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https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/local-news/man-denied-solar-panels-home-10016788
A man denied permission to have solar panels on his home is battling a 2,200 acre solar farm next door – with plans involving a duke and friend of the King. Tony Ward has lived in his Grade II listed property in Chippenham, Wiltshire, for twenty years – with the building, mentioned in the Doomsday Book, standing for 400 years.
In 2005, he requested permission to install a small number of solar panels on the family log barn to help compensate for the costs of their ground source heating. He says the council denied his request because it would mean hot air balloons flying above would not be ”able properly to read the way the house had developed over the centuries”.
But now Tony and thousands of other residents say they are being faced with plans for Lime Down Solar development – which they have dubbed a ”nightmare”. The proposal would see 2,200 acres of four-and-a-half metre high solar panels across several sites – as well as “enormous” battery storage units and cabling in their “peaceful and tranquil” countryside.
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https://wherearethenumbers.substack.com/p/climate-change-by-numbers-10-years
And that brings me to the reason for this article, as maybe I can now provide further evidence of the extent of the scam and the role mainstream media (and even myself unwittingly) played in it.
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And yet, they can’t give it up:
Climate Gobbledygook: ‘Experts’ Pontificating Mitigation Failure
From MasterResource
By Robert Bradley Jr.
Ed. note: With the US-led demise of Net Zero and “energy transformation,” prior attempts to come to grips with climate futility and energy reality are worth revisiting. This article, “Three Decades of Climate Mitigation: Why Haven’t We Bent the Global Emissions Curve?” (Annual Review of Environment and Resources: Vol. 46, 2021), is an example of a faulty worldview, a vastly overbuilt academic climate network (23 authors), and an inability to seriously deal with critical views of climate alarm/forced energy transformation.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/03/14/climate-gobbledygook-experts-pontificating-mitigation-failure/
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A leaflet from our local council justifying the latest increase in household rates, makes the claim that recycling 9 orange peels creates enough energy to fully recharge a laptop.
I tracked it down to this study
https://greencleanguide.com/are-orange-peels-the-key-to-recycling-lithium-ion-batteries/
It seems rather ambiguous so I hope somebody here can confirm if that headline is as misleading as I suspect it to be.
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