Australia's latest hare-brained scheme to turn the Outback into a giant solar farm resembles a nutty Heath Robinson contraption and may mark the beginning of the end of Australia's renewables romance, says Nick Cater.
New research sounds the alarm on the catastrophic hit to house prices lurking behind Ed Miliband's grand plan to scatter the UK with new pylons, wind turbines and solar farms.
There's a reason that electricity costs twice as much in Britain as in the USA, says Dr. John Fernley. It's because of brainless plans like Ed Miliband's to power us with a sun that doesn't shine when we need it most.
Britain doesn't have enough land for all the solar panels that would be needed to power Labour's nutty Net Zero agenda, says Ben Pile. Truth is, you can't make everything electric and run it on sunshine.
Ed Miliband’s decision to give the Mallard Pass a 3,000-acre-solar farm is like forcing a baby to have tattoos for its own health, says Joanna Gray. Trouble is, too few these days care for the beauty of nature.
Ed Miliband has pushed through Britain's biggest solar farm on green land despite the objections of officials, prompting fears he is endangering the nation’s food security.
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.
Recent UK temperature records at Heathrow and Hull East Park have left the Daily Sceptic's Environment Editor wondering if nearby jet engines and solar farms had any part to play...
From the 3,200 acre solar farm built on prime green belt farmland in Oxford to the 16 million Scottish trees felled to make way for wind farms, somehow we have to save the environment from the greens, says Alan Bunce.
EU solar panel-makers are on the brink of extinction as a massive oversupply from China sees manufacturers pulling out of the market or facing insolvency.
