ELECTRIC VEHICLE BUYERS BE WARE!!

 This article should be a warning to anyone tempted to buy an electric vehicle:

Mercedes owner ‘horrified’ new battery will cost him £15,000 – more than the car is worth | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

So be sensible and avoid them!

WIND ENERGY IS GETTING DEARER - NEW ANALYSIS

 London, 24 January - A new analysis from the Global Warming Policy Foundation reveals that the cost of onshore wind power has risen by 30% since the introduction of the Renewables Obligation, 20 years ago [1]. 

The analysis, based on audited financial accounts and official generation data, throws into question claims from the wind industry that wind is becoming ever more competitive.
 
The findings are also another major blow to the government’s Net Zero policy, which will fail without cheap and abundant renewable electricity. 

GWPF deputy director, Andrew Montford, said:
 
“Onshore wind is 60% dearer than the figure in the Government’s plans for Net Zero, making it a nonsense of claims that it is the cheapest form of electricity generation. We are locking high costs into the economy”

The steady rise in onshore costs is thought to be due to windfarms being sited at progressively worse locations. In other words, the best sites are now all taken.
 
Earlier analyses have found that offshore wind remains extraordinarily expensive, with at best only a small reduction in recent years [2-4].
 
Notes
 
[1] The new report is entitled “The Rising Cost of Onshore Wind” and can be downloaded here (pdf).
 
[2] Montford, A. Offshore Wind: Cost predictions and cost outcomes. Briefing 52, The Global Warming Policy Foundation, 2021.
 
[3] Aldersey-Williams J et al. Better estimates of LCOE from audited accounts – A new methodology with examples from United Kingdom offshore wind and CCGT. Energy Policy 128 (2019) 25–35.
 
[4] Hughes G. Wind Power Economics: Rhetoric and reality. Vol. I, Wind Power Costs in the United Kingdom Technical report, The Renewable Energy Foundation, 2020.

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WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE CONFUSE WEATHER AND CLIMATE?

 Politicians and climate activists often talk about weather events and claim that they confirm that our climate is getting more extreme, but that is simply wrong, as this article below explains.

Yale Climate Connections Should Go Back to School for Equating a Year of Weather with Climate Change - ClimateRealism

MET OFFICE FORECAST GOES MAD

 The Met Office often have difficulty getting the weather forecast exactly right, so why are they now delving in political forecasts?

See here: Met Office predicts the collapse of society following climate disaster | Daily Mail Online

In a sane world this nonsense would lead to some heads getting the sack, but I suspect this kind of rubbish is just what the government want to see given out. They must think we are very stupid.

STORM CLOUDS AHEAD DOWN ON THE SOLAR FARM

 Here is a comprehensive article debunking the increasing use of solar energy:

Storm clouds ahead down on the solar farm - The Conservative Woman

There is a lot of good information in there. Time for the government to wake up before it's too late.

ARCTIC ICE ALARMISM FOUND TO BE JUST PROPAGANDA

 Here is an excellent video from Tony Heller giving us the actual data disproving the propaganda put out by the USA administration and parroted by most of the mainstream media. How long can this fraud keep going? Here is the link:

NOAA Arctic Fraud | Real Climate Science

MORE EXTREME WEATHER FUELLED BY CLIMATE CHANGE - NONSENSE!

 Read this article to find the truth:

Follow the Science, Yahoo News, Climate Change is Not Causing More Extreme Weather - ClimateRealism

We need to counter the endless propaganda pushed out by the mainstream TV channels.

SO MUCH FOR RELIABLE AND CHEAP EV's

 This article highlights a serious problem with electric vehicles which seems to have received little attention in the media.

EV Chargers To Be Separately Metered | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

How many electric vehicle enthusiasts know about this? 

MANIFESTO FOR COMMON SENSE

Here is a good manifesto for common sense that should be adopted by our politicians. 

 Manifesto For 2022 | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

THE CLIMATE DRIVEN ENERGY CRISIS

 There was an excellent article in the Sunday Telegraph by Ross Clark (January 3rd) giving us the facts about green energy. It is accessible at this link: Idealistic politicians are willfully blind to the inconvenient truth about green energy (telegraph.co.uk) [ behind a pay wall]

Ross reminds us of former climate change minister, Chris Huhne's comments made in 2011 when he said that green energy would "protect us from price shocks". Since then we have closed early all our coal-fired power stations - down from producing 31% of our power to 2.1%. They will be gone for good by 2024. But where is the benefit in terms of prices? 

Adjusted for inflation, prices of electricity have risen by 19% between 2011 and 2020. By next April they are likely to double, despite the fact that a barrel of oil costs less now than in 2011. Ofgem says that 25% of our electricity bills are made up of social and environmental levies.

If the government had gone ahead with fracking, instead of caving in to a small vocal minority, we could have had our own secure supply, instead of relying on Russian gas, where we are being outbid by the Chinese.

Claims that the cost of wind and solar have fallen dramatically in recent years do not take into account the huge cost of dealing with intermittency. At some times suppliers have been forced to pay up to 40 times the usual wholesale cost cost to keep the supply going.