Utopia, you are standing in it!

No country has ever powered itself entirely with wind and solar power; no country ever will. In Britain, the threat of blackouts now looms every time the wind drops off, thanks to an overreliance on unreliable wind power.

Back in August 2019 we reported on a mass blackout that struck Britain, when an offshore wind farm decided to down tools: Blackout Nation: Wind Power Output Collapse Leaves Millions of Brits Totally Powerless

To say that Britain’s once reliable power grid is under threat, is mastery in understatement. And, as Paul Homewood reports, things can only get worse from here.

Wind slump risks blackouts as Britain goes ‘green’
Not a Lot of People Know That
Paul Homewood
24 May 2021

Wind Slumps risks Blackouts as Britain Goes Green
The Telegraph
Rachel Millard
24 May 2021

Prolonged periods of low wind and solar power could trigger blackouts as Britain races to ditch fossil…

The term involuntary unemployment was introduced by Keynes in the General Theory as the name he attached to the phenomenon of high cyclical unemployment during the downward phase of business cycle. He didn’t necessarily restrict the term to unemployment at the trough of the business cycle, because he at least entertained the possibility of underemployment equilibrium, presumably to indicate that involuntary unemployment could be a long-lasting, even permanent, phenomenon, unless countered by deliberate policy measures.

Keynes provided an explicit definition of involuntary unemployment in the General Theory, a definition that is far from straightforward, but boils down to the following: if unemployment would not fall as a result of a cut in nominal wages, but would fall as a result of a cut real wages brought about by an increase in the price level, then there is involuntary unemployment. Thus, Keynes explicitly excluded from his definition of involuntary unemployment, unemployment…

If massive subsidies tacked onto your power bill and directed to wind and solar generators wasn’t enough, there’s a government backed slush fund channelling hundreds of $millions into the wind and solar scam, as well.

In Australia the Clean Energy Finance Corporation is a Federal government backed outfit that has been doling out soft money to large-scale solar and wind projects that otherwise struggle to raise the capital needed to get off the ground.

But most operations run by bureaucrats, the CEFC is long on spin and waffle and short on hard numbers and accountability.

A couple of weeks back, One Nation Senator, Malcolm Roberts set out to get behind the bureau-speak and uncover precisely how much taxpayers’ money is being squandered by the CEFC.

Clean Energy Finance Corporation is Going Backwards – Senate Estimates
One Nation
Malcolm Roberts
27 May 2021

The CEFC holds $10 billion of taxpayer money…

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Embarrassing. Whatever the true science may be, it’s not what the court claimed. Is an appeal against their verdict in order?
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A recent Dutch Court decision is getting international attention because it commands climate action.

The case itself is like angels on a pinhead, so of little interest, says David Wojick @ CFACT.

Shell Oil proposed to cut CO2 emissions by 40% and the Court made it 45%, both targets being stupid. The real concern is the precedent of Courts making climate policy, so this decision is worth looking at.

Turns out the Court’s version of the science is amazingly bad.