Category Archives: Renewables
WWF Only Global Poverty Can Save The Planet
In October 2011 the WWF produced a report entitled Positive Energy how renewable electricity can transform the UK energy market by 2030.
If the WWF plan were to be implemented then the UK electricity market would be transformed, with only politically correct Green approved energy generation, rolling power cuts would be the order of the day, because, of course reliable gas and nuclear electricity generation would be illegal.
The WWF now have a new plan to save the planet, in line with the sustainable development meme from next months Rio+20 Earth Summit: Read the rest of this entry
Angela Merkel Fires Germanys Environment Minister
Norbert Röttgen Germany’s Environment Minister, the first Green political casualty more are bound to follow
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has fired her Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen for being Green and believing that renewables can power an industrial economy like Germany.
Merkel is a very astute politician and determined to hang on to power, Germany has often been quoted by the ecomentalists as leading the Green transition disaster in Europe, which is exactly what Merkel wanted people to believe.
The reality is different Merkel wanted to pay political lip service to the Green Dream while in reality, doing as little as possible, so chosing an ardent Green ecomentalist was a rare mistake for Merkel.
This last winter the lights nearly went out in Germany and the outlook for this winter is still far from certain.
German solar has been a huge financial disaster, and new financial regulations make it impossible to invest in off shore wind farms, which leaves the German Green Dream as good as dead. Read the rest of this entry
German Banks & Investors Banned From Investing In Off Shore Wind Farms
Stricter financial rules in Germany now mean that off shore wind farms can no longer be financed by banks
Germany is in a serious mess with its energy supplies, the German government was stupid enough to bow to the hysterical screams of the Green environmental lobby and shut down all its nuclear power stations.
The Greens rejoiced, prematurely as usual, that nasty bunny bothering reliable nuclear power was gone, Germany would be powered by the Green dream of solar and wind power, what could possibly go wrong?
All of it to be precise.
Just about all of the Green renewables dream has gone down the tubes, a glut of solar panels, cheaper competition from China and cuts in the life blood of renewables, Green taxation on energy bills have killed German solar, stone dead.
In the greed driven rush to grab the Green subsidies, the normally efficient and detail obsessed Germans have built a massive wind farm off Heligoland without any means to connect the wind farm to their national grid.
Tighter fiscal rules in Germany have now killed the off shore wind farm: Read the rest of this entry
The Sun Sets On Britains Solar Subsidy Boondoggle
Britain is to abandon solar subsidies which benefits the rich at the expense of the poor and jobs
At last a small ray of sense has flickered briefly from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) who are now working on a further cut in FeedIn Tariffs (FIT) for solar panel installations.
The Energy Act 2008′s Green taxation to support the solar industry has been described as “one of the most ridiculous schemes ever dreamed up” by Energy Minister Lord Marland, moves to cut the FIT were met with legal action by FoE and solar panel companies who cannot exist with out tax payer funded Green subsidy.
The resultant cut in the FIT to 21.4p per KwH has seen a marked drop in so called Green installations of solar panels, proving once again it was never about the environment, just an opportunity to make what the DECC now describe as “eye watering profits“, with a further cut in Green subsidy on the way, the whingeing is already starting: Read the rest of this entry
Damian Carrington Preaches To The Converted & Hopes That Sceptics Will Die Off Quicker
Damian Carrington eco propagandist at the Guardian, Head of Environment to be specific, it is not clear however if Gaia appointed Carrington or he bestowed the title upon himself.
As the great man climate change scam sinks slowly into irrelevance the warming alarmists are still trying to keep the Green Dream alive, by a number of methods varying from draconian laws to political re-eduction camps, and politically polarizing Climate Change as a Right versus Left battle.
One useful barometer of how warming alarmism is declining is to read the comments in the broadsheet propaganda outlet for Climate Religion, the Guardian, where the moderators are working overtime to remove politically incorrect comments and increasingly those concerned with real environmental issues, not the Green political agenda masquerading as environmentalism, are complaining about people like Caroline Lucas doing a disservice to the environmental movement.
In a lacklustre attempt to keep his spirits up and try to halt the decline in readers Damian Carrington preaches the usual Green lies to the converted and apart from wishing that climate sceptics would die of quicker manages to mention “fringe” 8 times and “Right Wing” 7 times: Read the rest of this entry
Wind Farms Cause Localised Warming At Night, But It Is Nice Eco Warming
Study shows that wind farms increase night time temperatures by .72 C, but do not worry because experts say this type of warming would be beneficial.
Apart from turning birds of prey into raptor mince, bursting the lungs of bats flying nearby, destroying the environment where they are manufactured, producing an unreliable electricity supply, pushing up energy costs with their lifeline of Green subsidy, wind farms now cause localised warming at night and very large wind farms have the potential to alter weather systems as well.
A study by the University of Illinois shows that wind farms decrease day time temperatures slightly and increase night time temperatures: Read the rest of this entry
The Guardian Lies About Bird Deaths & Wind Turbines
According to the Guardian raptors avoid wind farms, so they use this picture of red kites flying around bird choppers to illustrate their point
The hypocrisy of the Green movement is legend, the turning of a blind eye to an inconvenient truth, a way of life for the ecomentalist who will stop at nothing, and sacrifice anybody, or animal to achieve the Green dream.
One of their most loathsome forms of hypocrisy is the death of protected bird species, which they are supposed to care for, by wind turbines which is what they really care about.
The US government is issuing licences to kill for Green energy companies, while prosecuting anyone else that kills a protected bird.
The California Condor is under serious threat from wind farms, the Golden Eagle is being decimated and could well be extinct very soon, and in Spain bird choppers kill between 6 – 18 million birds and bats every year.
Wind Farms are piting Green activist against Green activist in the US where one bunch of Greens are using the legal system to shutdown the other Greens, Green energy wet dream to stop the bird chopppers, chopping birds.
Anyway there is nothing to worry about, because according to Leo Hickman in a post entitled Wind myths: Turbines kill birds and bats none of this happening: Read the rest of this entry
There Is No Global Race To Lead In Green Technology
China has been building 2 coal fired power stations a week and is now cutting the subsides for wind and solar in line with the rest of the world
China has often been quoted by the warming alarmists and Green NGOs as a shining example of a country that is behind their Green agenda and helping to lead the way in the race for Green technology which will rollback our civilisation 200 years, or at the very least make our power grid like that of North Korea, where they go to bed when the sun goes down.
In Britain, The US and The EU politicians and warming alarmists endlessly go on about our lead in this, or that unviable Green technology, which would be encouraging were it not for 2 inconvenient truths, no one else is in the race so it matters nothing about having a lead or winning, and whatever Green idiocy is adopted you can rest assured it will cost billions in tax payer funded Green subsidy.
China is far more interested in coal, shale gas, nuclear and hydroelectric power generation, all of which are affordable and reliable: Read the rest of this entry
Britain’s Green Rollback – On Shore Wind
A sort of end is in sight to bird choppers blighting landscapes in Britain.
Sooner or later in politics it is always the fault of the previous government as to why a policy is not working, which normally means the tax paying public hate the policy in question, which in this case is the global warming fear industry and the symbol of the Green agrarian society, the wind turbine.
Politicians were quick to jump on the global warming band wagon as it looked to be a vote winner in 2006, now 6 years down the road, 2 Climategates later, and the complete failure of a single fear prediction to materialise has left politicians wondering how to jump off, before the whole AGW scam collapses completely.
Time to resort to the time honoured, it was the previous governments fault: Read the rest of this entry
Solar Panels Are A Killer For Mortgages Part 2
Free solar panels are killer for mortgages and now Kent Fire Brigade are training for solar panel roof fires, watch those insurance premiums rise
Last month I blogged about free solar panels being a killer for mortgages, a couple of people commented about having called mortgage providers who would offer mortgages to properties with installed solar panels. So I called a number of mortgage providers saying I wanted to buy a house with installed solar panels on a 25 year roof lease, no one provider gave me an outright yes, most wanted to see the agreement with the solar panel company before proceeding further.
The problem of being unable to get mortgage on a property with roof-lease for solar panels is becoming more widespread according to David Dalby, a director of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors: Read the rest of this entry
