Wasteful Wind Power – Audit Needed

Media Statement by Viv Forbes, Chairman, The Carbon Sense Coalition. The Carbon Sense Coalition today called for an end to all government promotion, mandates and subsidies for wind power. The Chairman of Carbon Sense, Mr Viv Forbes, said that wind power was costly and unreliable with no environmental or climate benefits and should not be propped up by tax payers or electricity consumers. "Canada has audited its green energy policies. Australia should do the same."

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When the wind blows strongly all over the wind farm, the grid may not be able to cope with the surge in supply so some turbines may be paid to close down, producing no electricity. And on those rare occasions when a steady wind in the right place produces just the right amount of power to supply the demand at that time, the backup generators produce no useful power but waste fuel to maintain "spinning reserve" or to ramp up and down when the wind fluctuates. Now we find that wind power probably increases the production of carbon dioxide (not that this matters). One question. Why not scrap the wind turbines and produce a steady supply of low cost power from the backup generators?

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Wind Madness "In a sane world, no one would dream of building power sources whose cost is 22 times greater than that of vastly more efficient competitors. But the Government feels compelled to do just this because it sees it as the only way to meet our commitment to the EU that within nine years Britain must generate nearly a third of its electricity from “renewable” sources, six times more than we do at present. Madness is far too polite a word." Wind Power in the Netherlands – "Irresponsible". The wind projects do not fulfill 'sustainable' objectives. They cost more fuel than they save and they cause no CO2 saving, in the contrary they increase our environmental 'foot print'. A decision to invest Billions (thousands of millions) of Euros in the construction of wind projects 'to save fossil fuel and to reduce CO2 emission' is irresponsible. There are no savings, THERE IS LOSS! Why Wind Won't Work There is no justification for continuing the complex network of subsidies, mandates and tax breaks that currently underpin construction of wind farms in Australia. If wind power is sustainable it will be developed without these financial crutches. Canada's Auditor General Investigates Green Energy. So should Australia "The (Green Energy) Act has been promoted as a mechanism for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, increasing job opportunities, and creating a competitive business environment. However the Auditor General’s investigators found little evidence that these objectives have been or would be realized. Instead it suggests that the escalating electricity costs resulting from the addition of solar and wind power to the grid with their extravagant feed-in-tariffs are having the opposite effect"

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