The facts about wind power are more awkward than Obama would admit – Booker
Posted: November 21, 2016 Filed under: Empirical Evidence, Fact Check, Failed Green Schemes, Government Grants/Funding, Green Energy, Obama, Renewables, Wind Farms | Tags: Energy Poverty, Obama, Obamaclimate, Subsidies, unreliables, wind, Wind Energy, wind energy scam, wind power Leave a comment“Unreliable” energy update…
By Paul Homewood
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/19/the-facts-about-wind-power-are-more-awkward-than-obama-would-adm/
A timely article from Booker today, which picks up on two of my recent posts:
I must apologise for having last week mistakenly reported that, despite the drive of the US in the Obama years to build ever more heavily subsidised wind and solar farms, the entire contribution of wind and solar to US electricity consumption is still only “less than 14 percent”.
Foolishly, I cited that figure only after a quick internet trawl. where it is quoted on various websites, including Wikipedia. Only when I subsequently referred to a more reliable source did I find that the figure was in fact absurdly exaggerated. All the US was actually getting last year for all the billions of dollars it has spent on wind and solar farms was just 5.4 percent of its electricity. Most of the rest of course came from those CO2-emitting…
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