A prominent physicist has warned that the UK is facing the likelihood of a failure in the electricity supply and calls for a reset of national energy policy.
Professor Wade Allison, of the University of Oxford, says that the government is ignoring overwhelming evidence of the inadequacy of wind power and resorting to bluster rather than reasoned analysis. [emphasis, links added]
Professor Allison says:
“Whichever way you look at it, wind power is inadequate. It is intermittent and unreliable; it is exposed and vulnerable; it is weak with a short lifespan.”
Professor Allison’s warning is set out in a short paper entitled The Inadequacy of Wind Power (pdf), published today by the Global Warming Policy Foundation.
About the author
Wade Allison is an Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Keble College. In addition to teaching mathematics and physics at Oxford and researching at CERN, he is also deeply involved in medical physics and the biological effects of radiation, on which he has published three books: Fundamental Physics for Probing and Imaging (OUP, 2006), Radiation and Reason (2009) and Nuclear is for Life (2015). He is the Honorary Secretary of the Supporters Of Nuclear Energy (SONE), which was started by Bernard Ingham and others. He is a member of the International Scientists for Accurate Radiation Information (SARI).
Many years ago, Road and Track ran a back page picture of two cars. One was a world champion Porsche 917 and the other was a Skoda. The caption under the Porsche was Capitalism, under the Skoda, Communism. That’s the difference between generating stations and wind turbines. So why do we get wind turbines and China gets generating stations?
“Whichever way you look at it, wind power is inadequate. It is intermittent and unreliable; it is exposed and vulnerable; it is weak with a short lifespan.”
Well, other than that, Wind Power is just AWESOME! Just kidding. Anyone with half a brain (which seems to exclude most politicians these days) knows that wind turbines can never power a modern society. It is too intermittent, too low in density, and too short-lived before they must be replaced. If those who claim to want to reduced CO2 emissions but won’t talk about nuclear they are lying.
Birds, Bats and Wind Turbines don’t mix but the Eco-Freaks support
them because their lost in Fools Land