{"id":289005,"date":"2017-01-07T07:03:59","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T06:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/green-energy-is-a-fraud\/"},"modified":"2017-01-07T07:03:59","modified_gmt":"2017-01-07T06:03:59","slug":"green-energy-is-a-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/green-energy-is-a-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Energy Is a Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>When is the rest of the Western world going to catch up with Donald Trump and point out that the green emperor is wearing no clothes?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I ask as a concerned UK taxpayer absolutely sick to death of the vast sums of money that continue to be\u00a0funneled into the pockets of crooks, liars, spivs, chancers, con-artists and fantasists in the name of solving the non-existent problem of \u201cclimate change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Let me give you some examples of what I mean.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wales\u2019s\u00a0\u00a318 million\u00a0tidal energy flop<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If there\u2019s one thing, everyone who thinks of themselves as reasonable and well-informed knows, tidal power is the thing. How do they know this? Well, because they\u2019re aware that the wind and solar power have their flaws but their hearts tell them that renewable energy must be a good thing because it\u2019s clean and it\u2019s free so therefore they\u2019ve decided to pin their hopes on the technology whose crispness hasn\u2019t been tested yet \u2013 and that means tidal.<\/p>\n<p>Also, they\u2019ll have read thinly-disguised press releases\u00a0like this article\u00a0<strong><a class=\" x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-2718987\/First-scale-tidal-generator-Wales-unveiled-Deltastream-array-power-10-000-homes-using-ebb-flow-ocean.html\" rel=\"noopener\">First full-scale tidal generator in Wales unveiled: Deltastream array to power 10,000 homes using ebb and flow of the ocean<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and gone: \u201cWell they wouldn\u2019t print stuff like that unless it were true, would they?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But now, surprise surprise, this tidal project \u2013 subsidized\u00a0to the tune of \u00a38 million by the European Union, with another \u00a3500,000 from the Welsh government \u2013 is<a class=\" x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com\/2017\/01\/03\/18-million-tidal-energy-scheme-stops-working-after-three-months\/\" rel=\"noopener\"> lying in ruins<\/a> on the Pembrokeshire seabed because the company that ran it \u2013 Tidal Energy Ltd \u2013 has gone into administration. It failed after just three months of operation.<\/p>\n<p>This is a problem all too familiar with so many projects in the renewable energy sector: see also Solyndra and Abengoa, for example. Because the unreliable, expensive power they produce is not&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2017\/01\/no_author\/green-energy-fraud\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When is the rest of the Western world going to catch up with Donald Trump and point out that the green emperor is wearing no clothes? I ask as a concerned UK taxpayer absolutely sick to death of the vast sums of money that continue to be\u00a0funneled into the pockets of crooks, liars, spivs, chancers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-289005","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}