wind

The huge amounts of money being invested on wind farms is now making the government think again about the wisdom of extending the idea. An article in The Spectator by Matt Ridley questions whether wind power as an energy resource for the nation will ever work. Despite all that has been spent world-wide so far, 'the total energy generated each day by wind has yet to reach half of one percent... If wind power was going to work it would have done so by now.'  There are signs, says Ridley that the government is 'coming to its senses about the whole fiasco'.  One reason why wind power cannot be relied on to provide sufficient energy to replace other forms of fuel is that the wind cannot be relied on to blow with sufficient force. I am reminded of events in the Bible which speak of the importance of wind. Elijah at Mount Carmet was hiding in a cave at Horeb when he heard a gale so powerful that it split rocks. (Useful to find shale gas?) Isaiah was aware of the power of God that would sort out disobedient people through a 'scorching wind coming down from the heights'. Pentecost was anticipated by 'the blowing of a mighty wind from heaven' on the cowering apostles. Terrified disciples were threatened with a  'furious squall' on Galilee. Revelation 6 speaks of a strong wind removing mountains and islands. Are the 3,500 turbines now despoiling land and seascapes like the Golden calf which Aaron erected in defiance of God - a totally useless pieceof  idolatry. The Lord 'struck the people with a plague', it is reported. We are not told what it was... perhaps a total loss of power.