Though Ed Miliband was jumping and dancing about wind power becoming “Britain’s biggest source of electricity”, it was surely a terrible week for him and his plans. On Monday, the Daily Mail reported that wind power had “overtaken gas” in this strange metric of Net Zero’s progress. “This is a huge moment in our journey away from energy insecurity and towards clean homegrown power,” said Miliband. It was a huge moment indeed. But not in the way he was anticipating.
First, the news coincided with the country being plunged into a cold snap, with temperatures reaching as low as minus-14°C in some parts of England. So much for global warming; snow and frost covered most of Britain for days.
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And, all the while the fratricidal ‘Mad Monk’ Miliband capers about like a latter day Savonarola, tiny tot labour MPs sitting in parliament and meant to be representing their shivering and aged constituents carry on like nothing so much as ‘a bunch of toddlers delighted with the contents of a steaming nappy!’ (Madeline Grant, DT)
Well, they won’t be smiling soon, twist and turn, squirm, as they will…….
They are intellectual minnows. And socialists. So highly dangerous individuals. Prepare for the collapse comrades
..and their policy is deliberate….
Perhaps the Houses of Parliament and House of Lords heating systems should be reconfigured to be powered by renewables only?
Clean power is dirty lies. Decarbonisation is energy fraud. You can’t play fast and loose with thermodynamics, the electricity grid and domestic heating…
https://richardlyon.substack.com/p/the-physics-of-net-zero
“…Physics, not imagination, or determination, limits what an energy transition can achieve. In this week’s essay, we look at energy’s most important physical property — gradient — to understand why running Britain on ‘renewable energy’ is physically impossible.”
Last Minister to leave the Cabinet meeting, blow out the candles and turn off the paraffin heater.
Thanks
Worth reading the post in the link and also this one which was linked from there
https://davidturver.substack.com/p/why-eroei-matters
Yes, some fundamental physics here that pulls the rug from under net zero. Still trying to get my head round it.
I thought the article on Energy Return on Energy Invested was clearer and more damning. The stuff about “energy gradient” made sense up to a point (you need concentrated energy sources to make the infrastructure necessary to exploit dissipated energy sources) but once you have that infrastructure you can use the energy to build more of it. But perhaps it all comes back to EROEI.
Paraffin heater?? That’s burning hydrocarbons. Presumably millipede will order everyone to shiver rather than create CO2.
Shivering Sir Kia will pull rank. Do as we say not as we do.
One of the amusing claims of last
summerdeadly heatwave season was that some German climate expert (a woman) claimed that eggs could be boiled at 40⁰ C and thus, we’re in grave danger because our brains contain protein. That’s the sort of rubbish MSM journalists tend to repeat mindlessly instead of asking the lady to demonstrate that experimentally: Boil an egg at 40⁰ C. Come back when it’s hard-boiled. Chicken hatching instead doesn’t count.Labour communist scum, and the tory blue socialist scum, are to blame. The b’stards should be on trial for killing people and destroying our economy and way of life. Ervything they do is a disaster. We need a revolution and direct democracy like the Swiss.
Our establishment and people are thick as mince. We allow these scumbags to do this to us, and we do nothing. Fools. I pray for the collapse because it will allow strong men (no women) to take charge and punish the criminals.
I think that some heads on poles (I’m looking at you Ed Miliband) would encourage a return to sanity. Sadly I’m not expecting anything like that soon, but carry on as we are and it will come when anger spills over.
Ah yes, but when the anger spills over (and tbh it doesn’t seem to matter what the reason is), anyone objecting about Milliband vision of net zero will be labelled ‘right wing’, and threatened with jail for carrying placards demanding coal power stations and oil and gas drilling. In fact, calling anything they don’t agree with ‘right wing’ means they feel they have won the argument and further discussion isn’t needed. It’s like name calling in a primary school playground.
I agree they will spin the propaganda to say it is our civic duty to save the planet by living without energy during cold weather and those that object will be punished. The Beeboids will lap it up as they did the jabs.
As i read this at 0815 wind is 8.18% of electricity on the grid. Not impressive.
Throughout the last week more than half of Britain’s electricity has been generated from gas, with solar contributing 2% for a few hours on some days and wind as low as 9%. Without imported gas there would be widespread death and economic collapse, whilst we are forced by policy to leave our own gas in the ground
The only bright glimmer on the energy front last week was that a company has applied for a fracking license
If we had power blackouts, would TPTB change their suicidal energy policy? Or do we have to sharpen the pitchforks and build the guillotines until they get the message?
We could be warm and paying a third of today’s prices were it not for policies introduced by Con/Lib and supercharged by Lab….with the Blob in all its forms in it up to their necks too
Net imports were 12% so we’d have been screwed without those too.
Wind might be the biggest single source of energy for electricity generation, but at best it’s about a third. But electricity is not the biggest source of energy – gas, petrol and diesel are still major providers. Electricity accounts for about 20% of energy use, so the 30% of electricity generation represents 6% of total energy use. As the UK’s contribution to CO2 emissions is about 1%, that means all the billions of pounds spent has reduced overall global emissions by 0.06%. In other words, made a next to sod all change to something that doesn’t exist. Great investment, eh?
I am amazed at the number of people who think that every country in the world is committed to nett zero, and never seem to become aware that we are playing this foolhardy game unilaterally. Indeed, if we were to achieve Nett Zero, the Chinese are increasing their CO2* every three months, by what we have reduced ours by.
*My other thing to be amazed at is how the same people thank that CO2 is some kind of poisoned gas.They just believe what they are told and dont even question anything. Only when we have sustained power black-outs will they start to ask questions
I think the perception of CO2 as a deadly gas is encouraged by the use of the word ‘carbon’ on its own in a great many instances. A lot of people associate carbon with black dirty deposits. I have spoken to people who think there is a growing sooty cloud of ‘carbon’ somewhere in the atmosphere. People’s stupidity knows no bounds.
The sad thing is, these are the same sort of people who get all their information from MSM. Currently they are generally not for turning.
That’s entirely the wrong association. Carbon is a fundamental building block of all life on this planet. All plants and animals consist mostly of carbon. The sole reason why so-called fossil fuel contains carbon is that it’s decayed biomass. Burning coal, oil or gas means burning what were once plants which drew carbon from the air or animals which acquired carbon by eating plants.
What always amazes me are the answers to the question – what proportion of the Earth’s atmosphere is CO2?
Average answer I get is around 5%, though I’ve had one person tell me 30%!
Quantity of Co2 in the earth’s atmosphere is 0.04%. Not a problem. John F.Clauser physics Nobel prize winner in 2022 regards climate change as nonsense.
And he’s been demonised and no-platformed for it.
I’ve taken to asking everyone I talk to about ‘climate change’ if they know what percentage of the earth’s atmosphere is made up up of carbon dioxide. Predictably, they have no clue other than to guess at double figure numbers – 15%….20%…. When I reveal that it is actually 0.04%, this is met with incredulity and feverish ‘fact checking’ online. Then I add the fact that if CO2 levels drop below a critical point (and apparently we are not a million miles away from it?), then all plant life will die. Cue my (usually) intelligent audience going into sulky silence as they process a few genuine facts which contradict their BBC-fed narrative…
Three more months of proper winter should do it.
God has the last word.
Don’t tell me there are no elderly hospitalised through cold at present, its just that the media I suspect have been told to not report it, and as the majority are left sympathisers its not in the interests of their owners to do so.
Cold? Good heaven’s no. They either got flu, covid or norovirus, nothing to do with the weather.
They’ve got “respiratory” illnesses. Respiratory illnesses are exacerbated by cold and damp, but it the Government/NHS will declare that they have a virus and the sheeple should line up for another jab.
The annual Winter “crisis” has nothing to do with increased admissions of the elderly for cold-related conditions exacerbated by hyperthermia. Good heavens no.
Yes, we need a winter like the one in ’63. Snow and freezing temperatures from Boxing Day to April.
I remember that winter. As a kid, I loved it!
No school because the bus couldn’t get through the 17 foot snow drifts. Out sledging until numb extremities drove us home to a roaring coal fire – no central heating.
I remember wearing two pair of jeans which got so wet the blue dye from them stained my thighs.
Hahaha! Happy days! Central heating! We had coats piled on top of our blankets, when we went to bed.
I hated it because I was so cold all the time and had chilblains. One thing that has improved immensely is the quality of warm winter wear manufactured from manmade fibres, the product of – guess what? – oil. And I am so much warmer nowadays.
We should spare a thought for the poor using pre-paid meters. If they run out of money they’re deemed to have ‘self disconnected’.
If they go a few days without feeding the meter, rustle up a spare fiver & feed the meter, accrued standing charges gobble up the fiver & they still can’t make a cup of tea. For some it’s desperate.
“…rustle up a spare fiver…” It used to be a shilling (1/-) – good old days.
Very important to share https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsM4aOmCb_U&list=PL89cj_OtPeenLkWMmdwcT8Dt0DGMb8RGR&index=1 . Not easy; it explains in detail how models indicate that carbon dioxide causes global warming while ignoring other factors which we know affect Earth’s climate. These include cyclical variations in energy transmitted to Earth from the Sun, and cyclical releases of energy from the oceans. The modelling developed in the 1960s assumed a stable climate absent changes in CO2 and limited changes in convection to exit heat from the system. This resulted in artificial increases in modelled ‘global’ temperatures ‘caused by’ CO2, which are not realistic, but can be supported by corrupted and manipulated ‘global temperature’ data. Serious money follows subsequent modelling only if it arrives at the same conclusion, and the result is Net Zero political commitments which will impoverish humanity for decades where they are followed.
Very important to share https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsM4aOmCb_U&list=PL89cj_OtPeenLkWMmdwcT8Dt0DGMb8RGR&index=1 . Not easy, it explains in detail how models indicate that carbon dioxide causes global warming while ignoring other factors which we know affect Earth’s climate. These include cyclical variations in energy transmitted to Earth from the Sun, and cyclical releases of energy from the oceans. The modelling developed in the 1960s assumed a stable climate absent changes in CO2 and limited changes in convection to exit heat from the system. This resulted in artificial increases in modelled ‘global’ temperatures ‘caused by’ CO2, which are not realistic, but can be supported by corrupted and manipulated ‘global temperature’ data. Serious money follows subsequent modelling only if it arrives at the same conclusion, and the result is Net Zero political commitments which will impoverish humanity for decades where they are followed.
There are so many really informative videos on youtube but point them out to a net zero/Covid vaccine loon and it’s ‘Oh, you’re a youtube believer’ – rolled eyes. Quite common in The Times comments.
“Monday, the Daily Mail reported that wind power had “overtaken gas”…”
Let’s see:-
Saturday 11am. Gas 52.56%; Nuclear 11.18%; wind 7.73%.
Oh.
If gas storage tanks are only 60% full… er, fill ‘em up. Too radical?
The shortage of gas storage is because Centrica needs £2 billion to expand storage and wants you dear taxpayer to cough up. It’s a debate that’s been going on for a few years. So it is not actually about Net Zero nonsense, just subsidy harvesting.
And for those who keep yapping on about nuclear being the solution – cos it’s soooooooooo cheap, Hinkley Point C which got its licence in 2012 “might” finally be completed after numerous delays by 2029 to 2031 at double the initial estimate.
Originally the consumer price was going to be £24 per MWh, now it has a government guaranteed consumer price of £128 per MWh (inflation linked) for the 35 year lifetime, which puts it at around the same CfD price for wind.
Nuclear fans are as bad as the windy sunbeam fans, only considering direct consumables costs, overlooking capital outlay, repairs, maintenance, labour and other operational costs and the limited lifetime over which these can be amortised – and of course that other pesky thing… profit.
In other words, a business has to make money. As someone said you cannot run a Green business on red numbers.
“you cannot run a Green business on red numbers.” Genius! Will be trotting this out as appropriate, though I suspect a great many people won’t get it, or will not want to get it.
I understand that the French are in trouble viz sourcing supplies for their nuclear power plants from Africa. The Africans are throwing them out and the price of raw materials will no longer be cheap to the French. Does anyone have more details?
Also the French nuclear fleet was paid for by the taxpayer when EDF was State owned, so when it was privatised it could enjoy operational profit without the capital deadweight on its balance sheet. (The same as happened with privatised BA and Concorde which allowed it to be operated at a profit.)
Its fleet of 59 need replacing but EDF (ironically providing some of the dosh for Hinkley Point C together with a Chinese outfit) can’t raise the money to replace them, so it has been renationalised so the French taxpayer will foot the bill. That means they will pay twice for electricity, once on their bills, again through their taxes – as is the case with anything State subsidised and as we are doing for our electricity.
Hope they don’t use an electric bus – it might run out of charge.
For how long can the Government sustain this sloganeering in the face of a stinging reality of cold weather, rising prices, business closures and a collapse in trust between the Government and its agencies and, indeed, its supporters?
They will carry on for a very long time yet. Even when power cuts and other disasters befall us, they will carry on. They have their excuses for failure already worked out, and ready to be unleashed.
For this government to change its tune, there will have to be a catastrophic failure (of the energy system), and very large numbers of deaths. Even then, they may battle on.
The only way to end this madness, is via coup, or in electing a party that is committed to reversing this self-immolation.
Milibent’s mission is to keep on pontificating in the hope that this will distract people for long enough to enable the forces behind him to cause irreparable harm or at least harm which will takes lifetimes to undo.
My latest post on the Net Zero climate change hoax which is propelling the country into blackouts and ever-deepening economic decline: https://metatron.substack.com/p/climate-change-and-the-corruption.
If we just put to one side the whole carbon dioxide debate for a minute, can we ask ourselves who the idiots are who say that they will vote for morons like Millibrain in the opinion polls. He represents a Northern constituency, where men and women who grafted in tough working environments lived and believed that the Labour party would see them looked after while they proudly carried on in their incredibly hard jobs. What does he offer these people? Look over a field of solar panels and marvel at the hundreds of workers busily attending to the equipment or admire the hundreds of people ensuring that the windmills across the countryside are all turning at the right speed. Nope, neither of those things happen but the industries that use to provide us with energy, coal (destroyed more by Wilson than Thatcher), oil, gas etc., power stations full of workers ensuring that the fuel source reached the boilers that made the turbines turn, ships servicing the oil platforms, all provided thousands of jobs that will never again exist because Millibrain is importing power or the equipment to generate power. Why do working men and women vote for him?
How on earth do wind and solar give a country energy security, when weather is now controlled by governments, at home and abroad?
I came back from a local drinks party, checked the DS updates, and having re-read this article I added not a couple but 10 logs to my wood burner, to give us a really warm night. Not only will we be warm, but we’ll be topping up any CO2 that got saved during the day, which is much better for the plant kingdom. And tomorrow, a bonfire! Happy days
My burner is going well this evening and has been in use for much of the day.
Would it not be great for a reporter to respond ‘but you are lying to everyone as the evidence shows.’
Some of the back bench MPs may well start to put pressure on Two Tier to do something out of their own self interest as they see their chances of remaining an MP receding by the week. At a local level, council leaders will be getting alarmed as the May elections approach and Reform keeps marching forward despite Nigel.
Given that many years ago China had already produced in a few short years more CO2 than the UK since the Industrial Revolution, whose Carbon Dioxide will mad Milibands Capture and Storage scheme, no doubt using expensively generated electricity, be capturing.
But China produces developing CO₂! That’s something entirely different! The UN says so!
[sarcasm]
Perhaps time to remember that, mad as Mad Ed is on this issue, the Conservatives are just as bad.
The original Climate Change Act was passed in 2008 with only five members of the House of Commons voting against – Christopher Chope, Philip Davies, Peter Lilley, Andrew Tyrie, and Ann Widdecombe (the latter now with Reform UK).
And that original Climate Change Act only envisaged an 80% cut in emissions by 2050.
Did the Conservatives repeal the Act during their 14 years in power? Nope, THEY TOUGHENED IT UP, increasing the target from 80% to 100% (“net zero”) under Theresa May.
The Conservatives and Labour are both steeped in net zero madness. When the first power cut comes, they will BOTH share responsibility. And since that power cut will likely kill some elderly people, they will both have blood on their hands.
Remember that next time you hear Claire Coutinho whining about how terrible Mad Ed’s plans are.
Whilst comments like this:
‘Montford pointed out that this amounts to about “£20 million pounds per day under this one subsidy scheme alone”. As more and more renewable energy plants come online, these sums will rise’
remain the case. The net zero energy generation madness will remain unsustainable by any metric.
Clearly Mr Miliband and his cronies don’t have UK energy security in mind.
I frequently look back at this early 2023 article by David Craig.
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/03/07/lets-all-play-the-growth-vs-green-game/
It seems to become ever more relevant as time goes by.
And to think that all this manufactured concensus is based on the false assumption CO2 is a deadly poisonous green house gas and must be lowered in the atmosphere in order to save us. When in actual fact the opposite is true. Insanity is the best way to describe this.