The Failure of "Green" Energy

Electric power from windmills costs ten times more and the consumer picks up the bill.

A wind turbine generating £150,000 of electricity a year is eligible for ‘monstrous subsidies’ of £250,000 a year.

• A dozen landowners who allow wind farms to be erected on their property are to share an £850 million subsidy windfall.

Professor Gordon Hughes of the United Kingdom's Edinburgh University said the massive program of wind turbines will cost consumers £120 billion by 2020 through higher bills.
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This is almost ten times more than the £13 billion it would cost to generate the same amount of electricity from efficient gas-fired power stations, according to the leading energy and environment economist says the UK Daily Mail.
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The report is published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a think-tank devoted to challenging conventional wisdom about climate change.

Green politics  
Green on the outside, red on the inside.

Professor Hughes said families are being forced to subsidise wind farms through their bills.  Meanwhile business energy costs are also being driven up, so harming their profits and ability to invest and grow.

By contrast around a dozen landowners who allow wind farms to be erected on their property are to share an £850 million subsidy windfall.  A wind turbine generating £150,000 of electricity a year is eligible for ‘monstrous subsidies’ of £250,000 a year.

Professor Hughes warned: ‘Unless the Government scales back its commitments to wind power very substantially, its policy will be worse than a mistake, it will be a blunder.’
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Professor Hughes said: ‘There is nothing inherently good or bad about investing in renewable energy and green technology. The key problems with current policies for wind power are simple. They require a huge commitment of investment to a technology that is not very green but which is very expensive and inflexible.’

Baroness Emma Nicholson (Liberal Democrat Party) joined the attack, saying: ‘A dozen of the biggest landowners will between them receive almost £850million in subsidies, a huge amount paid by ordinary families through hidden taxes on their electricity bills.

‘I am immensely unhappy wind power has attracted such monstrous subsidies. I am particularly unhappy because the facts have been hidden from the consumer who will have to pay the bill for this folly.’   (UK Daily Mail)

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A crack team of Obama funded scientists invent the $50 light bulb.

Only in a Socialist America  -  a $50 light bulb

• An Obama Green Energy wet-dream come true

The U.S. government has awarded appliance-maker Philips $10 million for devising an “affordable” alternative to today’s standard 60-watt incandescent bulb. That standard bulb sells for around $1. The Philips alternative sells for $50.

Of course, the award-winner is no ordinary bulb. It uses only one-sixth the energy of an incandescent. In fact, if you don’t drop it, it may last 10 years or more reports ABC News.
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But simple math used by sane people shows the stupidity of liberalism.  If Thomas Edison's one dollar light bulb lasts for about two years, then $50 will keep you in light bulbs for a full century.  Instead under Big Government Socialism $50 buys a single light bulb.

Only a U.S. Government staffed with fucking Obama morons (in this case, the morons in the Department of Energy) could view a $50 bulb as cheap.

The Department of Energy created its so-called “L-Prize” to encourage manufacturers to come up with energy-efficient LED (light-emitting diode) alternatives to incandescent bulbs. To be deemed the winner, a bulb had to be affordable.

But LED alternatives already on the market and comparable to the L-Prize winner sell for less than half its price.    (ABC News)