As Australia burns, an impassioned plea from a fire fighter’s wife
This week, fires raged across eastern Australia. The media reported some pilots saying aerial water bombing would struggle with turbines. And the following email was sent by a New South Wales country...
View ArticleWind turbine fires ‘ten times more common than thought’, experts warn
Wind turbine fires ‘ten times more common than thought’, experts warn Emily Gosden The Telegraph 17 July 2014 Study backed by Imperial College finds wind turbines prone to “catastrophic” fires but the...
View ArticleBUSHFIRE RED ALERT: Wind Power Really Is Setting the World on FIRE
As the Australian countryside turns to the golden hues of summer, the attentions of its farming and rural communities also turn: hundreds of eager eyes become fixed on the horizon for tell-tale signs...
View ArticleVictorian Country Fire Authority’s Claim that Wind Turbines Not Combustible...
**** During the Senate Inquiry’s first hearing into the great wind power fraud, the Committee had to listen to a number of wind industry backed patsies and stooges. Among them were a pair from...
View ArticleWind Turbine Terror: Collapses & Spontaneous Combustion
**** The number of cases involving collapsing turbines and flying blades (aka “component liberation”) has become so common that, if we were a tad cynical, we would go so far to suggest the possibility...
View ArticleTexan Pyrotechnic Turbine Terror: Wind Power Setting the World on Fire
**** Utterly pointless, on every level; and insanely dangerous to man and beast, one of the more exciting features of these things is their ability to spontaneously combust. Above is a video, and below...
View ArticleFry-day Funnies: Wind Turbines ‘Explode’ onto the World Energy Stage
Only the Germans could come up with a single word to capture the churlish sentiment of feeling a sense of malicious glee at another’s downfall. It’s a sentiment pouring from this recent Tweet from STT...
View ArticleWhat’s Not to Like about Wind Power? – Wind Turbine Pyrotechnics & Fatal Flops
Wind power is, as we’re repeatedly told, ‘clean’, ‘green’ and ‘free’. But, ever keen to rain on the wind industry’s parade, here’s a couple of pieces that point out one or more inconvenient truths. As...
View ArticleWind Farm Mass Attack: Wind Turbines Collapsing & Combusting Around the World
*** The number of cases involving turbines collapsing, self immolating or throwing their blades to the four winds (aka “component liberation”) has become so common that, if we were a tad cynical, we...
View ArticleWind Power Setting the World on Fire: Infigen Sparks Devastating NSW Bushfire
On 17 January 2017, wind farm operator Infigen sparked a blaze that ripped across the southern Tablelands of NSW and destroyed 3,400 hectares (8,400 acres), hundreds of sheep and cattle, sheds and at...
View ArticleMore Wind Turbine Self-Incinerations & 10 Tonne Blade Throws
For something that the wind industry keeps telling us is as rare as hen’s teeth, the unshackling of 10 tonne blades (euphemistically called ‘component liberation’), the total collapse of 200-300 tonne...
View ArticleJapanese Pyro Saga: Wind Turbine Explodes in Fireball at Nuclear Power Plant
STT followers might have twigged to our sense of irony which, on the odd occasion, drifts all the way to sarcasm. Sometimes a wry line requires considered imagination. But, other times, this stuff...
View ArticleWind Farm Neighbours Burnt Out by Bushfire Sparked by Infigen Pursue...
Wind turbines are as useless as they are dangerous. Their dangers include the ability of self-immolating turbines and/or the often shoddily constructed electricity infrastructure meant to support...
View ArticleWind Turbines: Safe, Clean & Green? Yeah, Right …
The spontaneous combustion of 300 tonne wind turbines, showering the earth with a toxic cocktail of molten-fibreglass and flaming lubricants is one of those tricky PR problems for big wind. On every...
View ArticleIrony Alert: Weather Destroys Weather Dependent Power Source – Lightning...
The wind industry and those that promote it look more ridiculous, by the day. An entirely weather dependent power source, abandoned a couple of centuries back for pretty obvious reasons, exhibits all...
View ArticleGermany’s Ticking Turbine Time Bombs: Green-Induced Environmental Nightmare...
The wind industry continues to deliver up a bevy of eco-irony, a gift to those sick to death of the moral piety dished up by its deluded acolytes. Turbines exploding into flames, blades exploding into...
View ArticleGreat Balls of Fire: More Terrifying Turbine Meltdowns Spell Serious &...
As Australians brace for a searing summer, spare a thought for communities riddled with wind turbines: the perfect incendiary device. First, we’ll take a look at a few ‘clean’-energy conflagrations in...
View ArticleWind Turbines the Perfect Bushfire Starters: Fire & Fury Coming Soon to Your...
As Australians brace for a searing summer, spare a thought for communities riddled with wind turbines: the perfect incendiary device. Around the world, hundreds have blown up in balls of flame – in the...
View ArticleWind Power Setting The World On Fire: Spontaneously Combusting Wind Turbine...
Got a wind developer trying to get your community to sign up for wind turbines, ask them about the wildfires sparked when they self-combust. Wind turbines are the perfect incendiary device. Around the...
View ArticleWorried About Cutting CO2 Emissions? Then Nuclear is the Only Solution
As Greta the Fretter and her acolytes would have it, the obvious solution to Australia’s summertime bushfires is covering the country with wind turbines and solar panels. Whether or not this nonsense...
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