Another day brings more evidence of the complete and utter insanity of the nefarious agenda being pushed for 100% reliance upon intermittent, unreliable wind and solar industrial installations which far too many governments worldwide appear to be simultaneously presenting to us as the future they wish to impose upon us.
That Welsh Government set a target for us to meet the equivalent of 100% of our annual electricity consumption from renewable energy by 2035 and to continue to keep pace with consumption thereafter.
I submitted comments with supporting evidence to the Welsh Government’s consultation last night. The exercise allowed me to express some of my frustration with their green washed non-sensical proposed policies which would inevitably lead to more people being pushed into great hardship with even more fuel poverty likely leading to grave hardship along with increased mortality rates. At the same time birds, bees, watercourses, trees, ecosystems and the beautiful ancient hills and vales of Wales will be desecrated and destroyed by the construction and operation of the not clean nor green monstrosities gobbling up vast areas of agricultural land, if they have their way.
This is the article published by Australia based, Stop These Things this morning which has spurred me to rant a wee bit more about our pressing situation.
No civilised country has ever powered itself entirely with wind and solar; no country ever will. And yet the grand wind and solar ‘transition’ – being peddled by rent-seekers and crony capitalists – is still taken as an article of faith by the naïve and gullible.
What is evident is the direct and unassailable relationship between intermittent wind and solar, rocketing power prices, load shedding and, ultimately, mass blackouts.
In this piece from September last year, Isaac Orr, Mitch Rolling and John Phelan rich precisely that conclusion in relation to plans by Governor Tim Walz to permanently unhitch Minnesota from reality and reason.
The High Cost of 100 Percent Carbon-Free Electricity by 2040 American Experiment Isaac Orr, Mitch Rolling, John Phelan 12 September 2022
The 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2040 mandate proposed by Minnesota Governor Tim Walz would cost the state $313.2 billion through 2050 and lead to devastating blackouts.
Governor Walz’s Proposal would commit the state to obtaining 100 percent of its electricity from carbon-free energy sources by 2040, but his proposal would not legalize the construction of new nuclear power plants in Minnesota or allow the hydroelectric electricity generated in Canada that Minnesotans already purchase to count as “carbon-free.” As a result, the Walz Proposal is essentially a wind, solar, and battery storage mandate.
We also investigated another scenario, called the Lower Cost Decarbonization (LCD) Scenario, that uses new nuclear power plants, coal plants with carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) equipment, battery storage, and Canadian hydro and found that this suite of technologies would reduce emissions for a much lower cost.
This report is the most robust modeling on the true cost of attempting to power our state using wind turbines, solar panels, and battery storage technology. Our study finds:
Minnesota electricity customers will see their electricity expenses increase by an average of nearly $3,888 per year, every year, through 2050.
The Walz Proposal would reduce the reliability of the grid by making the state more vulnerable to fluctuations in output from weather-dependent energy sources like wind and solar.
Shockingly, Minnesota would experience a devastating 55-hour blackout in late January if wind and solar output is the same as it was in the year 2020, and electricity demand was the same as 2021.
These are just a few of our findings. By contrast, embracing a diverse portfolio of reliable technologies, including new nuclear power plants, coal plants with carbon capture and sequestration equipment, battery storage, and large hydroelectric power facilities in Canada, would reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the electricity sector by 98 percent. This portfolio would cost $224 billion less than the Walz Proposal and not cause blackouts.
