Andrew Orlowski has written an excellent piece in the Telegraph laying into the Net Zero ideologues running the U.K., who have introduced a mass of unrealistic, contradictory policies around electrification and renewable energy that will only ruin Britain. Here’s an excerpt.
Take climate change targets. How good it must have felt for politicians to set those lofty goals, knowing that someone else must deal with the cost and the implementation? But now the bills are now arriving, and they’re bringing a world of hurt.
To sum up: Western policy elites have embarked on the electrification of society, replacing hydrocarbons in housing and transport, but without the technology to replace it well.
The laptop elites of Davos who back this transition are not technologically savvy people – they’re fundamentally frivolous people, anecdotalists who yawned their way through their science GCSEs. A squiggle on the back of an envelope will impress them.
They must be astonished how easy the “energy transition” project has been so far, with Maoist cadres of activist investors ensuring the most valuable stuff our economy depends on is left in the ground.
Electrification is a profound change, however, and in practice, means two things. The public is being required to surrender a superior product for an inferior one. And secondly, the infrastructure to transition to these inferior products cheaply and reliably does not exist.
To make an additional rod for our backs, Governments have decreed that a proportion of the replacement energy for hydrocarbons must come from methods that we wisely abandoned in the Middle Ages: the sun and the wind.
Even if we could acquire superior equivalents to a combination gas boiler or a 38-tonne diesel truck, in reality they’d go unused. The capacity required to generate the required level of supply, even expensively, will be absent for a very long time.
So it’s fairly safe to predict that Net Zero will fail – those targets will be missed. But for now, the policy throws up massive contradictions, while resolving them is nobody’s department.
For example, ministers say we need a multiple of the electricity generation capacity we have today. The National Grid says we’ll all have to get by with a lot less. In fact, so many contradictory measures have been passed, that “it is now beyond any minister or civil servant to name them all, let alone understand how they interact with each other,” Professor Dieter Helm warns in his latest bulletin on the U.K. energy industry, published this month.
“The resulting complexity is the prime route to enabling lobbying by vested interests, and the consequent capture of each of the technology-specific interventions,” Helm adds.
Worth reading in full.
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Incompetent or deliberate or simply that they don’t care what havoc they wreak?
Probably both. ————Sustainable Development is a deliberate political agenda emanating from the ruling class at the UN and WEF, but the incompetence comes from individual politicians like Grant Schapps. I still cannot believe that this imbecile said only weeks ago on TV that he “doesn’t know” if heat pumps are better than Gas Central Heating. Him and his stupid government wants to take away gas and replace it with heat pumps but “doesn’t know” if they are any good. How totally stupid is that? And if he isn’t stupid then he is doing it deliberately knowing full well heat pumps are not going to do what gas central heating does. ———–That is pure incompetence at an unprecedented level. But in reality the entire political class of UN lackeys are all fully onboard with this eco socialist scam. Not a single one of them asked any questions about the cost benefit of this absurdity that they are prepared to foist on us. It was simply waved through parliament without further ado. —————-So perhaps we can call it Deliberate Incompetence.
Look into Grant Schapps history before its cleansed from the net. B’nai B’rith and Zion ought to give you a clue as to where this particular individuals loyalties lay..
Incompetence.. the same excuse used for the covid hoax. Its not incompetence at all.. its the plan (amongst others) to destroy the country. Simple as that!
Indeed.
Suicide, murder, assisted suicide.
Not incompetence.
It’sa not incompetence, it’s part of the deliberate destruction of European Christian civilisation.
100% right. Planned. Carefully calculated. NetZero is just one attack, albeit an important one. Demonising ‘carbon’ as satan is anti-science, but serves to incapcitate, freeze and trap the peasants. Easier to round up and extinguish. Ants and roaches come to mind.
The only ones defying this Eco Socialism and open borders destruction of Christian civilisation and values are the Poles and the Law and Justice Party who defy the EU, and are branded racists, populists etc. Poland currently is getting fined half a million Euros for daring to keep using coal. Also Hungary is doing the same ——–We on the other hand just take all the globalists throw at us and think it is all being done to “save the planet”. ———But as someone pointed out “The urge to save humanity is almost always a false face for the urge to rule it”.
We are the globalists that’s why. The power lies in the City of London. Rottenchilds power base. Its been in the planning at least as far back as Cecil Rhodes and Edward Milner, and probably longer than that.
Don’t be fooled by the so called power in Washington, they are just a cog in the wheel. The muscle behind the brains..
I think we are talking at cross purposes. I am referring to the Eastern European Nations (Poland Hungary Bulgaria and even Finland Sweeden and Italy) fighting back against the EU and it’s secular multi culturalism, that is attempting to eradicate traditional values and culture. When I say “globalists” I am referring to the globalist experiment that is the EU.
Exactly.. well said..
“So it’s fairly safe to predict that Net Zero will fail”. Yes, but how many households, retirements, futures will it destroy on the way to that inevitable failure?
Well it’s Britain and they’re defo not incompetent. These Britain First guys are doing a stellar job of opposing 1,500 migrants descending on an ex-RAF base near a village. I hope the combined efforts of them and the villagers do the trick, but has anything like this ever succeeded in the past? Looks like an idyllic place, it’d be dreadful to ruin it. ( 4min vid )
https://twitter.com/BFirstParty/status/1673325488087998470?cxt=HHwWjIC98c2q7LguAAAA
Wonder if this is what they’re getting…
https://twitter.com/GoldingBF/status/1673300232384249856?cxt=HHwWgIC8ncTs4LguAAAA
Or they could end up like Belgium, where the police do fk all and stand around like gonks.
https://twitter.com/EvaVlaar/status/1673295054411005954?cxt=HHwWhICwqZG_3rguAAAA
It’s an invading army alright.
https://www.technocracy.news/coming-soon-the-apocalyptic-phase-of-technocracy-and-transhumanism/
The Crown estate rents a lot of seabed to the offshore wind industry. Then there is Lord Deben protecting his investments in the House of Lords. I wouldn’t be surprised if most MPs and Lords have investments in green energy too.
Un-elected Sunak is mentally ill and needs sectioning.
The biggest delusion is thinking that we can choose and control a global average temperature by changing the amount of a trace element in the atmosphere. Not only that but the ‘target’ average global temperatures are 1.5C or 2C above a global average of 200 years ago – we can choose a temperature to 0.5C!
Of course, all this is endorsed by children, actors, pop singers and politicians so it’s true and people are dying.
“It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into”
J. Swift
Agenda 2030 and the WEF’s detailed plans for The Great Reset prove that none of this is accidental, or can be attributed to ignorance.
The politicians who are implementing it on their behalf know precisely what they are doing: looking out for their own careers/interests.
It all becomes clear if you accept that the political climate change agenda has nothing to do with climate, it’s just a tool of oppression. The political class is waging an undeclared war against us, the people, at the behest of their globalist overlords and paymasters, a war across multiple fronts: Orwellian censorship of the truth, depopulation by mandating dangerous mRNA injections, climate change policies which are wrecking the economy and making energy unaffordable, the deliberately-provoked war in Ukraine with self-harming sanctions, the war against farming to create food shortages, the war against cars and the threat of 15-minute cities, threatened mandatory digital Ids and programmable CBDCs, uncontrolled immigration, gender wokery, …
Engineers are beginning to sound the alarm. Solar farms cannot be connected to the grid because our ageing grid cannot cope with the intermittency of solar power. The whole grid needs upgrading.
“The transmission network just filled up and when you hit that limit on a network, you are suddenly into major reinforcement works. For National Grid ESO to build a new circuit it can take 10 years and so last year, we saw those connection dates jump to 2028, and then they just kept creeping up, to the extent that we have seen timescales offered of 2036 and 2037,” he says.
https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2023/02/delays-threaten-net-zero-goals/
The simple fact is decisions on electrical power supply are being made by activists and politicians and not power engineers. This is a recipe for disaster.