One hundred and one conservative members of the London parliament are
baying to reduce the £400m annual government subsidies for onshore wind farms,
and to make it easier for local people to stop new farms being developed in
their vicinity. Not a very edifying spectacle, and probably much more to do
with protecting their Middle England constituents from the horror of seeing where their
electricity comes from than with making a serious attempt to save money.
To put that £400m into context, the official projected cost
for renewing the UK’s Trident nuclear missiles is £20bn. Unofficial estimates
suggest maybe £90bn. In other words, between 50 & 225 years worth of
subsidy, just in case Chancellor Osborne has lost his calculator.
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