The wind industry was built on lies and runs on subsidies; cut the subsidies and the whole thing collapses in a heartbeat.
Wind turbine makers like Germany’s Siemens are having a rather miserable time of it, of late. Subsidies were already being wound back across Europe (and with it demand for these whirling wonders) when an ambitious Russian decided to storm across Ukraine in an effort to expand Russia’s territorial control.
All of a sudden, focus was drawn on Europe’s critical dependence upon Russian gas; a critical component of their reliance upon intermittent wind and solar.
The Germans have now renounced their purported disdain for nuclear and coal-fired power, opting to have power as and when they need it. The French, among others, are determined to expand their nuclear power generation capacity, as if their lives and livelihoods depend upon it. Needless to say, the love affair with the unreliables…
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