Since December 2012, Stop These Things has been slugging away, exposing the grand subsidised wind and solar scam. When the site was fired up by a handful of dedicated volunteers 12 years ago, it was one of a very few tackling the greatest economic and environmental fraud of all time. Not quite an orphan, but certainly a lonely voice in the energy policy wilderness.

With more than 4,200 posts published over that time span, we’re relieved if not delighted to say that STT has been joined by hundreds of switched on commentators and dozens of blogs, substacks and other platforms operated all around the world, where the truth about our energy supply appears on a daily basis.

At the risk of sounding like a superhero when he/she says his/her “work here is done”, our work here is done. But not completely.

Instead of our regular daily posts, STT will provide a weekly wrap up with links to selected articles from our fellow travellers. From time to time, we’ll weigh in with our own substantial posts – whenever the subject matter warrants our attention and commentary. But, from here on, STT will leave the heavy lifting to others with more resources, time and energy.

This week’s roundup includes articles smashing the myth that we’re well on our way to an all wind and sun powered future; the staggering and ever-increasing cost of subsidies to unreliable wind and solar in the UK and in Germany; and how pro-reliable energy community advocates have united to destroy the grand offshore wind power scam.

Broken Hill Wind & Solar Fiasco

Broken Hill is a once highly prosperous mining town in far Western New South Wales. Built around the mines that extracted silver, lead and zinc from one of the richest deposits in the world, the town started to lose its sparkle as the ore ran out. But it’s the Hill’s ludicrous attempt to run on sunshine and breezes that turned the outback town into a global laughingstock, as the team from Jo Nova and Nick Cater outline in these posts.

$650m in renewable energy didn’t save Broken Hill from days of blackouts after a storm islanded it
Jo Nova Blog
Jo Nova
28 October 2024

Strung Along
Substack
Nick Cater
30 October 2024

UK’s Rocketing Wind Power Subsidy Costs

Andrew Montford tackles the outrageously generous subsidies to intermittent wind and solar, drawing parallels with the inherent corruption and resulting market failure seen in the USSR and its Soviet Bloc satellites before their inevitable collapse.

Subsidy Madness
Net Zero Watch
Andrew Montford
27 September 2024

Germany’s Economic Suicide Pact

In the post below, Eugyppius details how Germany’s wind and solar obsession is more like a National suicide pact, with German taxpayers stumping up billions of euros for electricity which is practically worthless, because it can’t be delivered on demand.

Germany: The Country Where Taxpayers Are Charged Billions When the Sun Shines
The Daily Sceptic
Eugyppius
26 October 2024

Growing Public Resistance to Pointless Wind & Solar

In the next 2 posts, Paul Driessen and Adam Willis detail the growing fury among communities treated as roadkill by the Climate Industrial Complex and their resistance to local consequences of its wind and solar rollout.

Rural and coastal residents delay, block green energy projects
CFACT
Paul Driessen
23 October 2024

Ocean City, others sue federal government over offshore wind project
Baltimore Banner
Adam Willis
25 October 2024

Stay tuned, STT will be back next week with more.