"Green" policies are destroying this country

I thought it was illegal to talk about nuclear energy? Why is it included if we aren't allowed to have any?

I'll have whatever you're having, seems to be good stuff.

There's so much wrong here but let's get the large elephant in the room out of the way first. Those very rare occasions you mention are infact the majority of the time.

Let's start with Solar in this lovely northern European country. It's prettyuch useless from September to March and has a capacity factor of about 12%. Meaning we need to be ready to supplement it the remaining 88% of the time.

Then we have wind, which has a (and let's be generous here) 35% capacity factor for onshore and maybe 45% for offshore. Again, we have to supplement it at best 55% of the year.

Ah, and before you say long term storage, let's look at those numbers. Green H2 requires about 4MW of energy to create 1MW of H2. So a 4:1 round trip before you even use it to generate a single watt. Even the best CCGTs are approx 45/46% before derating for H2, so we are in the realms of absolutely brutal energy efficiency and need to pay for the thermal plants anyway as renewables haven't cracked the capacity factor problem yet.

That's before we even look at how God awful solar and wind when it comes to land efficiency. Solar is around 2.5/3 acres per MW and wind takes up vast tracks of land or sea to avoid spillover from the blades.

My prediction is that by 2030 we'll have made good progress in reducing emissions but there'll be a sea change in public opinion as energy bills will continue to climb because of the vast infrastructure upgrades required to make any of this NetZero insanity anywhere near achievable.

That's before you factor in technical issues such as lower inertia to mitigate frequency excursions, ramping uncertainty, lower short circuit levels for protection relays, etc.

But the cost is the real elephant in the room. If all this supposed offshore materialises (most probably won't given recent signals from the sector), we'll be paying for oversupply that's spilled along with the energy generated on the windy days, then paying huge capacity premiums for thermal backups for those calm winter days. Not exactly bang for buck.

You'd do well to design a more inefficient and unreliable system. If it wasn't all cloaked in the NetZero zealotry, you'd genuinely laugh at it because it's so bad.

The bill for all this insanity is just beginning to be felt and we haven't even got past the starters on the menu. Wait till the real bill for the main meal comes along and a lot of people in Europe are going to realise what a pup they've been sold.

Sure, it's usually determined over the course of a year.

How's your convincing of your family to become PAYE workers going?

Are you ever going to tell us how that helps the environment? Or improves anything in society?

You've been very quiet all week, I wonder if this article had anything to do with it:

https://archive.ph/7QDbQ

It seems to contradict everything you've been saying. More curiously, it also seems to have facts and figures to support it's argument rather than random regional rags from New Zealand or blogs from New York student magazines that you love linking to. That's before we get into the selective picking on a particular farmers family enterprise, honing in on just 2 years of profits (with no actual values) but ignoring 5 years of losses averaging 40k.