News Round-Up
4 December 2023
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Australia is the latest country to buy in to the 'clean energy superpower' myth, says David Craig. In reality, it's cheap, reliable fossil fuel that enables countries like China and India to be manufacturing superpowers.
SNP ministers have quietly downgraded their claim that Scotland has a quarter of Europe’s offshore wind potential to just 7%, in a major blow to their economic case for independence.
The wind energy crisis deepens as Danish company Ørsted cancels major U.S. projects in the face of rising public opposition, evidence of harm to whales and collapsing economic viability.
"Living off-grid has shown me that anyone who thinks modern society can function on a power grid that runs on just solar and wind power without 100% backup capacity for cloudy, still days is totally deluded."
Politicians repeatedly reassure the public that wind power is cheaper than gas, but these misleading claims ignore the true costs of trying to run a modern electricity grid on the back of unreliable weather.
Further devastating evidence of the toll that onshore wind turbines take on local eagle populations has emerged in Tasmania, writes Chris Morrison.
No new offshore wind project contracts have been bought by developers at a key Government auction, dealing a blow to the U.K.'s renewable power strategy that critics said "may represent a landmark moment".
The electric car debacle shows the top-down economics of Net Zero don’t add up as the fundamentals of supply and demand are ignored by the ‘cart before the horse’ approach, says Ben Marlow.
The wind industry has written to the Government threatening to abandon the U.K. unless subsidies are hugely ramped up, in a move that gives the lie to years of propaganda claiming falling costs.
The Swedish Government has ditched its targets for “100% renewable energy” amid a shift back to nuclear power in the latest blow for the unreliable and inefficient technology.
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