Europe’s ongoing wind drought (and corresponding wind power output collapse) is a wake-up call for anyone vaguely concerned about energy supplies.
Starting in September last year and running for weeks on end, total collapses in wind power output across Western Europe and the UK, forced a wholesale rethink of the maniacal reliance upon wind and solar.
The French President announced that its 56 existing nuclear power will be kept running ad infinitum, rather than mothballed as planned, and determined to add 14 next-generation plants to be built ASAP.
Both the Germans and the Brits were forced to quietly fire up their ‘ageing’ coal-fired power plants to prevent total collapses of their power grids. Oh, the embarrassment!
But, with every perfectly predictable policy-driven disaster that comes the opportunity for considered reflection and, for the wise, the chance to recalibrate; to scrap the policies that delivered to disaster and replace…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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