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Tag Archives: wind power
a dangerous strategy … wind power
A new paper out shows how wind power does does serious damage to the electricity grid, and can never be used for base load power: CONCLUSION Engineers are required to do more than merely analyse and report on natural phenomena. … Continue reading
Posted in energy, Environment, media, Oz politics, Resources
Tagged ABC, carbon emissions., coal power, economy, energy, environment, government, green left, greenhouse gas emissions, Oz politics, Warwick Hughes, wind power
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“generous government support”? … Green daydream
You really mean taxpayers wallets don’t you? Not content with conning Australia’s Labor Governments into (now mothballed) ‘gold plated’ expensive desalination white elephants, spiv Tim Flannery is pushing for massive subsidies for renewable power: Renewables: The Big Investment Opportunity which … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, comedy, energy, Environment, Oz politics, technology, Uncategorized, weather
Tagged Anthony Watts, comedy, energy, environment, government, green., Joanne Nova, politics, principia, tim flannery, tony from oz, weather, wind power
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the great energy fantasy …
Wind turbines use 5 to 7 times the amount of concrete and steel vs. say a nuclear plant on a per Megawatt basis. It will require some 10,000 wind turbines to replace the ~ 6000 MW of coal generation at … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, comedy, energy, science, technology, weather
Tagged Canadian Energy Engineer, carbon emissions., CBS, climate, comedy, energy, eric jelinski, Oz politics, science and technology, weather, wind power, wind turbines
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wind farms blowing cash, failing …
[…] Germany’s wind farms are failing to deliver much power. The country has more than 25,000 turbines with a rated capacity of nearly 40,000 megawatts. However, over the course of 2014 they delivered just 14.8 percent of their rated capacity … Continue reading
Posted in comedy, energy, Resources, technology
Tagged comedy, energy, environment, Greenie Watch, nuclear power plants, nuclear power stations, politics, science, weather, wind farm, wind farms, wind power, wind turbines
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the windy calamity …
Speaking of ‘calamities’, Wind Power is often touted by the Green ‘set’ as the next generation renewable power to help solar replace coal and gas. A Senate inquiry is soon to be held to study the real cost of wind power. Here, … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, comedy, energy, Environment, science, technology, weather
Tagged anton lang, carbon emissions., coal power, comedy, energy, environment, government, greenhouse gas emissions, Joanne Nova, Oz politics, politics, science and technology, senate, Senate Select Committee On Wind Turbines, weather, wind power, wind turbine
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wind turbines … a free pass to kill
It just gets worse: […] Wildlife consultant Jim Wiegand has written several articles that document these horrendous impacts on raptors, the devious methods the wind industry uses to hide the slaughter, and the many ways the FWS and Big Green … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Environment
Tagged climate change., energy, environment, fossil fuels, frakking, FWS, government, Greenie Watch, jim wiegand, media, wind power, wind turbines
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harmful energy policies …
Over at Dr Curry’s ClimateEtc, Professor Lomborg’s Senate report was clear: […] The Kyoto approach is not working for three reasons. First, cutting CO2 is costly. Second, the approach won’t solve the problem. Even if everyone had implemented Kyoto, temperatures … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, energy, Environment, Health, media, science, weather
Tagged climate, climate policies, climate science, coal power, energy, fossil fuels, government, green energy., greenhouse gas emissions, judithcurry, politics, Professor Lomborg, science and technology, weather, wind power
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‘perfect monument to the Greens’…
Wind power fades before it even starts 23 March 2012 Wind power sums up green stupidity: it’s expensive, inefficient and ugly. And those are just the good points. It’s also utterly useless. As such it is a perfect monument to … Continue reading
Posted in comedy, energy, Environment, weather
Tagged coal power, energy, environment, Greens, science, weather, wind power
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Wind/Solar Energy…stuffed again
From an Andrew Bolt contributor on comments… Solar warning! This should be essential reading for all those relying on Windsor and Garnaut reporting on the “success” of solar power and its “benefits” Massachusetts Solar Energy Company bites the dust despite … Continue reading
Posted in energy, Environment, media
Tagged ben harvey, daniel mercer, energy, environment, Ross Garnaut, solar energy, Tony Windsor, Warwick Hughes, weather, West Australian, wind power
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Greenie Watch…Wind energy is snake oil
In a simplistic way, wind energy sounds good. Unfortunately, wind energy makes the rest of the grid system’s power plants less efficient. Wind power output is extremely volatile, and wind is least available when we need electricity the most. It … Continue reading
Posted in energy, Environment
Tagged AGW, carbon emissions., climate model, coal fired power stations, energy, Greenie Watch, IPCC, science and technology, snake oil, weather, wind power
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