Anyone looking for a taste of what the ‘transition’ to wind and solar might look like, need look no further than Europe. The best (worst) examples, Germany and the UK are in the middle of self-inflicted energy debacles, with many of their neighbours not far behind.
Mass wind droughts – that lasted months at the tail end of 2021 – made it evident that Europe’s overreliance on chaotically intermittent wind power is the product of a grand and collective delusion, driven by dogged and unshakeable ideology; not the first case of collective madness that Germans have experienced, that’s for sure.
Whereas the French retreated from their nuclear power retreat in response to the Big Calm, the Germans remain determined to shut their nuclear power plants, for good.
Being able to tap into coal-fired power from Poland and nuclear power from France is the only reason the Germans can engage in…
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