So sayeth the Duke;
In a withering assault on the onshore wind turbine industry, the [Duke of Edinburgh] said the farms were “a disgrace”.
He also criticised the industry’s reliance on subsidies from electricity customers, claimed wind farms would “never work” and accused people who support them of believing in a “fairy tale”.
No need to tell the Dutch;
[F]ve years later the green future looks a long way off. Faced with the need to cut its budget deficit, the Dutch government says offshore wind power is too expensive and that it cannot afford to subsidize the entire cost of 18 cents per kilowatt hour — some 4.5 billion euros last year.
The government now plans to transfer the financial burden to households and industrial consumers in order to secure the funds for wind power and try to attract private sector investment.
It will start billing consumers and companies in January 2013 and simultaneously launch a system under which investors will be able to apply to participate in renewable energy projects.
But the new billing system will reap only a third of what was previously available to the industry in subsidies — the government forecasts 1.5 billion euros every year — while the pricing scale of the investment plan makes it more likely that interested parties will choose less expensive technologies[…]
When the money runs out – 14,000 abandoned wind turbines.
But not everyone involved in this scam is going broke: The growing James Hansen scandal. Of course, he’s one of the scam’s chief architects. That’s how scams work.
Has anyone asked Bill Boyd what newspapers he reads?
