What Milibrain's superdense walnut of a brain fails to comprehend is the fundamental difference between the way that fossil fuel derived energy is collected and delivered vs. the way that 'renewable' energy is. Fossil fuels must be located, extracted, refined if necessary and then delivered to generating stations where they are combusted to release their stored chemical energy. This prospecting, extraction, processing, delivery, consumption chain creates many high quality, high paid jobs and those jobs are mostly permanent - at least for as long as the extraction and consumption of the fuels goes on. Renewables are a totally different ball game. Wind turbines and solar panels are essentially passive collectors of low density, widely dispersed environmental energy. Once set up and in operation, they create very few real jobs - except for the sheep munching the poor quality grass between the solar panels that is! The only real jobs are in construction and they don't offer permanent employment.
We face an utterly absurd situation: forget 'jobs', the Net Zero policy means the UK is legally obliged to pursue an unachievable, disastrous and pointless policy – a policy that would probably result in Britain’s economic destruction.
The interview where Milibrain fails live on air to grasp the concept that increasing the tax on something will increase its price tells us all we need to know about his reasoning abilities.
All he could do was repeat back his mantra that 'the market sets the price', which is probably written in crayon next to colourful doodles of wind turbines in his ministerial red box.
If going green creates jobs, then isn't this claim just an admission that green energy is less efficient (in terms of labour inputs) than non-green energy sources?
Could we perhaps create thousands of green agricultural labouring jobs by banning farm machinery? Or cancel AI and employ thousands to do whatever AI does?
He is exactly of the same ilk as those soviet russian agricultural and industrial ministers of the 1930s who , if left to their own daft devices , would cause mass starvation and tens of millions of deaths .
In the States there is a brilliant question which an incompetent government cannot hide from: Are you better off than you were four years ago? No amount of BS can hide the current government from that question. That is why Biden/Harris lost the election. Is the UK better off after years of Millibrand?
What Milibrain's superdense walnut of a brain fails to comprehend is the fundamental difference between the way that fossil fuel derived energy is collected and delivered vs. the way that 'renewable' energy is. Fossil fuels must be located, extracted, refined if necessary and then delivered to generating stations where they are combusted to release their stored chemical energy. This prospecting, extraction, processing, delivery, consumption chain creates many high quality, high paid jobs and those jobs are mostly permanent - at least for as long as the extraction and consumption of the fuels goes on. Renewables are a totally different ball game. Wind turbines and solar panels are essentially passive collectors of low density, widely dispersed environmental energy. Once set up and in operation, they create very few real jobs - except for the sheep munching the poor quality grass between the solar panels that is! The only real jobs are in construction and they don't offer permanent employment.
We face an utterly absurd situation: forget 'jobs', the Net Zero policy means the UK is legally obliged to pursue an unachievable, disastrous and pointless policy – a policy that would probably result in Britain’s economic destruction.
The interview where Milibrain fails live on air to grasp the concept that increasing the tax on something will increase its price tells us all we need to know about his reasoning abilities.
All he could do was repeat back his mantra that 'the market sets the price', which is probably written in crayon next to colourful doodles of wind turbines in his ministerial red box.
Miliband - a metric unit of idiocy
The Net Zero cult has to defeat Physics before victory can be claimed for Net Zero.
If going green creates jobs, then isn't this claim just an admission that green energy is less efficient (in terms of labour inputs) than non-green energy sources?
Could we perhaps create thousands of green agricultural labouring jobs by banning farm machinery? Or cancel AI and employ thousands to do whatever AI does?
He is exactly of the same ilk as those soviet russian agricultural and industrial ministers of the 1930s who , if left to their own daft devices , would cause mass starvation and tens of millions of deaths .
Ed 'Lysenko' Milibrain. Yep, it suits him.
Who would listen to that prick anyway.
He cannot even eat a bacon sandwich without looking like a fool
In the States there is a brilliant question which an incompetent government cannot hide from: Are you better off than you were four years ago? No amount of BS can hide the current government from that question. That is why Biden/Harris lost the election. Is the UK better off after years of Millibrand?
Needing more workers to produce less, as the 'green industry' is is economic madness.
It's a regression, taking away machines and reverting to manual labour would create more jobs but is self defeating as the cost rises.
As you say jobs are a cost.
For those that may not be sure about this https://media4.manhattan-institute.org/sites/default/files/R-0319-MM.pdf document presents the argument against wind and solar very well
Climate Skeptic a great idea your Lordship and others.
Look forward to a home for all things climateish.