So Much Wind: The Myth of Green Energy

by Struan Stevenson, Bill Jamieson (Foreword)

The energy crisis is one of the most pressing and significant problems the world has to face. With limited resources of fossil fuels left, and the additional political and environmental issues that surround their use, it is clear that life on earth cannot continue as it is without the development of alternative sources of power. In Britain, many are rightly wary of expanding the nuclear energy programme. The UK Government's policy of support for wind energy and its attempts to achieve 20% electricity generation from renewable sources by 2020 has been lauded by many, yet described as "a fatuous obsession" by others. Scotland's targets are five times more ambitious and therefore invite intensive scrutiny. The time has come to expose Scotland's green energy myth. The truth is that wind turbines violate the principle of fairness by transferring vast amounts of money from the poor to the rich. They despoil our unique landscape and environment; they risk plunging the nation into a devastating energy crisis and through noise, the flicker-effect and vibration, they abuse the health and welfare of people and animals which have to live near them.
They are visual monstrosities that produce a trickle of electricity at vast cost to the consumer and they do not significantly reduce CO2 emissions.

212 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 1, 2012

Reviews

[Linda · Rating 4 out of 5]

Helpful book regarding Wind Turbines and the issues that they create. Chapter 6 on the "Impacts on Human and Animal Health and National Security", is especially helpful in noting the troubling issues for birds/dismemberment, animals, and humans. Though this is written regarding issues in Scotland, the Midwestern states in the U.S. would do well to be informed; and to JUST SAY NO, to the SUPER turbines (660 ft tall) that a foreign company is trying to build here.

[Guido · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very pleased to see a well researched demystification of the obsession with wind energy that is sweeping Scotland (and the UK). I hope that the wind of sense that is blowing across other countries that have fallen out of love with the windturbine will reach the UK in short order.

Mr Stevenson's appraisal of other forms of renewable energy is, unfortunately, rather thinner in substance.

[Robharries · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bit ranting and sanctimonious in places, ruins what could have been an excellent demolition of wind power policy in Scotland, instead its useful but disappointing.