[Gordon Booth]

Originally Posted by Neil

Talking about subsidies, many comment on wind power subsidies. This 2 year ol newspaper article from The Guardian states that wind power subsidies are dwarfed by fossil fuel subsidies Wind power still gets lower public subsidies than fossil fuel tax breaks | Environment | The Guardian

Neil, look at the figures in the article again!

Gas/coal/oil received £3.63 billion but supplied 85% of our energy.
All renewables received £1.4 billion but only supplied 6%.

So each of the 1% supplied by gas/coal/oil was subsidized by £42.7 million.
Each 1% supplied by renewables was subsidized by £233.33 million!

So how can that be efficient? The fuel is free? Hardly.
If all our energy came from renewables the subsidy would be £23,333,000,000- yes, that's £23 BILLIONS.
The last one out wouldn't have to switch the lights off- we couldn't afford to switch them on!