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Renewables Catastrophically Expensive
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You can either have common sense or communist sense,
but you can not have both.
And the latter was created to eradicate the first,
and that’s why all its modern branches and manifestations, be it feminism, hippies,DEI or energy have an inverted Midas effect,
by turning everything they touch into shit.
February 18, 2026 2:13 am
Electricity Prices Decreased In South Australia Because Of Clean Renewables
In this statement, we can see fossil fuel prices can fluctuate greatly which financially stresses consumers. Also, fossil fuels are sometimes tied to overly aggressive leaders who try to manipulate other countries, threaten them or in some cases even invade them by starting wars. They are called ‘petro dictators’ and their aggression sometimes injures and kills people in senseless wars. There are obviously huge costs associated with their corrupt conduct.
Why do you think that prices are any sort of guide to costs? What drives cost is the various inputs to production. How much it costs to get dispatchable electricity supply delivered to where demand is.
What determines price is nowadays mainly regulation.
As an example: suppose that LPG for cars costs more at retail than diesel. Does this mean that LPG is higher cost to produce and deliver? No, it just means taxation is charged differentially. If the taxation is reversed, LPG now becomes cheaper at retail. Does this means it costs less to produce and deliver? Of course not!
You want to know whether wind generated electricity is lower cost than gas generated, you have to look not at what either is selling for in the present environment with renewables obligations, contracts for difference and other forms of subsidy. You have to look at what it costs to deliver dispatchable electricity to the point of demand for each of the methods. That is the only correct way of comparing them.
The UK recently started to tax some foods by sugar content. Did that mean that the cost of producing the identical bottle of coke in the same way delivered to the same stores had risen?
What rubbish. South Australia has the highest domestic power costs in all of Australia, and it is entirely dependent on transmission lines to other Australian states for power continuity, as the state is a net energy importer – it cannot generate sufficient power itself. Also South Australia occasionally uses diesel generators to supply extra power when its wind turbines fail to generate sufficient power, as they often do.
February 18, 2026 2:30 am
Everything is going up – save for prosperity, that is – costs, emissions, the alarm rate, and anything else you can think of.
Having prayed mightily and consulted the holy modelled scriptures, and the sacred attributions…
Ed Miliband has approved 157 new solar farms and 28 onshore wind projects, which are expected to cover an area of farmland nearly the size of Manchester; oh and four experimental tidal schemes totalling 21 megawatts. . Not only, but also; another crack at a failed and inequitable idea.
Miliband pledges up to £1bn for community green energy schemes
The UK government is pledging to spend up to £1bn on community-owned green energy schemes in an effort to combat growing scepticism and resistance to renewables and grid upgrade projects.
Ed Miliband, the UK energy secretary, said the new funding was intended to help democratise the energy system. – Guardian
If it’s anywhere, it’ll be places like the wealthy, leafy peoples’ republic of Islington.
…every time a politician commits £1 billion to something, it costs on average £35 per household. If there was such a thing as a “community” worthy of the term, surely the least that it would have within its means is to raise its own funds. What is a “community” if it is not defined by its capacity to act in such a way? Furthermore, what is a “community” if the £35 is to be taken as tax from households, to be given to the “community”? – DS
Mad Ed has managed to make wealth trickle up.
