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Tuesday 25th 39-57F, calm and sunny. My usual walk to the lanes. It is amazing how quickly the fields go green after sewing. Too busy so no ride today. 45mph winds again tomorrow with rain after lunch.Wednesday 26th 55F, overcast with gales.
It just gets weirder and weirder. Strictly Twilight Zone weird. Last time I looked the Danish right wing government almost doubled the price of all electric cars with 180% import duties. At the same time they are heavily promoting Big Wind Power.
Where Big Money gets to profit from sky high electricity bills and ruin people's lives with flickering wind farms. As in Pig Farms. Industrialized production and forget [all] the consequences. [And, still with 17 "green taxes" attached to every quarterly bill.] Big Money's <cough> "offshore" generation often has to be dumped below cost onto the European grid. This happens whenever wind generation exceeds the country's immediate needs. Since only the rich can afford electricity this happens far more than you'd expect.
You'd think this imbalance was a case of outright lunacy, tragicomedy, or simply corruption. Oh, the wonderful irony! When the potential for mass storage might have existed in a large fleet of privately owned electric vehicles by now.
Guess what The Populist's answer is to this drooling idiocy? Cut the price of electricity to hugely wasteful summer houses. The more they waste the cheaper it gets! It's called Grid Battery Storage. [Or Greed and BullShit with present sky storage technology.] Heat the sky over the summer house blight and all will be well. Strictly for the birds. Dugh!
One politicooze party is now advocating subsidizing electric car buyers to the tune of up to £5000 [equivalent.] What a brilliant idea! Double the price of EVs at the Danish border. Then toss some drought-ridden corn husks to those who can still afford to buy an electric car. It's just like a bank robber tossing a few coins onto the floor as they leave.
Whatever happened to benign Scandinavian socialism and care for the environment? It was sacrificed on the altar of pretending to combat mass immigration with a huge lurch to the "greed is good" AGW doesn't exist, equality is only for the weak, extreme right wing.
The funniest part of all this? The same coalition leader flies off regularly to preach warm green thoughts to international climate conferences and heads of state feasts. Guess who isn't even close to matching national CO2 to past climate meeting promises? Guess who, despite all the populist election promises, suffers armed, gang warfare on the streets of major cities? Surely not Denmark? Happiest land under the [half baked] sun.
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