THIS ARTICLE WORTH SHARING AGAIN. In a nutshell, renewable energy is rubbish because so much equipment is needed to make it work - steel, concrete, copper, glass, carbon fibre, neodymium, shipping and haulage - that it very likely uses up more energy than it actually produces.Yet our political class remains committed to the fantasy that the emperors green clothes are perfectly magnificent. Earlier this week, for example, the British government chucked £720 million of taxpayers money into a cesspit labelled the Green Climate Fund. In theory this UN-driven initiative is supposed to help Third World countries cope with the effects of climate change. In reality, all it will do is force on their struggling economies more of the costly, intermittent renewable technologies (wind turbines; solar; etc) which have proved such a disaster for the advanced Western economies. If we really want to throw money at the developing world so it can combat climate change, then what we should really be doing is insist that it is spent on adaptation projects - not, heaven forfend, ones to do with decarbonisation.
Posted on: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 03:20:30 +0000
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