Tim Watkins on the unfulfilled promises of renewable energy
Read the following blogpost on Tim Watkins' blog The consciousness of sheep: Blown out of the water (2 weeks ago).
Watkins writes mostly about the British renewable energy industry, what an empty shell it is, not living up to its promises, but touches also upon Germany's and China's renewable energy industry. He ends the article with this sobering comment:
"At least the people who promoted the virtues of nuclear electricity generation in the 1960s have an excuse for failing to deliver the promised electricity too cheap to meter – the US government insisting that reactors were configured to produce fuel for weapons rather than cheap electricity for domestic consumption. The advocates of wind energy have no excuse. Not only have governments not stood in their way, but they have bent over backward to subsidise as much wind power as the energy corporations were prepared to build. And unlike the supposed subsidies on fossil fuels, wind energy subsidies have been a direct cash injection designed to make investment as attractive as possible… if an affordable and profitable wind industry couldn’t be built in this environment, it never will be."
