The race to secure reliable and affordable power is on and nuclear power has already crossed the finish line.
2021 was the year when the inherent unreliability of wind and solar revealed how everything depends upon reliable and affordable power supplies.
The wind and solar ‘industries’ talk a big game; and in their wilder moments even claim to be capable of replacing conventional coal, gas and nuclear generators, altogether. Europe’s months-long wind drought in the last half of 2021 demonstrated otherwise. And the peculiar disappearance of solar power, every day is readily explained by that phenomenon known as “sunset”.
The mega-batteries touted as a solution are nothing but an expensive pipe dream.
Which is why the French, among others, are now talking about nuclear power as if it was their very first love.
Faced with the reality of actually trying to rely exclusively on wind and solar, even
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