This may be the best AGW Green Scam EVER perpetrated. No, it's not some Hungarian selling worthless EU carbon indulgences to France and pocketing the taxes--that's chicken feed. These enterprising hucksters will be selling power from diesel generators to England's national grid to cover for the Carbon Crucifixes that fail to generate power when the wind doesn't blow...or blows too much. Who are these titans of thermageddon terpsichore that own the generators? The British government--that requires these money-hemmorhaging birdshredders in the first place. Genius!
Oh, but it's even better, because....
"For this, they will be paid premium rates, soon to rise to (600 pounds) per Megawatt hour of electricity produced. This is more than 12 times the rate currently paid to ordinary power station operators, and six times the rate paid to inshore wind farm owners. Potentially, that makes Government-owned generators worth hundreds of millions.."
Did I mention these are CarbonFueledEvilDiesel generators...? Bwuhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
The Sicilian mob beat the Brits to this scam by a few years. But the mob did it for the billions in green energy grants, they at least had the decency not to price gouge that badly.
ReplyDeleteIn 2009, Interpol said 99 percent of the EUrotard carbon market was fraud. Cameron's just cutting out the middle man.
ReplyDeleteoutstanding. And Bernie Madhoff went to jail ... that piker. These guys will have him beat by trillions.
ReplyDeleteEven if the wind does blow all the
ReplyDeletetime, there are other factors with
wind power that effect reliability.
They are freaking expensive to
repair and maintain. I noticed
decades ago while passing wind
farms in California that at any
given time,20-25% were not turning.
You might be able to hoist bearings
and gears up the column, so any-
thing short of replacing the gear-
box or generator could be done
without a lot of trouble.
But if you have to replace either
of these components or worse yet,
the fan bearings, you would need
a VERY large crane, crane erectors,
riggers, millwrights or mechanics,
crane operators, electricians, etc.
There were recent stories at SDA
(Small Dead Animals) about the 10+
thousand of these things in North
America that have simply been shut
down, 1000s of which have been
abandoned.
These things would never have been
built without tons of government
subsidies. Now that the subsidies
are gone, the companies that oper-
ate them are finding out that they
are not even worth the price of the
explosives needed to demo them.
And the funniest part, Leonard? The blades can't be recycled; carbon fiber and fiberglass.
ReplyDeleteThen there are the poisonous rare earths in the motor magnets.
Yep, saving the planet.
There is still a whole lot of metal
ReplyDeletethere. Assuming explosive demo-
lishion is the cheapest way to go,
you would still need a large crew
armed with cutting torches to cut
the metal into pieces in order to
load them on trucks.
The trouble here is that we are no
longer in the business of making
metal. Every metal recycling co.
on the West coast is shiping their
steel to Asia. There, they don't
care if their mills pollute.
Steel is so cheap today that there
is no profit in cutting up these
bird shredders. If there was,
these abandoned wind turbines would
already have been cut up and sent
to China.
As to the non recyclable or toxic
items, burry them in Al Gore's
estate! Bad ideas should have
consequenecs.