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Wind Power Now Cheapest Energy In UK and Germany; No Subsidies Needed

Posted by Soulskill on from the time-to-work-on-scale dept.

Socguy writes: Bloomberg reports wind power has now crossed the threshold to become the cheapest source of energy in both the UK and Germany. This is notable because it's the first time this has occurred in a G7 country. In the U.S., wind and solar are still massively overshadowed by the power generated from fossil fuel plants, but the percentage is creeping up. It's gotten to the point where it's starting to affect the lifetime profitability of new plants.

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  1. Direct Action Needed! by jblues · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    This clearly shows why we so badly need Direct Action to subsidize the fossil fuel industry, and help it to become competitive again. If we don't act now, we may lose the fossil fuel industry forever. I don't know about you, but I find wind-mills to be a horrible blight on the landscape.

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  2. Re:Not the total cost! by dbIII · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Ah - the guy with not even a high school level understanding that pretended to be an electrical engineer is back! You can make up for that lack by looking at a weather map and trying to identify a day when there is no wind at all over a region large enough to be covered by a national grid - or pretty close to continental in the case of the USA. Ask a small child to help if you like to get an answer about "unreliability of wind".
    It's always blowing somewhere and not just out of your rear to provide misinformation like the post above.