As wind power output across the UK continues to plummet, Matt Ridley smashes the notion that Britain is on the brink of wind and solar Nirvana, noting Britain’s so-called energy policy has turned to a risible farce.

Britain’s net zero, green energy madness is set for a head-on collision with reality
The Telegraph
Matt Ridley
23 January 2025

Meanwhile, as Eric Worrall points out, the Norwegians are determined to pull the plug on power exports to Britain, with their power consumers raging about increasing power costs, the result of exporting their electricity to power-starved Britain, every time the wind stops blowing.

Political Turmoil in Norway Threatens Britain’s Green Energy Fantasy
Watts Up With That?
Eric Worrall
2 February 2025

Charles Rotter details the total, ultimate and ultimately inevitable collapse of the giant desert solar plant, Ivanpah – a mega-failure that proves economics will eventually catch up with every great consumer/taxpayer subsidised scam.

Ivanpah Solar Plant: The Flaming Failure That’s Finally Being Put Out of Our Misery
Watts Up With That
Charles Rotter
1 February 2025

The team from Jo Nova report on a growing mutiny among Australian commercial power consumers, with food distributors demanding an instant end to the subsidised wind and solar disaster. Ever-escalating prices are crushing businesses, large and small and their operators have had enough.

Bang! Food industry says there’s a national energy emergency and calls for Labor to drop the ideology, and fast-track coal
Jo Nova Blog
Jo Nova
3 February 2025

Russ Schussler shines a spotlight on the type of media spin that has allowed the Climate Industrial Complex to maintain the grand wind and solar transition narrative, notwithstanding the only transition in train involves supply chaos and crushing prices.

How the Green Energy Narrative confuses things
Climate Etc
Russ Schussler
30 January 2025

Meanwhile, in the People’s Republic of Victoria a 4.2MW, Vestas V136 lost its battle with gravity. The 186m high monster, sporting 68m blades, only came into operation in late 2023. All it took was a stiff breeze to send another one of these things to its earthly doom. Good riddance, you might think!

Victoria wind farm shut down after turbine collapse
Wind Watch
4 February 2025

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

Essay by Eric Worrall

Greens are claiming for once it wasn’t them.

Germany: Police suspect Russia behind car vandalism

Matt Ford with AFP, dpa02/05/2025February 5, 2025

A criminal campaign which saw over 270 car exhausts stuffed with expanding construction foam is suspected to have been Russian sabotage aimed at discrediting the Green Party, according to German authorities.

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What we know about the car vandalism

Over 270 vehicles in Berlin and the surrounding state of Brandenburg, as well as in the southern states of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, had their exhaust pipes blocked with expanding construction foam.

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Stickers were then left on the damaged cars depicting Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck, the Green Party’s chancellor candidate in the upcoming federal election, and bearing the message: “Be greener!”

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Prosecutors in the southern city of Ulm also have four suspects in their sights. A police spokesman said four men – a German, a Serb, a Romanian and a Bosnian aged 17, 18, 20 and 29 – were suspected of 123 counts of vandalism, with tins of construction foam found during house searches.

One of the men claimed that he and his accomplices had been contacted and commissioned to carry out the attacks by a Russian using the chat messenger Viber. He said they had received detailed instructions and had been promised €100 ($104) for every damaged vehicle.

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Read more: https://www.dw.com/en/germany-police-suspect-russia-behind-car-vandalism/a-71517942

For once I believe the greens – the vehicle sabotage wasn’t deadly enough to be an act of green activism.

Filling the exhaust with expanding foam would simply stop the vehicle from starting.

Previous green acts of sabotage have been far worse, mostly involving slow deflation of tires – a grave risk to the safety and lives of drivers who failed to notice their tires were losing pressure. Greens claimed they always left a flier explaining what they did – but even if this is true, is reading junk fliers really a priority when you are struggling to get to work, or get the kids to school? Especially if the flier was soaked by rain. It is a wonder that nobody died.

The other piece of evidence which supports the Russian theory, how many greens know what expanding foam is, and where to buy it? Only people who have ever tried to repair a hole in a wall or do honest work with their hands know what expanding foam is. I find it difficult to imagine a green activist fixing a hole in a wall with their own hands, more likely they would organise a rent strike until the landlord fixed the hole.

Interesting times we live in.

Note the type of expanding foam used by the saboteurs was probably the disposable spray can type, not the industrial scale insulation gun in the picture at the top of this article.