Gone with the wind power

March 5, 2012 05:42


To the nearest whole number, the percentage of the world’s energy that comes from wind turbines today is: zero. – The Spectator

By Matt Ridley at The Spectator.CO.UK


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Despite the regressive subsidy (pushing pensioners into fuel poverty while improving the wine cellars of grand estates), despite tearing rural communities apart, killing jobs, despoiling views, erecting pylons, felling forests, killing bats and eagles, causing industrial accidents, clogging motorways, polluting lakes in Inner Mongolia with the toxic and radioactive tailings from refining neodymium, a ton of which is in the average turbine — despite all this, the total energy generated each day by wind has yet to reach half a per cent worldwide.

 

If wind power was going to work, it would have done so by now.

 

The total carbon emissions saved by the great wind rush is probably below 1 per cent, because of the need to keep fossil fuels burning as back-up when the wind does not blow. It may even be a negative number.

 

So even if you accept the most alarming predictions of climate change, those turbines that have ruined your favourite view are doing nothing to help.

 

It is almost impossible to see what function they serve, other than making a fortune from those who profit from the subsidy scam.

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