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Oct 31, 2018 at 9:38 AM | Entropic man
If you want to play Trump Card Climate Science, Trump is winning, because Climate Science has run out of cards to play.

Pcar, Michael hart
Forgive my pedantry, but it was a grammar school. I taught mainly biology, but found myself teaching physics, chemistry, geology, astronomy and anything else they threw at me. This gives me a broad knowledge base.
What qualifies you to pontificate here, on such a broad range of subjects?

Oct 31, 2018 at 8:13 AM | Supertroll
With acknowledgements due to John Steinbeck (plough-pushing dirt grubbers) "view-blighting money pumps"?
I am NOT against Unreliable power generation. The biggest problem with Unreliable power, is the one the "Renewables" industry uses PR spin to avoid mentioning, hoping no one will notice.

Gwen. How about "view blighters" as an alternative for your money pumps?

Stewqreen
Thanks for the links, I must have phrased the question in a way that gave the usual reports on fatalities.

The Dutch Wikipedia entry on windmills has been assembled with a wry sense of humour, including a picture of Spanish windmills "of the type contemplated and mistaken for giants [and tilted at] by Don Quixote", and one in Jerusalem that "has never worked, because of insufficient wind". They have an endless classification of different types.

@michael hart, Oct 30, 2018 at 11:23 PM
Good post
@EM a retired "science" "high school*" teacher - thus a know something, but not enough to be a Physics, Chemistry or Biology teacher
Says it all.
Seems my "science" qualifications are superior to EM's.
* high school not Grammar school.

You might think that having been afforded sanctuary in the UK from persecution in her homeland of Uganda this might have encouraged the left wing journalist Yasmin Alibhai Brown to express a little gratitude to Britain and the generosity of British people. Far from it. Instead she gives every impression of harbouring a deep dislike for a section of (white) British society and yet she is afforded various media bully pulpits to expound her grievance mongery. In true fake news media fashion, she even won the Columnist of the Year Broadsheet at the 2016 British Press Awards.In this article, we examine her poisonous pedigree and asks the question; just what is her problem with Britain?...
This white hating refugee is regularly paid by taxpayer-funded BBC to spew her racist marxist bile on TV & Radio. Anyone surprised, angered?

The Grantham Institute has managed to report honestly about the Paris Agreement Targets. No one cares
http://joannenova.com.au/2018/10/only-16-countries-are-even-aiming-to-reach-their-paris-targets/
This must represent one of the most expensive conclusions that one man has ever paid for, when the information was freely available in the media, and had been for almost 2 years.

Pcar,michael hart, golf charlie
Here's an example. Rather than making vague rude remarks about wind power, why are you not going to sources such as Lazard's Levelised Cost of Energy Analysis.
https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-2017/
Perhaps because it shows that in the US wind power can be cheaper than anything else. The only realistic competitors are utility scale solar and combined cycle gas.
In 2017 combied cycle gas came in at $42 to $78 per MWhr..
Utility solar PV came in at $43 to $53 .
Wind came in at $30 to $60.
The BEIS Electricity Generation Costs Report gives somewhat higher overall costs for the UK, but the same relationship. Onshore wind is cheapest with solar PV and combined cyclegas the only realistic competitors.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-electricity-generation-costs-november-2016