Utopia, you are standing in it!

Anyone who still believes in an ‘inevitable’ transition to wind and solar, clearly hasn’t been paying attention.

The same crowd tells us that ‘coal is dead’, ignoring the fact that coal demand continues to rise and the record prices paid for the black stuff is through the roof.

The Russian advance on Ukraine has only added to the demand for coal, along with the demand for oil and gas; nuclear power is back in vogue, too. What Vlad’s attack hasn’t done is, create any additional demand for wind turbines and solar panels.

It seems like only yesterday that Elon Musk was telling us that, by adding a few trillion-terawatt hours’ worth of his lithium-ion batteries, the wind and solar transition was a shoe-in.

Now Musk and his rent-seeking buddies seem to be running a mile from their wilder claims about our wind and solar-powered future.

Paul Murray picks up the…

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Re-writing the laws of physics is not an option. The only thing accelerating at the moment is the downward spiral into energy poverty for ever larger numbers of the population, in manic pursuit of the mystical ‘net zero’ climate target. Another trip to cloud cuckoo land beckons for these blinkered climate obsessives.
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The Environmental Audit Committee announced the inquiry in response to the rise in fossil fuel prices following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and continued speculation on what will be included in the government’s Energy Security Strategy, reports Energy Live News.

The Committee believes protecting consumers from high fossil fuel prices and fuel poverty while ensuring security of supply and continued progress towards net zero is critical for any strategy on energy security to be successful.

The idea that unreliable wind and solar can save the planet is one of the greatest lies, ever told.

In touting their purported environmental credentials, the crony capitalists, rent-seekers and fawning advocates never take into account any of the associated costs.

It’s all sunshine and suitably stiff breezes, as far as the wind and sun cult is concerned.

At the heart of economics is the need to account for all costs and weigh them against any purported benefits.

Then, and only then, can a net benefit of any chosen course of action be determined.

With the unreliables there are the obvious costs: the need for every single MW of wind or solar capacity to be backed up every single minute of the day by a MW of dispatchable power generation capacity (ordinarily coal, gas or nuclear); the need to build capacity and transmission network to bring wind and solar power…

With the world’s wind turbines slicing and dicing thousands of eagles, owls, hawks, and kites every day, wind farms are more slaughterhouses than power generators.

Millions of tonnes of beneficial bugs get splattered annually, along with millions of birds and bats, some of them being among the last of their kind. At the apex of the avian carcass heap are the thousands of eagles, wiped out in the blink of an eye.

Cars, cats and skyscrapers don’t kill Eagles – like the critically endangered Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle, but 60m wind turbine blades with their tips travelling at 350Kph routinely smash them out of existence. Although, as this story from the Netherlands details, the victims often die a slow and horrible death.

White-tailed eagle, once again tagged in the Netherlands, killed by wind turbine
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Stef van Rijn, Dirk van Straalen and Ralph Buij
4 February 2022

In the early…