Posted on 07/20/2024 5:12:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The peak electricity demand in Britain is in the winter when we need to heat our homes, offices, shops, warehouses, factories etc. But in the winter solar farms produce almost no electricity in Britain. This is because it is dark for around 16 hours a day and when the Sun does appear it is weak and usually hidden behind thick cloud. Solar energy may make sense in some countries, for example the countries of North Africa, but building solar farms in Britain is completely brainless.
The new Energy Secretary Ed Milliband has just given the green light to the biggest solar farm in the U.K. He claims that building the Sunnica solar farm in East Anglia will “cut bills for families”. As is often the case with politicians, the opposite is true. Because solar farms produce almost no electricity in the winter there will need to be back-up electricity generation. So essentially two electricity generation facilities will have to be built and operated, one for the summer and one for the winter. This will increase electricity bills for families not cut them.
Subsidies to companies operating solar farms and wind farms is one of the reasons electricity bills in Britain are already amongst the highest in the world. We pay five times as much for our electricity as China and twice as much as the USA. The pain that these high bills cause British families is of no concern to the small group of eco-zealots in Government and the TV news who peddle scare stories about global warming and tell half-truths about the cost of renewables. They want Britain to be a world leader in Net Zero and don’t care about the price the rest of us have to pay for this utterly pointless ambition. Britain is responsible for only 1% of global CO2 emissions so even if we achieved Net Zero tomorrow it would have no measurable impact on global temperatures.
Household electricity prices worldwide in December 2023, by select country (in U.S. dollars per kilowatt-hour). Source: Statista
Meanwhile the big CO2 emitters, like China (30% of global CO2 emissions) and the USA (10% of global CO2 emissions), move far more slowly towards Net Zero.
They continue to build and operate fossil-fuel power stations. Unlike solar farms and wind farms, these power stations are both cheap and reliable, they work every hour of every day summer and winter.
This is why the electricity bills for Chinese and American families are so much lower than the bills for British families.
You can get fine work done on your teeth there going to a private dentist.
I don’t really care what it costs elsewhere, I care about what it costs in the US. Thanks to the green scam.
Net Zero=No Electricity.......
So Cleveland is where the sun don’t shine?........
“Because solar farms produce almost no electricity in the winter”
Pretty much true in the entire West, but putting solar panels in the UK is even WORSE, considering the latitude and the weather. Might as well put them in their basements, as they’ll generate only slightly less power there, and they will last much longer and be easier to maintain.
It’s not entirely all because of Net Zero stupidity, not nearly. It’s also because everything is more expensive on an island because smaller land mass = fewer natural resources. Electricity in Hawaii (varies by island and city but) averages about 50¢/kWh , which is higher than everybody on this list.
“It’s not entirely all because of Net Zero stupidity, not nearly. It’s also because everything is more expensive on an island because smaller land mass = fewer natural resources. Electricity in Hawaii (varies by island and city but) averages about 50¢/kWh , which is higher than everybody on this list.”
Incredible. Anyway, the Texas grid is also an “Island”, with barely any ties to the rest of the country, and we have less than HALF of the population of the UK...and our electricity is LESS THAN HALF of the price of the UK, and slightly lower than the average US price. Texas does that because we used GAS and COAL for power, and still mostly do, mostly.
The UK chose differently, and I suspect that Hawaii uses Diesel quite a bit, like many smaller islands.
It’s POLITICAL DECISIONS made by leaders that put the UK in this horrific mess, where not only is electricity more than than double the US price, they are being FORCED to use it for heating and cooking, and with all that, their incomes are FAR LESS than the US.
They’re screwed because they listened to Greta - it was THEIR DECISIONS, not the fact that they are an ‘island’.
California would be at the top of that chart if they had included it.
Well you silly pratt the shame of all this is I CAN do a British accent quite well.
The company paid for all its employees to be flown home to the U.S. for any dental work!
It is a city of light and magic.
Where I live, we get tornadoes & hail. They rebuilt the last array after hail took it out. You never seem to hear anything about how much that cost or how it was paid.
“”these [hydrocarbon-fueled] power stations are both cheap and reliable, they work every hour of every day summer and winter.””
Once again, inexpensive, abundant energy equals more FREEDOM, who is anathema to the Left.
“”The U.S. is the second-largest carbon dioxide emitter, contributing about 13.5% of the global total. China is number one: 29.18%””
So, the United States & China are the real promoters of a Green Earth. The more C02, the more plant life.
Because we have been de-industrialized and given to China.
You gotta hand it to them: Merlin engines on P51s, 17 pounders on Shermans, radar, sonar, decoding Enigma . . . They can be quite brilliant when they’re fighting for their lives.
Now now, be nice to each other.
PS What’s an RP accent?
if we achieved Net Zero tomorrow it would have no measurable impact on global temperatures.
Neither would anyone else. If everyone made “net zero” there would be no to negligible result.
Because people do not cause climate changes.
And I’m not anti-solar. I have 20kW of it for my home. I’m just saying that if they use things like solar to satisfy feel-good desires of membership in their warmageddon cult, they wind up forcing solar into situations that are impractical for solar.
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