Niall Ferguson takes a break from empire to reflect on British government plans to install wind farms of the coast of the UK: “As I write this, looking out the window of our newly acquired house on the Glamorgan coast and trying to imagine how the 30 turbines due to be built directly opposite will look and sound, I am of course a sitting duck. I accept that some will say that my opposition is mere Nimbyism, but there is no denying that the Government's commitment to wind power is a huge con perpetrated in the name of environmentalism.”
He argues that wind farms are not efficient at creating electricity (partly because of the cost and technical difficulty of installation), negatively affect coastal property-owners, and benefit only the super-rich who get tax breaks to install offshore turbines.
