Science v. Science Fiction, a Brrrrief Review - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online

...Back home here in Michigan, their employees have been weathering the latest in a string of brutal winters. In 2002, state capital Lansing recorded its coldest December since 1869. Two years ago, Grand Rapids set a record — on October 12 -- for the earliest snowfall in the 121 years that temperature data had been kept. And after more unusually early snow squalls this fall, Detroit temperatures plummeted to five below this weekend — 27 degrees below normal — with wind-chill at 39 degrees below zero.

Meanwhile, the president-elect of the United States just appointed a radical climate alarmist as his chief science adviser and movie theaters are featuring The Day the Earth Stood Still about man’s destruction of the planet with greenhouse gas emissions (among other things).

Have America’s elites ever embraced a political movement so out of touch with reality? Though many of the following truths have appeared on Planet Gore (while being almost completely ignored even by the Detroit Three's own hometown media), assembled together they make a powerful case...

Wind Watch: Hydrogen-fuelled folly

The electrolytic production of hydrogen is a technically feasible but hardly practicable “backup” to smooth the intermittent output of wind power (”Hydrogen plan will fill in when wind turbines stop”, 20 December).

The Utsira island project in Norway, cabled just ten households to a wind power-hydrogen generation system. The budget for this demonstration project was about 40 million Norwegian krone over two years. In sterling that is £3.3 million or £330,000 per home.

Expensive hydrogen derived from the largest time-untested rotating structures in the world, which are the most expensive source of commercial electricity that exist, is a ludicrous concept. The wind power industry is in receipt of a near 100 per cent consumer-sourced subsidy and a guaranteed market through the Renewables Obligation, until 2037. In a time of financial crisis, such a proposition is the stuff of madness.