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There are places for green energy and then there is Britain. I was very involved in solar power at one time a few years ago and it makes sense for some places, but I can't see England being one of those places. Arizona, Texas, CA, Hawaii fine. There are other states it works. I have a home that is 100% solar power and I use a propane generator if the sun can't provide enough. It took me 4 years to afford enough panels to know I now have enough solar power and my home is in the desert (Nevada). Solar can work for some, but when the politicians use it to raise the costs of decent and affordable power - shame on them. That is what California is doing. There are people who pay .33 cents a kilowatt hour in California only because of political mandates lead by "green" energy. Solar runs about .25 cents a kilowatt hour and so there is "pairty" and that is what the solar advocates are shooting for - raising the electric rate to a point where solar is cheaper. They can't get away with it in AZ, Texas, and other states becuase the people won't let them. God Bless em.
There are places for green energy and then there is Britain. I was very involved in solar power at one time a few years ago and it makes sense for some places, but I can't see England being one of those places. Arizona, Texas, CA, Hawaii fine. There are other states it works. I have a home that is 100% solar power and I use a propane generator if the sun can't provide enough. It took me 4 years to afford enough panels to know I now have enough solar power and my home is in the desert (Nevada). Solar can work for some, but when the politicians use it to raise the costs of decent and affordable power - shame on them. That is what California is doing. There are people who pay .33 cents a kilowatt hour in California only because of political mandates lead by "green" energy. Solar runs about .25 cents a kilowatt hour and so there is "pairty" and that is what the solar advocates are shooting for - raising the electric rate to a point where solar is cheaper. They can't get away with it in AZ, Texas, and other states becuase the people won't let them. God Bless em.
Germany has more solar power collection than the USA and it's on the same latitude as Britain. And Canada.
The US seems Hell bent on following the UK over a cliff. Think I'll keep stocking up on rice, beans, guns and ammo.
I know I post an awful lot on this issue but perhaps you can understand my very valid concerns now about where all this is ultimately going .Here in the UK I've seen this crisis coming for a number of years and I hoped our politicians might have woken up to the ultimate folly of all this by now.
It has been admitted by our government , families will be forced to pay almost £1000 ($1700) in green taxes on top of their energy bills by the end of the decade. What is also clear is that our gas and electricity supplies are fast running out .And if, that werent enough our government is imposing a swingeing new tax on all the coal and gas-fired power stations , which provide more than two-thirds of our electricity. Would you not throw up your hands in stunned disbelief if this happened in the US ? But that is what is about to happen with this new 'carbon tax', its deliberately designed not only to double the price of electricity from our remaining fossil fuel power plants within a few years, but to make it hard for them to survive at all. All this adds up to as great an act of political mismanagement as any in our history.
So, how did we come to such a terrifying pass ? There is one reason above all why our energy policy has gone so disastrously off the rails , and it lies in the conviction shared by politicians of all major parties that we must do all we can to save the planet by reducing CO2 emissions. At the time when this belief began to take shape, back in the Nineties, for 40 years Britain had had an electricity industry as efficient as any, based on the coal of which we had huge reserves and the nuclear power with which we once led the world. Then we decided to close down most of our coal industry in favour of a 'dash for gas', because it gives off only half as much carbon dioxide as coal ,this at a time when we still had enough cheap gas from the North Sea not to worry about becoming dependent on costly gas imports. The next move came with the new green energy manifesto , which ruled out building any more coal or nuclear power stations in favour of going flat out for 'renewables'. This was centred on pouring huge subsidies into building thousands of utterly useless wind turbines.
In recent years, so obsessed had our politicians become with the supposed threat from CO2 that Parliament voted almost unanimously for the Climate Change Act, committing Britain uniquely in the world to reducing its emissions by 80 per cent in just 40 years. This basically represents the longest economic suicide note ever written. But what the politicians failed to realise was that wind and solar are not only by far the most expensive means of producing electricity ( hence those green subsidies we all have to fund through our electricity bills ) they are also the most unreliable, because the wind doesn't always blow and the sun doesn't always shine. Yet the terrifying fact is that we really do need those reliable power stations our government is trying to price out of business , not least to provide constantly available back-up for the 32,000 wind turbines our ministers eulogise, for all those times when the wind is not blowing.
A responsible government would reverse this nonsense, and it would stop pouring massive subsidies into the generation of electricity from wind turbines. Such a government would recognise that our only hope of keeping bills down, our lights on and the economy running is to go flat out to exploit Britain's vast reserves of the cheap shale gas, which in America has more than halved gas prices in the past four years. But we do not have such a government. Our bills will continue to soar. Our lights will go out, just as our electricity chief was predicting last week on our news. Our nation will soon find itself having to stumble in the cold and the dark through a self-inflicted crisis that is unique in the developed world.
Heed the warning from what Britain has done to itself. These are the ultimate consequences of green myopia that many on this forum would have the US government embrace too. Thank yourself you dont live here and can watch this green disaster unfolding from a safe distance because the end result will not be pretty
Flogger, don't get confused about politicians caring about the common good. They are interested in power and control. The "green" revolution is all about power and control, not saving the planet from anything.
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