The madness that is Wind Power

I have blogged before about the insanity of relying upon wind power for 40% of our power needs as this brainwashed imbecilic government are planning. Christopher Brooker in The Telegraph has been very good on this over the past year or so.

An article that should be of great interest can be found at EU Referendum which covers the BBC Radio 4 programme that I listened to part of last night whilst driving home. Here's an extract, but do read the whole article:

"But, while Cox establishes that wind power produces 20 percent of Danish electricity, he also finds out that this is not actually consumed in Denmark. The figure is a statistical illusion. Only nine percent of the wind energy generated is actually used in Denmark.

At times of peak capacity, the power cannot be absorbed into the grid so it is exported. Much of the power goes a system of inter-connectors, mainly to Norway which has a high proportion of hydro-power and therefore is able to shut down its own capacity very rapidly in order to take the Danish feed.

This, Cox does not actually tell us. Nor does he reveal that the power is sold very cheaply to Norway – which is thus the main beneficiary of the Danish system – or that the Danes have the highest electricity bills in Europe.

But he does elicit from Peter Jorgensen, the vice president of Energinet, the Danish national grid company, that it would be "very difficult to run the system without the inter-connectors." "We are very dependent on our *neighbours", he concedes.

Challenged as to whether Denmark could rely on an independent system, Jorgensen admits that "You could build a system that would balance on it own, but it would be very costly".

That, in fact, is what the UK is committing to. Cox finds that the National Grid has no plans for a system of inter-connectors and, therefore, we will never be able to balance our system with the aid of our neighbours. Thus, Britain will be reliant on back-up power stations for the many days when there is not enough wind"

At a time of economic disaster this idiot government has tied us to spending £ billions on wind farms that will still need gas or nuclear power stations to be online when the wind isn't blowing - genius.