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Wind energy gets serial

Why do it? Offshore wind power is horribly expensive and requires huge subsidies. In spite of what everyone says, quite often, there are calm periods when the system load is at its maximum. Because wind is changing all the time, thermal stations need to be kept on standby and, as a result, there is only a small reduction in carbon dioxide. A much greater reduction in carbon dioxide at much less cost would be achieved by cleaning coal using hydrogen fluoride or by exploiting what seems to be huge shale gas resources. But underlying all of this is the fact that the lack of significant warming over the last 15 years proves that carbon dioxide does not cause dangerous man-made global warming. So the whole renewable energy mania is a nonsense.

2 May 2012

10:01 pm