The Influential Committee On Climate Change,

calls on the Government to scale back plans to build thousands of turbines off the coast of Britain, by 2020, the UK will have to generate 30 per cent of its electricity from renewable sources, at huge cost 10,000 new turbines will be built at sea, to meet our European masters orders, (are we the only country to obey them?), by 2030 our masters are calling for 40 per cent of electricity to come from renewables, 40 per cent by nuclear power, 15 per cent from clean coal and gas and less than ten per cent from traditional gas, so sense at last as plans to build them are called into question,

then they go and spoil it all by adding, the report calls for hundreds more wind turbines to be built onshore at a lower cost over the next eight years, the Coalition is planning a massive expansion of wind farms to meet tough EU climate change targets, to meet those targets, the UK would need another 3,600 giant offshore wind turbines, each one capable of producing five megawatts, or enough power for 1,200 homes, another 11,000 turbines would be needed onshore, it estimates that meeting the 2020 renewable energy targets set by the EU will add £50 to the typical household’s electricity bill,

but wait a moment, the official figures quote 3,600 offshore wind turbines supplying power for 1,200 homes each, 4,320,000 homes, plus another,11,000 onshore, but there are 22,539,000 households in England and Wales, so we have at least twice the capcity from wind power alone, but what happens when there is no wind? build new power stations to make up the short fall, so spend twice the money at least just to keep the tree huggers happy!