Odd logic
I love the idea that concrete for windmill bases is terrible, concrete for power stations and the infrastructure to deliver their fuel is cheap and good.
How does one measure the cost of coal spoil heaps, long term, safe storage of nuclear byproducts, damage to fisheries and other environaments from oil extraction (and leakage, accidents ...)?
Ask large, industrial areas of China and India about the cost of cheap coal - better still, go and live there and tell us yourself. Go to South Wales and admire the spoil from old, dead coalmines and tell us how much that land costs or earns. I can show you land that has been out of pracital use for over a century and land likely to follow that grand tradition, because nobody has to pay that cost in cash. Chat to the retired miners and ask them how their lungs and damaged bodies feel.
I love the idea that the "poor" will not be even poorer as fossil fuels go up in price and are not affected by the pollution and land loss; perhaps only the wealthy have to live in the damaged areas.
What wonderful optimism that the finite earth will continue to deliver fuel from somewhere in the world at somebody's expense in health and spoiation so that we, in Northern Europe, can have more cash to spend on gadgets or better food than the miners get.
Odd that most of Europe, East and West, North and South, is rather keen on Wind Power and Solar panels. Yet they all have got the same problem as UK and in most of them, electicity is cheaper.
Good thing your atttiude was not around when calculators cost as much as a modern netbook and even home PCs cost as much as today's low-end servers - too expensive, will only get more expensive .....
For once, governmente have responded to their electorates and are trying to think long and medium term and use imagination. I suggest you do the same and avoid cheap and scare-mongering headlines to tendentious articles. No doubt, a few weeks ago you were bashing nuclear power (with a little more justification perhaps).
Of course, renewable energy has drawbacks too; but do you seriuosly believe that improvements in energy storage and buffering technology, for instance, are confined to your mobile telephone and computer? That other energy sources are not subject to fluctuation? What a pessimist. Is a field of windmills really more offensive than hectares of shale pits, mining works, nuclear power sites? At least there is some green among the windmills and I doubt the noise is worse than the "traditional" alternatives.
Oh, and find the English spelling checker and learn how to spell sCeptical.
Come off your out-dated opposition to the new and think it through properly.