[1] Walter H. Schneider

‎”The days of permanently available electricity may be coming to an end, the head of the power network said yesterday.”
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[2] Telegraph e-paper

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[3] Walter H. Schneider Oops, should have stated that the power network of concern is that of the U.K. and that the routine and frequent outages are to be expected because of the vagaries of the weather. In other words, the availability of electric power in the U.K. is blowing in the wind.

Let there be no mistake that what is being shoved down people’s throat is nothing less than a planned, deliberate downgrading of living standards in the U.K. to make them comparable to those in under-developed nations.  Only in under-developed nations is it to be expected that the availability of electric power is unreliable, at best.We had that sort of standard in Germany, after WWII, when electric power and city gas were routinely available only for about a couple of hours a day, at noon and at around 6 pm.In the U.K. now, the lowering of the standard of service for electric power is the result of a deliberate policy to increase wind-power generation, rather than to use thermal power plants with their constant, reliable availability of generating capacity.

Only in the U.K., far from here and not a problem where we live, you think?  Well, think again!

You have not been paying attention:  Have you not seen ENMAX’s full page ads in the local papers?  Related ads by ENMAX have been shown on the local TV channels.  I have even been inundated with those ads when using google.  Have a [4] look and see what those ads show!

“Welcome to the age of the low-carbon diet” my foot!  Only someone who wishes to have his standard of living lowered to that of an under-developed nation would welcome such a diet.  To promote such a thing and even have it supported and enforced through taxpayer-funded subsidies and government policies is insanity at its worst.

This insane policy is not only being promoted by ENMAX.  [5] All of the energy industry is in cahoots on this, and our governments are happy to help them along with that.  You wonder what is in it for the governments?

It is a fallacy to believe the hype that wind power is cheap.  The truth is that it is very expensive, in addition to making the power grid unstable and unreliable.  The more we try to increase wind power generating capacity, the more will the costs of electricity to the consumers go through the roof.  Increased electricity costs will bring increased tax revenues for the governments.  We are being fleeced!  Any consumer who buys into this wind power insanity is having the wool pulled over his eyes, to boot.

Last Tuesday was a very cold day, and [6] the total wind power generated on that day in Alberta was between one and two Mega Watt, between one and two one-hundreds of one percent of the total electric power generated in Alberta.

Yesterday, around supper time, wind-power generated in Alberta was ZERO Watt.  You can [7] check at any time what it is.  That web page is updated every two minutes.  Right now, Mar 05, 2011 09:44, it tells me that 31MW of wind-power are being generated.  That amounts to four tenth of one percent of all electric power being generated in Alberta, while 572MW or 6.5 per cent of the total consumption in Alberta are being imported from B.C. and Saskatchewan.