Europe’s great wind drought has focused attention on the unassailable fact that wind power is an utterly meaningless power source.
The demand for electricity is, always and everywhere, a ‘here and now’ kind of thing. Households and businesses couldn’t care less if there’s a roaring gale and plenty of wind power at 2 in the morning. But the absence of electricity at the point when power consumers (of all shapes and sizes) need it, is always noticed rather keenly – the experience of freezing or boiling in the dark during mass blackouts tends to collect in the subconscious.
The response to Europe’s wind power debacle has been a series of backflips that would do a Russian gymnast proud.
Despite lots of bluff and bluster from Boris Johnson about his country’s all wind ‘powered’ future, Johnson is now openly committed to building nuclear power plants, including a fleet of new small…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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