How did the UK grid respond to losing a few nuclear reactors?

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2. "We have to start using less energy on a personal basis."

There's really only one way to do that, and that's for the energy we use to be expensive. Not taxed, and then use that extra money for various social programs. I mean just flat out expensive.

All energy use is expensive, no matter how cheap it is, we just hide the cost. That cost is the changing climate, fucking up the landscape, decreasing the amount of other forms of life, etc. We don't see it, because that energy use is everything we do. It's civilization. It's our job. It's our kids future.

Oil, coal, etc, these things are concentrated in the ground for a reason. Wind, solar, these things are diffuse in the atmosphere for a reason. We diffuse the energy in oil and coal by using it, and want to concentrate as much as we can of the wind and solar to use it. We'll pay a price either way.