Dr. Benny Peiser at The Australian: Europe pulls the plug on its green future
Slowly but gradually, Europe is awakening to a green energy crisis, an economic and political debacle that is entirely self-inflicted.
The mainstream media, which used to encourage the renewables push enthusiastically, is beginning to sober up too. With more and more cracks beginning to appear, many newspapers are returning to their proper role as the fourth estate, exposing the pitfalls of Europe’s green-energy gamble and opening their pages for thorough analysis and debate. Today, European media is full of news and commentary about the problems of an ill-conceived strategy that is becoming increasingly shaky and divisive.
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As country after country abandons, curtails or reneges on once-generous support for renewable energy, Europe is beginning to realise that its green energy strategy is dying on the vine. Green dreams are giving way to hard economic realities.
From: The Australian http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/health-science/europe-pulls-the-plug-on-its-green-future/story-e6frg8y6-1226694405337
also here: http://www.thegwpf.org/benny-peiser-europe-pulls-plug-green-future/
(Note: for the pirates of pendant – image updated to show EU style plug – Anthony)
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Y’all are dangerously ignorant of the point.
Solar and wind and biomass are RENEWABLE (meaning made from pixy dust and good intentions) and are vital in the war to save the planet from high standards of living and functioning brains.
In all seriousness, I have some investment advice. Buy shares in oil companies, chicken farms, rope maufacturers, and mines of element 82. All of these items will surely see explosive growth in demand.
If you haven’t done it yet …and if you are into trading stocks start shorting enviro stocks in Europe and the USA over the next year as they disintegrate. This dance is over but the music just hasn’t been shut off yet. BBC pension investments and others that placed large bets on enviro stocks are screwed.
Looks like a pair of ‘pins’ (EU/UK/??) and not ‘blades’ (as used in the USA) guys.
Plug body also looks oversize (to better protect EU/UK fingers from 220V AC Mains voltage?); not right for our continent either. There are standards that more than likely govern this too, link.
USA two-blade plug also has one blade wider than the other (making them what is called “polarized” with the wider pin the neutral connection); another incongruity.
And – our (US) “NEMA 1” two-blade plugs normally have a hole at the far end of each blade – missing in the photo above as well.
The verdict: a two-pin, non-USA plug …
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John Arthur says: August 9, 2013 at 10:58 am “The plug looks pretty much like a Schuko plug, pretty much universal as a 3-pin plug in Europe. Except the UK of course as we here know better.”
Yep. CEE 7/16, 7/17, 7/5, 7/4 Schuko
As I have been commenting here and there for some time, the Invisible Hand ensures that you will pay the real price. For everything.
@Brian H,
As the saying goes, the Invisible Hand has brass nuckles.
A good example of why govts should be the court of last , not first, resort to solve a problem.
1) Govts listen to voters, who can easily be swayed by such things as “An Inconvenient Truth”
2) Govts are composed of second-rate lawyers and backslappers
3) Govts never look to see if the problem actually exists – as long a the voters are convinced there is a problem, then why should they fight the tide convincing them otherwise and getting un-elected as a result?
4) Rush, rush,rush to pass some legislation that they can point to come election day, regardless of how stupid it might be. The voters will never know.
5) By the time everything comes apart, I’ll be on Miami Beach , sipping mint juleps and banking my
Congressional pension checks. Life is good and high electric bills are no problem for me.
I cannot speak for the rest of Europe, but the green energy enthusiasts in the UK definitely took this pill – there is no other explanation for their incredible stupidity.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/z9pD_UK6vGU
Treasure trove of NEMA – North American two and three prong plug pictures/images (I will cease and desist on this aspect after this post, I promise):
Google Link.
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Rob Dawg says:
August 9, 2013 at 10:15 am
You’re a little more than a month early.
And it was all completely, absolutely, patently, perfectly, 100% predictable. Only those who had willfully untethered themselves from reality could not have seen this coming.
Gene Selkov says:
August 9, 2013 at 9:48 am
The plug on the picture is American, though 🙂
In fact, if you look close, it is definitely not American. The prongs are cylindrical rather than flat, which appears in many European and East European outlets, but not in the US. See Glover’s Pocket Reference (4th ed.) pages 176-177.
@ur momisugly arthur4563 says:
August 9, 2013 at 11:39 am
5) By the time everything comes apart, I’ll be on Miami Beach , sipping mint juleps and banking my
Congressional pension checks. Life is good and high electric bills are no problem for me.
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Florida is a concealed carry state, with stand your ground laws. That congress critter should think again about retiring there. 😉
About the plug
Who said it is an electric plug in the first place?
Pirates of pedant. Moi? By the way the euro plug shown is not like the one we use in Britain
Tonyb
Note: for the pirates of pendant – image updated to show EU style plug – Anthony
But, but, but…the hand in the image appears to be that of a right-handed white male.
Sexist, racist and sinistrophobic all-in-one. /s
REPLY: Do I need to call in an air strike on pirates? -A
The parrot on my shoulder keeps squawking “typo typo”.
“Pirates of Pedant
Oops, missed a “… that was a typo.
A very very expensive “I told you so”. Do you think an apology or an “Oops, did we ever mess up” is coming?
Nope, didn’t think ss either. Just a very heavy sigh on my part when I think of all my wated breath trying to discuss the greenie’s vision with a greenie. To repeat a previous comment – to think of what all that money could have done instead of lining a few pockets.
JB Goode says:
August 9, 2013 at 11:59 am
About the plug
Who said it is an electric plug in the first place?
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Butt plug? Nah…. well maybe, depending on how you may look at it.
It is ironic that the LAST people who should be trying solar are the northern Europeans. There simply is no sun there, or only a bit in summer, if they are lucky. I’m convinced it would work in the sub-tropics and tropics and the Sahara for example. This is where they should be investing Solar. Imaging a solar roof anywhere in Brazil for example, they would not need any outside energy source for the whole year. Ironically they have heaps of hydroelectric power too!
“Slowly but gradually” was a poor start. It should have been “Slowly but inexorably” or something like that. (The rest was fine.)
Now the next round of scammers will come up with the idea to form corporations to recycle the component parts of wind turbines and solar panels. The governments could pay them money to clean up the ‘visual blights’ on the landscape. And the money goes round and round…
If you need any photos faking up ..then nip over to ask SkS I believe they are expert at photoshopping stuff
I have a different take on all this
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All the other online dictionaries had basically the same meanings given. But where I grew up “giving someone the bum’s rush” also meant
3. buffaloing people into believing something and going along with it right away (and getting their money in many cases) out of sheer force of will, and before the people had a chance to think about it.
I am growing into an understanding that the warmists knew they only had a limited amount of time to get everyone on board, before two things happened:
With A., they needed to be able to declare, “SEE? Our solutions are working!”
With B., the needed to GET the money and programs in place and hope that policymakers would say, “Well, we’ve already put so much money into it already, so we should see it through.”
HTF they expected for people to keep going on such an expensive, no-result policy until 2100 no one will ever know.
But also, even with the 2. definition of “bum’s rush” given above, that is EXACTLY what they did with anyone who disagreed with them, to try to hustle us out of the auditorium before people could hear what we had to say. And after they tossed us unceremoniously out in the alley, they would go back to the podium and character assassinate us and our message.
p.s. —– I would also add a sincere THANK YOU to the Mr Deep Throat of CLIMATEGATE, for his waking people up and getting people to consider that maybe “Hide the decline” and “Mike’s NATURE trick” meant they were being given the bum’s rush. People began to question, and we could not be where we are without Climategate.
November 19th, 2009, a date which will live in infamy – among the warmists!