The fastest way to get people thinking about electricity, is to deprive them of it. Europe’s power pricing and supply calamity has sharpened thinking and provided a golden opportunity for engineers and free-market economists to wrest back control from ideologues and renewable energy rent-seekers.
Until the Big Calm hit Western Europe last month – causing wind power output to plummet across the continent and the UK – all the talk was about a purportedly ‘inevitable transition’ to an all wind and sun powered future.
Well, things aren’t looking so ‘inevitable’ for wind and solar, after all. Grid managers have been left scrambling for what little gas might be available to fuel open cycle gas turbines; and recently mothballed coal-fired power plants are being desperately pressed back into action, both in Germany, and in the UK.
Only those countries with substantial nuclear power generation capacity seem untroubled. Until recently, the French…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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