In UK Energy Secretary Ed Miliband’s confirmation earlier this week that the Sizewell C Nuclear Power Station will go ahead, we see a welcome if belated recognition among the green loons of the Labour government that renewables alone will not provide reliable, round the clock power 365 dats a year.
The same logic underpins the commitmentd announced on Wednesday, to create, in partnership with Rolls Royce, a generation of small, modular reactors (SMRs). Britain’s extraordinarily high energy prices — due in no small part to our rushed and ill thought out effort to switch to a 100% Carbon free economy by tomorrow luchtime or some such ludicrous target — has made Net Zero the most expensive and damaging failure in the UK government's history of expensive and damaging failures.. These investments in nuclear power, expensive though they might be, are unequivocally preferable to our current situation which currently see us importing, at great cost, arounf a fifth of the electricity we use via undersea cables from Europre.
Our foolhardy attempt to reach Net Zero status by 2050 had failed before it began because the scientists who advised the government forgot that the wind does not low constantly and the sun does not shine overnight. If we do not make better use of nuclear fission, we will experience frequent blackouts and energy rationing.
In April, Tony Blair warned that the Net Zero push was, in its current form, “doomed to fail”. Voters, he said, “feel they’re being asked to make financial sacrifices and changes in lifestyle when they know the impact on global emissions is minimal”. Blair’s research institute called for acceptance of the temporary use of fossil fuels, and for the deployment of carbon-capture and other mitigation measures as well as for the use of SMRs.
The truth is that the much hyped transition to clean green energy is only a portion of the global energy story. We have heard ad nauseam about the growth of solar photovoltaics and batteries. We hear less about the fact that coal, declared dead by Boris Johnson at COP 26 in 2021, is generating electricity at record levels globally. Chinese coal mine production reached record highs in late 2024 and the Peoples' Republic is opening a new, coal fired power station per week to power the factories that make the goods we once made in this country
Coal may have fallen from the dominant position it held a few decades ago but has been replaced by another hydrocarbon, natural gas. Japanese banks and corporations, at the government’s behest, have been among the largest funders of liquified natural gas infrastructure. In terms of final energy consumption, we are the same fossil fuel civilisation we were at the start of the millennium.
Faced with a growing public backlash over the rising price of 'cheap,clean electricity, advocates of Net Zero argue that fossil fuels set the day-ahead price of electricity 98% of the time, compared to 58% of the time in Europe, and that this is the main thing pushing up bills.
This falsely implies that intermittent generators like wind and solar are setting prices on the continent. Even in Denmark, where wind is over 50% of the generation, intermittents do not set prices, because they are never meeting all demand. Instead, prices are often set by reliable hydroelectric and nuclear plants, assets Britain does not have in abundance. When factoring in subsidies, renewable prices are usually higher than those for gas. Gas wholesale prices have also been increased artificially by the cost of buying carbon credits, which consistently represent over 20% of gas wholesale prices.
Annual gas consumption in the UK is about 2.5 trillion cubic feet (tcf). The Andrews report (2013) estimated a total gas-in-place estimate for the Bowland
Shale Formation and Hodder Mudstone Formation between 822 and 2281 tcf.
Since then, other estimates have suggested the total gas-in-place volume
could be considerably less (around 140 tcf; Whitelaw et al., 2019).That the estimate dropped around 90% in 2019 when the
Tories banned land based gas exploration which would have established
how much gas could be extracted looks suspiciouis to say the least. But even the lower 140 tcf estimate could be decades of gas usage.
http://www.bgs.ac.uk/geology-projects/shale-gas/shale-gas-in-the-uk/
Net zero is an absolute farce. Some people and their businesses are quite clearly making an absolute killing out of it Renewable energy doesn’t work. It’s killing businesses big and small. But hey if your political class is made up of graduates who have never run businesses this is what you get. Virtue signalling, posturing wankers meddling in everything and creating ten problems for each one they solve.
I thought the conservatives were bad. But this incarnation of the Labour Party really takes some beating. Would any sane person really place their future energy needs in the hands of Ed Milliband? Really?!
Net Zero is destroying the economy but a far bigger disaster is the loss of trust in government.
After lockdown, Wuhan denial, gender madness and now net zero what will happen if there really is a need for public commitment ? It isn’t going to happen.
Who is going to make the slightest sacrifice in the public interest based upon politicians’ pronouncements ? Nobody.
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Can Bus Sized Lithium Ion Batteries Power Britain
The project has, predictably, provoked local opposition. “This might become an industrial area more than the farming land it’s been for the last thousand years,” says Jamie Ingham Clark, of the Claydons Solar Action Group, “Battery storage sites should be on brownfield – they should not take away our ability to grow food.”
How Many Billions of People Would Die Under Net Zero?
BBC wildlife documentary presenter Chris Packham has hit back at claims reported on Neil Oliver‘s GB News show that half the world’s population could die if Net Zero was implemented in full. This is a bit hypocritical of Packham, who has been claiming millions will die because of climate change caused by human activity for decades.
EU Technocrats Plan To Shut Down European Agricultural Industry
European farmers will gather in Brussels on Tuesday to demand guarantees from the EU Commission that changes to policy will be made to ensure the European agricultural sector remains viable. They will also demand a relaxation of the regulatory regime, and for Brussels to abandon free trade agreements with countries outside the EU, which are now being used to bring cheap into European markets
Globalists Say Climate Change Is A Threat To Democracy But The Real Threat Is Globalism
While most of the large economies in European are backing off their pledges on 'net zero', over in the USA, even as the public reject the scaremongering of climate alarmists, the increasingly crazy Biden administration are still trying to push this de-industrialisation agenda without without any apparent concern for public opinion or for the misery and impoverishment The Childsniffer's regime is inflicting on many Americans.
Tractors Are Heading For Central London As UK Farmers Protest
Scores of farm tractors from all over Britain were reported to be converging on Westminster as British farmers finally ran out of patience and pushed back against what they say is a lack of government support. Flying Union flags and displaying signs with slogan such as 'Save British farming' and 'No farming, no food, no future' they were gathering in London and plan to arrive in central London by early evening
Germany Running Out Of Money, Debt Levels Exploding - The Price Of War, Open Borders And Net Zero?
An urgent warning about the state of Germany's finances has been given by Finance Minister Christian Lindner. Lindner has bluntly told the government that state borrowing are growing out of hand, and the government urgently needs to reduce spending. The other coalition members, the Social Democrats, and The Greens are both spendthrift lefties so dispute over spending is only expected to escalate
UK Gov. Fossil Fuels U Turn Means Its All Over For Net Zero
The Announcement made by UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak acknowledged at last that to keep the lights and heating on in our homes and the wheels of industry turning it will be necessary to start building new gas-fired power plants because the great science backed leap to transition energy productions to clean, green, pollution free, sustainable, renewable, blah blah blah sources has failed dismally.
Britain To Harvest Power From Sahara Solar Farms Using 700ft Ship? Another Green Dream
World’s biggest cable-laying vessel will link Moroccan renewables with Devon substationread a headline in a UK mainsteam news website recently. A project to feed power from the Sahara Desert to Britain moved a step closer to fruition as its financial backers prepare to commission the giant cable-laying ship.
Furious French Farmers Stage Shitfest Protest In ToulouseInspired perhaps by the protests of farming communities in Germany and Netherlands, angry French farmers gathered in the historic city of Toulouse, South - west France this week and dumped piles of farmyard manure on the steps of City Hall and in the streets and squares in fron of other public buildings. Such shitfest protests are a favourite tactic of French farmers when they want to let their government know its policies stink ...
Thousands Of Tractors Blocks Berlin Traffic Over Plan To End Diesel Subsidy
Thousands of German truck drivers, farmers, and agricultural workers parked in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin yesterday as another massive protest over the government's 'green' plans to end tax breaks on diesel fuel and subsidies to farmers prevented from getting the best out of their land by loonytoons EU 'rewilding' policies.
German Farmers target nation's vice chancellor in subsidies protest
German farmers angered by cost-saving plans impacting the country's agricultural sector blocked the EU state’s vice chancellor from disembarking a ferry on Thursday, in a protest that was criticized by both government and opposition figures. The farmer's ager was triggered by financial cutbacks imposed by EU policy on member state’s agricultural industries have.
New UN Report on Climate Change – Nothing New, Nothing True
The latest United Nations (“UN”) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (“IPCC”) report, published this week, once again, in scaremongering tone and the language of the panic stricken, claims that the planet is in peril (we are facing climate disaster, the clock is at one minute to midnight, we must take urgent action to destroy civilisation if we are to save the planet, the usual over - dramatised guff designed to spread fear and panic,) basically the same claim as they have been making at least twice a month for the past 20 years.
We need energy security – not Net Zero
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has prompted a major rethink in the West. We have suddenly found ourselves vulnerable not just to rising prices in oil and gas, but also to inflation in other commodities – such as food and fertiliser. Of all these problems, the security of our energy supply has most exercised minds.
Net Zero Gone With The Wind - Boris Johnson Plans Seven New Nuclear Plants And Shelves Wind Expansion
Reports in mainstream media suggest Boris Johnson has done a U turn on his recently announced massive expansion of wind powered generating capacity. Sources in Westminster claim Boris has shelved his masterplan for a giant, floating wind farm in The North Sea and the government will reconsider plans to double or even treble the number of wind turbines in the countryside and approve plans for up to seven new nuclear reactors instead.
Climate Change Research Paper Censored by The British Hydrological Society For Telling The Truth
The Daily Sceptic today published an article by retired research scientist James Dent, whose specialist field was hydrology and meteorology. Mr. Dent was involved in research projects aiemd at understanding the factors influencing climate, and their effects on environments, [ ... ] he was the World Meteorology Organisation Chief Technical Advisor to the Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre in Bangladesh, a low lying nation especially prone to flooding ....
Freak Weather Around The World Begs Questions
With Britain and other parts of northern Europe basking in unseasonably warm temperatures which are forecast to last for a few days, while parts of the USA gring to a halt under a blanket of snow dumped by freak storms are, accoring to climate scarmongers, a signal that irreversible warming had arrived, it is perhaps timely for a hot topic from ten years ago, geoengineering came under the microscope again. This report from Global Intel Hub seems a good way to kick off the debate. ... Continue reading >>>
Latest Bill Gates Insanity: Injecting Sulfur Into the Atmosphere Will Cause EnvironmentalDisaster
A study published in November by the University of Pennsylvania exposes the insanity of projects such as spraying particles of sulphur compounds into the stratosphere, self - anointed vaccime messiah Bill Gates' latest scheme to “save” the planet with "geoengineering" According to the mathematical modellers Gates pays hansomely to provide him with "scientific" data to persuade politicians to spend taxpayers money on projects run by companies his "charitable foundation" has invested in. Far from saving the planet this latest idiocy is actually destroying environments.
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We Told You So - Government-funded Report Confirms World’s Largest offshore Wind Farm is UnprofitableA report commissioned by the Norwegian government has contradicted Boris Johnson’s recent claim that offshore wind costs have fallen by 70% in a decade. The report also blows a huge hole in Johnson's grandiose pledges to the COP26 conference that offshore wind power would propel Britain to its net - zero target for Carbon Dioxide emissions well before 2050, the target set by the climate conference for achieving that target.
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Climate: The Science, The Lies, The Malfeasance and The Deep State
Climate change hoax COLLAPSES as new science finds human activity has virtually zero impact on global temperatures
We have previously highlighted this report from Finland which exposes the great flaw in "the science" of global warming. The link at the end of this extract takes you to a much more complete account of the research project which, not for the first time debunks the fake science on which the politically - motivate climate change scare.
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COP26 Climate Conference - Just Another Elitist Scam To Steal Your Money
If you are one of the people who still relies on mainstream media for information, the 'on - message' news reports coming from the COP26 Climate Conference in Glasgow this week, and during the build up to the conference, might have convinced you that the entire world (barring a few crazy conspiacy theorists,) is signed up to the 'net zero' agenda and believes that destroying the economies of the developed nations while exporting our jobs, business and prosperity to places like India and China is the only way to save the planet.
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Europe's biggest economy would suffer a 6.5pc contraction if Russian energy is suspended, experts warn
Even though the sanctions already imposed on Russia in respondse to the invasion of Ukraine are hitting the nations that imposed then harder that their intended target, the EU is preparing to committ economic suicide in an orgy of virtue signalling ...
We need energy security – not Net Zero
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has prompted a major rethink in the West. We have suddenly found ourselves vulnerable not just to rising prices in oil and gas, but also to inflation in other commodities – such as food and fertiliser. Of all these problems, the security of our energy supply has most exercised minds.
UK Households Are Paying Wind Turbine Owners To Not Generate Electricity
On another near windless day here in the United Kingdom, Boggart Blog came across a very interesting piece if news. According to figures published by the business and management consultancy LCP, british taxpayers have been paying operators of wind turbines farms for the time their windmills were NOT generating electricity increased to record levels last year ...
Net Zero Is A Dangerous Fantasy, But Scientists Believe In Fairies It Seems
With oil and gas prices rocketing and the highly propted sustainable energy sources performing way befow expectations the energy crisis currently gripping Europe (with worse to come as food shortages start to bite, polticians still seem more intent on pandering to the green lobby and chasing the dream of a fossil fuel free world rather securing the energy and food supplies needed by the people they serve.
New UN Report on Climate Change – Nothing New, Nothing True
The latest United Nations (“UN”) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (“IPCC”) report, published this week, once again, in scaremongering tone and the language of the panic stricken, claims that the planet is in peril (we are facing climate disaster, the clock is at one minute to midnight, we must take urgent action to destroy civilisation if we are to save the planet, the usual over - dramatised guff designed to spread fear and panic,) basically the same claim as they have been making at least twice a month for the past 20 years.
We need energy security – not Net Zero
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has prompted a major rethink in the West. We have suddenly found ourselves vulnerable not just to rising prices in oil and gas, but also to inflation in other commodities – such as food and fertiliser. Of all these problems, the security of our energy supply has most exercised minds.
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