When even the Swedes come to realize it’s all bullshit:
Sweden is now looking to build more nuclear reactors after its parliament formally abandoned its 100% renewable energy target to meet net-zero by 2045.
On Tuesday the country modified its net zero targets to 100% “fossil-free” which its right-leaning government creates the conditions for the return of nuclear power to the country’s energy mix.
“We need more electricity production, we need clean electricity and we need a stable energy system,” Finance Minister Elisabeth Svantesson said in parliament.
Observers said the decision implicitly acknowledges the low quality of unstable wind and solar, and is part of a general collapse of confidence in the renewable energy agenda pioneered in the Nordic countries and in Germany.
Here’s the wake-up call:
“Living close to Russia focuses the mind, and the Swedish people not only wish to join NATO, but also to ground their economy in an energy source, nuclear, that is physically sound and secure, unlike renewables which are neither.”
I should point out that the vast majority of Sweden’s electricity generation comes from hydro-electric dams already, so calling converting the tiny fraction left into “fossil-free” generation is not only eminently doable, but largely irrelevant.
Also, a reminder from a little further south:
German energy giant RWE has begun dismantling a wind farm to make way for a further expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine in the western region of North Rhine Westphalia.
I should point out that the above operation was okayed by Germany’s Green Party, surely the most eco-addled political party in Europe.
Guess that Russian gas pipeline closure hurt.
The Russian pipeline closure may have saved western civ.
Very perspicacious.
Now let’s see what can be done with Europestan. Half measures won’t save us.
You can’t have reliable energy that is “green” without nuclear power. The bird choppers and solar panels simply are not reliable enough to produce energy on demand. Storing energy requires large batteries that have a limited life span and become a hazardous waste problem.
Dirt burners, coal, natural gas, oil and such are generally cheap and reliable. Nukes are expensive largely due to bureaucracies. the running joke was that nuke plants require 100 tons of steel, 100 tons of concrete and 100 tons of paper to build.
Wow, lignite?!?! The Greenies must have gone home and had a long sob after approving that!
And the push back from the greens has already started –
Was streaming something last night and saw a ‘commercial’ with
‘purddy pichers’ & a voice over ‘explaining’ how nuclear really isn’t green,
is incredibly dangerous and unstable and how unfair it was since it was not
available to third world countries !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Order Kleenex by the boxcar load – the crying, wailing and gnashing of teeth
is about to start.
I’m not normally a cold hearted selfish person but this kind of propaganda
is beyond biased !