Passing Wind

Terry McCrann gets it right on the nonsense thats wind power:

A company called Epuron yesterday announced a proposal to build Australia's largest wind farm, near Broken Hill deep in western NSW.

"We are proceeding with this project on the assumption that the state and federal governments will legislate in the interests of developing Australia's renewable energy industries, executive director of Epuron Martin Poole said yesterday.

Translated: wind power only 'works' if governments mandate power companies have to buy it and its price is made 'competitive' by artificially forcing up the price of good old coal power.

"This project alone could contribute 4.5 per cent of the total energy demands of NSW, supplying up to 400,000 homes with electricity," Poole went on.

That's, supplying those 400,000 homes with electricity around 30 per cent of the time over a year.

The other 70 per cent of the time, the power will have to come from conventional power stations.

Yep, you and me are going to have to pay through the roof to counter the dubious, hyped up threat of global warming. Can someone please tell me how many degrees warmer would we be if we just had a coal fired power station?