They're unreliable, expensive, environmentally destructive and need a backup on standby. When will politicians accept that wind and solar power can't replace fossil fuels, asks Richard Burcik.
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Britain will build new gas power stations, Rishi Sunak has said, as he vows not to risk blackouts to achieve Net Zero. But his claim that building a whole supplementary power system will "keep bills down" is nonsense.
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The head of the Government’s climate watchdog told officials to “kill” a negative news story with “technical language”, FOI documents reveal.
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Germany has begun felling up to 120,000 trees from the 'fairy tale' forest of Reinhardswald – setting of many Brothers Grimm tales – to make way for wind turbines. But not a peep in protest comes from the Greens.
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A wind turbine in Wales has exploded after bursting into flames. The Fire Service said that "pieces of the wind turbine were falling nearby".
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The revelation that the U.K.'s ambitious climate target is based on just one unusually windy year's data threatens to unravel the credibility of the whole Net Zero project.
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Government subsidies for wind power hit a record £255 million in December, confirming that renewables are not and never have been cheap, says David Turver. And they look set to increase further.
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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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