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November 27, 2024 at 12:00PM

By Paul Homewood

https://www.irena.org/

The International Renewable Energy Agency, IRENA, makes no secret that its only objective is to promote renewable energy. It is an intergovernmental organization, with 169 member countries plus the EU.

One of its main tools is to convince governments and public that renewable energy is much cheaper than fossil fuels. They have produced this dashboard for onshore wind costs:

The UK costs are said to be $0.0314/kWh, which equates to about £25.12/MWh. Yet the clearing price for onshore wind at this year’s CfD auction was £50.90/MWh at 2012 prices, which uplifts to £69.91 at 2023 prices:

Clearly IRENA’s costs are not only fake, they are fraudulent. If the UK’s costings are wrong, no doubt every other country’s is as well.

In any event LCOEs, that is levelised costs, are meaningless, as they don’t include all of the indirect costs associated with intermittency.

It is worth noting that the BEIS levelised costings published last year, also an unrealistically low cost for onshore wind, though not quite as fanciful as IRENA’s.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/electricity-generation-costs-2023

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November 27, 2024 at 11:16AM

Paul Homewood wrote about poorly sited weather stations in Great Britain, thus making readings and climate data rather questionable.

The European Institute for Climate And Energy (EIKE) now reports of Great Britain’s phantom weather station network: one third of all its stations don’t actually exist. 

By Maurice Forgeng. Original article: Epoch Times here.

“All climate forecasts are based on more or less long-term documented measurements from weather stations. They can be used to determine past developments as well as possible trends in future local temperatures. Meteorologists also compile national and international trends based on the data from many measuring stations.”

“But what if much of this basic data is incorrect – or even made up? This is what journalist Ray Sanders claims about the measured values in the UK. According to his research, 103 of the 302 weather measuring stations in the United Kingdom do not exist at all. Nevertheless, they provide official data that is available to everyone on the website of the national weather authority.”

Sanders investigated the weather stations listed by the British Meteorological Service and found discrepancies in the data. For example, the Dungeness weather station supposedly on a nuclear power plant doesn’t exist. In fact, four out of eight stations in Kent do not exist  Also, coordinates for many stations are inaccurate.

The alleged location of a weather station is said to be on the roof of a nuclear power plant, according to the coordinates of the British Weather Service. Photo: Google Maps

The most egregious: Sanders had made several inquiries to the weather authority to obtain more detailed information about the weather stations. He reported in the open letter: “Of the 302 locations mentioned, over a third (103) do NOT exist. The Met Office refused to tell me exactly how or where the alleged ‘data’ for these 103 non-existent sites came from.”

Consequently. Sanders questions the scientific validity of the weather data, noting similar issues with weather data collection in the USA where authorities collect measurements for weather stations that have been out of operation for years or decades and corrections are regularly made to some temperature series.

In the USA, it has been noticed that older temperature values have almost invariably been made colder and more recent measurements warmer. This gives a clearer impression of a warming of the regions.

Full report at EIKE

Original report: at Epoch Times.

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November 27, 2024 at 11:02AM

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