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Tuesday, 25 February 2025
HOW TO RETURN TO CHEAP ELECTRICITY
"It is beyond doubt that if we continue on the Net Zero path we will return to the long-term upwards trend until the economy and/or society melt down entirely."
Probably the best way to return to cheap energy is to get intermittent wind and solar power off the grid by eliminating the subsidies and mandates for wind and solar.
That will enable the rapid buildout of new coal power stations to provide cheap and reliable power until new nuclear power plants can compete.
Reviving the nuclear power industry also means getting the predatory regulators out of the way and and curtailing the punitive regulations they have imposed on the nuclear industry.
It is helpful to realise how the inefficient and unreliable solar and wind generators managed to obtain subsidies and mandates for their substandard product which enabled them to drive cheaper and more reliable conventional power out of the market.
This would never have happened if only politicians and the people were aware of wind droughts. These are periods when there is next to no wind across continental areas for periods of days in Australia and North America and weeks in Europe where they are called Dunkelflautes.
They were discovered in Australia round about 2010 and it is most unfortunate that it was too late to avert the rush to wind power which has turned out to be one of the biggest public policy blunders in recorded history.
Trillions of dollars have been spent worldwide to get more expensive and less reliable power with massive environmental impact.
Sailors and wind millers would have known about the prolonged Dunkelflautes for centuries but the meteorologists have apparently been under instruction from the parent body not to issue wind drought warnings.
The WMO is located at the heart of the climate alarm industry in the UN and they know all about wind droughts because the first assessment report from the IPCC in 1990 recommended a survey of the world’s wind resources to see the prospects for large-scale wind power.
We really have to talk about wind droughts. https://open.substack.com/pub/rafechampion/p/we-have-to-talk-about-wind-droughts
Probably the best way to return to cheap energy is to get intermittent wind and solar power off the grid by eliminating the subsidies and mandates for wind and solar.
ReplyDeleteThat will enable the rapid buildout of new coal power stations to provide cheap and reliable power until new nuclear power plants can compete.
Reviving the nuclear power industry also means getting the predatory regulators out of the way and and curtailing the punitive regulations they have imposed on the nuclear industry.
It is helpful to realise how the inefficient and unreliable solar and wind generators managed to obtain subsidies and mandates for their substandard product which enabled them to drive cheaper and more reliable conventional power out of the market.
This would never have happened if only politicians and the people were aware of wind droughts. These are periods when there is next to no wind across continental areas for periods of days in Australia and North America and weeks in Europe where they are called Dunkelflautes.
They were discovered in Australia round about 2010 and it is most unfortunate that it was too late to avert the rush to wind power which has turned out to be one of the biggest public policy blunders in recorded history.
Trillions of dollars have been spent worldwide to get more expensive and less reliable power with massive environmental impact.
Sailors and wind millers would have known about the prolonged Dunkelflautes for centuries but the meteorologists have apparently been under instruction from the parent body not to issue wind drought warnings.
The WMO is located at the heart of the climate alarm industry in the UN and they know all about wind droughts because the first assessment report from the IPCC in 1990 recommended a survey of the world’s wind resources to see the prospects for large-scale wind power.
We really have to talk about wind droughts.
https://open.substack.com/pub/rafechampion/p/we-have-to-talk-about-wind-droughts
Very well put.
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