Like a jilted bride, wind and solar have lost all love and favour as Europe scrambles for reliable and affordable energy.
Now it seems that the only inevitable thing about the ‘inevitable transition’ is that when people are forced to choose between electricity delivered reliably and affordably and the purportedly clean and green kind, they couldn’t care less about where it comes from.
Even Germany’s Greens have backflipped on their policy to kill off its nuclear and coal-fired plants; all of a sudden infantile ideology has given way to necessity and sound engineering.
Who would have thought that a modern Stalin would herald the end for chaotically intermittent wind and solar?
Hitherto the model was fairly simple: Europe would ditch its reliable and affordable generation systems; squander billions of euros on subsidies to inherently unreliable wind and solar; and use Russian oil and gas to run highly inefficient gas…
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