2025-06-19
Eugippius is a German commentator, but all of Europe including the UK suffers from the same stultifying political blight, all caused by certain topics being off-limits for discussion.
We all know what they are because if our political classes continue to pursue them in the same way as now, we will all be in the dustbin of civilisation when the lights go out - and trying to claw our way out of that bin will be between impossible and impracticable, because those who lead us are burning the bridges back to sanity, ie: the power-stations that can be proven to power the grid effectively are being shuttered.
No amount of wishful thinking will ever enable the intermittent renewables to reliably do the job. Nuclear is a good power source that can power a grid - but then renewables would be unnecessary! Nuclear as a back-up for intermittent renewables simply turns the economics on its head, since we would be paying the whole cost of nuclear for marginal benefit.
We either pay for nuclear or we don't - there are no half measures.
If we pay for it, there is no point in not using it when the wind blows and the sun shines.
Unlike gas, for which the initial investment is low and the running costs are higher, so as a backup they could perform better alongside renewables (but again, why not run them continuously and scrap costly renewables?).
The logic isn't hard, but in the West, logic and free speech have been demonised as wrong-headed.
