Post-Renewables Europe: Coal Prevents Mass Blackouts As Great Wind Drought Continues
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While hot air output shot up in Glasgow, Europe’s great wind drought continues unabated. Wind power output amounted to a trickle through most of September and into October. We dubbed it the ‘Big Calm’. Well, the Big Calm appears now to be less of an anomaly than the new normal.
In Britain, grid operators are scrambling for every watt they can find; pressing old coal-fired power plants back into action to keep the lights on. So much for Boris Johnson’s all-wind powered future!
The wholesale power market is, as to be expected, in a state of perfect pandemonium. And it’s all down to a lack of wind, as Dr John Constable reports.
Coal keeps lights on at COP26 as low wind strikes again
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John Constable
3 November 2021
The UK’s failing renewable strategy is a national embarrassment. Critically low wind power, for nearly the whole of yesterday…
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Guilty: Intermittent Wind & Solar Responsible For Global Power Pricing & Supply Calamity
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Europe’s ongoing wind drought (and corresponding wind power output collapse) is a wake-up call for anyone vaguely concerned about energy supplies.
Starting in September last year and running for weeks on end, total collapses in wind power output across Western Europe and the UK, forced a wholesale rethink of the maniacal reliance upon wind and solar.
The French President announced that its 56 existing nuclear power will be kept running ad infinitum, rather than mothballed as planned, and determined to add 14 next-generation plants to be built ASAP.
Both the Germans and the Brits were forced to quietly fire up their ‘ageing’ coal-fired power plants to prevent total collapses of their power grids. Oh, the embarrassment!
But, with every perfectly predictable policy-driven disaster that comes the opportunity for considered reflection and, for the wise, the chance to recalibrate; to scrap the policies that delivered to disaster and replace…
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Review of “George Marshall: Defender of the Republic” by David Roll
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George Marshall: Defender of the Republic
by David Roll
704 pages
Dutton Caliber (Penguin Random House)
Published: July 2019
David L. Roll’s “George Marshall: Defender of the Republic” was published in 2019. Roll is Senior Counsel at Steptoe & Johnson and the author of a widely-praised biography of Franklin Roosevelt’s notoriously unconventional adviser Harry Hopkins. Roll also co-authored a biography of Louis Johnson, Harry Truman’s second defense secretary.
Anyone who has read a biography of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman or Dwight Eisenhower has encountered George Marshall (1880-1959). During his five decades of public service he was chief of staff to “Black Jack” Pershing, Chief of Staff of the Army, a Five-Star General, Special Envoy to China, Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense. He was also the driving force behind the Marshall Plan which re-built post-war Europe (and for which he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953).
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