Now you see it……
By Mike Cunningham On August 5th, 2012… and then you don’t.
Watched the EDF advert on the box? All about how EDF is supplying Low-Carbon Electricity to all the Olympic Games sites and Activities? Just another Corporate blurb about how aware they are about the things which they believe we should be concerned about.
But if you gaze very very carefully at the base of the screen, in very small print, you will in fact see those who actually pay for the advert telling you the truth; which of course is that all the Electricity supplied to the Games actually comes courtesy of the National Grid, and not the silly, stupid, over-priced and underperforming wind turbines that they refer to as the so-called Low Carbon Electricity in their lying bloody adverts.
Hey Cunningham,
(WHY does that name ring a bell in my genetic Afro/Geordie consciousness?
My father’s people came from Jarrow, but I thought all his neighbourhood had been pulled down….
I have 15 solar panels on my roof, Last quarter I pulled in £430. I should recoup the cost of installation in 8 years and the panels have an anticipated and guaranteed financial life of 25 years.
I will be dead in max 15 years, what’s not for my (step)grandkids to like??What’s really wrong about wind turbines?
You WANT radioactivity??!
the silly, stupid, over-priced and underperforming wind turbines
Yes, much better to rely on the Russians for our gas and the Chinese to build our nuclear reactors. What could go wrong?
Well they are half right. Those “silly, stupid, over-priced and underperforming wind turbines” that generate the Low Carbon Electricity is then put into the National Grid. So when the electricity comes through your mains you can’t tell if it was generated from wind farms or from coal mines.
I am reminded of a Naval Whimsy which goes:-
Agit@,
Long, long ago, We lived in Jarrow, in a pub down a way from the Mercantile Drydock!
Ring any bells?
Don’t know about the Afro bit.
My Da told me at one time they lived in Jervis Street and another one nearby. He was one of ten kids. They played on slag heaps, got up to all sorts of mischief, and he told us about a couple of Irish brothers who were the only kids in the street who had football boots..
When they played fitba, these lads would stamp all over the naked feet of the other lads.
My Da ended up having a fight with the eldest of these brothers. Now did he say their name was Cunningham, or is that wishful thinking on my part?
Did you ever hear of “Bombaters” or “Green Peas or Barley” or was it before your time?
As adults they used to frequent The Clock pub/hotel in Jarrow High Street.
It was a long time ago. My dear old Da was born in 1909…
You’ll have to ask O’Dwyer about the African bit.
He’s the expert…
Yeah
Wind power so far uses more coal generated electricity to maintain the idle equipment than it produces it’s the ultimate scam
I don’t buy into the Gaia Worship Cult either.
But EDF or Electricty de France (as I understand it) generates it’s power from mostly nuclear sources. So when they say Super Low Low Crapbon then it’s probably right.
Yes you take a unit of power from the Grid and they put a unit of their low crapbon leccy into the grid.
It so happens that I am in the process of transferring from Eon to EDF. Was it the Blue Energy promise that made me switch? Nope. It was firstly the cost, second the cost and third…the cost.
Eco Crucifix’s (Windy Trubbines) do make some energy, they make my blood boil. The Earls Farm wind farm has been built utterly ruining the environment near my holiday place. Despite near universal local opposition the Gov decided that in a poor area the peasantries views just don’t count – Nice.
I hope the Anti Green version of Al Quaeda blows them sky high! And soon! 110m high twice the height of Nelsons column they are an eyesore. Off Clacton there’s loads of these useless things. Doesn’t Essex have enough already?