Advocates for net zero tell us that solar PV and wind power are cheaper than fossil fuels.
Their reasoning is that it costs essentially nothing for energy companies to harness energy from the sun and wind, and it is relatively cheap to convert that energy into electricity and transmit it to peoples' households, who then foot the bill.
But, this is only a half truth. 🤏
International pricing data reveal that the larger the share of solar PV and/or wind connected to a nation's grid, the higher household electricity costs generally are. Bjorn Lomborg posted a chart conveying this just a few days ago, but I was naturally curious and decided to create my own version shown below using the latest data, which confirms Lomborg's findings.
The facts are clear. More solar and wind connected to the grid increases prices. 📈
So, what is it that renewables advocates get wrong?
Well, most of the calculations of electricity cost on a kilowatt-hour (KWh) basis you see only consider times when solar and wind power are optimized. Under favorable environmental conditions (e.g., clear skies and windy weather), it is true that solar and wind will produce electricity for a much lower cost than fossil fuels. That is indisputable. However, the sun's light is not always reaching the ground, and the wind doesn't always blow hard enough to propel turbine blades.
Once you consider load balancing costs associated with their intermittency, property taxes due to large land requirements and utility returns, that gets passed down to the consumer and ultimately makes them much more expensive (Idel, 2022). Due to solar PV's and wind's lack of dependability in poor conditions, they just add to existing electricity sources, but do not replace fossil fuels (Rather & Mahalik, 2023).
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As such, there are no “high-green, low-cost” nations.
It’s not about aligning with @TRobinsonNewEra
As far as I can gather, he would just prefer not to sit in prison whilst the very people who should be supporting him throw him under the bus day after tedious day.
Who needs another establishment party which cancels people and is anti free speech?
I predicted Nigel’s awkward swerve into culture warrior would fail for just these reasons.
Perhaps if @reformparty_uk wants to continue to exist, then it should reject these pernicious practices and think about what its potential voters want instead of what suits it’s emperor.
Germany's electricity production is falling.
Electricity production is a useful proxy for economic health. Generation in 2024 was lower than any year since reunification.
Germany claims it plans to electrify the economy, but it's making and using less electricity, not more.
Digitaal geld uitgegeven door de ECB, die dan kan beslissen wie, wat, wanneer en hoeveel kan uitgeven, daar ben ik niet enthousiast over. Het is een stap dichter bij een totalitaire planeconomie geleid door technocraten met een ideologie.
@KoenSchoors
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They are scared. Rightly so.
They would have preferred everyone just shut up about the systemic ritual paedophilic rape of British girls by Pakistani Muslim men.
They want to go back to the approved narrative of “Diversity is our greatest strength” and “Britain is a multicultural success story.”
It isn’t. Diversity (of anything other than thought) is our greatest enemy. It’s a national surrender to a caveman ideology.
You no longer control the narrative. It’s been blown out of the water forever. The people have united against the years of propaganda and lies from the media and successive governments.
With free speech protected by @elonmusk Information has become a person to person transaction. The legacy media are dead and with their passing your ability to control the public conversation vanishes too.
I’d start being honest and find the police, social workers, anyone who was involved in this national abomination and prepare them to be charged, tried and imprisoned.
No more words.
Arrests.
Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak both tried to shut social media down.
Now we can see why.
Elon Musk's publicizing of Rotherham makes the scandal impossible to avoid.
It is being shouted from every corner of the digital sphere.
And unlike British broadcasters and their hosts - who Ofcom had sacked, fined, dragged through the courts, or shut down for covering the topic - Twitter is free to keep squawking.
Political correctness, social justice, and 'cultural sensitivity' led directly the sexual assault of British women and girls.
It's happening in every Western nation.
And the 'metoo' left-wing ideology has acted as its accomplice to cover these crimes up for decades.
This problem is much deeper than a corrupt police force, complicit press, and self-hating public.
🚨#XRP Alert🚨
Do not sell your XRP until all the below happens:
1. RLUSD is released. ✅
2. Trumps inauguration. ☑️
3. Gary offically leaves ☑️
4. Ripple case ends.
5. Alt season starts.
6. Ripple name big bank partnership.
7. XRP ETF approval.
Be Smart, Not Stupid.
Nearly a third of the U.S. population, spanning 27 states, is experiencing an unprecedented wave of dense fog—the thickest in nearly two decades.
While mainstream media claims this extreme fog is perfectly normal for the season, social media is buzzing with reports of bizarre odors and unexplained illnesses linked to the phenomenon, with similar accounts emerging from the UK to the U.S.
In this situation, who should we trust—our own eyes and senses or the mainstream media that places its faith in Dr. Fauci and vaccines?
🚨🇩🇪THE MEDIA THREATENED MY LIFE❗️
I had to spend this Christmas away from home in Germany.
I received serious threats after the media associated ME with the SAUDI TERR0RIST who ATTACKED GERMAN CHRISTIANITY!
The FAILED government and HYPOCRITE media let this massacre happen.
Hello world,
this is a message from Germany.
Our stupid government has invited millions of migrants without vetting them, we have tax-funded NGOs playing cab on the Mediterranean instead of rescuing them back to their shores, a huge asylum industry that thrives on renting out apartments and building houses for these migrants, other tax-funded NGOs monitoring everything we say so they can report us so we are being sued into bankruptcy, and our security bodies who have more to do with people questioning this madness than trying anything to keep Germany safe.
But it gets even more insane: We secure kindergartens and public swimming pools with barbed wire (no joke), public events with 'Merkel Lego', which hasn't helped at all, as you could tragically see in Magdeburg, and on top of that we have knife free zones that prohibit knives and other weapons to be carried at certain times. Our borders are still wide open, but this level of security that we need there is being implemented on our streets and ironically life is becoming increasingly dangerous.
That is the extent of the madness in Germany. If you criticize this too much, the self-proclaimed democrats want to put you in gulag and they want to ban the AfD, millions of Germans vote.
Please share what is going on here. The world needs to see this.