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Carbon Capture Scam Does Not Even Offset Its Own Emissions
From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
h/t Paul Weldon
Read the full story here.
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https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/05/17/carbon-capture-scam-does-not-even-offset-its-own-emissions/
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AFD party in Germany probably won’t be banned after all as report asking for it appears to be deeply flawed
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/05/16/spy-agency-report-on-the-alleged-extremism-of-afd-turns-out-to-be-so-stupid-that-it-destroys-all-momentum-for-banning-the-party/
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Unfortunately the full article from the Daily Sceptic is paywalled but this segment of an article by Ben Pile on a solar farm in Suffolk, gives a good idea of the utter stupidity of solar farms in the UK.
“Using Google Maps, it is possible to calculate the size of these two plants. The solar farm occupies an area of 366,678 square metres. The ‘B’ part of the Sizewell site (including the visitor centre and car parks but excluding the older, ‘A’ site) occupies roughly 233,082 m2. In other words, the nuclear plant is about two thirds the size of the solar farm.
The nameplate capacity of the solar farm is 19.525 megawatts (MW). But because of the unfortunate rotation and seasonal tilting of the Earth, this is very far from the farm’s output. According to renewable energy generating data, the farm’s output has deteriorated since its installation in 2013. In 2014, it achieved 11.3% of its capacity. But the average for three years to 2024 is just 8.6%, meaning that it provides an average of 14,778 megawatt hours (MWh) of power to the grid per year.
By stark contrast, the nuclear plant has a gross capacity of 1,250 MW. And it achieves well in excess of 80% capacity on a yearly basis. In 2022, it supplied 10,357 GWh to the grid – 700 times as much as the physically larger solar farm.
Talk of megawatts and square miles often yields little but glazed eyes. Whereas a pint of milk or a kilo (or perhaps a pound) of spuds are familiar to us all, quantities of energy, especially electricity, are difficult to comprehend. But perhaps the above picture helps to explain what we critics of Net Zero have been trying to say.
If the solar farm were to be expanded so that it could provide the same annual output as the nuclear power station – i.e., by 700 times its current size – it would have a footprint of 257 km² or nearly 100 square miles.”
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An article on the problems caused by solar and wind farms
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-climate-scaremongers-milliband/
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