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I’ve been warning about wind energy for years. But yesterday’s exposé from Bloomberg was a surprise to even Nigel Farage and I. You won’t believe what wind power producers have been up to, at your expense.
And if Siemens Energy Chairman Joe Kaeser told The Telegraph, “Every transformation comes at a cost and every transformation is painful. And that’s something that the energy industry and the public sector - governments - don’t really want to hear.” Then are governments accurately anticipating the cost of the energy transition?
And if they aren’t, what will the true costs be?
And if they’re unaffordable, what are we going to do?
If you take a step back, you’ll begin to realise what’s really going on here…
Wind energy is just a racket wrapped up in a green parcel.
This is precisely what happens when you are not allowed to question the consensus on something like green energy. This is something Nigel Farage doesn’t exactly shy away from however he might be lampooned for it. For years, he told us wind energy would disappoint.
But now, even the German Greens Party is having second thoughts.
Find out what’s gone so dreadfully wrong in our energy system and what could happen next in this video with Nigel Farage…
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We should harness the wind coming from politicians
Arse power
We can’t store the excess.
😂😂😂😂
Brilliant answer
@@rogerbeattie2263
The GOVERNMENT talk a load of 💩💩💩, IT'S all about taking money off the PUBLIC, and CONTROL.
We don’t have a climate crisis, we have a political crisis….
no, it's a societal/cultural crisis. we did this, all of us together, not the politicians. if a society cant feed, clothe and house itself, it will fail.
They tell farmers to stop breeding cows because they fart and pollute our atmosphere, so maybe we should get rid of politicians because they are a lot of useless farts causing a bigger problem than the useful cows!!
@@notimpressed7559politicians in bed with KlausSchwab
Net zero has to be rejected entirely or they will keep coming back.
net zero is unabtainable, Check out Lord Muncktons lecture 2022 oxford university. or Sir Patrick Moore Canadian marine bioligest and green peace co founder. Another good resourse is planet of the humans By micheal Moore. You are correct this insanity needs to stop. I give you 2 thumbs up.
Absolutely
The whole climate change debate is a total wrought.
Agreed. But that has very little to do with wind. Net Zero is there to create headroom for nuclear power plants that provision nuclear weapons race with expertise and raw materials..
Net-zero is a rational ideal, and can be achieved by following facts. A fact is that unpredictable sources of electricity can't supply big-scale, reliably electricity.
If we go down the nuclear route, why would you even want wind energy, total waste of money.
Exactly!
As long as we exclude the French (EDF) and Chinese from delivering said power stations. Hinkley Point C is running massively over budget and time scales. UK Gov was warned at the time that EDF had failed to deliver this new reactor design on time & to budget.
We need to go down the SMNR route not the Hinckley route. 20 to 30 of these around the UK would power just about every home in the country. The government MAY back nuclear some time in the next 20 years. We could be actual world leaders in nuclear NOW.
Small modular reactors are coming, and they will destroy the wind industry.
Wind never made any sense but are a great visual and thrown up quickly unlike nuclear which take many years. It was a ludicrous decision by Ed Davey to buy French/Chinese technology for Hinkley Point C. Already discredited, only one reactor is actually functioning in China with both the French and Finish plants massively over budget and years behind. Failure built on failure. Maybe that was the intention to push us to intermittent wind and solar. Mindless.
There is NO green energy
Well, actually there is, Water/H2O, but then hiw would they make money seeing as water is as free in the air as we breath out, go figure!🤪
LFTR
Energy cannot be created or destroyed - it is like gold or platinum, it is immutable. It just changes form. All energy exists already - just the form varies - so the whole "Green Energy" argument is a joke from the off.
Yes mate when you take into consideration that wind and solar power generators are (as in my own comment) known to degrade over time around ten years being the average for wind turbines and something similar for solar panels and then they require replacement and just how on earth can that be cost effective or sustainable? Again this would cause more pollution to manufacture these idiotic, ugly, and weather (and sunlight) dependant devices.
That is the undeniable truth! Matter cannot be created nor destroyed! It always exists in some form or another! That's why you cannot have 💯 % clean energy!
We can however develop ways to reduce the harmful emissions and only use what is best for all life on Earth!?
And who is pushing this through, the left. And who pushes woke and diversity through, the left. And who wants more immigration, the left. Etc etc etc. Vote Reform.
Yes. Those on the left are all for protecting the environment, yet also want millions of foreign people to join us, people who’ll have no interest in nature conservation whatsoever, not to mention the requirements for housing, infrastructure, food, yet more wind turbines etc. To say they’re foolish is a huge understatement.
Woke wind? Nonsense.
What you've said is so far right you are not wrong
Think by turning everything upside down left would be right or something? The only fact, i could agree with, It takes literally no one to run those farms mechanically. The Electricity part has still to be handled like every other Electrical plant. Once we know the real shelf life of Generators, we can ajust.
But Tice loves solar panels and pushed the vax. Put Nigel back in and you've got my vote or of course Andrew Bridgen
Wind “Farms” are manufactured without any industrial Co2 production.The cement production,bases for the infrastructure,has no Co2 production in their manufacturing.The disassembly and “decommissioning of defunct wind “farms” produces no Co2 and all energy produced is 100% free.Fortunately all the rare earths and other metals are mined without even one molecule of Co2 generation.The entire process couldn’t be more perfect,no Co2 generation,just unlimited energy for free.The entire process will be produced with only the most high quality fairy dust available ,and fortunately it’s all 100% free.(This message has been brought to you by the morons from the department of a fictitious energy future)
I had a WHAT moment on your opening text, Phew closing text said it all.
Perfect sarcasm.
So the heat used in cement production happens without co2?? And why do you believe co2 is a poison?? Co2 is a base for life just like oxygen is you, and all animals breath in oxygen and breath out co2. Most plants during the day breath in co2 and breath out oxygen and without sunlight the resperation of plants is reversed at night though greatly reduced. Anyone who believes that co2 is a dangerous gas has been deluded by fake science and scientists willing to lie
You are 100% correct. I'm mildly offended that you stole my discovery of fairy dust as the real source of power however.
😂😂😂😂👏👏👏👏 You had me there.
In Shetland ,we have a huge wind turbine farm built to supply mainland Britain. This farm one big eye sore ,damaging enviroment, and only 80 % of that power will make it to the UK out of the 100% created. Fact it is cheaper to heat your home on Shetland with fuel oil than renewables . Shetland has been ruined for the sake of NET ZERO wind farms.
David v Goliath battle going on in Skye, where the existing turbines already produce enough for our needs.
You obviously have no clue how much oil wind generators are saving, one single turbine saves about 20 to 30 tons PER DAY in average, please don't be ridiculous, someone who tells that wind generators are so environmental damaging that has not the slightest clue about the magintude of ressource savings should not talk about this subject.
How about the fact that wind turbine cost so much and only last so long , the cost about 5 million dollars to take away! How about the garbage from this short term use! What about that in your net zero? Does it make enough electricity to even cover the cost and waste when done?
@@hanswallner2188bollox. If the wind blew constantly possibly. But it doesn't and there has to be other generating methods. Please look up the interweb and educate yourself on how much diesel generators have been used in Scotland to keep the blades turning. Educate yourself.
I live near two wind farms. One has 10 turbines another has 6. The wind speed according to the Met Office is 25 mph gusting 40. None of the turbines are turning. Too windy.
And farmers are paid not to produce food. Total insanity.
The only thing that's renewable about renewables, is that every 10-15 years they will need to be renewed. An utter waste of resources for no gain.
2 thumbs up to you. because your right.
Bless your cotton socks. Whoever told you that? Your barber? The Hoover Dam is coming up to 100 years old. Oldest solar panels now many decades old and still producing. LOL.
@@grahambennett8151 I generally find barbers and cab drivers fairly wise... I'm guessing some radio or tv program sponsored by coal and power.
@@annpeerkat2020 I don't disagree about the drives and barbers. The last time I spoke with either, their specialist subject was football. Maybe Nigel should be driving a cab. He knows buffer all about energy. LOL.
Wind Energy is an Absolute racket........
And nuclear doesn't have any skeletons in its cupboard...?
What - and the other sources are not? Please....
@@zmrxy6632no. It works on its own. Anything else I can help you with? I think harder next time.
I don't remember voting for Net Zero. Do you?
Many have ceased voting at all - it's treason to vote for corporations. That's what governments are - check their ABN numbers.
There hasn’t been any discussion about the number of diesel farms there are on private land. Thousands of diesel generators ready in case the wind doesn’t blow. Madness, complete madness.
Between 6% and 8% of electricity produced is lost in transmission, I'm amazed people who rant about wind never understand that.
Indeed. There are 2 mass psychoses (Climate Delusion and Energy Transition Delusion) in operation in association with a massive fraud (Climate Fraud).
The carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels are largely beneficial. Benefits include increased agricultural yields (main effect) reduced winter heating costs, fewer deaths from hypothermia and postponement of the next glacial maximum.
And whats the problem with that? Wind energy saves millions of tons of diesel, if you use a little when there is not enough wind is a problem for you? Please see your doctor.
That doesn'[t seem to have happened.
@@hanswallner2188walloper alert. Wind is too costly. The turbine blades can't be recycled. They don't produce on demand. Please after seeing your psychiatrist watch the rest of the video, then go and visit Germany where a big wind producing energy company has just dismantled it's wind turbines to dig up the land beneath to mine for coal.
There is NO climate crisis, and CO2 is not a problem. It's essential for life
Agreed!
The Russians in Siberia do not mind global warming. But even they must be concerned to see methane bubbling from the permafrost.
Thankyou !
We are the carbon they want to erase
No idea of world climate
Nigel Farage you are repeating every word I myself have said about wind energy plus the fact that in my tiny mind we cannot possibly make enough electricity to give power to factories, homes, cars etc. We, the public are being conned yet again plus at the flick of a switch we will all be unable to communicate, cook or keep ourselves warm. Keep on fighting please Mr Farage.
Then your as thick as he is but at least he is getting paid to talk nonsense
Rubbish.
We, the public? Your tiny mind? Mathematics is troublesome, agreed, but persevere.
We are funding these wind turbines massively, yet we still have to pay massively for our electricity, we paid for the things to be built, we should be getting super cheap electricity. It's all just a racket, using other people's money (i.e. ours), the elite just manipulate the goalposts, so that they can make a fortune, while getting us to put up the money to build it. It cant go on.
You're too late to the party, me ol' tatey. The studies are in already. Renwables can do Net Zero (if we must!) by 2040). You probably need to read more.
Electricity should be free by now.
'Too cheap to meter'! Oh those heady days of nuclear promise.
I have solar and batteries installed this year. So yeah it basically is.
It'll never be free.
Governments will always tax whatever they can get away with.
Windows and salt used to be taxed remember.
The fundamentals of life energy and water are easy prey.
actually the taxpayer has already and is paying for the power production before you then are hit with a demand for some thing you have already paid for , this is a fact not fiction like any green estimations from modeling
That was Nikolai Tesla’s dream. He died mysteriously and a lot of his papers disappeared. 😉
no carbon no life
It’s a beautiful synergy, Gods’ creation.
Too much carbon is bad as well. Most natural systems do better at some optimal point. E.g. water .. zero or too much equals death
Not a wind issue. Nuclear says it wants zero emissions too. Only difference? Nuclear isn't zero emissions.
500 ppm carbon dioxide, all the calcium carbonate in the seas dissolves.
@@grahambennett8151 No gaseous emissions, One kg of fission products per ten GWh of energy, and the radioactivity of fission products disappears fastest for the mostest.
Dirty criminal activity. Everyone is at it except hard working people who are living day to day. The more they keep it that way the poorer we get the richer they become.
And the biggest culprit is the present UN Secretary General 🤔
So what? think they can eat their credit cards? Once it has become a real crisis and Bananas come in dozens, not Containers, They too will revert to violence to get one. Or pay with all they have. Because SOMEONE NEEDS TO KEEP CAPITALISM ALIVE WITH PROFITS. Bragging rights never EVER got anything good done. Gave a feeling of Advantage or Privilege. But if you are sitting on the throne, and the Toilet paper is out, it all doesn't matter anymore.
Farmers are revolting in Australia which is the poster country for net zero. It has the same problem with solar and is a failure !
Net Zero is economically destructive delusional insanity.
Wind farms are a colossal waste of taxpayers money and resources (including coal and oil).
Here’s a mad fact……..the carbon footprint of Australia has been compared th how much the total number of trees consume,calculating the number of trees they have.they pretty much cancel one another out and that’s without other vegetation and mangrove use 50% more of CO2 than a tree.this has been created to tax people
Australia is by far not the poster country for net-zero. It's one of the most wasteful countries on Earth. In Australia, about 800 people die yearly due to air pollution by coal-burning power stations. Nuclear, which has a mortality rate per unit of electricity produced 933 time lower than Australia's mix of brown and black coal, would kill about two people every three years as opposed to coal's 2,400--that's in Australia alone.
Yet nuclear power generation is illegal in Australia while coal is not. If that's not a sign of stupidity, what is?
@@grasonicus Australia provides materials to much of the rest of the world. It is our coal, gas, oil, uranium, and mineral mining activities that power many countries. But we get the blame for the emissions for these create. "Green Accounting" is wrong and corrupt in so many areas.
Australia are going ahead in leaps and bounds, trying to reduce pollution and increase sustainable energy. Many of us are repairing what can be repaired, and most of us are recycling what can be recycled. Solar energy and/or solar hot water are now on something like 40pct of houses and this is increasing rapidly. Queensland is leading the way ! Massive wind farms and solar farms are being built and commissioned at a rapid rate. Electric cars sales are taking off. People are installing batteries to flatten demand and reduce grid spikes, people are planting trees like crazy. I've got solar power, solar hot water, and I've planted trees over 100 acres of virtual desert (an old pineapple farm) - and I've done this all out of my own pocket and with no help. Nothing is ever 100% green, but we are doing everything we can with the technologies available. (I wish we would take Nuclear Power was an option our government and people would consider).
@grasonicus Sorry but you don't know what you're talking about.
All Scottish wind farms are foreign owned. The big problem in Texas is that they have huge fields with piles of used turbine blades that can't be recycled or disposed of. I think the whole industry will fail when the government can no longer afford the big payments to operating companies and thousands of worn out turbines have to be replaced.
Hinkley C is going to be funded by the Chinese govt and owned by the French govt. They've already started cutting corners, they don't give a toss if it goes tits up and the insurance cost will be covered by..? The British taxpayer!
The government will never run out of money to subsidise green energy …….. it’s YOUR money they’re spending!
Recycling is pretty expensive but possible, on the other side the blades do not do any harm if you dig them, so i do not see a problem in not recycling them. Consider that one single wind turbine will prevent 20 to 30 tons of oil per day being burnt, so we are talking about incredible ressource savings here, one factor that lots of clueless people have no idea about.
@@hanswallner2188
Yet if the dumping rate continues, there will be thousands of acres of dumped blades.
Over the next 100 years this will be a major problem.
Good business for generator salesmen.
Energy will never be cheap until we embrace nuclear energy
And you've factored in the cost of a) producing nuclear fuel and b) processing the nuclear waste have you? Add these costs to the equation and you realise it categorically ISN'T cheap.
@@zmrxy6632 Acre after acre of solar and wind isn't cheap either. Gas and coal seem even less viable. Geothermal would be nice - but does seem to require the right geology. Difference is that nuclear produces a massive and steady, reliable supply of power. France uses Nuclear for 70% (UK 15%) of its electricity and theirs costs the consumer less than half the UK price. France please!
Nuclear is expensive, too.
@@philipdamask2279 And yet France uses 70% Nuclear generation and gives the French electricity at less than half the UK consumer prices?
@@zmrxy6632 Per kWh or GWhr, there is no power or energy source that has less waste than nuclear.
In Australia we the tax payer's are giving $900 thousand per wind turbine per year as a subsidies , and we the people are sold down the garden path our government's and energy minister's need to be held accountable and sacked
A bargain compared to the bill for Hinkley C!
I have always been against wind turbines. They are expensive to make, expensive to service and they cannot be re-purposed! Thousands of acres in USA have dead wind turbines rotting in the fields!
Wind has a low energy density and wind power is centuries out of date. Wind farms only exist due to massive taxpayer funded subsidies. They make no economic sense. They are a colossal waste of taxpayers money and resources (including coal and oil) in addition to being a blight on the landscape.
they only last or so years
There's vast areas of abandoned solar panels here as well.....
@@kenneth9874 Says you. But where?
Even if you were right, which power stations precisely can be repurposed? Not radioactive nuclear power plants, for starters. Anything else, maybe?
Every CULT DOES NOT ALLOW DISCUSSION. THE CULTISTS SHUT DOWN ANY OPPOSITION. BEWARE.
In the last decade, I have realised that I have been lied to all my life; all the wars, unethical radiation, and medical and psychological experiments, on unsuspecting vulnerable people, mass immigration and indoctrination in the guise of entertainment, mass passivity of the male population with their, on the sofa, sports and beer sessions, they care more about sport, than what is being done to themselves, their family, and their country in real life. The females are more focused on the fictional lives going on in the sitcoms, than they are about their children. We didn't get this way by accident. We were brought to this pathetic state by government manipulation, through bought and paid for media disguised as independent truth tellers. If you take a look back, at those programmes you enjoyed so much, you will notice how you were manipulated. We laughed at them, but we're not laughing now.
You are sadly, entirely correct.
Agreed. Most of school was useless and history is a lie. I've learnt more in 10 years than in the previous 50 & all l want is the truth
Somebody should have warned us about the evils of the government-media complex.
brought to you by...........THE KHAZARIAN MAFIA. I cant use their normal name, because its been "censored". You know who rules the world, by who you cannot criticize.
yes, yes, you're right Carol. Go girl. I also only discovered last month that viruses don't exist, seriously there's no proof that they ever exosted. See Garman court case between Drs. Stefan Lanka and David Bardens. Stunning revelation, but liberating too.
There is a hell of a problem with oil leaks/ hydraulic leaks from turbines at sea polluting the water.
And nuclear doesn't!? 🤦♂
Yeah, terrible problem, i see.... one wind turbine is preventing 20 to 30 tons of oil being burnt per day, please don't be ridicolous. Do you have any idea what terrible environmental impact in mining, transporting and processsing 20 to 30 tons of oil every day would cause?
@@hanswallner2188 Your argument doesn't make sense. The alternative for wind turbines ISN'T 'burning oil'. It's Nuclear power!
@@zmrxy6632 "And nuclear doesn't!? " Nuclear power plants are not build in the seas and they indeed do not leak oil into the water. So yeah the "🤦♂" applies really well to your comment!
Not to mention oil leaks from tankers and off shore oil platforms.
Nobody is asking us what we want , it is forced upon us all this greed energy .
Today is too windy for turbines. So no wind power. No sun either. So where will today’s green energy come from? We need a sustainable supply of hydro-carbons. How about civil servants?
I've seen energy costs rise to eye watering proportions during my lifetime (which is long!!). And yet prices are due to go up by a further 6% again soon.
Unless you're a politician in which case you claim it on expenses, as they did last year when prices were raised.
Use less
@@UtubeRwokeLefties
ABSOLUTELY BLOODY DISGUSTING.
No amount of wishful thinking can trump the laws of physics. In terms of energy density, wind is essentially medieval. 3rd and 4th generation nuclear are likely to be the outright winners - and those that consume existing nuclear waste worthy of consideration. Without abundant and inexpensive energy, we are screwed. If only it were possible for a rational debate, not only on energy policy but on the wisdom of emissions targets in general. Nigel should ensure his sentiments are central pillars of the forthcoming Reform party manifesto. Come on Nigel, pay a visit to the Nat Grid centres that toil around the clock to keep the lights on. It might be quite illuminating...
Sweden is leading the way!
you are correct. The next year or two will define us. I believe We won't turn the climate lie around in time. We in the weast are SO SCREWED. 2 thumbs up for you.
If energy density is a problem, all we have to do is erect windmills on your nuclear exclusion zones. LOL. Energy density is moot when nuclear waste is spread the whole world over - and it is. Every corner of the earth is contaminated with nuclear waste now. You can have solar panels, windmills on land that grows crops. No waste from renewables.
@@markseehawer3762🎯
Now that was a critical thinkers comment 🧐👌 If only you were the Head of a Government Department🤕...😢
The big. Windmills have 10 tonne of copper wire in them,how many tonnes of copper ore
does it take to make that👍👍
how many tonnes of iron ore to make your car?
@@winstonwilliams4859 a lot less than a aircraft carrier...
@@winstonwilliams4859 The real greatest threat to the environment and the planet are the "renewable" energy infrastructures demanded by the climate alarmist lunatics. Let us assume they don’t want to destroy everyone’s but their own lifestyle. To accommodate personal transportation (electric cars etc.) you will need to double or treble current electrical generation. So let’s take the United States. Currently the USA has 58,000 wind turbines. In order to replace all the USA fossil fuel electric power generation and all personal and public transportation with wind generated power would take 14 million 1.8 MW wind turbines. What will this take to build??? Each turbine requires approximately 1,000 tons of steel, copper, rare earth elements and concrete offshore more. In addition a wind turbine is composed of several composite parts; but the blades are made of fibre-reinforced epoxy or unsaturated polyester and represent the largest use of material. Other turbine parts made of polyester include the nacelle (housing for the gearbox, generator, and other components) and the hub. Oops all these are hydrocarbons... So to build these wind turbines will need approximately 14 billion tons of materials. To produce this, new sources of raw materials will need to be found. How many new mines would be needed, the energy for mining, metal smelting and processing. Energy of excavating hundreds of billions of tons of rock and tens of billions of tons of over burden all of which would have to be handled and properly disposed of. This vast quantity of new materials will require vast amounts of new power to create, all of which will have to come from fossil fuels. Energy and materials will be required build the new factories necessary to manufacture all the parts for these turbines (not included above). Once assembled this vast array of new turbines would need to be transported and erected covering an area 10 times the size of Texas throughout the North American continent. Tens of thousands of miles of new access roads would also be needed along with a much expanded electrical grid with tens of thousands of miles of new electrical cables. Again energy and materials are not included above. Now multiply this for Australia, Europe. Africa, Asia and South America. Just to service the UK requires a doubling of current copper mining and smelting. How much fossil fuel energy and resources are required for the green revolution? Before you deploy enough you will need to start replacing this junk since, the realistic life 10 to 15 years (depending on quality of construction and the environment such as offshore near corrosive seawater). And about storage??
@@winstonwilliams4859 les then one windmill , dont forget one windmill requires tonnes of iron to build its tower dummy
Not much cars are mostly plastic now days @@winstonwilliams4859
Like EVs, take a pencil and a piece of paper , in an hour you could work these lunitic ideas out, and the answer is money in other peoples pockets.
Energy should be in public ownership as it was our forefathers that actually paid for the infrastructure that was sold off for peanuts and the greedy investors are making a killing out of it.
Agree
@TheRastler
Public ownership does not solve our energy shortage. The only difference will be that all construction, maintenance and production costs will be shouldered by taxpayers.
Nationalising existing energy production willll not magically produce more energy. Two weeks ago the UK's last remaining coal fired power station had to be brought on stream to cope with the surge in demand for electricity. What is needed (20 years too late ) is real investments in nuclear energy.
We are a poor country with an enormous financial offshoring industry and politicians hooked on spending like the big boys. They’ve pawned everything we owned to foreign interests and you have to wonder how many cash 'incentives' were involved.
CLIMATE CON:
UK is probably the leader in offshore wind and here are the major investors in the UK :-
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy SA, Iberdrola, Vestas Wind Systems AS, Xinjiang Goldwind Science Technology Co. Ltd, Ørsted As, SSE (I believe the only British developer) and E. ON SE., among others.
Hence you'll see only one British company. Most of the steel comes from China for transition pieces for e. g., thousands of tonnes assisted by China's coal-fired power plants (hundreds).
Yes, its created many jobs in the UK but profits return to country of origin. As you know the wind only blows 50% of the time so they're basically useless half of the year. I know this as I worked in the industry for 12 yrs. UK tax payer heavily funds this, hence additional taxes.
Air sourced heat pumps are also a racket…
Literally in some cases apparently.
The Green deal was a big Con too.
These companies jump on the band bandwagon till the money runs out , then the people are left to pay the price.
they are pushing it big time here in CANADA along with the carbon tax on fuel oil but our power bill goes up a lot so what is a person to do .
@@carmanmacbain5976 I used to own a holiday cottage Mont Tremblant, the winter temperatures there often go below minus 30 Celsius for 5 months a year. An air source heat pump extracts heat from the outside air and transfers it to the inside to provide heating and hot water and acts in reverse for cooling purposes. When there are temperatures below zero the system efficiency drops, there are efficiency tables for each machine on the market. There is a limit to how low a temperature the units will operate, which I am certain is minus 25c. So having lived in your beautiful country for 10 years, and paid hydro, which is far from cheap, I would most certainly never install air sourced pumps. I would however install an array of solar panels to give around 8kW of power. Then I would operate an inverter which sources it’s power directly off the solar panels, rather than batteries and a charger to operate baseboard heaters.
Go farmers , without you, we have no food
I’m glad the truth is coming out regarding wind and solar, heat pumps, electric vehicles
I just hope these MPs who pushed and implemented these policies get exposed and held to account
It’s all about control same with what these politicians are doing to the farmers
Years ago flying in to Scotland I was shocked by the number of wind machines. Made me think then what's Nicolas sturgeon making out of this ?
Idiot comment of the week
Nothing she sold them all off for a pittance probably to pay for her embassy's and her mansion in Portugal.
Governments trying to achieve a fairy tale based on a fairy tale!!
Complete with GT goblin.
I've been saying that wind and solar are a complete waste of time for year's.
Why use unworkable ideas when nuclear has been proven and rolls Royce are making smr's (small modular reactors) that can power up to a million homes each, be built in 4 years and produce hydrogen gas in off peak time. And provide cheap consistent energy. Continuing to Go down the wind and solar route is utter madness.
"It's free, it's free" he said to Nigel.
Not for us it's not and it never will be, neither will it ever be cheaper for us that any other way of powering our homes. When they said to us it is cheaper they made us think they meant for everyone, but they meant it was cheaper for them.
it was and is just a big con
Back in the 1970s,I worked on the Thames Barrier Project. What an oversight that they never considered building turbines to generate hydro electricity into the doors.. They could have had a hydroelectric plant generating electricity right in the centre of London..where they need the power.
Dont be so sensible its not the modern way of thinking
Yeah a good idea but not for our 171 millionaires and billionaires and trillionaires.....
Wind energy is not , green , a wind turbine never returns the energy it took to make it in the first place
Apparently Ireland is building gas power stations at this very moment because they realised not too long ago that green was not able to support the demand even in summertime.
Until we have a cicctim that hold polotichions and advisors accountable thay will continue linking there pockets at our expense
Government tells us of the need for an increasing number of houses being necessary for housing an increasing population. Each semi produces nearly 20tons of CO2 in production of bricks, concrete etc and its use in constructing the house. Add to that the fact that the land it occupys is now not available for plants to absorb the CO2 (and produce O2). Plants can produce food, hence the country produces less of the food it needs to feed everyone. Add to that the same situation happens when green fields are covered with solar panels. Less plants to use CO2 and produce O2 and food. They also do not absorb the sun's heat, it simply heats up the atmosphere.
Governments tend to have very few real scientists and they bend to the whims of vociferous vested interests
Fact is CO2 to is not the problem. I refer you to Lord Moncktons 2022 Lecture at Oxford University, Then there is Sir patrick Moores interveiw He.s a marine bioligest from Canada former Green peace co founder. These guys know the Facts and come with prof. you will be enlightened by both men.
Too many people causes all these problems.
Get off of the issue of CO2 - it is totally irrelevant to climate.
A couple of weeks ago when it was 38 below for 2 weeks, Alberta which has a huge oil and gas reserve, was getting zero electricity from solar. 7% from wind. They were running out of electricty. Accordingi to the Premier they we’re 4 kilowatts from having brown outs. Hospitals would have brown outs. Everywhere would have them. Ridiculous.
Does not all the offshore rent for turbines go to the crown estate? No wonder the Royals are big promoters of wind energy.
Yes they lease the seabed (typically for 25 years) up to 12 nautical miles from land to the developers. New projects are moving further off shore, so the Crown Estate will receive nothing from those further off shore projects.
The Royal family do not own or benefit from the Crown Estate.
The SNP have sold off the leases to their largest offshore wind farms to foreign-owned utility companies. The revenue was supposed to be a replacement to oil income. Not sure the SNP would contribute to the Royal estate to the tune of - I believe - £700 million. Worth researching….
The Royals are afflicted with the Climate Delusion and the Energy Transition Delusion.
The royals are WEF puppets.
I wish GB News would have a climate hour. We really could change the game. 3.20 on Saturday afternoon we do get a short debate with the fantastic Paul Burgess. But we could do with a lot more.
Not sure GB News is on board for real climate issues they seem to be following the Government & main stream thinking on this (Not all of them to be honest)
The biggest factor is that you have to have a back-up source running all the time, because wind is inconsistent! Those back-up sources have to be consistent reliable sources, such as nuclear, hydro, or more likely fossil fuel plants! Then there is the subsidies that taxpayers are paying for these wind farms that are not productive!
So after a grid emergency in NZ the other day the energy minister conducted an investigation. Concluded that on a still dark night, the windfarms stopped working and that solar farms dont work at night. Thank goodness for experts to work that out. I can sleep easier tonight...
The Biggest Worry IS..........That Global Temps Drop back to what we had During .....The Little Ice Age........History Tells Us that........The Roman Warm Period The Cold Dark Ages, The Medieval Warm Period The Little Ice Age.........We are now in The Modern Warm Period ..........WHAT FOLLOWS THIS IS........another Cold Period.........Millions Died during The Little Ice Age
Spot on & at present we are currently in a warm period of a cold cycle in the planets hot and cold cycles, this sounds daft but it's true.
this needs to be exposed.
The politicians saw the climate crisis is a vote winning opportunity and felt they could pretend they were saving the world.
They felt that wind was the best to be visible to all and vote winning .
However wind needed subsidy which the politicians gave and without public debate charged us for this subsidy .
It is obvious that when there is no wind our lights would go out or a back up source of electricity is needed.
This is mainly provided by gas powered power stations which stand idle when there is plenty of wind.
This adds up to a high cost for electricity making many industries un competitive in our country.
China uses mainly coal for electricity generation which is the cheapest and hence they have most industries thriving and we do not.
Now we are heading to poverty as a result and our expensive public services are failing.
We look to politicians to reverse this and find they are hiding behind vague promises.
Anyone with half a brain could see that wind and solar energy alone would not be enough to keep the heating and lights on in the UK.
Here in the US, Washington state, my power company, FOREIGN OWNED!, charges us a "fee" to pay windpower companies to NOT provide any power!
Same here in the uk. We get taxed 25% green tax
Just imagine the bonfire that could be caused by a battery the size of Surry.
Thank God for Men Like Nigel.
Yet another reason to move away from EV's. More pressure on our energy grid and all our eggs in one basket. Synthetic fuel is the way forward.
Yep. A racket from day one. Just go follow the money.
Wish I could have Nigel’s laugh as my phones ring tone he’s a total legend
There are plenty of free apps and websites that will make an mp3 out of a youtube video. Also free apps and websites that will trim the mp3 so you have just the laugh (I use Audacity). Give it a try if you have a spare hour or so, you'll be the envy of your friends 😄.
I suspect off shore wind farms are having an effect on estuaries and coast lines being an angler I notice changes?
Hinkley C is going to kills hundreds of thousands of fish as it sucks up water to keep it cool. Despite stating they would install a fish deterrent, EDF have now reneged and couldn't care less about destroying sealife in the Bristol Channel - far more than and wind farms!!!
Totally agree. Them turbines send down vibrations that effect water life .
At least Nigel is on it. As an engineer the complexities and cost of wind power, not to mention maintenance make them non-viable. Focus on nuclear, times awaisting....
Wind turbines require diesel generators to keep them warm in winter 🖕
The UK adds 1% of CO2. Big deal! I heard that wind turbines are driven at times by back-up diesel generators, to keep them turning. Is this crazy?
Not quite. They do use power for control though.
@@Trevor_Austin does that Power come from diesel generators?
Diesel gen sets are normally installed during construction, so that the WTG can be tested & commissioned. They are not part of the normal design & operation of current OWF turbine designs.
The cost of running the diesel generator is less than the wind companies get paid per kWh, so they make money even when the wind isn't blowing...
Throughout all these green energy implementations much, much money is being bled from the tax payer into pockets of the wealthy, in my opinion...FOLLOW THE MONEY.
There was something in last few days about Amazon buying a large proportion of the power taken from a large new offshore wind farm to meet their ESG/Net Zero targets, so perhaps we shouldn’t talk about how many homes it could supply but more how many fulfilment centres (internationally) it will supply. As the unions pointed out, corporations are selling capacity to other corporations for facilities subsidised by the UK taxpayers but built by others, not creating the large number of jobs promised.
Thank you for speaking up. I hope more will have the courage to fight against this very bad id. So good to see you in the fight Nigel Farage. Eva
Considering the fact that average wind turbine output is only 3MWatts it will therefore require over 600 turbines to replace one 2000MWatt coal/oil fired PStn. We have or in progress of destroyed or shut down all but Drax, West Burton and Ratcliffe P. Stns, approx eight stations over recent yrs equivalent to approx 16,000MW thus requiring over 4800 wind turbines give or take a few ! Even when they are generating they are costing us 15% on top of our bills, the wind is free why aren’t our bills reduced by 15% tell me ? Any one got the guts to challenge China and India etc, not in the West anyway ?
South Africa has a shortage because of bad management and corruption
I live in the US. My elderly patents still live in the UK. When I call them I see them sitting in their living room with their coats on. They simple cannot afford to heat their house. It breaks my heart.
january 2022 my combined gas electricity was £56 a month its now £133 a month and im a 80 yo pensioner living on my own so its breaking me as i am disabled
The UK population has been deeply betrayed by its politicians, media and civil service in terms of British energy generation and security of grid supply.
And nobody talks about the ENOURMOS amounts of concrete needed to build these parks. And the huge blades, made from plastics that can't be recycled and releases bisphenol among others into the air and into the oceans.
UK is a legacy victim of the EU common energy policy where one form of energy is not allowed to compete with another, like Common Agriculture and Fishing.
You guy's should harness all the hot air coming out of Parliament!
If the state of Arizona cant make solar pay we at 51.5 N shouldn't even try.
intermittency means we are not only paying for the wind to be built, we are paying for the back up for when the wind does not produce, meaning we are effectively paying for two grids.... is there any wonder why or costs are double that of the US
Even Google says it takes 20 years to reach break even and no one talks about that in The Congress in Washington DC
As a French person I've paid my fair share of nuclear power investment. Electricity should be free by now!
China emits 52% of the worlds CO2 and they have authorised the building of another 655 coal fired power stations. The UK only emits 1%, so whatever we reduce will be more than offset by China and that is without India's increase in coal fired power stations. As for battery storage, if the worlds largest battery manufacture produced batteries for 500 years, those batteries would run the USA for only one day and the UK would need batteries to covers days or possibly weeks when high pressure is stuck over us.
Battery back up = toxic materials, massive investment, de-commisioning problem - not enough landfill for all the turbines & how does one de-commision masses of toxic batteries.
What hope can there be for the UK when the Royal Highness has long been a green religious fanatic?
Haven't seen a windmill on top of Buck House.
They are off shore on Crown Estate
You know the Royal Family owns uranium rights? No? Well you don't know a lot about this, then.
Why aren't we going down the tidal route? It safe for at 100 years so it gives time to find other real green energy?
Another cost that was not talked about was maintenance costs. As you may have seen what happens when a bearing collapses or overheat, they catch fire. Another thing I heard is, they need some outside energy to get the turbine blades turning as the wind itself will not have the capacity itself to do so.
Ha ha, we may not be the Saudi Arabia of wind energy production, but Westminster is certainly the World Leader in hot air production, in my opinion.
Saudi of wind ? Parliament?
Soon we won't be able to eat baked beans.
The national grid was set up for large power stations so the transmission power lines will need to be built.
Green!! You need to go see how blades are made. So many single shot processes that process so much waste.
I praticed homesteading in the US for several years. I have found that the reason renewables worked on a micro-level was due to the homesteaders themselves. THEY ALWAYS engaged in energy-saving practices from top to bottom. AND, they were ALWAYS looking for more ways to reduce the load.
The general population has been found to behave opposite. The GP was found to INCREASE their usage because the energy was 'free.'
We as a country find ourselves in a not particularly healthy state, we unfortunately will have Labour as our next rulers (it’s no longer government)
One of their policies has been £28 billion a year on green projects, yes I know they are toning it down but think of the good £28 billion spent in the right areas (health,law enforcement etc) could have done.
I hate to think of the waste of our money we face under them, life isn’t going to get any better.
Look at the battery farms we are building. Costing trillions countrywide. Private firms build and own the turbines they will be connected through battery farms which in turn are privately built and owned. The turbines make a profit then the battery firms make a profit and then we pay a fortune with no alternative when the bills go up extortionately. The spare wind elec is only due to. The fossil fuel power we still have, Without wind we would have only 2% of our elec from. Wind. So we still have to keep gas and develop more nuclear to survive ,let alone extend our elec production by 4 times Where is that coming from ??
I lived on a farm with no mains electricity, I built a wind turbine with battery storage, could only have a few very dim lights in the house and a TV. Had two back up generators to charge the batteries and provide the power for a washing machine, when the wind was blowing to hard the turbine shut down in order to protect itself and when there was to little wind it stopped as well or produced hardly any power. For any thing else on the farm there was a big diesel generator, real crazy thing was using all the power from that unit the electricity was costing half what the mains would have if we had it.
No daily standing charge...
@@Ironic1950 The standing charge is relatively inconsequential in the overall scheme of things, and I do not know why they still keep it. But taking in the capital cost depreciation, maintenance and fuel costs the electrical power from the generator was was just under half the cost of grid power, in winter it was even better as the waste heat from the generator heated the workshop. We had a quote from the power company for a three phase connection in 1989 for over twenty seven thousand pounds so we went with the generator which coast about five thousand back then and it was still going strong twenty years later when I left the farm.
When they installed wind turbines in the Columbia River Gorge between Orygun and Washington (a visual blight) my electric bills through Portland General Electric DOUBLED!! And, yes, like Nigel said, we pay for the turbines when they are not generating electricity with either too little or too much wind.
PGE walked away from their nuclear plant, Trojan, that produced electricity with near zero CO2, and was running at 90+% capacity factor because of so called “green’ objectors like Lloyd Marbet. The plant needed $120M worth of replacement steam generators, and the excuse was that it was too expensive to refurbish. Meanwhile the new Vogtle nuclear plants in Georgia cost more than $15 Billion dollars each to construct. Sadly, Trojan is no more…it was raised to the ground.
...and good riddance. Every reactor is an in-place dirty bomb. We can't have nuclear power plants and cruise missiles in the same world. Much less the idiots that run them.
What's more, and not discussed, is that the wind turbines take energy from the wind, therefore affecting the efficiency of the wind on the rest of the climate. Remember, energy is not created or lost, it just might change its form.
UK wind power isnt anything near 40%, it is 15% of all power consumed and 29.4% of electrical power generated. One must be crystal clear on this fact as many netzeros are going to tell you all you need is wind power -You'd have to increase it by 6x AND provide massive batteries beyond anything rational to attempt.
Irony is wind turbines need to be set up on oil drilling platforms to power the drills required to supply the oil they require to operate after all the fossil fuels that go into producing them. How many wind turbines are needed to power the refineries and moulding mills for the metal components?
Large scale solar and wind energy production cause far more problems than it solves.
I have never heard how much it cost to manufacture and install a wind turbine. I assume it is not cheap and do not expect it could ever pay itself off before it is worn out.
What is the amount of fossil fuel energy to produce one windturbine?