Dr John Constable: wind power is a failure on all scores.

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Our data shows that climate policies aren’t working. Why does that scare our opponents?
The Telegraph
Dr John Constable
2 Apr 2015

The solution to climate change lies in unleashing the ingenuity of the market – not in top-down subsidies which penalise the poor to prop up inadequate technologies

Since 2004, the charity I run, the Renewable Energy Foundation (REF), has been highlighting the fatal flaws in our energy and climate policies. Despite all their market-style decorations, these boil down to a well-intentioned but misconceived attempt to pick winners – which too often prove to be quite the reverse.

Here’s an example: subsidies to renewable electricity in the UK alone are running at nearly £4 billion a year, and will have risen to about £8 billion a year in 2020, with perhaps another £5 billion a year…