By Stop These Things
Banking on the wind for your daily power needs is prone to disappoint. From the moment human beings harnessed thermal energy the path of industrial and modern civilisation was set. No more begging for beneficial breezes to spin that mill. Power could be had as and when we needed it, not when mother nature felt inclined to provide it.
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Then came self-serving, rent-seeking crony capitalists – backed by an ideologically driven cult – who hijacked energy policy, returning us to an age of superstition and wishful thinking.
What stands out in the first piece by Bill Peacock is not the perfectly predictable collapses in wind and solar output, it’s the argument put forward by a Reuter’s columnist that Texas’ troubles will soon be overcome by “greater wind speeds” which, he reckons, will provide a “major boost” to Texan power supplies and avert any further power scares during hot weather.
Now, it is altogether possible that the correspondent in question is capable of dialling up wind speeds to suit. But STT is inclined to reserve judgement on that score, given the fickle nature of meteorology and humanity’s well-established inability to control it.
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‘When will politicians listen?’: Another green energy project ‘bites the dust’
Video: Sky News Australia
Sky News host Andrew Bolt says it appears another green energy project has “bitten the dust” after it was revealed Broome’s Derby tidal power project has been impacted by lengthy delays. “This now joins so many failures,” he said