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Report claiming net zero will cost UK trillions retracted due to ‘factual errors’
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2023
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They did this shit with "calculating infrasound from windmills" in Germany 20 years ago. They (a government and lobbyist financed org) were several orders of magnitudes wrong but took a very long time admitting it.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022460X23004091
As some German celebrity said: "It's hard to save the world in your spare time when others are paid to destroy it full time"
Feel like its a common mistake to mix up kW and kWh, but if you don't know the basics of power you shouldn't be trying to write on the topic and any peer reviewer should know the cost of onshore wind is in the cents per kWh, not 100's of dollars per kWh if someone has even if only from paying attention to their own electric bill.
Also apparently mixed billions and trillions at one point? Just a small factor of a 3 (orders of magnitudes).
Yeah but that doesn't support their narrative