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This Is Why Electricity Costs Twice As Much In Britain As In The US
Daily Sceptic ^ | 07/20/2024 | Dr. John Fernley

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.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: britain; electricity; globalwarminghoax; greenenergy; greenenergyscam; greennewscam; prices; solarfarms; sunfarms; uk; windfarms
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1 posted on 07/20/2024 5:12:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Good thing Zero Point Energy tech got patented recently, and they’ve known about free energy for ages.


2 posted on 07/20/2024 5:17:05 PM PDT by pops88 ( Helping usher the glory of God into Las Vegas)
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To: SeekAndFind
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.

Sound like Cleveland.

3 posted on 07/20/2024 5:21:00 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: SeekAndFind

There are a couple big ones like in the photo about 30 miles from here. Central Wisconsin. What a waste. It’s dark almost all winter, with 7-8 hours of sunlight, lots of clouds and snow. They should build them in cities on top of buildings. NIMBY.

Same with wind farms, they are out in the country. A couple good tornados is all that’s needed. Again, put them in the cities on top of buildings. I know the the people are getting paid a lot of money to have them on their properties. That’s the only why they’re there. Ugly. They don’t care. NIMBY


4 posted on 07/20/2024 5:22:44 PM PDT by Indy Pendance (Jesus can't get here soon enough!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Don’t you know that the Brits are smarter than the fat, stupid Americans? Just ask them.


5 posted on 07/20/2024 5:24:09 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

We have better teeth.


6 posted on 07/20/2024 5:26:37 PM PDT by Indy Pendance (Jesus can't get here soon enough!)
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To: SeekAndFind
"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."

The U.S. is the second-largest carbon dioxide emitter, contributing about 13.5% of the global total. China is number one: 29.18% and they will increase their emissions without limits.

7 posted on 07/20/2024 5:31:43 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: Indy Pendance

and probably will continue to have better teeth:

https://theconversation.com/will-labours-plans-deliver-for-nhs-dentistry-232510

Some Brits go to Hungary to have their teeth worked on.


8 posted on 07/20/2024 5:35:42 PM PDT by Brian Griffin (*** Help Trump, fund Republican candidates: https://ballotpedia.org/U.S._House_battlegrounds,_2024)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Indeed old chap. We’re so bloody smart. We’re British you know. s/


9 posted on 07/20/2024 5:38:38 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: Indy Pendance

LOL!


10 posted on 07/20/2024 5:38:53 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Stupidity based on a false premise.


11 posted on 07/20/2024 5:39:27 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: SeekAndFind
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12 posted on 07/20/2024 5:42:44 PM PDT by broken_clock (Go Trump! Still praying.)
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To: jmacusa
Indeed old chap. We’re so bloody smart. We’re British you know

Unless you say that in an RP accent you dumber than those fat, stupid Yanks.

13 posted on 07/20/2024 5:43:48 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: jmacusa

Correction:

Unless you say that in an RP accent you sound dumber than those fat, stupid Yanks.


14 posted on 07/20/2024 5:44:41 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: BenLurkin

Sounds like Seattle (six degrees further N latitude and drizzles more).


15 posted on 07/20/2024 5:48:03 PM PDT by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: Jeff Chandler

“Don’t you know that the Brits are smarter than the fat, stupid Americans? Just ask them.”

Yep, those same fat, stupid Americans that bailed their a$$es out in two world wars.


16 posted on 07/20/2024 5:52:21 PM PDT by KamperKen (u)
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To: SeekAndFind

Like you’re the only one on your street that’s stops watering their lawn to save water ,LOL Net Zero is insanity on a Carbon Based Planet


17 posted on 07/20/2024 5:56:53 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Jeff Chandler

I would ask the Brits but I don’t speak Urdu.


18 posted on 07/20/2024 5:57:35 PM PDT by Organic Panic (SDemocrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: SeekAndFind
it is dark for around 16 hours a day and when the Sun does appear it is weak and usually hidden behind thick cloud

The solution is right there in that sentence. Duh!

Just get the sun to shine longer in the winter, and get it to shine stronger, and blow away the clouds so they don't block out the sun. Duh! again.

If humans are powerful enough to control the climate, then, we can surely control how long the sun shines and how strongly it shines. Duh!, once more.

Or... Go conquer Africa once again, and mover everybody in the UK there, where the sun shines 24/7/365 and never rains.
19 posted on 07/20/2024 5:57:47 PM PDT by adorno (CCH)
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To: Jeff Chandler
Don’t you know that the Brits are smarter than the fat, stupid Americans? Just ask them.

It does seem that one of their favorite activities is America-bashing.

20 posted on 07/20/2024 5:57:56 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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