All Entries Tagged With: "Wind Power"
U.K. wind farms paid not to produce
Wind corporations paid not to generate electricity when a strong wind blows
The Daily Telegraph reports that thousands of pounds per day will be paid to compensate the wind industry when the British national grid can not use the power. The intermittent nature of wind power requires traditional efficient power generation to remain the mainstay of [...]
CFACT at Bonn climate talks
CFACT is reporting from the UN climate talks in Bonn, Germany. Our display addresses issues of alternative energy and juxtaposes wind turbines with the famed Moai, the carved heads of Easter Island, stating that civilization can’t run for long on superstition or subsidies.
On Saturday and Sunday CFACT met with scientists and policy experts credentialed as [...]
Connie Hedegaard Riposte
E.U. Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard responds to CFACT
CFACT’s response: Let’s not go back to the dark ages.
CFACT has been participating in an energy debate sponsored by the National Journal.
Commissioner Hedegaard wrote, “Craig Rucker claims that had it not been for Denmark’s oil in the North Sea we could not afford “such feel good luxuries” [...]
Nuclear Energy from France or Frequent Blackouts
Climate Politics Means Chaos on the German Power Market
by Edgar L. Gärtner
“There is at present no other industry in Germany, which is torn up and directionless like the electricity industry. Reason is the dominance of environmental aspects in the energy and especially in the electricity politics.” Thus begins an analysis of the questionable developments on the [...]
Wind Turbines No Friends to Eagles
Christopher Booker makes some excellent points about the toll wind turbines take on eagles and other birds in the Daily Telegraph. While wind turbines are known to knock birds (particularly soaring birds) from the sky, Mr. Booker should also take note of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Birds study which concluded that the [...]
Gone With the Wind: Carbon Millionaires Arrested for Fraud
Italian Wind Fraud Investigation Extends to the Netherlands, UK, Ireland, and Spain. Subsidies Questioned.
For some carbon millionaires, lining their pockets legally through taxpayer subsidies and hand outs is not enough. They choose to cheat even though they’re playing a game that’s already rigged.
Germany’s High Solar Subsidies Under Fire
EDGAR L. GÄRTNER (Frankfurt)
Although the document released on Saturday, October 24th doesn’t mention it, the new German government coalition between Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats and Guido Westerwelle’s Liberals will be obliged to sooner or later reign in Germany’s high subsidies for photovoltaic power. One of the main causes of high German power prices is the [...]
Wind Farms Cause Bird Populations to Decline by Half
The Daily Telegraph reports windfarms, “can reduce bird numbers by up to half” citing a study by Britain’s Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB).
The idea of generating electricity from the wind always seems attractive at first glance. However, wind continues to generate only one percent of world power. Increasing that percentage requires adding [...]
Wind Watch: Wind Farm Threatens to Spoil the Albanian Coast
Albania’s government risks wrecking one of Europe’s last unspoiled environments ( and breaking its own laws) by allowing an Albanian subsidiary of an Italian company to build a wind farm on a coastal nature reserve and on part of a national park.
The government has transferred more than 97 hectares of land to Italy’s Moncada Energy [...]
