Monday, September 26, 2011
"Wind farms: the monuments to lunacy..."
Wind power (like solar power) is just not ready for prime time.
Without their many subsidies, "green" energy enterprises cannot stand on their own merits.
Maybe someday, but clearly not at this time.
In spite of this, the European Union has mandated moving these issues forward...
Without their many subsidies, "green" energy enterprises cannot stand on their own merits.
Maybe someday, but clearly not at this time.
In spite of this, the European Union has mandated moving these issues forward...
Christopher Booker writes about the situation in the U.K. Daily Telegraph:
"Hence the two other items reported last week, one being the Government’s proposed changes to our planning rules (already being implemented, even though the 'consultation' has scarcely begun) which are drawing fire from all directions. The particular point here, on page 43 of the Government’s document, is a proposal that local planning authorities must 'apply a presumption in favour' of 'renewable and low-carbon energy sources'.
What this means in plain English is that we can forget any last vestiges of local democracy. Our planning system is to be rigged even more shamelessly than before, to allow pretty well every application to cover our countryside with wind turbines – along with thousands of monster pylons, themselves up to 400 feet high, marching across Scotland, Wales, Suffolk, Somerset and elsewhere to connect them to the grid.
All this is deemed necessary to meet our EU-agreed target to generate nearly a third of our electricity from 'renewables' – six times more than we do now – by 2020. This would require building at least 10,000 more turbines, in addition to the 3,500 we already have – which last year supplied only 2.7 per cent of our electricity."
