When Finland powered up its latest nuclear power plant in April wholesale power prices dropped 75%, almost overnight. The Olkiluoto 3 plant (above) is fully operational, generating 1,600 MW of electricity on demand (irrespective of the weather), and delivering 15% of the country’s power needs. Nuclear now provides around half of the country’s total electricity … Continue reading Wind & Solar Cult Can’t Mount Convincing Case Against Nuclear Power Generation
Category: Europe
Climate Changing: Germany’s 30,000 Wind Turbines Causing Local Rainfall Droughts
Wind turbines were meant to improve the weather, now it seems these things are making it worse. Bear in mind the weather worriers are fretting about changes of a degree or two (apparently an increase of just 1.5°C means instant disaster and pumping it up by 2°C means an irreversible catastrophe). There is already plenty … Continue reading Climate Changing: Germany’s 30,000 Wind Turbines Causing Local Rainfall Droughts
Destined For Failure: Wind & Solar Transition Depends on (Impossible) Battery Storage Miracle
As 2023 slips by, it’s getting harder for wind and solar ‘industries’ to claim any other purpose than raking in massive subsidies. Europe’s wind and solar rollout is at a complete standstill; wind turbine manufacturers are laying off staff in droves and losing hundreds of millions of euros. The French are backing a massive increase … Continue reading Destined For Failure: Wind & Solar Transition Depends on (Impossible) Battery Storage Miracle
Safe & Reliable Nuclear Power Provides Cleanest, Greenest Energy Future
Wind and solar generation spreads like cancer. Dilute and diffuse, intermittent and unreliable the wind and solar generators’ demand for land is insatiable. And because every single MW of wind or solar generation capacity has to be backed up by another MW of dispatchable power generation (coal, gas, diesel or hydro) to accommodate sunset and … Continue reading Safe & Reliable Nuclear Power Provides Cleanest, Greenest Energy Future
Europe’s Renewables Reckoning: Power Rationing & Punishing Power Prices Killing Thousands
For the poorest and most vulnerable, staying warm in winter is a daily battle for survival. Thanks to Europe’s (literally suicidal) wind and solar ‘transition’, power prices have spiralled out of control and in Germany power rationing is now routine, likewise in Britain. The Germans, of course, led the charge when it came to throwing … Continue reading Europe’s Renewables Reckoning: Power Rationing & Punishing Power Prices Killing Thousands
Maritime Mauling: Cargo Ship Lucky to Survive Collision With Offshore Wind Turbine
If wild weather and heavy seas weren’t enough to contend with, oceangoing vessels now have thousands of 300 tonne wind turbine towers to dodge and avoid. Recently a German cargo ship the Petra L, came off second-best when it failed to do so. After colliding with one of these giant whirling wonders, the vessel was … Continue reading Maritime Mauling: Cargo Ship Lucky to Survive Collision With Offshore Wind Turbine
Wind & Solar ‘Industries’ Furious as French Demand More Nuclear Power Generation
The rent-seekers profiting from the wind and solar scam hate nuclear power with a visceral passion. Nuclear power doesn’t generate carbon dioxide gas, so they can’t rant about ‘carbon pollution’ and ‘catastrophic climate change’, as they do when they’re out to sink the prospects of coal and gas-fired power generators. And the rather other obvious … Continue reading Wind & Solar ‘Industries’ Furious as French Demand More Nuclear Power Generation
Ireland Squanders €1.3 Billion on Wind Power & Gets World’s Most Expensive Power In Return
Death and taxes are certainties, so is the fact that power prices soon rocket out-of-control, once your power needs depend on the weather. Ireland is no exception. More than €1.3 billion in subsidies has been thrown at wind power outfits in less than a decade, and with little to shown in return - unless, of … Continue reading Ireland Squanders €1.3 Billion on Wind Power & Gets World’s Most Expensive Power In Return
Poland Develops Grand Plan For New Generation Nuclear Backed By $4bn American Investment
Poland’s abundant coal-fired power is often the only thing keeping Germany’s lights on when ‘dunkelflaute’ - gloomy, windless weather - strikes. The ever-pragmatic Poles are likely to keep their coal-fired plants running for generations to come. But, keen to reduce dependence on Russian oil and gas, Poland is developing a plan to build new-generation nuclear … Continue reading Poland Develops Grand Plan For New Generation Nuclear Backed By $4bn American Investment
Political Power Failure: 88% of Germans Reckon Wind & Solar ‘Transition’ Doomed to Failure
Germans were said to be rock-solid supporters of the grand ‘plan’ to run on nothing but wind and solar. Well, not anymore. Faced with Europe’s highest power prices (which are still rising at a staggering clip), routine power rationing and blackouts, the German populous seems to have fallen out of love with the notion of … Continue reading Political Power Failure: 88% of Germans Reckon Wind & Solar ‘Transition’ Doomed to Failure
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