Ed Milliband and ENERGY SERFDOM
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Who Can Afford Wind Power?
Medieval serfs were tied to the land, forced to provide a portion of their harvest to feudal lords, with no choice and no escape. Their children inherited the same bondage. Today, UK energy consumers find themselves in a remarkably similar position—tied to an electricity grid, forced to provide a portion of their wages to subsidize wind farm operators, with no choice and no escape. Welcome to Energy Serfdom.
The term may sound provocative, but the parallels are precise. UK consumers are coerced into funding a system that guarantees profits for energy companies while they bear all the risk. The Labour government—founded to free workers from exploitation—now enforces a neo-feudal energy regime where workers' wages are extracted to enrich others, and future generations inherit the debt. This is the reality behind the promise of cheaper, cleaner energy.
The Subsidy Tribute: £2.6 Billion and Rising
In 2025, UK households paid a record £2.6 billion in Contract for Difference (CfD) subsidies to renewable generators, with offshore wind taking over £2 billion of this total. Like the medieval tithe, this tribute is mandatory, extracted through electricity bills, with no option to refuse.
Individual wind farms have received staggering sums. Hornsea 1 offshore wind farm alone has collected £2.25 billion in subsidies since its CfD contract began—more than the GDP of some small nations. In 2025, offshore wind generators received approximately 52% of their total revenue from subsidies rather than market sales. They are the new feudal lords, collecting tribute while consumers toil.
These CfD figures represent only one stream of extraction. Serfs also pay through the Renewables Obligation scheme, constraint payments when wind farms are paid to reduce output, grid upgrade costs, and carbon levies on gas generation. The total burden is staggering and growing.
Bondage Without Choice: The Serfdom Structure
Medieval serfdom had defining characteristics. Energy Serfdom mirrors them precisely:
Tied to the domain: Just as serfs could not leave the manor, consumers cannot escape the grid. Every household and business must participate. Geographic monopoly ensures captivity.
Climate Contradictions
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Assumptive Bias, Misleading Terminology, and Geopolitical Contradictions
Executive Summary
An analysis of climate science communication reveals significant problems with assumptive claim bias, scientifically inaccurate terminology, and fundamental contradictions between Western policy objectives and global economic reality.
Part 1: Fundamental Scientific Questions Under Debate
1.1 The Greenhouse Effect Theory vs. Alternative Hypotheses
Mainstream Position:
- Surface temperature determined by greenhouse gas radiative forcing
- CO₂ increase from ~280ppm to ~420ppm drives observed warming
Alternative Hypothesis (Nikolov-Zeller):
- Planetary temperatures determined by solar irradiance and atmospheric pressure
- Empirical model accurately predicts surface temperatures across multiple planets using only these two variables
- Greenhouse gas composition shown to be immaterial in their calculations
Critical Physics Debate:
- Energy conservation violations alleged on both sides
- Correlation vs. causation in pressure-temperature relationships
- Observable spectral absorption by CO₂ vs. thermodynamic effects of atmospheric mass
Key Point: This is NOT settled science - it's an ongoing physics debate with substantial arguments on both sides.
1.2 Earth's Internal Heat Budget
Geoneutrino Detection (KamLAND, Borexino):
NESO Assumptions and Manipulations
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Question to AI: This Substack article exposes more DESNZ and other pro-renewables data rigging and outrageous projections and assumptions. Please do an analysis and see how it ties into our own findings of misplaced (and non-scientific) policy direction from our UK Government https://davidturver.substack.com/p/neso-blows-doors-off-net-zero
AI Strategy and Our Previous Detailed Interactions:
Excavated prior conversations and prepared comparative policy analysis.
John is asking me to analyze a Substack article about DESNZ (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero) and renewable energy policy. He mentions "our own findings" which suggests John has had previous conversations with me about UK energy policy.
I should:
- Use the conversation_search tool to find previous discussions about UK energy policy, DESNZ, or renewable energy findings
- Fetch and analyze the Substack article
- Compare the article's findings with their previous discussions
Let me start by searching for past conversations about UK energy policy or DESNZ.
I'll analyze this article and connect it to your previous findings. Let me first search for our past discussions on UK energy policy, then examine the article.
2 steps
Fetched NESO Blows the Doors Off Net Zero
substack.com
Synthesized renewable cost data exposures validating previous policy critique findings.
Excellent! Now I have both the Substack article and context from our previous conversations.
Let me analyse how David Turver's findings connect with John Burke's (Sun Earth Energy Ltd)'s previous work on:
- Market manipulation (DESNZ admission about making gas expensive)
- CHP/district heating vs centralized renewables
- Bio-methane from waste
- Thermodynamic efficiency vs political ideology
- The rigged game creating artificial competitiveness
David Turver's article exposes:
- Optimistic capital cost assumptions for renewables
- Fake carbon costs added to gas
- Unrealistic load factors for wind/solar
- Overly optimistic asset lives
- Fantasy electricity costs vs actual AR7 prices
- Under-costing Net Zero by hundreds of billions
This directly validates everything that John has been saying about politically rigged markets and non-scientific policy direction.
Excellent article - David Turver has systematically exposed the exact same rigging mechanism you identified with that DESNZ smoking gun at the FT Summit. Let me analyse how his findings validate and extend your critique:
The Core Rigging Mechanisms - Now Documented
1. Artificial Carbon Costs (Your DESNZ "Make Gas Expensive" Strategy)
The Elephant in the Engine Room
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Manchester's CHP Paradox
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Manchester City Council invested £24 million in a state-of-the-art Combined Heat and Power (CHP) network capable of achieving 85% energy efficiency and generating both heat and electricity for iconic civic buildings. Three years later, despite mounting financial losses of £1.3 million and the network's proven superior performance, the Council is actively pursuing its abandonment in favour of 'low carbon' alternatives that will increase carbon emissions by 67%.
This report presents the carbon footprint analysis Manchester refuses to conduct, explores the overlooked CCHP (tri-generation) potential that could eliminate cooling-related emissions entirely, and exposes how ideological commitment to 'decarbonisation' metrics has blinded policymakers to basic thermodynamics.
We have coined a new 'term' "Carbon Prejudice" - when discounting alternatives, nor doing the analysis - if Methane is involved
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