Still unmoving windmill 'no-electricity' generators

Good further critique of the EU's insane energy policies in the Irish Independent today, given extra spice by the resignation of two top knockers at the world's biggest wind generator maker, combined with huge losses, read here, from which comes this:

Frau Merkel has announced that Germany is going to phase out nuclear power, simply because of the Japanese tsunami. Well, that is like basing water-collection policies in Rhineland-Westphalia on the monsoon cycle of Borneo. As I was saying last week, the Germans have a powerfully emotional attachment to everything that is "green", and an energy policy based on renewables will usually win German hearts. But it will not protect the owners of those hearts from frostbite and death due to exposure, for wind can often be not so much a Renewable as an Unusable, and also an Unpredictable, an Unstorable, and -- normally when it's very cold -- an Unmovable.
The seriousness of this is hard to exaggerate. The temperature in the Baltic countries last weekend was -33 degrees Celsius. The Eurasian landmass from Calais to Naples to Siberia was an icefield in which hundreds of millions of people were trapped. Without coal, oil and nuclear energy, mass deaths of the old and the young would have occurred on the first night. Three nights on of such conditions, and even the physically fit would have been dying of exposure, as the temperature inside dwellings fell and began to match that of the outside, an inverse image of what happened during the French heatwave 10 years ago, when there was no escape from the heat.

The corrupt rip-off that is wind power generation

The blog Autonomous Mind has been posting on the sordid story of electricity not being provided by the huge wind turbines, now to be found throughout the EU, for some time now.

Yesterday around mid-afternoon he posted the following paragraph in a longer item:

As of 3.30pm this afternoon, with the temperature around the country varying between 2 degrees and 6 degrees celsius and most people at home using power to stay warm, those wind turbines were delivering less than 11% of of their stated capacity, contributing a mere 1.3% of the UK's energy supply.

This afternoon the situation has worsened as you may read here, the huge investment spent on wind power, as this blog has always maintained is producing virtually nothing and British consumers must rely on seconadary generation capacity which wind power will always require. The chart showing this disgrace, taken from the linked blog is here:

Our money blown in the wind.  I trust Sir John Chilcot is presently comfortable in his retirement, but for how much longer should he be?

Snow menace from wind turbines - Sir John Chilcot

Where will the electricity for Sir John Chilcot's Sunday Roast be produced?

204 Tory MPs support expensively useless wind turbines

Former senior civil servant Sir John Chilcot, GCB, PC, took employment from a foreign-owned supplier of wind turbines to Britain. Last week as the country froze, locked within the grip of a static winter high pressure area, they largely stood idle or used precious electricity to run turning gear designed to prevent them from freezing up.

Incredibly the Sunday Telegraph this morning informs us that only 101 out of a total of 305 Conservative MPs have signed a letter to their party leader David Cameron, demanding (more likely grovellingly pleading) that further public subsidies for the useless environment destroying monstrosities should be halted, read here.

When will the government follow the precedent established for Sir Fred Goodwin and remove the knighthood from Chilcot, as a fitting and cautionary example to the rest of the civil service, pending a possible trial,and halt further EU ordered development of costly wind electricity generation?

Knights for the knackers.

Yesterday's decision, by a Committee apparently including several senior civil servants, represents the chance for Britain to finally shake off some of the sickness deeply embedded in its society and system of governance.

This blog has for some time been calling for the bringing to account of certain of the most outrageous examples of the deep corruption at the top of our civil service. Of course matters cannot be left to rest with those individuals alone, but it is an ideal place for the next steps to be taken after the shredding of Sir Fred Goodwin, upon which I commented yesterday.

Two candidates for immediate consideration for having their knighthood's removed already selected by this blog for earlier consideration are Sir John Cunliffe, here and here, and Sir John Chilcot the first of many posts on whom is here.  A third individual may be a better first case, however, in view of the appalling mess that has been allowed to develop at the Ministry of Defence, where waste and inefficiency and over-staffing is endemic. I do not know the individual(s) concerned but Dr Liam Fox probably has a good grasp of those facts. The deaths of how many servicemen and women might have been saved had the mandarins in charge of the MOD over recent years, either had ability or a shred of managerial ability let alone decency and a normally developed conscience?

In considering Sir John Cunliffe, the case for which has been considerably strengthened since the EU Council meeting in Brussels this Monday, I recommend reading this posting from Kosmopolito titled Cameron's diplomatic failure on his treacherous performance in Brussels, from which I quote this passage in particular:

Cameron’s misjudgment

Both, Die Welt and The Economist have similar stories about what exactly happened during the summit. It turns out that Cameron misjudged the mood among fellow leaders during the summit.  Cameron thought that the ‘Protocol 12′ solution was the preferred method for the eurozone – giving him leverage through a unanimous decision-making procedure. Bagehot thinks Cameron overplayed his hand, others said he lost his gamble (or verzockt as Udo van Kampen called it on German TV)   However, if he had listened to what politicians, diplomats and media commentators  in Germany or France said during the last weeks he should have known better. Plus  he had no allies, hence his isolation was not a surprise. Simply put, Cameron is not in the loop, maybe because he pulled out of the EPP… In any case,  his advisors should be sacked.
Cameron is not a diplomat and I am not sure he actually enjoys summits. Deep in his heart he is a eurosceptic (although the UK government has followed a pragmatic EU policy) but he comes across as arrogant and bossy. Especially during the eurozone crisis a sense of schadenfreude dominated the UK’s rhethoric.  The UK’s bilateral relations with EU member states have not been sufficiently developed. Cameron is like a robot in this respect. Whatever the issue somewhere in Europe he starts his monologue about British interests and why the EU is such a bad idea. This is hardly a good starting point for a constructive debate. Moreover, it seems difficult for him to build personal relationships with other European leaders – a necessity to win an argument at a summit.

Here lies the clue to another new dawn that has arrived today, as Alistair Darling's strident protests on the Radio 4 Today make clear that he has fully grasped, that being that after the smarmy, slimy, self-satisfied and thoroughly disgusting senior civil servants have their worst examples shorn of their honours, as night follows day so must go their ill-gotten gains and following that come the real villains, who should have been in charge of these opportunistic incompetents, the politicians themselves!

More Ironies Too posts on Britain's corrupt civil service are here.

Now it is Civil Service Corruption exposed!

Sir John Chilcot has been profiteering from the installation of useless and foreign wind farms according to The Sunday Times, linked here. Normally such news might pass unnoticed with so many anonymous knights in the so-called civil service, but due to the televised Iraq war inquiry under the control of this piece of filth, who according to the linked article made no declaration of his interests, the true nature of this oleaginous, ineffective drip will be familiar to much of the nation. It would seem timely to remind my readers of what this blog had to say about dodgy knights several times in May last year, linked here, from which I quote:

Knighthoods become badges of shame in Brown's Britain

Twice this month I have found myself commenting on this blog how the title "Sir" before a name in a newspaper report nowadays increasingly foretells the reporting of some form of skulduggery in one form or another. Know a Knight - Watch your Wallet! posted by Martin at 7:50 AM