Wasphead Overview

This diagram compacts, in one, the facets that the Wasphead offers in terms of renewable energies - the captions may be on the small side but it is hoped much will be self-explanatory.

Your Tax Is Gone With The Wind

Sometime back I estimated the mutiple by which wind farm energy costs are greater than clean gas was 15 - a recent estimate by Christopher Booker was 22. This stagering difference becomes exagerated when one thinks that the proliferation of wind turbine emplacement will need to be covered by a new generation of clean gas, oil or nuclear power stations.
What worries me is that the Government is on a 'kudos' trip. The recent 'scrappage' of cars and purchase of newer more efficient ones through grants to wit. Did anyone ever relate the expectant life of the cars being scrapped and the fuel they would use in that life with the formidable expenditure of energy spent on producing the new car?
In this way,  through the offices of Ed Milliband, past minister for Energy and now his replacement, Chris Huhne we are tied into a spending spree which officially is around £200 billion but which in the nature of such estimates, conveniently tight for public consumption, will, by the time span to 2020, become at least half a trillion pounds.