UK Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has made proposals to carpet the countryside with solar panels. He also wants to accelerate the development of offshore wind farms.
Even sunny Australia can’t get solar and wind energy to work well, so cold cloudy Britain doesn’t stand a hope of succeeding with “renewable” energy sources.
Yesterday The Guardian reported that Ed Miliband has pledged to bring in “the most ambitious reforms to the country’s energy system in generations” as he presses ahead with plans to accelerate the development of onshore windfarms in England.
As Watts Up With That noted, even The Guardian is concerned about Miliband’s “renewable” energy plans. The Guardian said, “The plans come as low wind and solar power generation forced Britain to rely heavily on burning gas and wood pellets. As of Thursday, about 65% of Britain’s electricity was being generated from gas and biomass, with only 5.3% coming from wind.”
Earlier today, The Telegraph reported that Miliband is plotting a massive expansion of solar voltaics. Data suggests up to a billion solar panels will be fitted across Britain by 2035 under Miliband’s plan to hit his net zero target.
“The Energy Secretary’s proposals will carpet the country with panels covering an estimated 750 sq miles, a bigger area than Greater London. Assuming the average solar panel is two square metres, this would mean as many as a billion are needed. Up to 5,000 wind turbines will also be built,” The Telegraph said.
Figures released by the Government on Friday showed that Middle England will be hit hardest by the solar blitz, with the most panels to be installed in an area stretching from Lincolnshire to South Wales plus the West Country, where Mr. Miliband’s plan envisages 200-300 square miles of solar panels.
For East Anglia and the South East, around London, up to 150 sq miles of panels would be needed.
Much of the expansion will be in the form of solar farms on English and Welsh farmland.
Is the war the UK government has declared on farmers beginning to make sense?
Watts Up With That provided some home truths
Britain sites between 51° to 60° North. In winter, when people really need home heating, Britain receives around 7 hours (or less) of sunlight. Much of the time in winter the sky is overcast, sometimes whole months can go by when you barely see the Sun. The wind is also unreliable in winter – some of the coldest winter nights have no wind at all.
All of this should be obvious to anyone who has lived in Britain. If even places like sunny Australia can’t get solar and wind energy to work well enough to replace coal and gas, a nation as far North as Britain has no hope.
Mad Miliband must be stopped before he uses any taxpayers’ money on his lunatic projects to turn UK land and waters into a barren wasteland and devoid of any life.
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