UK’s National Grid 2011: Power will have to be rationed in the UK because wind turbines will never provide enough energy

15 years ago, in 2011, the chief executive of National Grid said that “families would have to get used to only using power when it was available, rather than constantly” when the UK switched from gas to relying on wind turbines to power the nation.

I was talking to a friend this morning, who tells me that some folks, broadly in the conservative sphere, are just now catching on to the fact that the “Smart Grid” (ho ho ho) is going to be able to switch off your appliances.

I tried explaining this to people at the 2012 Cheltenham Science Festival, which accidentally invited me to debate. They didn’t ask me back.

I found it astonishing that the grid’s managers were talking openly about rationing power, but that this was of only limited interest to the media, and had practically no political consequences....<<<Read More>>>...