Electricity's looking rather ugly in Europe today. [View all]

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The wind isn't blowing, and we're coming up on the winter solstice, so sunlight is neither intense nor long lived. As a result, lots and lots and lots of coal and gas are being burned to generate electricity.

I'll bet my French friends are regretting deciding to just use their nuclear reactors as cash cows, deprived them of maintenance, to finance a movement to so called "renewable energy," Europe's pop idea that ended up financing Putin.

Ugly...very ugly...



Electricity Map

The latest calculation for the carbon intensity of nuclear energy (UNECE) is well under 10 g CO2/kWh, but nuclear energy is considered "too dangerous" but climate change isn't considered "too dangerous."

Go figure.