Fake News: Debunking Claims That Britain’s Set to Light Up Europe With Wind Power

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Never short on audacity, Britain’s wind industry is now peddling the myth that it’ll soon be lighting up all of Europe. Notwithstanding the fact that it was forced to fire up its coal-fired power plants to overcome the Big Calm in the last months of 2021, when wind power output collapsed across the UK and most of Western Europe.

Absent imports of nuclear power from France and what’s produced by the remnants of its coal-fired power fleet, the Brits would have been left freezing in the dark for weeks on end.

However, the cold hard facts never stand between the renewable energy rent seeker and a bucket of taxpayer’s cash.

Paul Homewood zeroes in on the latest piece of piffle from Britain’s great ‘green’ blob.

Who Needs Russian Gas? We’ve Got Windmills!
Not a Lot of People Know That
Paul Homewood
7 February 2022

A rather dopey article, which is…

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Francis Ford Coppola on his screenplay for PATTON

Fred Kite

My submission on Crown deposit insurance for finance company Ponzi schemes

At https://www.taxpayers.org.nz/deposit_takers_pdf

Misleading?

Michael Reddell's avatarcroaking cassandra

Back in mid-December, the Reserve Bank fronted up to Parliament’s Finance and Expenditure Committee for the Annual Review hearing on the Bank. I wrote about it here. You may recall that this was the appearance where (a) the Bank (unsuccessfully) tried to kept secret before the hearing the loss of another couple of senior managers, and (b) seemed to mislead the Committee on just how many of their senior managers had gone or were going. In the wake of it, the Governor forced the early departure of his deputy Geoff Bascand a couple of weeks before he was due to leave anyway, over unauthorised contact with the media [CORRECTION: “shared information to a third party”] (most likely over those two new senior management departures).

But towards the end of the hearing (about 50 minutes in here) there was a brief exchange on matters climate change, with an unusually…

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Dumb & Dumber: Germany Wins Prize For World’s Most Idiotic Energy Policy

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Germany set the gold standard for idiotic renewable energy policies, although the Brits, Californians, Texans and South Australians are keen contenders for that glittering prize.

Thanks to its unhinged obsession with intermittent wind and solar, Germans are in the midst of a power pricing and supply calamity.

Suffering Europe’s highest power prices, is just the beginning.

In a don’t say we didn’t warn you piece, Pierre Gosselin spells out the consequences of running with the dumbest energy policy on earth.

Germany Electricity Prices Soar To World Record Highs After Years Of Energy Policy Folly…Expensive, Unreliable
No Tricks Zone
Pierre Gosselin
9 February 2022

Germany’s power supply, once mostly made up of a mixture of coal and nuclear power, used to be among the most stable and affordable in the world. Power outages were rare and grid interventions were infrequent.

Greens and socialists then tried electrical power engineering
But then in…

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Why There’s An Empty Skyscraper In The Middle Of Times Square

How Europe Colonized Parts Of China

Busker performing to kittens in Malaysia

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