This is a devastating coup de grace for Miliband’s Net Zero dream and his Mission Impossible to 95% decarbonise the grid by 2030 by vastly expanding offshore and onshore wind generation capacity.
We need to go back to source, ‘The First Global Revolution’ to find the cause:
“The need for enemies seems to be a common historical factor. States have striven to overcome domestic failure and internal contradictions by designating external enemies. The scapegoat practice is as old as mankind itself. When things become too difficult at home, divert attention by adventure abroad. Bring the divided nation together to face an outside enemy, either a real one or else one invented for the purpose.
With the disappearance of the traditional enemy, the temptation is to designate as scapegoat religious or ethnic minorities whose differences are disturbing.
Can we live without enemies? Every state has been so used to classifying its neighbours as friend or foe that the sudden absence of traditional adversaries has left governments and public opinion with a great void. New enemies, therefore, have to be identified, new strategies imagined, new weapons devised.
THE COMMON ENEMY OF HUMANITY Is MAN
In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. In their totality and in their interactions these phenomena do constitute a common threat which demands the solidarity of all peoples. But in designating them as the enemy, we fall into the trap about which we have already warned, namely mistaking symptoms for causes. All these dangers are caused by human intervention and it is only through changed attitudes and behaviour that they can be overcome. The real enemy, then, is humanity itself.”
Fascinating connection and analysis, Jaime! Just a tentative thought, but wind speed have a correlation to increased sky albumation (persistent contrail formation) and humidity over industrialized western nations in the 2000’s? Seems one climate ‘solution’ may be adversely impacting another? Oh, the irony!
It seems to me that the huge financial management corps like Blackrock, Vanguard etc will be finding themselves in something of a cleft stick. They love the easy taxpayer-funded premiums and guaranteed returns of the endless "renewables" gravy train; they also will have bought into the whole AI thing as a sure bet due to its promised ubiquity in every aspect of our miserable proletarian lives.
However, they will now be realising that the huge amount of power-hungry datacentres their investment requires to pay good ROI will hasten the terminal crash of a national grid based on their first big investment vehicle. Something's got to give.
It's infinitely 'renewable' - except when it isn't, and you have to carefully locate wind turbines so they don't interfere with one another and prevent turbines down wind from other turbines extracting the maximum energy from the wind. Hence many thousands of acres needed for these useless eyesores and the bigger they get, the further they have to be placed apart.
Around the Western world, subsidised and mandated wind and solar power have been displacing conventional power in the electricity supply. Consequently, most of the grids in the west are moving towards a tipping point where the lights will flicker at nights when the wind is low. This is a “frog in the saucepan” effect and it only starts to worry people when it is too late. Too late for Britain and Germany certainly.
Consider the ABC of intermittent energy generation.
A. Input to the grid must continuously match the demand.
B. The continuity of RE is broken on nights with little or no wind.
C. There is no feasible or affordable large-scale storage to bridge the gaps.
Therefore, the green transition is impossible with current storage technology.
The rate of progress towards the tipping point will accelerate as demand is swelled by AI and electrification at large.
In Australia, the transition to unreliable wind and solar power has just hit the wall, while Britain and Germany have passed the tipping point and entered a “red zone,” keeping the lights on precariously with imports and deindustrialization to reduce demand.
The meteorologists never issued wind drought warnings and the irresponsible authorities never checked the wind supply! They even missed the Dunkelflautes that must have been known to mariners and millers for centuries!
There is an urgent need to find out why the meteorologists failed to warn us about wind droughts and why energy planners didn’t check. Imagine embarking on a major irrigation project without forensic investigation of the water supply including historical rainfall figures.
And I agree, there's no way that they didn't already know this. They have the data you're citing.
When you consider these people are claiming to predict global weather patterns centuries in the future -- using one year's worth of data in an attempt to influence energy production capabilities by wind is insane.
What It is, is The Science™️ making predictions that benefit whoever is paying them. It's just garbage in garbage out.
Have they never heard of El Nino or La Nina? Those patterns occur over more than a decade -- and have massive effects on wind patterns.
I know this and I'm not a climate scientist.
I can't believe that anyone believes in the Climate Change, Green Religion nonsense at all anymore.
We need to go back to source, ‘The First Global Revolution’ to find the cause:
“The need for enemies seems to be a common historical factor. States have striven to overcome domestic failure and internal contradictions by designating external enemies. The scapegoat practice is as old as mankind itself. When things become too difficult at home, divert attention by adventure abroad. Bring the divided nation together to face an outside enemy, either a real one or else one invented for the purpose.
With the disappearance of the traditional enemy, the temptation is to designate as scapegoat religious or ethnic minorities whose differences are disturbing.
Can we live without enemies? Every state has been so used to classifying its neighbours as friend or foe that the sudden absence of traditional adversaries has left governments and public opinion with a great void. New enemies, therefore, have to be identified, new strategies imagined, new weapons devised.
THE COMMON ENEMY OF HUMANITY Is MAN
In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. In their totality and in their interactions these phenomena do constitute a common threat which demands the solidarity of all peoples. But in designating them as the enemy, we fall into the trap about which we have already warned, namely mistaking symptoms for causes. All these dangers are caused by human intervention and it is only through changed attitudes and behaviour that they can be overcome. The real enemy, then, is humanity itself.”
Fascinating connection and analysis, Jaime! Just a tentative thought, but wind speed have a correlation to increased sky albumation (persistent contrail formation) and humidity over industrialized western nations in the 2000’s? Seems one climate ‘solution’ may be adversely impacting another? Oh, the irony!
It seems to me that the huge financial management corps like Blackrock, Vanguard etc will be finding themselves in something of a cleft stick. They love the easy taxpayer-funded premiums and guaranteed returns of the endless "renewables" gravy train; they also will have bought into the whole AI thing as a sure bet due to its promised ubiquity in every aspect of our miserable proletarian lives.
However, they will now be realising that the huge amount of power-hungry datacentres their investment requires to pay good ROI will hasten the terminal crash of a national grid based on their first big investment vehicle. Something's got to give.
Odd that all hype about glowball worming is about increased storms and hurricanes etc. when the actual effect appears to be lower wind energy.
Just possibly the models might be incorrect, which suggests that maybe some other model results might also be inaccurate.
I don't suppose it has occurred to all those wind turbine engineers that if you extract energy it has to be replaced before you can use it again...
It's infinitely 'renewable' - except when it isn't, and you have to carefully locate wind turbines so they don't interfere with one another and prevent turbines down wind from other turbines extracting the maximum energy from the wind. Hence many thousands of acres needed for these useless eyesores and the bigger they get, the further they have to be placed apart.
So they say...
A warning from The Energy Realists of Australia
Around the Western world, subsidised and mandated wind and solar power have been displacing conventional power in the electricity supply. Consequently, most of the grids in the west are moving towards a tipping point where the lights will flicker at nights when the wind is low. This is a “frog in the saucepan” effect and it only starts to worry people when it is too late. Too late for Britain and Germany certainly.
https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/07/11/approaching-the-tipping-point/
Consider the ABC of intermittent energy generation.
A. Input to the grid must continuously match the demand.
B. The continuity of RE is broken on nights with little or no wind.
C. There is no feasible or affordable large-scale storage to bridge the gaps.
Therefore, the green transition is impossible with current storage technology.
The rate of progress towards the tipping point will accelerate as demand is swelled by AI and electrification at large.
In Australia, the transition to unreliable wind and solar power has just hit the wall, while Britain and Germany have passed the tipping point and entered a “red zone,” keeping the lights on precariously with imports and deindustrialization to reduce demand.
The meteorologists never issued wind drought warnings and the irresponsible authorities never checked the wind supply! They even missed the Dunkelflautes that must have been known to mariners and millers for centuries!
https://www.flickerpower.com/images/The_endless_wind_drought_crippling_renewables___The_Spectator_Australia.pdf
There is an urgent need to find out why the meteorologists failed to warn us about wind droughts and why energy planners didn’t check. Imagine embarking on a major irrigation project without forensic investigation of the water supply including historical rainfall figures.
https://quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/climate-change/no-gusts-no-glory/
SERIES OF BRIEFING NOTES FROM THE ENERGY REALISTS OF AUSTRALIA
https://www.flickerpower.com/index.php/search/categories/general/list-of-briefing-notes
That's a great find!
And I agree, there's no way that they didn't already know this. They have the data you're citing.
When you consider these people are claiming to predict global weather patterns centuries in the future -- using one year's worth of data in an attempt to influence energy production capabilities by wind is insane.
What It is, is The Science™️ making predictions that benefit whoever is paying them. It's just garbage in garbage out.
Have they never heard of El Nino or La Nina? Those patterns occur over more than a decade -- and have massive effects on wind patterns.
I know this and I'm not a climate scientist.
I can't believe that anyone believes in the Climate Change, Green Religion nonsense at all anymore.
Insane and reckless indeed. I regard him as the most dangerous person in the UK just not. Unfortunately, there are plenty like him in Parliament.