All Entries Tagged With: "Wind Power"
When The Wind Blows Down The Neighbours
by Einar Du Rietz All energy production involves risk and potentially harmfully side effects. However, it’s rather generally believed that “alternative energy” would be exempt from both hazards and liability. Mr Jonny Fagerstrom of the landscape protection society (use translation tools for a quick view), tells another story: – Approximately 15000 people are suffering, in Sweden, [...]
£1.2 million to not produce wind power
The Daily Telegraph Reports that a Norwegian wind company was paid £1.2 million to not produce electricity during a period of high winds. This was a hair shy of 10 times the artificially above market rate wind farms receive to make power. British ratepayers will fit the bill. We’re not making this up. This is [...]
Scottish wind subsidies slashed?
1,000 wind turbines gang agley 1,000 land-based wind turbines stand to be scrapped if government follows through and slashes millions of pounds in subsidies. A report commissioned by ScottishPower concludes that reducing subsidies 25 percent will render the turbines a loss maker for investors instead of just rate and taxpayers. CFACT continues to conclude that [...]
British aristocrats cash in on wind
Regressive redistribution as working people pay landed rich to despoil the British countryside The Telegraph reports that British nobles, including Dukes and a cousin of the Queen are cashing in on tax and ratepayer subsidies to erect wind farms on their country estates. Each turbine can net a noble £20,000 a year or more. Prime [...]
Britain in rebellion over high energy prices
Inefficient alternatives, taxes, subsidies and bans weigh heavy Reuters reports that with half of major energy suppliers in the UK announcing double digit price increases for electricity and gas the British public has had enough. 75 percent now favor abandoning Britain’s green agenda if it means higher prices. The problem of course is after you [...]
Maybe the Wind Fellas Blew Them
Einar Du Rietz, reads an interesting article with a new angle on wind power and the EU The EU Structural Funds are enormous. Maybe they contribute to something good, but mostly – slightly admitted by everyone in the game – they are a feast for vested interests. One of the pet projects for the distributors [...]
A new dark age for Germany?
Offshore wind power projects pave the way to frequent blackouts EDGAR L. GAERTNER Thousands of bureaucrats are preparing for another cushy climate confab in Cancun — while U.S. Senators Bignaman, Brownback and Reid are contemplating how to ram renewable energy standards through a lame-duck session of Congress. If they’re wise, American voters and congressmen will [...]
Everything You Do – I Can Do Worse
Einar Du Rietz takes a look at one of the world’s ongoing election campaigns Sweden: Tomorrow, Sunday, it’s time for general election in my country of birth. Though I somehow feel that the simultaneous process in Kabul would be more important, it’s hard not to follow the debate. If it is a debate. Customary televised [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
