They lie with every statistic they can get away with.
They always quote "rated power". That is like me saying that my car is rated at 120mph therefore I can carry out a 120 mile journey in one hour. Not going to happen. In the case of a wind turbine rated at 40MW you would be luck to get 10MW out of it over the year.
Using that "rated power" they will convert that to "houses" conveniently forgetting that those houses will also be associated with cars that are not included in the calculation.
When we hear what percentage of the grid is from "renewables" many factors are omitted. All non-electrical energy is forgotten so cars will not factor in to anyone's calculations.
The other forgotten factor is that, certainly in the UK, "renewables" are given priority over all other sources. It is like being forced to get all your food from a burger stand if one is available. Other sources of food need to be on standby 24/7/365, at their own expense, just in case the supply of burgers runs out.
Then there is the "finite resource" issue. Fossil fuels might run out, they say, well so might nickel, cobalt, neodymium etc required for "renewables".
Again in the UK, "renewables" energy has a guaranteed customer: the taxpayer. If the burger stand turns up at 2am with a supply of burgers then the government guarantees to buy them all even if no customers turn up.
They lie with every statistic they can get away with.
They always quote "rated power". That is like me saying that my car is rated at 120mph therefore I can carry out a 120 mile journey in one hour. Not going to happen. In the case of a wind turbine rated at 40MW you would be luck to get 10MW out of it over the year.
Using that "rated power" they will convert that to "houses" conveniently forgetting that those houses will also be associated with cars that are not included in the calculation.
When we hear what percentage of the grid is from "renewables" many factors are omitted. All non-electrical energy is forgotten so cars will not factor in to anyone's calculations.
The other forgotten factor is that, certainly in the UK, "renewables" are given priority over all other sources. It is like being forced to get all your food from a burger stand if one is available. Other sources of food need to be on standby 24/7/365, at their own expense, just in case the supply of burgers runs out.
Then there is the "finite resource" issue. Fossil fuels might run out, they say, well so might nickel, cobalt, neodymium etc required for "renewables".
Again in the UK, "renewables" energy has a guaranteed customer: the taxpayer. If the burger stand turns up at 2am with a supply of burgers then the government guarantees to buy them all even if no customers turn up.
</rant> Yes, thank-you, I do feel better now!