The miserable truth is that our leaders don’t want us to have cheap energy–Dan Hannan

delboydave Well here we are then

More refreshing common sense about our energy supplies and that ‘green jobs’ are a cost, not a benefit. It’s about time.

NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

By Paul Homewood

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No, the energy crisis is not some unforeseeable consequence of the Ukrainian war. It is the result of years of wishful thinking, preening and short-termism. We sit on 300 years’ supply of coal. We have rich pockets of gas trapped in rocks beneath Central Scotland, Yorkshire, Lancashire and Sussex. We have as good a claim as any country to have invented civil nuclear power. Yet, incredibly, we face blackouts and energy rationing.

The calamity into which we are heading this winter represents a failure of policy under successive governments going back decades. The fact that much of Europe is in the same boat – and that poor Germany is barely in the boat at all, but is clinging by its fingertips to the gunwales – is no consolation.

Like their counterparts in other Western countries, our leaders are now scrambling to make up for past errors. More…

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Ex-Cabinet minister Lord Frost says there is no ‘climate emergency’ and Britain should end focus on ‘medieval’ wind power

delboydave Well here we are then

At last! A Politician who has seen through all the ‘Bull’ and calling this ‘climate emergency’ for what it is! A scam!
Let’s hope he can convince many more politicians that ‘Net Zero’ is also a waste of time and money, & concentrating on ‘Medieval’ wind turbines is a futile endeavour.

NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

By Paul Homewood

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Ex-Cabinet minister Lord Frost has insisted there is no climate ’emergency’ and urged the next prime minister to move away from ‘medieval technology’ such as wind power.

The former Brexit negotiator, who is backing Liz Truss for the Tory leadership, hit out at a ‘totally unrealistic approach to climate and energy policy’ over the past two decades.

He demanded Britain change tack from ‘managing demand’ for energy and instead put greater emphasis on fracking and nuclear power, as well as carbon capture and storage (CCS).

Calling for a ‘pragmatic’ response to climate change – which the Conservative peer said was just ‘one of the many’ problems facing the UK – Lord Frost blasted an approach that asked the public to ‘up-end the whole way our societies work’.

Lord Frost’s support for Ms Truss during the Tory leadership contest has prompted speculation he could return to the Cabinet…

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AEP’s Storage Delusions

delboydave Well here we are then

I want whatever AEP is taking, he’s certainly living in cloud cuckoo land!

NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

By Paul Homewood

h/t Ian Magness

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Today’s electricity price shock is the last crisis of the old order. Britain will soon have far more power at times of peak production than it can absorb. The logistical headache will be abundance.

Wind and solar provided almost 60pc of the UK’s power for substantial stretches last weekend, briefly peaking at 66pc. This is not to make a propaganda point about green energy, although this home-made power is self-evidently displacing liquefied natural gas (LNG) imported right now at nosebleed prices.

It is a point about the mathematical implications of the UK’s gargantuan push for renewables. Offshore wind capacity is going to increase from 11 to 50 gigawatts (GW) by 2030 under the Government’s latest fast-track plans.

RenewableUK says this country currently has a total of 86GW in the project pipeline. This the most ambitious rollout of offshore wind in the world, ahead of…

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