The case for renewables, or more appropriately, against.

[woodburner]

Yep, abolish those as well.

[kenneal - lagger]

You may like wind turbines, but they come with overheads. From Euan Mearns, is this acceptable?

Is it fair for the chancellor to cut pensions for the poor while offering a million pounds a year to the Duke of Roxburghe for letting the wind blow? Is it fair to offer half a million to the Earl of Moray, a third of a million to the Earl of Glasgow, and a quarter of a million to the Duke of Beaufort, Sir Alastair Gordon Cumming and Sir Reginald Sheffield, the prime minister’s father-in-law? Is it fair to promise a reported £1bn to Charles Connell over the next 25 years?

Never in the history of public subsidy can so much have been paid by so many to so few…Simon Jenkins writing in The Guardian

Has anyone asked him if it's fair that we will all be paying double for our electricity in a few years to compensate EDF and the Chinese for providing us with nuclear powered electricity? How many billions will that be? And how many billions will we, sorry, our grandchildren, have to pay to decommission the b*****ds in 50 years time?

[woodburner]

So are you saying it is fair to pay the landed gentry while cutting pensions (and other welfare payments)?

[RenewableCandy]

The landed gentry as a concept is unfair, whether we pay them or not. So we might as well get them to do something useful, and if that involves a bit of bribery (less than is going to be paid for nuclear power) then so be it. The landed gentry merely sit on land: unlike the nuclear boys they don't cheerfully run the risk of obliterating it.

[odaeio]

Why'nt we put the nuke in the landed gentry's parlor? Maybe we won't have to pay the bribe for too long......

[kenneal - lagger]

SNP won't like that.