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Post by marchesarosa on Dec 8, 2010 2:29:51 GMT 1
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Post by principled on Dec 8, 2010 18:56:27 GMT 1
Marchesa Thanks for the links, though they contained no surprises. I've often wondered how long it would be before our technologically illiterate representatives would latch on to the fact that the only green things that interested our power companies and renewable energy manufacturers were the green pound notes they received in subsidies. A couple of quotes from one of your links says it all: "slashed by two-thirds the revenue that homeowners who had installed solar panels would receive, from 60¢ per kilowatt-hour to 20¢."- Did anyone say to them: "We'll buy your spare capacity at 60c/kWh provided you buy it back at the same price when you need it"? I don't think so, 'cos otherwise there wouldn't have been any takers.  "With the market for wind shrinking, Denmark’s Vestas, the world’s largest wind-turbine company, recently announced it is closing five production facilities in Denmark and Sweden and laying off 3,000 workers, or one-seventh of its global workforce". The poor Danes have woken up to the fact that when the wind blows too much they must sell the surplus to the Swedes at below wholesale rates (Just to get rid of it), only to buy energy back at full wholesale rates when there isn't enough wind! They've more or less now abandoned future investment in wind farms. It's rather like our gas industry, which sells gas to Europe-where it is stored- at low rates in the summer and then buys it back in the winter at higher prices! Sounds like some Whitehall farce. Well, the whole renewable energy policy has been one anyway. The whole knee-jerk renewable energy policy has been a very expensive experiment, driven by ideological greens slavishly followed by our technologically illiterate politicians on the promise of zero carbon emissions. Why do such intelligent people not heed the saying: "If something is too good to be true, it usually is"? The sad corollary to this is that the money wasted on renewable subsidies could have been used to buy us "CO2 time" by building nuclear stations and funding much more research into low radiation Thorium-only nuclear plants (which is currently considered a waste by-product from mining). www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread607488/pg1P |
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Post by marchesarosa on Jan 3, 2011 13:10:11 GMT 1
From The Times "Concern over huge fluctuations in the supply of electricity from Britain’s 3,000 wind turbines has prompted National Grid to begin detailed forecasts of wind strength. The turbines have delivered well below their usual output this winter and in the 24 hours to 5pm yesterday contributed only 0.5 per cent of the country’s power. Parts of the day were so still that wind power’s contribution fell below 0.2 per cent. On the windiest days, the turbines deliver about 8 per cent. A record of 10 per cent over a 24-hour period was set on September 6 last year. But since the beginning of December 2010, turbines have been operating at only 20 per cent of their maximum capacity compared with an annual average of about 30 per cent." Thanks to Bishop Hill bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2011/1/3/more-wind.htmlRead the comments. |
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