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Is South Australia’s Wind Power Cheap? Well, No
THE HIDDEN COSTS WIND POWER WON’T TELL YOU ABOUT. While this Post specifically discusses wind power in one State of Australia, it is indicative of wind power wherever it is being brought into use. Those hidden costs I mention above are for the cost of replacement power for when wind power is not delivering power […]
Recent Energy And Environmental News – May 13, 2013
By John Droz, Jr. ~ A fascinating technical study at Phys.org concludes that turbines have adverse consequences to grid stability. For example: “wind turbines do not only transfer wind intermittency to the grid, but they also amplify it… The data also shows that wind power intermittency does not only affect the output of individual turbines, […]
Recent Energy And Environmental News – Late April 2013
By John Droz, Jr. ~ The Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving national, state, and local energy & environmental policies. Our basic position is that technical matters like these should be addressed by using real science. Instead of a science-based approach, our energy and […]
Recent Energy And Environmental News – April 2013
By John Droz, Jr. ~ Matt Ridley on How Fossil Fuels are Greening the Planet. There is a good effort here to collect the names of all the “anti-wind” groups in the world. Over 700 have been identified. Please look this list over. If you see any in your area that are missing, please email […]
Recent Energy and Environmental News – March 2013
By John Droz, Jr. ~ A sordid story of wind energy in Rhode Island. This is very representative of what is going on everywhere. Watch this video carefully! Reports about greed energy economics: Very significant: How AWEA’s Job Claims are Bogus. More evidence of extra costs required by wind energy. Phony wind prices harming nuclear […]
Coal Fired Power Plant Technology
March 15, 2013 by TonyfromOz
A recent news article from the UK mentioned that one of their largest coal fired plants was converting its fuel source, and instead of using coal as the fuel for the furnaces, it was going to use wood chips instead. I went and searched for as much information as I could find, and the story, […]
Recent Energy and Environmental News – 18th February 2013
By John Droz, Jr. ~ The Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving national, state, and local energy & environmental policies. Our basic position is that technical matters like these should be addressed by using real science. Instead of a science-based approach, our energy and […]
Recent Energy and Environmental News – 29th January 2013
By John Droz, Jr. ~ Friends: AWED has a new Twitter account. Please follow us! Please vote for Windfall to win this important award. (Note: a new Canadian wind documentary has promise.) More reports about greed energy economics: Yet another report that says offshore wind is too expensive. Wind Energy Distortions. Pork & Fat in […]
Subsidizing Stupid
By Tom McLaughlin ~ I don’t want to buy any windmills and I don’t want to buy any solar panels. Most especially though – I don’t want to pay for other people to buy them either. But my government is taking my money and giving it to them. I don’t like that. I don’t like […]
Top Wind Utility: Wind Subsidy Benefits Industry, Not Consumers
By Lachlan Markay ~ The biggest wind energy purchaser in the country may sever ties with the industry’s largest trade group in the wake of a bitter fight to sustain subsidies for wind energy producers that, the company says, benefit producers at the expense of utilities and electricity consumers. Xcel Energy, which had the largest […]
Recent Energy and Environmental News – 28th December 2012
By John Droz, Jr. ~ Friends: This is my last energy newsletter of the year. Thank you again for your efforts in promoting science-based energy and environmental policies. I wish you and your family a happy and healthy New Year in 2013. In a bizarre ending of the year I found out yesterday that I have […]
End the Wind Power Tax Credit
By Alan Caruba ~ Like so much else that involves the absurd “renewable energy” scam—wind, solar power and ethanol—the public remains largely in the dark about its actual costs. They come straight out of their pockets in the form of higher costs for electricity and, in the cast of ethanol, lost mileage and engine damage. […]
Blowing More Taxpayer Money for Offshore Wind
By Nicolas Loris ~ Much of the debate over wind subsidies this past year has been over the extension of the wind production tax credit. But even if the subsidy expires at the end of the year (as it is supposed to), that does not mean all wind subsidies are disappearing, even though they should. […]
Wind Power Fail – 2012 – Same As Always
December 13, 2012 by TonyfromOz
EVERY WIND TOWER IN THE U.S. CAN ONLY GENERATE THE SAME ELECTRICAL POWER AS JUST 9 NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS, WHICH IS ONLY ONE SIXTH OF THE ENTIRE AMERICAN NUCLEAR POWER FLEET. While this looks to be a questionable and emotive thing to say, it is in fact the truth of the matter. Currently, in the […]
Recent Energy and Environmental News – 7th December 2012
By John Droz, Jr. ~ Despite the recent political changes in the US, our proposed national energy slogan remains the same: “All of the Sensible” (in contrast to the absurd “All of the Above”). Please pass it on. US citizens should make sure to get up-to-speed with what is on our PTCFacts.Info pages as that […]
Climate Change Australia – Isn’t There A Cheaper Way To Do Nothing About The Weather?
By Andrew Bolt ~ A very expensive way to do nothing about a global warming that paused 16 years ago anyway: MORE than $8.9 billion will be spent importing wind turbines because of the blowout in the Gillard government’s renewable energy target, providing few if any benefits to local industry, one of the nation’s biggest […]
Recent Energy and Environmental News – 19th November 2012
By John Droz, Jr. ~ Friends: Since there was a national interview with AWED’s Dr. George Taylor on the US Weather Channel (re the PTC), I thought it would be appropriate to remind you of some turbine-weather related studies that apply in any country. There have been several investigations done by independent scientists that have […]
$14 Billion in Stimulus Spending Generates Just 1.2 Percent of Electricity
By Michael Sandoval ~ Despite more than $14 billion in cash payments to solar, wind, and other renewable energy project developers since 2009, just 48 terawatt hours of additional annual electricity generation were expected to be added through funds authorized by the stimulus, according to documents released by the Department of Treasury. The more than […]
Green Jobs Go 0-for-4
By David Kreutzer, Ph.D. ~ The Administration’s green jobs initiatives appear to be the Detroit Tigers of the policy world—they are 0-for-4 in the major reports on their success. In the past year, there have been four reports on green jobs by the Department of Labor: two from the department’s inspector general’s office and two […]
Recent Energy and Environmental News – 10th October 2012
By John Droz, Jr. ~ Friends: Our proposed national energy slogan is “All of the Sensible” (in contrast to the absurd “All of the Above”). Please pass it on. US citizens should make sure to get up-to-speed with what is on our PTCFacts.Info pages. I wrote a nine page critique of Bill McKibben, who continues […]
Recent Energy and Environmental News – 14th September 2012
By John Droz, Jr. ~ Friends: A week or so ago I sent out an appeal to our network to vote on the very important Wall Street Journal poll about the PTC. At the time we were losing by a few thousand votes. Within a day we went ahead by over 5000 votes, and continue […]
‘Wind Farms Cure Cancer, Save Kittens, Create World Peace’ Says New Wind Industry Report
By James Delingpole ~ Wind energy is great says a new report commissioned by the Labour think tank Institute For Public Policy Research. Among the report’s findings are that large scale industrial wind farms can: Boost GDP growth by up to 3,000 per cent Cure all known forms of cancer Rescue drowning kittens from sacks […]
Recent Energy and Environmental News – 30th August 2012
By John Droz, Jr. ~ Friends: Our proposed national energy slogan is “All of the Sensible” (in contrast to the absurd “All of the Above”). Please pass it on! More reports about greed energy economics: Misinformation about Subsidies Why Not Let the PTC Expire? GE makes $21 Billion a year on “clean” energy Good news: […]
Wind Power Australia – Towering Stupidity
By Andrew Bolt ~ More evidence from mechanical engineer Hamish Cumming that wind farms are not just useless, but ruinously expensive – towering monuments to insanity: His analysis shows that despite receiving hundreds of millions of dollars from green energy schemes driven by the renewable energy target, Victoria’s wind-farm developments have saved virtually zero carbon […]
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