Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 02/10/2011 5:28:04 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
In a radical change of policy, the Netherlands is reducing its targets for renewable energy and slashing the subsidies for wind and solar power. It's also given the green light for the country's first new nuclear power plants for almost 40 years.
Why the change? Wind and solar subsidies are too expensive, the Financial Times Deutschland , reports.
Holland thus becomes the first country to abandon the EU-wide target of producing 20 per cent of its domestic power from renewables. This is a remarkable turnaround from a state that took the Kyoto Agreement seriously and chivvied other EU members into adopting renewable energy strategies. The FT reports that instead of the €4bn annual subsidy, it will be slashed to €1.5bn.
Holland's only nuclear reactor, the Borssele plant, opened in 1973, and was earmarked for closure by 2003. In 2006 the plant was allowed to operate until 2034, and the following year the government abandoned its opposition to new nuclear plants.
(Excerpt) Read more at theregister.co.uk ...
....hmm...interesting that Holland is ditching wind for nukes...they’ve used windmills for centuries....if they think wind power is past, they oughtta know.
It’s okay. This administration likes to repeat others mistakes. So, don’t worry. We will have corner street doctors and hamsters in wheels for power. Trust them....it’ll all work out.
Windmills to turn water pumps is one thing. Windmills to replace electric generating plants is another. The one works fine because it is kinetic to kinetic energy and there is no storage issue. The latter is a Rube Goldberg machine designed to suck money out of wind.
HOORAY Holland!
It’s time to start preparing for an ice age. ...Do they go with wind or nukes?
You just hit the nail on the head.
Holland and the netherlands are not the same thing. When will people quit calling netherlands holland?
If they can figure out a way to make efficient wind generators without a propeller, then they might have something that will work.
Of course, an eighth grader could have figured that out with a pencil and paper before they started building wind turbines, but I'm glad they've finally come to the right answer by actually bulding the things. I know some people who build the things and still don't come to the right answer, even when reality is staring them right in the face.
The radical left is collapsing throughout old Europe, but advancing in America. Pray for our nation.
Nuclar paw’r!
“Well, money talks in the end. Holland has been in the tank for wind-shit, but now is finding it has failed to make any difference in conventional power production. A zillion Dutch wind turbines have not replaced even one conventional power plant and never will. USA take note. “
Here in Texas, we tried replacing power plants with windmills and nearly had blackouts 3 years ago when the wind didn’t blow when it required to. We then had blackouts last week when we found ourselves short on reserve margin.
But like a bunch of lemmings...people, even here at FR, blamed the power companies and the grid regulator for what was obviously the policy of the federal government, which is to make it impossible to add conventional capacity.
Wind ping
A new dark age for Germany?
December 01, 2010
Offshore wind power projects pave the way to frequent blackouts
http://cfact.eu/2010/12/01/a-new-dark-age-for-germany/
If they were serious about conserving electricity, they’d jack the rates up sky high and let people figure out their own ways to conserve. In the north this might end up being natural gas lighting in your home.
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