“Any politician who bleats about high electricity prices needs to look no further than the stupid energy policies that are causing most of them. We do not have an energy crisis – we have an energy policy crisis.”

 

by Viv Forbes, Chairman, The Carbon Sense Coalition

 

The Carbon Sense Coalition today called for an end to all subsidies, tax breaks, price subsidies and guaranteed markets for solar power.

 

The Chairman of Carbon Sense, Mr Viv Forbes, said every country that forced consumers to use and subsidise renewable energy was suffering soaring electricity prices, increasing risks of grid instability and blackouts, and widespread loss of real industry and real jobs.

 

“Any politician who bleats about high electricity prices needs to look no further than the stupid energy policies that are causing most of them. We do not have an energy crisis – we have an energy policy crisis.”

In the days of Queen Victoria they said, truthfully “the sun never sets on the British Empire”.

 

But it does set on Australia, every single day. Even the green power engineers in Parliament must have noticed that the sun also sets on all those solar panels that their mandates and subsidies have plastered onto Australian roofs.

 

Solar energy is most intense on the equator but weakens towards the poles. It disappears when the sun sets or cloud obscures the sun. For just six hours or so per day during summer, in a clear tropical desert area, solar energy is reasonably reliable and collectible, although always very dilute. But at times of peak demand, about 6.30pm in winter, solar panels contribute nothing to electricity supply.

 

Billions have been spent on researching ways to store massive amounts of solar energy to cover the eighteen hours per day of low or zero solar supply.

 

Many things will work in the lab, even a big bank of car batteries. But once real engineers take over from green dreamers and academics, most of their fanciful energy storage schemes become horrendously expensive or impractical. (A linked hydro scheme would work, but no one would be allowed to build it in case it disturbed a green frog.)

 

But nature has provided us with the answer and some decade soon an academic will re-discover that the solar energy of yesteryear is stored in concentrated form in prodigious quantities as COAL.

 

So abundant, reliable and cheap is this stored sunshine, that even green Europe is rediscovering it. Seventeen coal-fired power stations are being built or modernised in Germany, the solar panel capital of the world. China, the world’s biggest exporter of solar panels, is building 363 coal-fired plants for itself.

 

Green energy policies have destroyed the reliability and economics of power in Europe for zero benefits for the climate or the environment – low cost energy is being forced out by high cost energy. Australia should have learned from Europe’s solar subsidy stupidity. Subsidised solar panels may be good for harvesting votes, but they are not sensible for generating grid power. Only proper power stations will keep the lights on 24/7.

 

Those who wish to use solar panels should be free to do so providing they accept all the costs and benefits of their decision.

 

Viv Forbes,

Chairman, The Carbon Sense Coalition

O754 640 533

www.carbon-sense.com

Rosewood    Qld   Australia
forbes@carbon-sense.com

 

 

For those wanting to see more evidence:

 

Solar Power Realities:
http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/solar-realities.pdf

 

De-industrialising Europe:

http://12160.info/video/de-industrialising-europe-through-global-warming-alarmism-1?xg_source=activity

 

Belgium mulls solar panel tax:

http://www.tax-news.com/news/Belgium_Mulls_Solar_Panel_Tax____60790.html

 

Greece plans levy for rooftop solar panels:
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite2_1_18/04/2013_494644

 

Spain planning to cut solar subsidies?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323844804578528992849528304.html

 

The Great Green U-Turn in the EU:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2331077/Revealed-The-EUs-great-green-U-turn-policy-sending-energy-bills-soaring-continent.html

 

Germany turns to Coal:

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/04/23/germany-to-open-six-more-coal-power-stations-in-2013/

http://www.thegwpf.org/germany-building-17-new-coal-29-new-gas-fired-power-stations/

 

Europe goes for Coal:

http://www.businessspectator.com.au/article/2013/6/7/resources-and-energy/coal-comfort-europe?utm_source=exact&utm_medium=email&utm_content=314508&utm_campaign=kgb&modapt

 

The Madness of British Energy policies:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2290444/Madness-How-pay-billions-electricity-bills-Britains-biggest-power-station-switch-coal-wood-chips–wont-help-planet-jot.html

Also please consider:

Continuing Collapse of Global Warming Hoax

Mindless “green” indoctrination of our children

Obama’s Clean-Energy Dirt – Stealing You Blind for a Good Cause?

 Manufactured Crisis of Global Warming aka Climate Change

$11,000,000.00 Spent Per “Green” Job Ceated

Let My Energy Go! Obama Depresses Economy With Green Agenda

Obama warned us he would make electricity rates ‘skyrocket’

Billions Burned on Obama’s Green Energy

Let My Energy Go! Obama Depresses Economy With Green Agenda

Consumers pay 38% extra for ‘renewable’ energy mandates

Obama pushes up oil, gas and electric rates as he promised

 Chu on this – Obama administration doesn’t care about high gas prices

Steve Jobs and the anti-jobs president

The New Robber Barons and Their Thief in Chief

Obama’s Green Energy Fail

Obama’s Green Corporate Welfare Funds Foreign Jobs

You’re Getting Gassed by EPA Lies About Ethanol

O’s Nominees to Push Failed Green Agenda, Continue Higher Energy & Gas Prices

Green Scam – Keeping You Afraid While Stealing You Blind

Obama’s Clean-Energy Dirt – Stealing You Blind for a Good Cause?

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