Renewables Rejected: More Countries Get Serious About Serious Power Generation

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Countries serious about their economic prosperity are getting serious about serious power generation. Ontario, China and Japan have slashed subsidies and mandated targets for wind and solar; between them China and Japan are building hundreds of high-efficiency, low emissions coal-fired plant at home and even more across South-East Asia.

Germany’s transition to an all wind and sun powered future has descended into an economic debacle and, soon enough, it will be forced to retreat from the brink.

Australia’s new Federal Energy Minister, Angus Taylor is determined to slash subsidies to wind and solar, referring to them as “virtue signalling with other people’s money”. Ominous stuff for renewable energy rent seekers, Downunder.

It’s almost like there’s been a breakout of common sense!

Lawrence Solomon picks up the theme below.

Lawrence Solomon: Trudeau stands alone as Canada — and the world — abandons green energy
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Wind Industry Panics as Class Actions Loom: WHO Finds Wind Turbine Noise Harmful to Health

Very important news….all near neighbours to applications for wind farms should quote from this and require developers to sign documents which guarantee that if consented, their health will not be affected. Councillors considering such applications should be given copies of the request and WHO report.

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It’s no mystery to those forced to live next to wind turbines that the incessant low-frequency noise they generate is seriously harmful to health.

When humans set out to torture each other, sleep deprivation is usually top of the list. The wind industry has been doing just that, with impunity, for the best part of 20 years.

To that end, the wind industry has been ably aided and abetted by their pet acoustic consultants – a group of ethically bereft mercenaries, who willingly doctor up fake noise reports on demand; reports which always claim their client’s wind farm complies with the toughest noise standards in the world.

In addition, the wind industry enlisted the support of a group of pseudo-scientists (almost always sociologists with bogus claims to medical qualifications) who invented the notion that the suffering experienced by wind farm neighbours is all the product of their febrile, ‘climate…

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Increasing Extreme Weather Events?

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Over at Cliscep, Ben Pile posted Misleading Figures Behind the New Climate Economy. Ben looked at the figures behind the recent New Climate Economy Report from the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate, which claims to be…

… a major international initiative to examine how countries can achieve economic growth while dealing with the risks posed by climate change. The Commission comprises former heads of government and finance ministers and leaders in the fields of economics and business, and was commissioned by seven countries – Colombia, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Norway, South Korea, Sweden and the United Kingdom – as an independent initiative to report to the international community.

In this post I will briefly look at Figure 1 from the report, re-posted by Ben Pile.

Fig 1 – Global Occurrences of Extreme Weather Events from New Economy Climate Report

Clearly these graphs seem to demonstrate a rapidly worsening situation…

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BBC’s climate change ‘facts’ are fiction

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By Paul Homewood

In order to avoid giving ‘false balance’ to the climate alarmists at the BBC, I thought it would be a good idea to fact-check their new internal guidance on climate change. This is their totalitarian memorandum aimed at stamping out free scientific discourse, on the basis that certain facts are established beyond dispute.

The problem is that these ones aren’t, and the BBC is guilty of repeatedly failing to describe accurately the nuances of climate science and the degree to which certain claims are disputed.

The crucial paragraph reads:

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Britain becalmed………

As received – see link:

Britain Becalmed: Turbines across the UK are at a STANDSTILL after wind ‘disappears’ for a week causing a two-year low in electricity production

A lack of wind in the UK for the last week has seen energy production from wind farms plummet to record lows. On Sunday, less than two per cent of the country’s electricity came from wind.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5812811/Wind-turbines-standstill-wind-disappears-thew-UK.html?ito=email_share_article-bottom

Link received re. offshore wind……..

See:

http://www.youris.com/energy/energy-grid/offshore-wind-farms-too-much-energy-is-lost-in-cables.kl

An engineer’s comment:

There are significant costs associated with transmitting electricity over long distances which apply to both offshore and  onshore sites.  Power losses over long distances can be quite significant and most large scale interconnectors transmit DC (direct current) electricity – less power losses than using AC (alternating current/mains). However, expensive converters (rectifiers) are required to convert the DC back to AC – even more expense.

These costs (power loss, converters etc) are a consequence of this crazy policy of locating renewable generators in remote areas far from areas of demand. Such costs are seldom, if ever, considered in the devious comparisons (with fossil generation etc) made by renewable companies and their cheerleaders.

 

 

Re. Wind Energys Absurd website….link https://www.facebook.com/WindEnergysAbsurd/?hc_ref=ARTgD61fEypoRoQvJZ8ueLSZXkgGVWgbECtn8CE6ZRHeNJWSoOOMU7cF0ATffIM__20&fref=nf for excellent info.

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Wind Energy’s Absurd

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When we hear SNP politicians prattling on about the islands being given special consideration in respect of CfDs; when we hear Claire Perry rattling on about it too; when you read about one or other Shetland interconnector being almost a ‘done deal’, we get angry because we know from our colleagues how many Shetlanders do not want to find themselves in part of a giant wind farm.

This piece from Frank Hay of Sustainable Shetland gives the background – from the first weasel murmurings in 2008, through the disregard of thousands of Shetlanders who were against the proposal by the then Minister of Business, Energy and Tourism, Fergus Ewing.

And talking of Ewing, or Flip-Flop as we called him, we see that he’s been having a spat with Jeremy Paxman over fish farms.

Paxman said: ‘If the Scottish Government wants to b***** up the nation’s environment that is its affair. But spare us the blathering nonsense of a speak-your-weight machine nincompoop.’

Well said Jezza. The Scottish Government has no compunction about b****ing up the nation’s environment in any regard.

Note in the Shetland piece the involvement of Shetlands Island Council.

Developing Nations Need Coal

Common sense breaking out.USA are recognising that exporting clean coal technology is also a responsible way to help such countries…..

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By Paul Homewood

Eureporter, a Brussels based European multimedia news platform, while claiming to be “independent”, is in reality a pretty tame, EU supporting website.

Which makes this report of theirs even more remarkable:

The UK recently made headlines by announcing that it had gone for three days without using coal, a new record. During the coal-free 76 hours, the majority of the UK’s electricity supply came from gas, followed by wind, nuclear, biomass and solar. While many commentators touted this, the longest period Britain has gone without coal since the Industrial Revolution, as an important step towards reducing global emissions, the story isn’t so simple.

While the UK has greatly increased its renewable capacity in recent years, the only way it was able to power the country without coal for a few days was by relying heavily on natural gas, which is very, very far from being a green…

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Inevitable Transition: End to Subsidies Spells Armageddon for Ageing Wind Turbines in Europe

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With wind power subsidies drying up across Europe, the prospects for RE rent seekers look bleaker than ever.

It seems like only yesterday, that we were told that wind power was cheaper than coal, sustainable and would power us into the next millennium. Indeed, the transition was meant to be ‘inevitable’.

Meanwhile, back on Earth, those evil forces of physics and economics have combined to smack the dreamers with just a little reality.

Wind turbines don’t last the 25 years promised by promoters – their economic lifespan tops out at around 15 years. Which means that within a decade Europe will be covered in tens of thousands of 2-300 tonne hulks, quietly rusting and leaking a cocktail of toxic ooze into the landscape.

In the absence of subsidies, they will never be replaced and simply stand as highly visible monuments to the greatest example of collective stupidity since the pyramids…

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Wind Energy: Part-Time Power – Full-Time Failure: Brand New Turbines Falling Apart

Would be amusing – were it not so serious for negatively affected residents, the environment and economy of so many countries.

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Wind power isn’t a serious energy source, it’s a serious joke. In the absence of massive subsidies, the wind industry wouldn’t exist. Battling to deliver part-time power, it’s been a full-time failure.

Self-combusting, throwing 10 tonne blades to the four winds and dropping their 300 tonne hulks earthwards is just what these things do.

But, then again, they were never designed to generate power; their principal purpose is to harvest subsidies. Which probably explains why brand-new turbines keep falling apart.

“Massive Damage”…Large-Scale Engineering Debacle Threatens As North Sea Wind Turbine Breaks Apart!
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Pierre Gosselin
27 April 2018

NDR German public television reported on the damaged Adwen M5000 turbine at the 60MW Alpha Ventus offshore North Sea wind farm off the northern coast of Germany.

Housing rips away, plunges into the sea

The report was broadcast on 26 April and shows a missing turbine generator unit housing…

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