2025-05-08
That's on top of all the other billions of course. But we can't leave the Councils out of the psy-op can we, or people might begin to suspect the unsuspectable.
Besides, there's money to be made out of a good psy-op if you know how it's going to be played - those solar panels have to come from somewhere, and will make the providers very rich even as they may impoverish tax-paying punters who won't be too pleased when they discover how environmentally unclean these things really are, so best leave that bit unsaid.
Still, innovation is a 'good thing' right? So who better than Innovate UK (no, me neither) to fly the flag for solar, that isn't too bright in the winter when we really need it (the sun being less present on short days and much lower in the sky), but excels in the summer (pending the latest governmental brainwave) when by and large we don't.
Now each to their own and I wouldn't deny anybody's right to install solar panels on their property, but I don't consent to having to pay for their desire, nor to subsidise it even on reasonable grounds. But there are no reasonable grounds for subsidising solar when (a) it isn't green overall and (b) it's based on the entirely false premise that CO2 is a dreadful pollutant when (as I was taught in school) it is a key part of the Carbon Cycle and required for the growth of vegetation, without which we really would all die of starvation.
But you can read how the government is using the UK Research and Innovation QUANGO to spend the best part of £9 Billion on "innovation", apparently heedless of the real nature of the beast.
