Wind Power Chaos Promises to Deliver Mass Summer Blackouts Across Australia
Posted: June 22, 2017 Filed under: Angry Summer, Australia, Failed Green Schemes, Govt Climate Agenda, Green Agenda, Green Energy, Renewables, Solar, Unreliables, Wind Farms | Tags: Fossil Fuels, Fuel Poverty, Green Energy, Green Energy Failure, Hazlewood, Heatwave, Jay Weatherill, Josh Frydenberg, Malcolm Turnbull, Renewable energy, RET, SA Blackout, South Australia, unreliables, Victoria, wind energy scam, Wind Farms, wind power Leave a comment“With the closure of Victoria’s Hazelwood plant in April, Victorians are going to get a taste of what their South Australian neighbours have been living with for years: routine load shedding and mass blackouts.”
The mind boggles for SA who are going to incur more mass blackouts, if that’s possible, with the closure of Hazlewood which provided 25% of SA baseload power. Backup coal-fired power from Victoria, on demand, when the wind stopped blowing or it was night time and the SA solar panels went to bed.
It’s gonna be one hell of a summer in southern Australia. Actual lives are now at risk thanks to reckless, feckless, feel-good “global warming” policies ! 🔥
The only businesses which are bouncing along in South Australia are those selling portable diesel generators, candles and LED headlamps.
The sort of staple items you might find on a Doomsday Prepper’s list. However, in Australia’s so-called wind power capital, BYO and DIY power and lighting are everyday essentials.
SA’s vapid Premier, Jay Weatherill pretends that he has everything under control. Australia’s Energy Market Operator clearly thinks otherwise.
AEMO warns of more blackouts
The Australian Financial Review
Mark Ludlow and Angela MacDonald-Smith
15 June 2017
Australia is at risk of more blackouts next summer despite new initiatives from energy regulators and governments, according to forecasts from the Australian Energy Market Operator.
The AEMO report to be released on Thursday also warns the looming gas shortage – which resulted in Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull declaring an “energy crisis” – could still occur if too much gas was exported overseas.
With federal…
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Daily Telegraph: There is No Such Thing as Affordable Renewable Energy
Posted: June 18, 2017 Filed under: Australia, CO2 (Carbon Dioxide), Energy Poverty, Fact Check, Failed Green Schemes, Fossil Fuels, Global Warming Zealots, Govt Climate Agenda, Green Agenda, Green Energy, Renewables, Solar, Unreliables, Wind Farms | Tags: Blackouts, Credlin, Energy, Energy Poverty, Fuel Poverty, Global Warming Scam, Green Energy, Green Energy Failure, Malcolm Turnbull, Renewable energy, renewables, RET, unreliables Leave a comment“The biggest deniers in the whole climate change debate are those who think we can have affordable power, lower emissions and a reliable network.”
Peta Credlin for PM! Spot-on, again.
EAPI represents the average commodity price of retail electricity paid by Australian businesses based on a Standard Retail Contract (commences in 6-months and operates for 2½ years). Source Energy Action
Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Awareness is slowly permeating through the media that renewables inevitably lead to higher electricity prices – and that the Australian energy grid is in deep trouble. But this awareness is too little, too late, to save what is left of what was once one of the cheapest electricity grids in the world.
Climate change zealots need to get real
Peta CredlinJune 18, 2017 12:00am
WELL, now we know.
The biggest deniers in the whole climate change debate are those who think we can have affordable power, lower emissions and a reliable network.
We can’t.
And after they almost sleepwalked their way to defeat at the last election, it would appear Coalition MPs have found their…
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Finkel’s Fantasyland: Report to ‘Save’ Australia’s Power Grid From Renewables Chaos a Death Sentence for Business
Posted: June 11, 2017 Filed under: Australia, CO2 (Carbon Dioxide), Energy Poverty, Fact Check, Failed Climate Models, Fossil Fuels, Govt Climate Agenda, Green Agenda, Green Energy, Renewables, Solar, Unreliables, Wind Farms | Tags: Australia, Climate Policy, Energy, Energy Poverty, failed climate models, Finkel, Green Energy Failure, green energy scam, unreliables, wind energy scam, Wind Farms, wind power Leave a comment“And here’s a very important warning: beware modellers who tell you that, in the best-case scenario, electricity prices could actually fall. Tell that to the householders who face power price rises of between 20 and 30 per cent in parts of Australia.”
Garbage in, garbage out is the key reason to distrust the modelling, as well as the riding instructions given to compliant modellers. They are happy to adjust assumptions, often in hidden ways, to achieve the desired result…”
Sounds a lot like the overheated UN CMIP5 climate models – 102 ensembles which have failed dismally to model observed reality with regard to the current global warming “pause”. That ever inconvenient warming “hiatus” now nearing two decades despite record “CO2” emissions over the same period!
Oh, and you’ll find grid-scale battery storage right over here.
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In yesterday’s post we described Alan Finkel’s report on Australia’s power market fiasco as a mixture of Lewis Carroll’s ‘Through the Looking-Glass’ – residing in a place where the fundamentals of physics and economics, logic and reason are playfully and permanently suspended – and Goldilocks – the story about an infantile quest to make sure everything the heart desires is ‘just right’ – another lovable, childish fantasy.
After the report was released, commentators and barrackers set to work attempting to find something resembling common sense amongst its musings.
Alas, the report’s recommendations (available here), were they to be implemented, would guarantee the destruction of what remains of Australia’s reliable and affordable power supplies, albeit at a somewhat slower pace than is already guaranteed under the Large-Scale RET. South Australia has already been written-off; Finkel uses it as ‘case…
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EU’s CO2 Emissions On The Rise, Blaming Cold Winter
Posted: June 7, 2017 Filed under: CO2, CO2 (Carbon Dioxide), Fact Check, Fossil Fuels, Global Cooling, Global Temperature, Government Grants/Funding, Govt Climate Agenda, Green Agenda, Green Energy | Tags: carbon dioxide emissions, Climate Change Scam, CO2, CO2 (Carbon Dioxide), Emissions, EU, Europe, global cooling, Global Warming Scam, Global Warming Scare, Green Energy Failure, Trump, unreliables Leave a commentAhh the delicious irony! EU CO2 emissions rising – whilst they lambast Trump whose emissions are declining – all the while blaming it on “Cold” weather which obviously corrupts the “CO2 = warming” narrative!
By Paul Homewood
From GWPF:
According to new data published by the European Environment Agency (EEA), the 0.5% increase happened largely due to increasing demand for transport – better fuel efficiency in the sector was not enough to offset this.
The report suggests a slightly colder winter across Europe also contributed to increased emissions, due to higher demand for heating.
Road transport emissions, which account for about a fifth of total EU greenhouse gas emissions, increased for the second year in a row, by 1.6 %. Aviation emissions also increased by 3.3 %.
The increase in emissions was relatively slight, compared to the strongest annual economic growth (2.2 %) witnessed in the EU since 2007 and following a 4% decrease in emissions in 2014.
Spain, Italy and the Netherlands accounted for the largest increases in greenhouse gas emissions, with the UK showing the largest decrease (7.5%) of the European…
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Greens Founder Calls Germany’s Renewables Policy: “an Economic, Social and Ecological Disaster”
Posted: June 6, 2017 Filed under: Environmentalists, Failed Green Schemes, Green Energy, infrasound, Renewables, Taxpayer waste, Unreliables, Wind Farms, Wind Turbine Syndrome (WTS) | Tags: Energiewende, Green Energy Failure, green energy scam, Greens, Industrial Wind, Renewable energy, unreliables, wind, Wind Energy, wind energy scam, Wind Farms, wind power, wind revolt Leave a comment
When people turn on wind power, it’s a one-way proposition: they never, ever worship these things again.
And when the convert was among those who first championed the greatest economic and environmental fraud of all time, they don’t just quietly fall out of love, they tend to become the loudest critics of all; a bit like reformed smokers berating their old smoking buddies for lighting up.
One character who fits that mould is co-founder of the German Greens, Otto Georg Schily; who has just joined the growing throngs of Germans who now recognise the country’s maniacal obsession with massively subsidised wind and solar power as “an economic, social and ecological disaster”.
Germany’s Energiewende “An Economic, Social and Ecological Disaster”, Writes Top German Socialist!
No Tricks Zone
Pierre Gosselin
19 May 2017
In a referendum slated for this coming Sunday, Swiss citizens are being called to vote on a national energy strategy…
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Wealth of Scientific Evidence Shows Wind Turbine Noise Wrecks Sleep & Health
Posted: June 5, 2017 Filed under: Energy Poverty, Fact Check, Failed Green Schemes, Green Energy, Renewables, Unreliables, Wind Farms, Wind Turbine Syndrome (WTS) | Tags: Climate Change, Environmental health, Green Energy Failure, health, Industrial Wind, infrasound, sleep deprivation, unreliables, Wind Energy, wind energy scam, wind power, Wind Turbine Syndrome (WTS) Leave a comment“The results from the experimental study of sleep deprivation of fairly short durations, which affected the expression of a large range of genes, sheds light on the “Wind Turbine Syndrome (WTS)”, a cluster of symptoms which includes sleep disturbance, fatigue, headaches, dizziness, nausea, changes in mood and inability to concentrate.
Finally, wind turbines considerably reduce the value of dwellings nearby and this has a negative long-term effect on their owners’ and their families’ health. On top of this, increasing numbers of families will be driven into fuel poverty by spiralling electricity costs which are subsidizing wind energy.”
The climate cult talks about supposed “catastrophic climate change” affecting your children’s, children’s, children’s, children. But, they don’t give a toss about the chronic effects that schizophrenic climate solutions, like industrial windmills, are having on people’s livelihoods NOW!
Tsk tsk tsk.
The evidence proving the unnecessary damage done to wind farm neighbours by the noise generated by giant industrial wind turbines is mounting by the day: Germany’s Max Planck Institute has identified sub-audible infrasound as the cause of stress, sleep disruption and more (see our post here); and a Swedish group have shown that it’s the pulsing nature of low-frequency wind turbine noise (‘amplitude modulation’) that is responsible for sleep problems in those forced to live with it (see our post here).
On the same trail, Professor Alun Evans has put together a review of the literature detailing the adverse health effects caused by wind turbine noise emissions. Alun’s paper argues that the wealth of evidence of harm requires public health bodies to do their duty, by exercising the precautionary principle in order to prevent any more unnecessary suffering.
Selected sections of Alun’s paper (minus the references) are presented…
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Scotland Squanders ₤Billions on Subsidised Wind & Gets Stone Age Power in Return
Posted: June 4, 2017 Filed under: BIG Government, Fact Check, Renewables, Unreliables, Wind Farms | Tags: Alex Salmond, Energy, Energy Poverty, Green Energy Failure, Novelty Energy, Renewable energy, Scotland, unreliables, Wind Energy, wind energy scam, wind power Leave a commentNot to mention the *millions* of trees chopped down by eco-vandal Alex Salmond to clear the way for Scotland’s feel-good windmills.
So much for “environmentalism”!
https://climatism.wordpress.com/2013/10/18/a-token-gesture-to-the-folly-of-green-madness/
Nicola Sturgeon: exultant wind industry profiteer.
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A decade or so from now, when thousands of wind turbines are quietly rusting in some dimwit’s back paddock, the next generation will rightly ask why states and whole nations squandered $billions on a wholly weather dependent power source, abandoned centuries ago for pretty obvious reasons?
Eventually, the spotlight will turn on the political enablers who made it happen.
In Scotland, characters like Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond have exhibited a maniacal obsession with wind power, which can only be explained through political ambition and financial gain (these days, the latter being essential to guarantee the former).
Sturgeon and Salmond (indeed politicians of all shades) have benefited handsomely through donations thrown their way from foreign wind turbine manufacturers and foreign-owned wind power outfits.
In Australia, the Labor Party is fueled by money channelled from Union super funds which are heavily invested in…
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