Electricity is available to many people at the touch of a button, so more people live in greater comfort and security than ever before in mankind’s time on earth. Without electricity life is very basic, and then your life resembles that of a medieval peasant. Despite this boon, people have started to yearn for ‘the simple life of the past’.Continue reading at Pointman's
This nostalgia is played on by self-appointed “prophets”, some of whom may be sane, making various doomsday predictions and impossible demands. Decarbonize the Earth! Renewable energy! Sustainable buildings! Local food supplies! Many of these phrases are incapable of definition, yet the response is Pavlovian, although drooling is optional.
These self-appointed prophets claim that sunlight and the wind can generate “clean, green and sustainable” energy. The methods that have worked to make electricity for over 100 years are unacceptable. Coal and oil-fired plants emit carbon dioxide, and while nuclear and hydroelectric don’t, they get ruled out because they’re too cheap and affordable.
The basis on which these dreams depend is wind power. Used in Denmark, Spain, Germany and increasingly in the UK. A number of claims are made about cheapness, reliability etc. designed to mislead the gullible and the unwary.
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