These regulations spawn from the combination of Green party pipedreams about how windmills will replace fossil fuels, and the One Size Fits All bureaucratic mania of the EU.
Currently, the world spends something like $1.5 trillion a year on this nonsense. It's been going on for more than 20 years, and progress so far is to replace a few percent of fossil fuel usage. Climate change advocate or no, any rational person ought to be saying by now, '
This ain't gonna work, so let's try something else.'
The something else could be fusion, LENR or thorium. The cost of testing out these options would be tiny compared to that $1.5 trillion a year, and as well as answering any concerns over climate change, success with any of these would be a landmark in human progress akin to the invention of the wheel, or powered flight. It would have the potential to transform living standards in third world countries. It would also get a few dangerously unstable regimes currently supplying us with fossil fuels off our backs for once and for all. Basically, all positive results, and for a fraction of the cost.
-and if the attempt fails, well at least we tried. If we don't try, then sitting huddled in our freezing house by the intermittent light of one wind-powered LED, we shall always wonder if it
could have worked.