By Paul Homewood
Booker on the cost of wind power today:
In the past year or two there has been an extraordinary attempt by ministers, the renewables industry and green pressure groups to convince us that electricity from wind and the sun is now cheaper than that from fossil fuels. This issue has come up yet again with the refusal of the BBC to uphold a complaint from the Global Warming Policy Foundation about remarks made by Lord Deben (aka John Gummer), chairman of the Climate Change Committee, in an interview by John Humphrys on Today on Radio 4.
Although the BBC upheld one part of the complaint, it rejected another against Deben’s claim that onshore wind is now “the cheapest form of producing electricity”. It came up with Government figures to show that onshore wind is now marginally cheaper than any other power source.
What the BBC and the…
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I’ll take some of the issues over renewable vs. the Mercury and other toxins that have permeated the entire Great Lakes Region from the use of fossil fuel.
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You are going to get the exact same problems from wind and solar. https://www.google.com/search?num=20&newwindow=1&safe=active&biw=1551&bih=963&tbm=vid&ei=qQD1W7WwFYbazgL84K64BA&q=%22wind+turbine+toxins%22&oq=%22wind+turbine+toxins%22&gs_l=psy-ab.3…10687.12252.0.12524.8.8.0.0.0.0.128.911.0j8.8.0….0…1c.1.64.psy-ab..0.1.126…33i10k1.0.2RbBbALJFgA
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Renewables are not 100% without some emissions. However the sum total is less then any fossil fuel plant. Even Trumps administration notes this. https://www.google.com/search?q=wind+energy+reduces+pollution
https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/index.php?page=wind_environment
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No, you have to look at them from start to finish product. Those rare earth mineral mines over there pollute a lot more than any coal mine.
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*over there = China
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What they are doing to human and animal health has not been fully understood until recently. The low frequency/infrasound is a killer. http://notrickszone.com/2018/11/19/winds-of-change-10-new-papers-document-the-growing-harm-wind-turbines-afflict-on-humanity/
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