Lords a leapin

Watts Up With That ^ | May 3, 2013 | Mike Jonas

[Rocky]

From the UK’s BBC comes this news item:

Trillion-euro shortfall facing EU energy sector – Lords Committee

Under the obligatory photo of chimneys spewing steam, is a totally uncritical article on the final report from an eight-month inquiry by the UK’s House of Lords into the EU power sector.

The report accuses the EU of having a muddled energy policy, but the horribly disturbing aspect of this report is that their lordships are the ones that are muddled. For example, they say that a muddled Brussels energy policy is putting off big investors. Well, they really got that wrong. Brussels’ policy is very clear, and is specifically designed to put off big investors.

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According to their lordships, a target for the proportion of renewables in the energy mix up to 2030 is rapidly required. Have they not noticed that the energy shambles in the UK and Europe (and Australia too for that matter) is caused by the push into renewables? If you go to the coast of Norfolk, for example, and look out over the North Sea, there are massive windfarms stretching as far as the eye can see. A breath-taking amount of money has been wasted on ugly inefficient intermittent grid-stressing expensive wind energy. Now their lordships are bemoaning the fact that even more breath-taking amounts of money will be needed to be spent on the same mistakes in future. That is indeed muddled thinking. If something is causing a problem, the solution is to do something else, not to do more of the same. Blind Freddie can see that, why can’t their lordships?

[Rocky]

"Blind Freddie can see that"... I had to look that one up. It's a British expression that basically means any jackass could understand this.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Rocky.

Trillion-euro shortfall facing EU energy sector -- Lords Committee... the horribly disturbing aspect of this report is that their lordships are the ones that are muddled. For example, they say that a muddled Brussels energy policy is putting off big investors. Well, they really got that wrong. Brussels’ policy is very clear, and is specifically designed to put off big investors.