A secondary school has been told to remove its heat pumps after residents complained the system is so loud they are unable to open windows or go outside without being disturbed.
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Australia is the latest country to buy in to the 'clean energy superpower' myth, says David Craig. In reality, it's cheap, reliable fossil fuel that enables countries like China and India to be manufacturing superpowers.
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SNP ministers have quietly downgraded their claim that Scotland has a quarter of Europe’s offshore wind potential to just 7%, in a major blow to their economic case for independence.
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The wind energy crisis deepens as Danish company Ørsted cancels major U.S. projects in the face of rising public opposition, evidence of harm to whales and collapsing economic viability.
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"Living off-grid has shown me that anyone who thinks modern society can function on a power grid that runs on just solar and wind power without 100% backup capacity for cloudy, still days is totally deluded."
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The problem with trying to live on solar power, says Guy de la Bédoyère, as he does, is that how much energy you have depends entirely on how much the sun is shining. And very often it isn't.
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"The idea that Net Zero can be achieved by any means short of a command economy combined with a drastic decline in standards of living is a blatant falsehood," says Cambridge's Professor Michael Kelly. And for what?
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Politicians repeatedly reassure the public that wind power is cheaper than gas, but these misleading claims ignore the true costs of trying to run a modern electricity grid on the back of unreliable weather.
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The penny is finally starting to drop. Batteries cannot possibly store the energy needed to keep the lights on when the wind stops blowing and the sun doesn’t shine, the Royal Society has said.
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No new offshore wind project contracts have been bought by developers at a key Government auction, dealing a blow to the U.K.'s renewable power strategy that critics said "may represent a landmark moment".
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