent Night’s Sleep in Years
Congratulations to the People of Falmouth, On a “Good Night’s Sleep”!
Falmouth’s pair of insidious health destroyers.
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Falmouth wind turbine to be shut down
Cape Cod Times
Sean F. Driscoll
28 September 2015
FALMOUTH — One of the town’s twin wind turbines will be shut down after the Board of Selectmen voted Monday night to comply with a recent order to temporarily stop its operation.
During a closed-door meeting, the board voted to appeal the Sept. 17 cease-and-desist order issued by the Zoning Board of Appeals while also voting to comply with that order in the meantime, according to a news release sent shortly before 9 p.m. by Town Manager Julian Suso. The ZBA had ordered Wind 1, one of the two turbines, shut down while the town seeks a special permit that would allow it to continue to run.
The action caught opponents of the turbines by surprise. Selectmen were scheduled to meet both Monday and Tuesday in executive…
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Why Wynne Pushes Wind…..Follow the Money Trail!
Wind Industry Welfare: How Crony Capitalism Drives the Great Wind Power Fraud
October 12, 2015 by
‘Wind PTC Action Hub’: Time to End Energy Cronyism
Master Resource
Robert Bradley Jr.
9 October 2015
“Without the PTC, any mandated wind generation would be an even bigger political problem because its cost inflation would be exposed. The wind-is-competitive-with-fossil-fuels hyperbole would be refuted in real time.”
Congress enacted the Wind Production Tax Credit (PTC) in 1992 as a temporary measure for an “infant” industry.
Decades and nine extensions later, it is time to eliminate the PTC.
Subsidized wind power inflates electricity costs, compromises taxpayers, and destabilizes the electric grid (wind-generated electricity is intermittent).
The huge tax credit allows pricing that ruins the economics of steady, conventional generation sources. Wind power, indeed, is the perfect imperfect energy.
The PTC It is most beneficial to wealthy wind developers who are able to reduce their tax rate at the expense of the rest of us. It is past time to end corporate welfare for this mature, and in their own words,competitive, wind industry.
Obama Needs the PTC
President Obama and the EPA’s aggressive regulation of existing power plants amounts to a federal takeover of the electricity system. One of the goals of this regulation is to shift electricity from affordable and dependable sources like coal toward expensive and unreliable sources like wind. (On-grid solar does the same thing.)
Without the PTC, any mandated wind generation would be an even bigger political problem because its cost inflation would be exposed. The wind-is-competitive-with-fossil-fuels hyperbole would be refuted in real time.
Extending the Wind PTC helps Obama/EPA get away with this phase of their forced energy transformation. It is past time to let wind producers stand on their own merit.
In short, a vote for the PTC is a vote for the President’s federal energy takeover.
To this end, the American Energy Alliance has launched a Wind PTC Action Hub. Yesterday’s press release follows:
WASHINGTON — Today, the American Energy Alliance launchedwww.EndWindWelfare.org—a resource and activist hub aimed at eliminating the wind Production Tax Credit (PTC).
With this new tool, which includes a legislative tracker and an action center, AEA will encourage lawmakers to support efforts to end this taxpayer-funded handout. One feature of the hub is a video illustrating how the PTC is tied to President Obama’s new carbon dioxide regulation.
The goal of this regulation is to shift electricity generation from affordable and dependable sources like coal toward expensive and unreliable sources like wind. Obama’s plan will unavoidably raise electricity rates – hurting poor and middle class families the most. But without the PTC, mandating industrial wind power is a much more difficult task, as wind power needs handouts to survive.
Thus, Congress can take meaningful action against the Obama’s administration’s anti-energy agenda by eliminating the PTC. Watch the video below:
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The hub’s legislative tracker shows which representatives have publicly taken a stand against the PTC, allowing Americans to thank their elected leaders for opposing this handout, or hold them accountable for supporting wind welfare.
Our action center will also serve as a resource for policymakers and activists by providing recent reports, blog posts and ongoing advocacy efforts on the PTC.
Master Resource
In Australia, exactly the same forces are at work, driven by wind industry plants inside Environment Minister, Greg Hunt’s office, like Patrick Gibbons – who just happens to be very best mates with Vesta’s little darling, Ken McAlpine.
One of STT’s operatives recently stumbled across a cache of documents – recording a mass of work done by Gibbons, McAlpine and Miles George – of near-bankrupt wind power outfit, Infigen – back then known as Babcock and Brown. This mountain of documents – including internal memos, emails, press releases and presentations given to their political targets, like then Labor leader, Mark Latham – detail efforts by the trio to downplay any likely obstacles to their plans; and to blow the claimed ‘benefits’ of Babcock and Brown’s wind farms – and a planned Vesta’s blade manufacturing plant – out of all proportion with the truth.
Babcock and Brown’s investors, shareholders and creditors all ended up more than just a little worse for wear (to the tune of about $10 billion) as a result of precisely that kind of spin-doctoring shenanigans (see our post here).
In recent times, Gibbons is still working overtime to protect the wind industry by, among other skulduggery, rigging the terms of reference for the new wind farm commissioner in his benefactors’ favour; and appointing one of their own – a former renewable industry crony – as the commissioner.
Gibbons was also in there stacking the expert panel on wind farm noise emissions with hand-picked wind industry pets, like Kym Burgermeister – a noise ‘expert’ who has been defending his wind industry clients in the usual way for years.
Gibbon’s efforts to ‘fix’ it for his wind industry mates, by derailing the work done by the Senators on the Inquiry into the great wind power fraud, has left the Senate Cross-benchers – including STT Champion, David Leyonhjelm – furious.
Wind farm watchdog’s powers ‘not enough’ for crossbench senators
The Australian
Graham Lloyd
10 October 2015
The federal government has been accused of “reneging” on its commitment to crossbench senators regarding the powers of a scientific panel established to monitor wind turbine noise and health.
Australia’s renewable energy industry has promised to co-operate with a new wind farm commissioner and independent scientific committee appointed yesterday to handle complaints, and provide advice on health concerns and low frequency noise monitoring.
Environment Minister Greg Hunt said the appointments honoured a deal between the government and crossbench senators after a long Senate committee investigation earlier this year.
But senator David Leyonhjelm, who was on the committee, said the government had fallen short of its promise made to ensure passage of its renewable energy target legislation.
“I welcome the appointments of both the wind commissioner and the members of the expert scientific panel,” Senator Leyonhjelm said. “However, Minister Hunt has substantially strayed from the commitment he gave to crossbench senators on 23 June in the terms of reference for the expert scientific panel released today.
“Mr Hunt has reneged on his commitment, and it is difficult to see how the crossbench will be able to believe any of his undertakings in future.”
Crossbench senators had expected the panel to have greater investigatory powers.
But under the terms of reference the committee’s role will be to “improve science and monitoring of the potential impacts of sound from wind turbines (including low frequency and infrasound) on health and the environment’’. It will provide advice on the development of Australian methodologies and frameworks in sound measurement and standards for wind farms, including in the field of infrasound and low frequency sound.
Mr Hunt appointed Andrew Dyer as National Wind Farm Commissioner for three years. Mr Dyer is a former chairman of the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman Council and has worked in the renewable energy industry.
The independent scientific panel will be chaired by RMIT adjunct professor Jon Davy.
The Australian
Patrick Gibbons has been the captain of crony wind industry capitalism inside the (purportedly) Conservative Coalition; and has fought tooth-and-nail to ensure that the most colossal industry subsidy scheme in the history of the Commonwealth – that will cost all Australian power consumers $3 billion a year in higher power prices – all of which will be directed to Gibbon’s wind industry mates – is maintained:
Out to Save their Wind Industry Mates, Macfarlane & Hunt Lock-in $46 billion LRET Retail Power Tax
Thankfully, Australian banks and power retailers aren’t having a bar of it:
Let the Sun Shine In: Australia’s BIGGEST Power Retailer Determined to Kill Wind Power
Which means that Gibbons’ plans to destroy Australia’s economic future, on behalf of his mates at Infigen & Co, will eventually come to a shuddering halt:
Australia’s Most Notorious Wind Power Outfit – Infigen – Blames $304 Million Loss on the WIND
Wind Power ‘Investors’ Cut & Run from Australia as Ponzi Scheme Implodes
Any policy that is unsustainable – as America’s PTC and Australia’s LRET most clearly are – will inevitably collapse under its own weight; or be ignominiously scrapped by those that created it. And that is a fact of economic and political life.
The Wind Industry’s State-Sanctioned Global Killing Fields
“The Slaughter of the Innocents”.
Red kite ‘takes one for the Planet’ at Navarre Wind farm.
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In a few years to come, when the generation responsible for the current energy mess reaches its belated age of reason, and has to explain the Genesis and Armageddon of the great wind power fraud, one of the tougher questions for gramps and granny will be why did we build an utterly meaningless power generation source that’s ONLY genuine and consistent output was billions of dead birds and bats; sliced, diced and otherwise slaughtered by fleets of these things, all over the World?
Let there be no doubt, wind farms are avian slaughterhouses:
Bird Carcass Count proves AGL’s Macarthur Wind Farm is an Avian Slaughterhouse
In order to aid those attempting to explain just why birds and bats are being butchered in their millions, it pays to start with how.
To that end, you’ll need to wade…
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The Anti Communitarian Manifesto
What we’re up against…
Ontario has a Reputation…..for having a Messed Up Electricity System.
Canada’s Wind Power Debacle: $Billions Wasted with CO2 Emissions to Double
October 10, 2015 by 2 Comments
Ontario is the place where the most bizarre energy policy in the world has seen thousands of these things speared into the backyards of homes – in the most agriculturally productive part of Canada. When we say “bizarre” we mean completely bonkers.
Canada has one of the “cleanest” power generation mixes on the planet, with the vast bulk of its electricity coming from zero emissions sources such as nuclear and hydro.
Adding to the lunacy is the fact that wind power outfits are guaranteed to reap fat profits despite market conditions.
Where the wholesale market price for power in Ontario is between $30-50 per MWh, wind power generators pocket a fixed price of $135 MWh – even if there is absolutely no market for it and the Province literally has to pay neighbouring US States to take it.
Then there’s the guff about wind farms ‘saving’ the environment.
The central, endlessly repeated lie (upon which the great wind power fraud rests) is that increasing wind power generation results in decreases in CO2 emissions.
The ONLY claimed justification for wind power – that has no commercial value – apart from the subsidies that it has attracted – is that these things will ‘save’ the planet by ‘killing’ coal and gas – allowing us to go ‘fossil free’ and slash CO2 emissions to a zephyr. Well, that’s what were told ….
Now, to add insult to massive economic injury, the fact that wind power cannot – and will never – reduce CO2 emissions in the electricity sector has been rumbled in Ontario, too.
Wind energy claim that it’s clean not true in Ontario context
The Observer
Santo Giorno
25 September 2015
The wind energy lobby, the provincial government and the mainstream environmental groups continue to claim that wind-generated electricity is “clean” and therefore “good for the environment” (Sarnia Observer, Sept. 23, Turbines rising in Lambton).
This claim is simply not true in the context of Ontario’s electricity sector.
With every megawatt-hour of wind-produced electricity accepted into the Ontario grid, the province is in fact substituting electricity that produces an average of 40 kg CO2 per megawatt-hour (from gas turbines operating ONLY during peak demand) with electricity that produces an average of 200 kg CO2 per megawatt-hour (from gas turbines that MUST operate whenever the wind stops blowing).
If the provincial government continues to promote wind energy, as outlined in their 2013 Long Term Energy Plan, the increasing amounts of wind-generated electricity will cause CO2 emissions from Ontario’s electricity sector to double between 2016 and 2032.
These are the findings in an annual report titled “Ontario’s Electricity Dilemma” by the two Ontario engineering societies – the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers (OSPE) and the Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO). Available here: Ontario’s Electricity Dilemma – Achieving Low Emissions at Reasonable Electricity Rates
The latest edition, published in April 2015, can be found here:http://www.ospe.on.ca/?page=pres_lib#peo
The CO2 emission numbers were calculated using published data from the grid’s system operator, the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO).
These two engineering societies are not against renewables like wind energy. Their report contains a number of suggestions on how the province can better integrate renewable energy sources into the grid.
The increase in CO2 emission results directly from the government’s decision to give wind-generated electricity first access to our grid regardless of demand, regardless of the fact that our current generating capacity is 30 per cent above base load demand, regardless of the fact that because wind electricity is intermittent, only gas-powered generating plants ramp up fast enough to maintain grid stability, regardless of the fact that clean energy with zero CO2 emission – hydro and nuclear – is being dumped.
Let’s look at what this means locally. Suncor’s 100 MW Cedar Point project has an annual real capacity of about 30 MW because the wind doesn’t always blow; so it will produce about 262,800 megawatt-hours of electricity in one year.
This amount of electricity from our other sources – nuclear/hydro/gas – would result in the yearly emission of 10,500 metric tons of CO2.
The same output from Suncor’s Cedar Point project will result in yearly emissions of 52,560 metric tons of CO2 emission because additional gas-generated electricity is required. This is an INCREASE of 42,000 metric tons of CO2 each year for the next 20 years. Had this project not been built, the environment would be cleaner by that amount.
Our two engineering societies should be commended for producing this report. It reminds us that the provincial government has never undertaken a financial cost/benefit analysis, or an environmental cost/benefit analysis of its Green Energy Act; and so it continues with a program that has enormous financial and social costs; a program that will actually increase CO2 emissions and worsen the effects of climate change.
The Observer
We note The Observer’s concerns about ‘climate change’.
Of course, the climate “changes” – change is endogenous to the model. Whether that change is significant or “dangerous”, as the most strident hysterics would have us believe, is yet to be seen. Humans have tolerated severe ice ages and, somehow, miraculously managed to survive. If the planet warms, as we’ve been lately warned, STT is pretty confident we will survive that too: it’s called “adaptation” – a feature of humanity, oft referred to as “ingenuity”.
However, in the main, we leave the topic of global warming or climate change (whichever is your poison) to others.
STT takes the position that man-made emissions of CO2 may increase atmospheric temperatures. But we don’t concede that wind power has made – or is even capable of making – one jot of difference to CO2 emissions in the electricity sector; principally because it is NOT – and will never be – an ‘alternative’ to conventional generation systems, which are always and everywhere available on demand:
The Wind Power Fraud (in pictures): Part 2 – The Whole Eastern Grid Debacle
STT seeks to completely disconnect claims for and against global warming, and wind power generation.
As wind power can only ever be delivered (if at all) at crazy, random intervals it will never amount to a meaningful power source and will always require 100% of its capacity to be backed up 100% of the time with fossil fuel generation sources; in Australia, principally coal-fired plant. As a result, wind power generation will never “displace”, let alone “replace” fossil fuel generation sources.
Contrary to the anti-fossil fuel squad’s ranting, there isn’t a ‘choice’ between wind power and fossil fuel power generation: there’s a ‘choice’ between wind power (with fossil fuel powered back-up equal to 100% of its capacity) and relying on wind power alone. If you’re ready to ‘pick’ the latter, expect to be sitting freezing (or boiling) in the dark more than 60% of the time.
Wind power isn’t a ‘system’, it’s ‘chaos’ – the pictures tell the story: this is the ‘output’ from every wind farm connected to the Eastern Grid (based in NSW, VIC, TAS & SA – and with a combined installed capacity of 3,669MW) during May.
From The Observer’s observations, the wind has about the same level of reliability in Ontario, as elsewhere. With the cost running into the hundreds of $billions; and nothing to show for it, power punters in Ontario could be forgiven for feeling like they’ve been fleeced.
I’m looking for a snitch, who wants to get rich.
Blow the Whistle on the Climate Fraudsters!!!
Blogging is one of those impossible to make a profit from activities you have to fit into all the necessities of life, such as looking after your family, making a living, paying your bills, hacking back that out of control Amazonian jungle you call a garden, repairing a leaky roof at some considerable personal risk to yourself and the zillion other things that make up the details of life.
I’d like to do a lot more of it, but the aforementioned constraints mean the most time I can give it, is Sunday afternoons, barricaded in my study with the barbarians hammering on the door, the result being one piece a week. Some bloggers have a donations button, and no doubt they get a few bucks through that, but it’s hardly what I’d call a steady income.
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"Mothers Against Wind Turbines™" Phoenix Rising... 