From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

By Paul Homewood

h/t Ian Cunningham

From the Telegraph:

Britain must copy China and become a net zero “electrostate”, Ed Miliband’s top civil servant has said.

Chris Stark, the Energy Secretary’s “Head of Mission Control for Clean Power by 2030”, said the UK needed to match the speed of electrification seen in China in order to become a new global super-power as the world moves towards net zero.

Writing in The Telegraph, he said: “China, still the world’s largest consumer of coal, is now moving towards a cleaner future: laying vast networks of transmission lines, rolling out the world’s biggest fleet of electric vehicles, and deploying solar and wind at a scale that now dwarfs the rest of the world. We ignore these changes at our peril.”

Full story here.

The deluded Stark evidently does not know that renewables supply twice as much of our energy as they do in China.

Or that China still relies on fossil fuels for 88% of its energy, against our 79%.

I don’t know whether he really is deluded or is simply lying to pursue an agenda.

But the real question is why the country’s energy security was ever put in the hands Stark and his ilk. He has never had a proper job in industry or commerce, never mind the energy sector.

His degree at Glasgow University was in Finance & Law, and his career since leaving there has always been in the public sector.

He knows nothing about energy.