Topping the list of things that seemed like a good idea at the time sits wind and solar power.
What, with the energy sources that drive them free and natural; with no visible emissions of spent gas or fumes; with their shiny panels harvesting the sun’s rays and delivering electricity for five or six hours a day (rain and cloud cover permitting); with their majestic 50-60m blades lovingly caressing benevolent breezes and thereby ‘powering’ hundreds of thousands of homes (around-the-clock, according to wind industry marketing blurb), why wouldn’t the gullible masses be sucked into the belief that sunshine and breezes will soon deliver all of our energy needs, forevermore?
That was then. This is now.
The increasing reliance on the unreliables has been revealed for what it is: sheer lunacy.
But this is stupidity with a kicker: the blackouts caused by sudden and unpredictable collapses in wind and solar output…
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