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We face a very uncertain future with regard to power generation and energy consumption in Britain. This is solely due to blinkered thinking, utter stupidity, and inane policies (such as the climate change one) by successive governments. We face blackouts - hours at least - of no electrical power, no lighting and, of course, no heating (ALL gas and oil boilers rely on electricity to function).

 

Can you beat this? Yes, you could supply your own power through solar panels, and you could always supply your own heating through wood burning. If you have the land, give serious thought to the growing of trees which can be cut down to provide your own heat, at least.

 

If you can’t, then at least purchase a few bottles of ethanol and a small, cheap ethanol burner. This will give you instant heat which you can safely burn indoors with no flue or chimney - yes, you can even burn it in a flat (apartment) with all the windows closed. Though be aware that it does emit quite a lot of water vapour, so prolonged use would see a condensation issue for your home. This would at least mean that you have your own heating should a power cut happen. If we get power cuts, then it will certainly be during the winter. Britain really does face the death of some people during these cuts, for various reasons. We have reached that level of stupid. It’s amazing, isn’t it?

 

One question we get asked...

Why do wind and solar power cost so much?

 

The reason is simple. To bring in the Conservative and the Labour anti-CO2 policies (climate change) Britain is forcing itself to rely on so-called ‘renewables’. This is wind turbines and solar panel farms. Except that there’s a problem: Sometimes, the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine. So we have to have a back up for those times - an ability to generate power. This is an extremely costly policy, as it effectively means that you’re supplying TWO sets of energy generation. In order to resolve this, governments have looked at all sorts of crazy ideas, such as massive battery farms costing billions and even flywheel devices. It is, without doubt, just insane.

 

But there’s another huge cost - investment. Gas is already there, in the pipe. Coal plants are there (not anymore!), but to start generating power from wind turbines and solar panels, you have to build them. Companies won’t do this unless they are assured that when they do get them up and running, they can charge the consumer (you) an amount which is at least the same as what the highest energy source is going for. Usually, that’s gas. So if gas is being sold at say, 15p per kilowatt hour to the end consumer, these companies must be assured in writing that they will get 15p per kilowatt hour for the electricity they will end up generating. Without that assurance they won’t build anything. The government has to say to these companies that not only will they definitely buy it, they will buy it even if they don’t need it - so they will get paid even when the wind turbines aren’t turning!!! Only then will a company build a wind farm. They are absolutely assured future income (no other trade or industry is). This then means that there is a minimum cost to the end consumer (you). You are forced by this policy to overpay for your electricity. Your power could have come form a cheap source, like fracking, for example, but because the government has committed to paying these companies, it is added to your annual bill.

 

You might think we could instead buy electricity at the market rate from say France or Norway (we have huge transmission lines connected), but then we don’t have energy security. In other words, if something happens in those countries, or they decide suddenly to double the price, we’d be stuffed. So we must have our own energy supply. Well, we have it already, in the form of gas, and coal (not anymore). Or perhaps what we should have done is to sink hugely-deep holes in the ground (admittedly costing billions) to send cold water down to a hot layer deep beneath. This water comes back up very hot, and can be used to run turbines to generate electricity. It is literally THE perfect way of generating power. There are zero emissions, no toxic substances or residues, and it’s literally limitless. You could do it for millions of years until we find Planet Milliband, and live there. Nuclear is another option, but planning objections are going to be considerable and therefore costly. And you have the slight risk of something going wrong.

 

And it gets worse. All these so-called renewables, such as wind turbines and solar panels, have to be renewed! So in 20 years (sometimes less) you have to replace them at considerable cost. And there’s the resources issue, as well. Turbines and solar panels use components which are reasonably rare, and not from this country. You have to source them from foreign countries. In 20 years, won’t other countries also be looking to buy them? The basic rule of economics is that demand generates price. If 100 countries are looking for lithium...what happens to the price of lithium? And it gets worse. We may not just be priced out of the supply, if it’s a finite supply, only a few million tonnes of it, we might not be able to get it at any price. China will be laughing.

 

This is where we have got ourselves - into a painted corner...and all because it is believed that CO2 is causing warming! Just think about that for a moment before you consider this...

Perhaps the insanity is best summed up (completely accidently!) by the Royal Society, an organisation completely and utterly intoxicated on the idea of global warming.  They produced a 20-point policy statement about climate change, hoping to answer questions the public might raise.  Here is their final point:

 

“If emissions of greenhouse gases were stopped, would the climate return to the conditions of 200 years ago?

No. Even if emissions of greenhouse gases were to suddenly stop, Earth’s surface temperature would require thousands of years to cool and return to the level in the pre-industrial era.

If emissions of CO2 stopped altogether, it would take many thousands of years for atmospheric CO2 to return to “pre-industrial” levels due to its very slow transfer to the deep ocean and ultimate burial in ocean sediments. Surface temperatures would stay elevated for at least a thousand years, implying a long-term commitment to a warmer planet due to past and current emissions. Sea level would likely continue to rise for many centuries even after temperature stopped increasing. Significant cooling would be required to reverse melting of glaciers and the Greenland ice sheet, which formed during past cold climates. The current CO2-induced warming of Earth is therefore essentially irreversible on human timescales. The amount and rate of further warming will depend almost entirely on how much more CO2 humankind emits.”

 

So what is the point, then…of spending trillions? And this is if the emissions were stopped altogether. They have unwittingly and brilliantly summed up the utter futility of doing anything at all. ALL that we are doing, according to the very people who perpetuate the idea that man is causing the planet to warm, is utterly pointless. All that we may do to try and stop it is futile - we have already gone too far. Just let that sink in for a moment.

 

Of course, there are very many eminent scientists who say that it’s all tosh, that we aren’t even causing the warming, anyway! You don’t hear from them because there really is a conspiracy from media groups like the BBC to keep you from knowing it. One of the foremost scientists to say it has recently won two Nobel prizes by proving Einstein wrong, but you’ve never heard of Professor John Clauser. And you won’t. The conspiracy is real.

 

But the above from the Royal Society is EVEN IF it is true. The whole thing, the trillions we’ll spend, the tonnes of coal we’ll leave underground, the massive gas fields that we won’t tap, the building of huge wind turbines and solar farms, and the re-building of them in 20 years...is all for nothing. Now that, surely, is epic stupidity at its finest? Future generations will look back on us and think we went completely mad. If we want to be energy-secure, let’s burn that gas and coal WHILE we sort ourselves out on deep geothermal power generation.

 

 

 

If you would like to know more about climate change and Net Zero, I have written an 80-page book, available direct to you for just £10. Please email info@tebe.co.uk