News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Bizarre and unrealistic, the National Grid's Future Energy Scenarios report is a wild jumble of impractical ideas and unfeasible technologies, says David Turver.
The Economist predicts that the "exponential growth of solar power will change the world". But this fails to reckon with the scarcity of silver, which is being used up faster than it can be mined, says David Turver.
Net Zero is a high-cost mitigation strategy that can't possibly be better than adaptation, says David Turver – not least because manmade CO2 is clearly not the climate's main control knob.
Labour Shadow Minister Ed Miliband claims Net Zero 2030 will cut energy bills, citing a Policy Exchange report. David Turver shows that the report has missed hundreds of billions of pounds of costs and is junk.
The Guardian has removed an article claiming that renewables are cheap following a complaint as the advertising watchdog ASA signals that false claims will not be tolerated.
Labour's energy policy just doesn't stack up, says David Turver. Better for Keir Starmer to take his Great British Energy plans, and its logo, to a darkened room with a bottle of whisky and a revolver.
Renewables are not cheap and are never going to be, says David Turver. With over £12 billion being paid in subsidies to or because of renewables each year, the claim that renewable will save us money is a myth.
Every job in wind and solar power is currently costing the taxpayer over £250,000 in subsidies every year. This isn't the promised "green prosperity"; it's the path to penury.
Yesterday's budget added £1.4 billion to energy bills owing to its massive increase in subsidies for renewables, including £800m for offshore wind. If wind power is so cheap, why does it need so much subsidy?
Robert Jenrick is right. There is a genuine risk of blackouts if Labour's decarbonisation targets are pursued, says David Turver.
Welcome to the Government's latest Net Zero swindle, says David Turver: electricity interconnectors with continental Europe. Touted as making energy cheaper, cleaner and more secure, they in fact do the opposite.
Government subsidies for wind power hit a record £255 million in December, confirming that renewables are not and never have been cheap, says David Turver. And they look set to increase further.
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