Thousands of Lights

Yesterday, we found out that the Government was pushing ahead with plans to quadtruple the number of wind farms in Britain over the next decade, in spite of criticism that they are inefficient, unreliable and uneconomical, and the fact that there are other, better sources of energy out there.

It seems the CBI agrees. Hence their statement today calling for "less emphasis" on wind farms and more effort put into "clean coal" and nuclear power. It goes as far as to attack the wind farm plans upon their key proposing argument, the ridiculous carbon emissions reduction target, saying that the "current approach means the UK might miss climate change targets".

Which is only logical when you consider how ridiculously unreliable wind power is in this country due simply to our wind patterns, meaning that the shortfall must be met by drawing on, shall we say, "more traditional" sources of energy, or thousands of lights will go out.

There is criticism that CBI's report is compromised because "the increase in wind power was threatening to the big power generators" who "dominated" the CBI's energy committee. But that doesn't make the CBI's arguments wrong, particularly when they are concurred with increasingly by report after report, and plain and simple experience.