The Politics of Climate Change: Green New Deal And Other Madness

[Iain]

Plans to construct a giant wind farm off Norfolk, UK have been halted due to supply-chain costs, inflation and gas prices... Essentially they can't make any money out of it and it has already cost £415m...

Giant windfarm off Norfolk coast halted due to spiralling costs

Swedish energy giant Vattenfall says costs have climbed 40% due to rise in global gas prices

www.theguardian.com

The government’s green energy ambitions have been dealt a blow after plans for a giant offshore windfarm off the Norfolk coast ground to a halt due to spiralling supply chain costs and rising interest rates.

The Swedish energy giant Vattenfall said it would stop work on the multibillion-pound Norfolk Boreas windfarm, designed to power the equivalent of 1.5m British homes, because it was no longer profitable.

The state-owned company said costs had climbed by 40% due to a rise in global gas prices which have fed through to the cost of manufacturing, putting “significant pressure on all new offshore wind projects”.

“It simply doesn’t make sense to continue this project,” said Anna Borg, Vattenfall’s chief executive. “Higher inflation and capital costs are affecting the entire energy sector, but the geopolitical situation has made offshore wind and its supply chain particularly vulnerable.”

“The market framework is simply not reflecting the market situation,” Borg said. “Something needs to happen. It’s important to understand that our suppliers are being squeezed. They have problems in their supply chain so it’s not so easy to mitigate these situations.”

Borg said Vattenfall has called on the UK government to adapt the financial framework which controls the price and was in “constructive discussions” with officials.

Industry experts have said that without an overhaul of the government’s financing approach to take into account the steep climb in costs, the UK risks missing its target to increase its offshore wind capacity fivefold to 50GW by 2030.

 

[heinrich]

Plans to construct a giant wind farm off Norfolk, UK have been halted due to supply-chain costs, inflation and gas prices... Essentially they can't make any money out of it and it has already cost £415m...

Giant windfarm off Norfolk coast halted due to spiralling costs

Swedish energy giant Vattenfall says costs have climbed 40% due to rise in global gas prices

www.theguardian.com

wind power is not the solution to a non existing propblem...

 

[Aeneas]

In Denmark an electric ferry between 2 islands caught fire the other day...in the battery section. They introduced in 2019 an electric ferry which can sail 40 km on a charge. Anyway as it is, it have had to stop sailing for a few months as they want to know the problem so that it doesn't happen again. As it is, they have to wait for new batteries, which are not some which are in storage. Needless to say, that the electric ferry got a huge amount of subsidies so as to be able to polish the virtue signaling crown. Here is a link (in Danish):

Rederi bekræfter brand i batterier – dato for sejlads usikker

Der er leveringstid på nye batterier til elfærgen mellem Als og Ærø. Tirsdag brød en lille del af batterierne i brand, og nu ligger færgen stille.

nyheder.tv2.dk

Reparation aflyser elfærge mellem Als og Ærø til næste søndag

Efter røgudvikling på eldrevet færge aflyses alle færgeafgange mellem Ærø og Als til og med søndag 23. juli.

jv.dk

 

[heinrich]

In Denmark an electric ferry between 2 islands caught fire the other day...in the battery section. They introduced in 2019 an electric ferry which can sail 40 km on a charge. Anyway as it is, it have had to stop sailing for a few months as they want to know the problem so that it doesn't happen again. As it is, they have to wait for new batteries, which are not some which are in storage. Needless to say, that the electric ferry got a huge amount of subsidies so as to be able to polish the virtue signaling crown. Here is a link (in Danish):

Rederi bekræfter brand i batterier – dato for sejlads usikker

Der er leveringstid på nye batterier til elfærgen mellem Als og Ærø. Tirsdag brød en lille del af batterierne i brand, og nu ligger færgen stille.

nyheder.tv2.dk

Reparation aflyser elfærge mellem Als og Ærø til næste søndag

Efter røgudvikling på eldrevet færge aflyses alle færgeafgange mellem Ærø og Als til og med søndag 23. juli.

jv.dk

this appears to be in the same class as ev and ebikes catching fire. why do the public powers do no forbid the use of the li batteries???? or require personal built-in windmills????

 

[iamthatis]

In Denmark an electric ferry between 2 islands caught fire the other day...in the battery section. They introduced in 2019 an electric ferry which can sail 40 km on a charge. Anyway as it is, it have had to stop sailing for a few months as they want to know the problem so that it doesn't happen again. As it is, they have to wait for new batteries, which are not some which are in storage. Needless to say, that the electric ferry got a huge amount of subsidies so as to be able to polish the virtue signaling crown. Here is a link (in Danish):

Rederi bekræfter brand i batterier – dato for sejlads usikker

Der er leveringstid på nye batterier til elfærgen mellem Als og Ærø. Tirsdag brød en lille del af batterierne i brand, og nu ligger færgen stille.

nyheder.tv2.dk

Reparation aflyser elfærge mellem Als og Ærø til næste søndag

Efter røgudvikling på eldrevet færge aflyses alle færgeafgange mellem Ærø og Als til og med søndag 23. juli.

jv.dk

I wonder what percentage of these events have a cosmic cause, as in the C's saying 'just wait until the current starts to flow'...

 

[mabar]

Let it not be said that we were not warned.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1682699624719450112

 

[Voyageur]

While doing a checkup on Denis Rancourt, noticed in 2019 he posted this (it is short and to the point):

2019-10-03 ::: Dear True Environmentalists: Fight Corporate Criminality, not Atmospheric Gases​

Introduction...

Dear true environmentalists: I am with you.

Corporate pollution and releasing of toxic substances should be treated as a criminal act, with full power to seize assets for reparations, actual reparations, not just punitive fines.

I would apply the same standard of prosecution to the “medical”/pharma and agri-food industries, also.

However, the planet and biosphere are not at risk of imminent collapse, and certainly not from CO2. ...

 

[Aeneas]

This woman worked for 7 years as a policy advisor for an Australian liberal senator and her area was in regards to windpower and to clear up the mess which liberal policies in that regard had caused. In effect she says that Australians pay AUD 40 billions a year to subsidies for these wind projects and that the money goes overseas. As she explains it, the farmer gets AUD 12000 a year to lease the land to the wind company, which then gets between AUD 600000-900000 a year in subsides per turbine. AUD is short for Australian dollars ( 1 AUD = 0,60 Euro).

https://twitter.com/x/status/1683029322985078784

Added: I just realised that I had mistakenly posted in the wrong thread, though it is not totally wrong. It is now reposted in the other thread about wind energy.

 

[Voyageur]

Added: I just realised that I had mistakenly posted in the wrong thread, though it is not totally wrong. It is now reposted in the other thread about wind energy.

Yes, not totally wrong, and did you note her T-shirt?

 

[heinrich]

Yesterday morning in London -

Moment popular electric car bursts into flames on residential street

A car, believed to be a Tesla Model Y, was filmed well alight on a road in London earlier this morning, as witnessed by the owner of a similar vehicle

www.mirror.co.uk

well done for the car!!!

 

[Aeneas]

Yes, not totally wrong, and did you note her T-shirt?

No I didn't. Thank you for pointing it out. It is thus not surprising that it is someone who is unvaccinated who is pointing out the scam of the political climate change agenda.

 

[Aeneas]

As has been pointed out many times by others the color coding of weather charts is one way of hyping the global 'warming'. One example is from the Danish Met office. One would be inclined to think at first glance, seeing the below chart, that Denmark is boiling, yet it is not quite that bad. The color changes to light pink when the temperature is between 12-15 degrees celcius (the color scale is to the left of the image). The color then goes progressively red. So the temperature in most of Denmark is right now between 12-15 degrees with it being a little warmer over the waters around Denmark.

 

[Glenn]

Worn out blades dumped in the forest.

 

[Vulcan59]

The Lancet caught distorting the data to make heat deaths look worse...

The Lancet distorts the data to make heat deaths look worse...

What do you do when not enough people die to suit your religion? Distort the axis and hope no one notices. Welcome to government-science, where one of top journals in the world uses graphic design tricks for political convenience. In this graph...

www.sott.net

 

[heinrich]

The Lancet caught distorting the data to make heat deaths look worse...

The Lancet distorts the data to make heat deaths look worse...

What do you do when not enough people die to suit your religion? Distort the axis and hope no one notices. Welcome to government-science, where one of top journals in the world uses graphic design tricks for political convenience. In this graph...

www.sott.net

as an engineer, i would not have even thought about making different scales for the abscisse!!! the will to deceive is sooo evident!!!