Onshore wind is utterly irrelevant to our energy needs. Proponents of wind power seem unable to grasp that adding more intermittent renewables to the grid is a problem not a solution: it pushes up costs because it makes the grid less stable and because it requires reliable backup power as well. At least with offshore wind the temples to this misguided policy are less visible to most of us. Onshore wind destroys our landscape for absolutely no benefit. Those who resist building onshore wind are right to do so: eventually economic and physical reality will reassert itself, and then we won't have ruined the countryside for no reason. (Btw, to be clear, I am absolutely ready to see built lots of houses and power stations and to restart fracking. If we build those things we get something useful. With onshore wind we don't.)
Onshore wind is utterly irrelevant to our energy needs. Proponents of wind power seem unable to grasp that adding more intermittent renewables to the grid is a problem not a solution: it pushes up costs because it makes the grid less stable and because it requires reliable backup power as well. At least with offshore wind the temples to this misguided policy are less visible to most of us. Onshore wind destroys our landscape for absolutely no benefit. Those who resist building onshore wind are right to do so: eventually economic and physical reality will reassert itself, and then we won't have ruined the countryside for no reason. (Btw, to be clear, I am absolutely ready to see built lots of houses and power stations and to restart fracking. If we build those things we get something useful. With onshore wind we don't.)
@DavidGHFrost Just to remind everyone that Frosty is a shill for the fossil fuel industry desmog.com/debunked-lord-…
@simonjwarner @DavidGHFrost Oh dear me. Mr Warner uttered.
@simonjwarner @DavidGHFrost You say shill I say actually has a clue what he's talking about.
@simonjwarner @DavidGHFrost How do you make wind turbines and solar panels?
@simonjwarner @DavidGHFrost Wow! Desmog. A PR business established by a convicted fraudster. And that's your reliable source of information? Where's your next gem coming from, Belmarsh Prison?
@simonjwarner @DavidGHFrost And Frost is a witless liar as well as a corrupt supporter of obscenely profitable, planet destroying, Tory donor fossil fuel suppliers - apparently 😞 He needs to educate himself on the UK power network, how many £millions per day does Tory Govt give Drax for dodgy net zero?🤔
@simonjwarner @DavidGHFrost To name but one…’Lord’ Dave’s shilling duties are vast…
@simonjwarner @DavidGHFrost Good. Try living without them, genius
@simonjwarner @DavidGHFrost So one day British youth will find out who those politicians responsible for delivering hard Brexit were & being indifferent to the global worsening of climate change.
@simonjwarner @DavidGHFrost ...he posted self-righteously from his oil-powered electrical device.
@simonjwarner @DavidGHFrost He’s also correct, you CANNOT reliably power the country’s electricity grid on wind and solar alone. The cost of the necessary back-up rather defeats the cost, effort and point of much of the renewable sources blighting the countryside. Prove me wrong.