Telegraph, Christopher Booker
"The new energy secretary has no practical solutions for our looming energy crisis....The most obvious Achilles heel of this weird new Government is the issue on which the two parties making it up are most firmly united. On Friday morning, a beaming David Cameron stood alongside his new Energy and Climate Change Secretary, the Lib Dem Chris Huhne, to proclaim their dedication to halting what Mr Huhne called "the greatest challenge facing mankind": global warming. Both parties are pledged to cut Britain's CO2 emissions by more than four fifths in the next 40 years. Both are committed to building thousands more wind turbines. And neither ever mentions the crisis fast bearing down on us when we lose 14 of the nuclear and coal-fired power stations which supply 40 per cent of the electricity that currently keeps all our economy running, .....What is truly terrifying about putting Mr Huhne in charge of Britain's energy policy is that, like the rest of his Government colleagues, he clearly hasn't the slightest practical understanding of what is involved. Obviously, he has no idea of just how useless windmills are in providing any more than a derisory fraction of the electricity we need to keep our lights on and our computers running. The 3,000 already built provide on average no more electricity than a single medium-sized conventional power station, and the more we build, the more we will have to build CO2-emitting power stations, costing billions of pounds, simply to provide back-up for when the wind is not blowing. "
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