Listen to an ideologue, and you’d think the transition to an all wind and sun powered future is simply inevitable. Listen to an engineer, and you’ll soon understand that it is simply impossible.
Reliable, dependable and affordable power supplies were the product of logic and reason – the discipline of methodical and ordered thinking, conceived during the Age of Enlightenment and which gave rise to the Industrial Revolution and its raft of engineering feats of marvels, including the generation and useful application of electric power.
Silly superstitions about the weather and other natural phenomenon were put to bed. The hard sciences flourished and so did civilisation, with unheralded improvements in living standards and incomes.
Now, however, narcissistic virtue signallers are determined to wreck it all around the delusional notion that first-world economies can find all the power they need from the sun and wind. And in doing so, we will…
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