It’s a Happy Christmas From Me, And a Happy Christmas From Her
December 25, 2021
By Paul Homewood
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“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert”. – J Robert Oppenheimer.
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Merry Christmas Paul.
D@$&%$£!!!!
Hotscot
She should have pointy goblin ears a la Gringots bank ^.^
Merry Christmas Paul and you have surely earned it sir!
Merry Christmas Paul, keep up the good work.
Greta the Grim!
Merry Christmas Paul
Stockholm is suffering the effects of global warming again:
The dog’s demeanour says it all.
Only just picked myself up off the floor after watching that…..Excellent find.
Merry Xmas and your work helps keep the balance and provides a platform to hear other peoples view as well as allow great discussion.
My New Years wish remains a major grid collapse to wake people up out of their slumber although im sure when people realise their gas bill is doubling that will cause some outrage about why we aren’t still getting our own gas out of teh N.Sea.
I’ll drink to that.
It isn’t just the gas bill doubling but the electricity one as well given the dominance of gas fuelled generation. The price cap being reset every 3 months will bring it home. I hope when the energy company bosses met Kwasi Modo they took along a mirror so they could show him where the source of the problems lies.
Great name – Kwasi Modo!! I knew it rang a bell….
Happy Christmas and a Happy New Year to all!!
(BTW: I realise that Greta Thunberg is an anagram of ‘Thag Nutberger’ (Look up Thag/Gary Larson and Thag)
Merry Christmas tp Paul and all his supporters! keep up the good work.
Happy Christmas, Paul.
KBO!!
Excellent, many thanks Paul. Wishing you and yours a very happy Christmas and hopely a sensible New Year!
Merry Christmas to you and yours Paul. 🎅🏻
Happy christmas all!
Thanks Paull for all your hard work!
My favorite source of info!
Great video to forward to friends and family on Christmas day ! Thanks for your time and efforts on this site over the year Paul.
Merry Christmas Paul. It’s great that your eminent epistles are getting much wider circulation, from the once ‘blue rinsers’ (now Tory pit bulls) at Conservative Woman to the great and the good at Watts Up With That. I hope Anthony has you guesting on a ‘commission’ basis as your posts seem to have provided him with a lot of copy of late and I can’t seem to find a link to your blog listed anywhere on his sidebar. Bah humbug! Keep up the great work.
Happy Christmas Paul – and all your related Homewoods’ out there.And thanks for all your hard work this year.
Every year I circulate a newsletter to all my relatives and friends. It’s usually about 5-6 pages long and featured prominently are links to your work. I don’t know how many actually read it. Judging from my, usual, lack of feedback, not very many! It’s all about the current situation on ‘climate change’ and associated subjects – and warnings about what the authorities have planned for us all..
Season’s greetings to all my fellow commenters.
Seasons Greetings Paul and Family – please keep up the good work. Just watched guest on GB News claimg that current useage is sixty percent renewables – not contested by Benny Picer also guesting. Check shows figure is correct but for electricity only. Can any of our posters tell me where I can find real time total energy consumption (expressed in consistent units)? Thanks.
As usual you post a negative comment, what are you really doing on this blog Vernon??
Dung: please tell me that proposing that CCGT power plants should be adapted for dual fuel use to protect supplies of domestic gas is negative.
Vernon,
using percentage is not realy a good indication of the effectiveness of otherwise of renewables.
Renewables always give their maximum available and when demand is low, as it is now (And as it was in twenty twenty) it flatters renewables as the dispatchable generation is down (manly gas with some coal). When demand rises again to more average figures then the percentage of renewables drops off again. (Also remember that renewables includes biomass which is pretty consistent and currently is about 8% of grid supply)
Irrespective of renewable portion of grid supply, it does not mean that it is a good way to power the grid, it is not.
As for other energy quantities I canot help you, although roughly heating energy is about four times the size of electrical energy at peak use.
Gridwatch.templar.co.uk
Watch in real time, download all data on 5 min interval
Thinking Scientist: thank you but sorry Gridwatch only refers to electricity data. My request for help remains open. Is there a real time total energy breakdown?
“Is there a real time total energy [supply] breakdown?”
Moment to moment? I doubt it. But renewables hardly count at all in non-electric energy supply; so why ‘add apples and oranges’?
Except, of course, that the average true believer probably thinks electricity is ‘most’ of energy use. It would sink their little illusions if they understood that, at some times, less than 1% of the UK’s energy is coming from that free [sic] wind and sun.
Dave: Correct, there doesn’t seem to be a real time total energy usage. But there is enough to confirm that in kWh domestic energy useage is about 4/5 ths gas. Therefore the 60% renewables claim made yesterday (when a brisk south easter was blowing) should be 12%. Thus making “Net zero” even more of a fantasy than I, for one, had realised.
Belated happy Christmas to Paul and everyone, and here’s hoping for some common sense to invade our overlords for 2022.
Vernon, for UK gas usage this site might be of interest?
https://mip-prd-web.azurewebsites.net/
Thanks so much Mr Home wood!
Just so interesting, perceptive and useful.
What a workload but the results fully justify it.
The little Greta should have been portrayed as a puppet with strings attached. Or as a ventriloquist’s doll. After all, that’s what she is. No scientific background. Just a big mouth speaking what she has been told to say, and complain.
Thanks Paul, another year of great work.
Merry Christmas all
I am always amused by the stupidity of people over christmas trees. Do not they not understand that growing christmas trees is a business? And that every cut tree is replaced by a new one planted? If that didn’t happen there would be no business. I can attest to this process as I visited a christmas tree producer a couple of years back. He also grows cricket bat willows. Tell me which is better – an artificial tree or a real tree that provides employment for people throughout the year?
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to Paul and all commenters.
Merry Christmas, Paul – and a happy new year to you, and many thanks for your work which has been a real education for me.
In fact I have been a “free rider” for well over a decade, and feeling guilty about that, I wanted to put something in the tip jar, but was unable to, and told you so. However, you never replied; I suppose you have security concerns. Well, if you change your mind, let me know. Meanwhile, again, many thanks for your valuable and educative work, and best wishes for 2022.
Regards,
Bob Aldridge.
Hear, hear!!