Guido Catches Up With Gummer Fake News Scandal
By Paul Homewood
Guido readers will remember Lord Deben from the ongoing inquiry into his multiple conflicts of interests over £600,000 payments funnelled to his family business. The scandal-hit Climate Change Committee Chair has been dealt another blow with the BBC publicly admitting that he misled viewers of the Today Programme with his daft claim that there was a ban on onshore wind power. Which there isn’t. Obviously.
But the BBC Executive Complaints Unit made an embarrassing mistake themselves over Deben’s claim on the same programme that onshore wind was the cheapest form of generating electricity. They say that according to a BEIS formula, onshore wind is the cheapest form of electricity today. The actual government tables clearly show that gas turbines are cheaper. A pretty shoddy mistake to make after two rounds of BBC investigations…
https://order-order.com/2019/03/27/bbc-admits-scandal-hit-lord-deben-spread-fake-green-news/
Guido has picked up the fact that the BBC have finally got round to logging the error on their complaints website.
However, he could have been much faster off the mark, if he had been reading Notalot last October!
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Think you’re needed over there, Paul – to explain LCOE to some of the windies. 🙂
Shocking but not surprising.
If we had decent politicos in charge, the wretched BBC would be forced to abide by its Charter, but maybe they have been distracted by other very serious errors of policy, like the EU and everything to do with it and by adherence to crazy Greenery and PC deliberations.
Usually it is hydro, in the UK anyway, specifically Scotland, however that is because the UK has tapped every economic location already with government & private programs going back to Victorian times, worldwide same according to claims from renewable bodies at about 0.05cents per KWhr(3p). Onshore in the UK about 4p per KWhr, with Coal about 2.4p -4.5p. Solar is rather a huge joke in that it never pays itself off without subsidy- panels degrade within 20years(used to be 10) – worst case expect 75% of performance by year 10, batteries need replacing every 5, AC to DC converters will last as long as their cheapest Chinese component. or until the solder evaporates – while the instalation lasts gives about 7cents per KWhr (0.053p) however they never pay the intial £5000 home installation off without a tariff no matter how cheap the panels, the batteries and transformers & instalation are still expensive, and will fail at some point and unlike all the other methods of power generation, cannot work at night, under snow or when cloudy which is most of the time.
The BBC seem happy to put propaganda points before facts, and charge the public for the right to see/hear them.
gas turbines are cheaper
And available to operate on demand, unlike the wind power lottery.
How many know that, with only 1.3 % of global CO2 output (of which less than 5% is estimated to be manmade), UK could harmlessly abandon measures to decarbonise?
I think we’re now down to rather less than that. Figures of just 361 mtCO2 were recently trumpeted (almost exactly half of what it was in 1972 – 718mt CO2, while the global total was up 1.7% on 2017, to 34,012 mtCO2, so we’re at just 1.06% of the global total.
Charles, I would guess that the same people who know that decarbonising the UK would be pointless are the same people who understand that May’s WA is rubbish as well. Yet the MPs calling for a 2nd ref think the people who didn’t understand the difference between leave and remain are the same people who would understand the ramifications of the WA.
And God help us if they had a ref on decarbonisation!
“Over the last year, the media have published story after story after story about the declining price of solar panels and wind turbines.
People who read these stories are understandably left with the impression that the more solar and wind energy we produce, the lower electricity prices will become.
And yet that’s not what’s happening. In fact, it’s the opposite.”
gummer et famille, oh dear God. I long, the dogs of war their leashes strain to get stuck in……………….
and self censored.
I have just made the mistake of watching the fracking debate in Parliament. The Brexit debate convinced me that most MPs were barking mad but the fracking debate was even worse! I think the participants that I saw would find it hard to demonstrate a single live brain cell between them. Lord help us!
Doubtless the awful BBC will hype it up tomorrow.
I’ve just watched some of the fracking debate also, god help us, if only the engine of the economy could run on posturing.