...the assholes in Germany - they have actually had to add a word to their language to describe the condition, Dunkleflaute - the Germans burn coal and suck electricity out of the rest of Europe, driving up prices for everyone on the continent.
Let's be clear on something, OK?
Whenever anyone uses "percent talk" to describe so called "renewable energy" they are in effect announcing they are OK with fossil fuels.
I note as well that people engaged in "percent talk" don't give a rat's ass as to when so called "renewable energy" is available. Instead the mutter insipid nonsense about hydrogen and/or batteries, demonstrating their ignorance of the laws of thermodynamics or the economic and environmental cost of building redundant systems that mostly represent stranded assets 90% or more of the time.
I'm not OK with fossil fuels at all. I favor reliable systems that operate independently of fossil fuels for decades at at a time. Every nuclear plant built today is a gift to three or four following generations.
Every wind turbine by contrast represents a liability that today's toddlers may face before they graduate from college.
Neither do I agree that we should tear the shit out of the Earth to build two or three redundant systems because a set of people endorse a questionable dogma that has obvious failed to produce significant energy at a cost of trillions of dollars for no result other than accelerating the collapse of the planetary atmosphere.
By the way, the primary scientific literature is rich with LCA papers comparing the external costs of energy. The wind and solar garbage can't come close to matching nuclear in these calculations for low impact.
Instead of spending trillions on so called "renewable energy" and only a few hundred billion on nuclear, we should stop picking around and sink all of our investments in nuclear. It's far too late to undo the enormous damage done to the future by antinukes, but at least we can start now at preventing even more damage from this celebration of stupidity.
For the same money we squandered on solar and wind in the last ten years, we could be looking at 60 Exajoules per year from reliable nuclear rather than 16 EJ per year from unreliable solar and wind combined. I would expect had we built a few hundred reactors in the last ten years, their production would be streamlined with a highly trained experienced workforce and infrastructure. Instead we sit on our asses hoping wind turbines don't fall apart.
As a result the planet is burning.
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