2024-01-09
"To put this in context, U.K. Natural Gas has recently been trading at the equivalent of around £33 per MWh, which is more than seven times less than the proposed cost of electrolytic hydrogen. Moreover, our gas is already about four times more expensive than U.S. gas"
" ... the announcements mark the end of the pragmatic approach to the Net Zero insanity and demonstrate that the Government has no idea about economics, thermodynamics or energy and has gone completely insane"
Tell us something we didn't already know.
But on another level, it is completely sane.
If we make the startling assumption that energy policy isn't about energy, then we free ourselves to consider what it might be about.
"The trouble is, its roadmap to 2030 only includes 4 GW of capacity and some of that does not deliver until 2031, so its own roadmap will not achieve its vision"
" ... these plans will be a gold mine for gas suppliers, for gas network operators, electrolyser makers and hydrogen producers. For the rest of us, it means much higher energy costs"
(So keep an eye open for dubious government procurement contracts handed to well-connected start-ups)
They obviously know all this, and also know that it will set chins wagging and keyboards rattling, so we may assume that these are their objectives. If so, then we may expect the usual tin ear response to any and all logical and reasonable argument, since that will help keep the pot boiling for the longest period. In effect, it's an indirect form of censorship.
If we are all taken up with addressing the deficiencies of energy policy (a double bonus because eco-warriors and sane thinkers alike will be wading into the arguments, of which there are plenty) then they can get on with whatever they want behind the obvious talking-points without attracting any significant attention. Populist protests in Europe perhaps (happening anyway but not reported), more futile attacks on Russia in an attempt to start WW3, more war in some other far-flung region, more preparatory work for the incoming CBDC control grid, pushing more local councils to support the UK 100 WEF-inspired policy-set, fluoridating those water supplies that have escaped so far, bussing the "army" of illegal migrants to those locations where they will want to use them ... the possibilities are endless.
And the price of freedom is still eternal vigilance.
The Government’s Hydrogen Policy is a Crime Against Thermodynamics
